[Closed] FAO Chipps or another ST bod

Put

chipps

mark

or

ben on the front of domain name.

Well I thought of that but knowing my luck I'd choose someone who is away somewhere exotic testing something erotic for a month hence hedging my bets by posting it up here, y'see.

They'll still pick the email up.

Least your mate has had his copy.....

I think it was Ben handling that competition - the emails are as Drac says. Ben'll get you sorted out.
Sorry we didn't call you up and play trumpets down the phone. We ran out of trumpets... We've got harmonicas if that's any good...

In the interim I have sent the email to Chipps. I will send it to Ben too.

Sorry we didn't call you up and play trumpets down the phone. We ran out of trumpets... We've got harmonicas if that's any good...

Not really a response I was expecting.

Congratulations MrSparkle!
😉

Sorry we didn't call you up and play trumpets down the phone. We ran out of trumpets... We've got harmonicas if that's any good...

Bit harsh, If I had won a comp, not been notified and as a result missed out on one of the prizes I would definitely want trumpets, not sarcasm.

bring on the trumpets

I would expect a nice tromboning.

that sounds like you might not be able to walk too well for a while afterwards 😆

I hope they never get to run the lottery, ''Sorry we didnt send you the cheque for £5million . . . we found £2.73 and a couple of buttons from the back of the settee if thats any good? ''

😆

Free stuff! For nothing! ACE!

Bit harsh, If I had won a comp, not been notified and as a result missed out on one of the prizes I would definitely want trumpets, not sarcasm.

It's not like it was a trial, or test of skill.

Big male chicken.

Yes congrats, you'll find Chipps wasn't being sarcastic it's his dry sense of humour and a genuine apology.

STW run a competition
Member of the forum wins competition
Member doesnt get contacted by STW and misses part of the prize
Member asks "will someone drop me a line" on STW in a polite manner
Head honcho of STW is condescending (sp) to member

STW in couldnt care less about its members shocker. Anyone makes mistakes and with the hacking etc maybe details are all over the place but when you do make a mistake you should bloody well be nice to the person. Especially when they have in no way been out of order.

TheLittlestHobo - as said by Brant earlier, it's just Chipp's humour. He's a great bloke and he's not being condescending.

chipps, can you confirm that you are indeed a great bloke, to set the matter to rest?

🙂

[i]Sorry we didn't call you up and play trumpets down the phone. We ran out of trumpets... We've got harmonicas if that's any good...[/i]

Great way to treat your customers chipps. Although I think rather than trumpets a call to say 'you've won' would have sufficed, or an apology to say 'sorry we screwed up'. Yet again the singletrack boys make their customers feel like they are just an annoyance instead of the people who are keeping them in business.

Excuse me sir, i seem to have won your nice competition but have missed part of it.

"Sorry we didn't call you up and play trumpets down the phone"

Great humour. I dont know chipps so am not going to comment on how great a bloke he is. I wasnt the only one who thought it was out of order.

I think the ST editorial staff should go round this man's house and play trumpets in person, right now.

I think they should do what they should have done in the first place. Ask him for his phone number and call him up to let him know the details of his prize.

Maybe when they have finished, that would be the time to drop in some humour and play a trumpet fanfare.

or just give him free entry into the first event of [i]next[/i] year (in addition to the remaining events of this year, of course)

maybe he wants him to go round and play the pink oboe 😯

[i]I think they should do what they should have done in the first place. Ask him for his phone number and call him up to let him know the details of his prize.[/i]

Maybe they already have by email.

And the really bad news is that he hasn't won free entry to the Big Bike Bash!

Yet again the singletrack boys make their customers feel like they are just an annoyance instead of the people who are keeping them in business

FFS. Seriously.

Perspective? Sense of humour? Pinch of salt? This forum ran out of those a long time ago. Come on, get a grip.

It's no wonder the economy's bust if you lot are this sensitive in real life. "Please, mummy, I wish to register my displeasure at the tone of everyday language used in my vicinty. It is simply [i]intolerable[/i]. I might look like a man, but truth is I'm a very self-important and insecure bedwetting shrew, and that man didn't address me with due defference and doff his cap to me. I suspect him of not taking my plight seriously. And I am now OFFENDED. I shall be sulking for most of the next month and I shall carry this sense of injustice until such time as the world stops being such a harsh and cruel brute to me. And I certainly shan't be going to work again until a full apology and retraction is issued. And I'd like flowers too. I hope you're pleased with yourselves. Well done, you've ruined this for everybody!"

MTFU.

haha, chela would you have a copyright claim against me if i wanted to change my username to "an insecure bedwetting shrew"? 😆

chela you obvioulsy have far too much time on your hands.

Out of interest if you were to walk into a shop and be be treated like shit would you go back. Or are you happy to expect poor customer service?

Of course I would now expect brant to come along and agree with chela, but then again most of us are aware what his customer service skills are like.

chela you obvioulsy have far too much time on your hands.

but he's bang on though, isn't he.

It takes more balls to say what you think and not follow the popular crowd chela. How would you like me to MTFU? What by agreeing with nomarks like yourself.

If chipps did call him fine. He should just have done that in the first place.

It takes more balls to say what you think and not follow the popular crowd chela

yes. respect to chela for saying what he thought.

Of course I would now expect brant to come along and agree with chela, but then again most of us are aware what his customer service skills are like.

And I would expect people like you to edit posts after I've replied.

[i]It takes more balls to say what you think and not follow the popular crowd chela.[/i]

Didn't he just do that?

[i]And I would expect people like you to edit posts after I've replied.[/i]

'people like me' you don't know anything about me. And I didn't edit my post after you replied but I knew you would respond to chelas post.

Just imagine what a business could be like if it delivered great customer service.

Can I have the prize?

TBH i expected Brant to come along with his attitude as well Gary. It must take big balls to follow the leader like sheep

*pulls up chaise longne and gets someone to start peeling the grapes*

Just imagine what a business could be like if it delivered great customer service.

Which is why I'm not doing customer service any more 🙂

Jesus wept.

[i]Which is why I'm not doing customer service any more[/i]

You still represent the company.

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*uncorks the vino*

My computer also has a sense of humour bypass. That just shows a red cross

Gary_M - Member
chela you obvioulsy have far too much time on your hands.

[b]Out of interest if you were to walk into a shop and be be treated like shit would you go back. Or are you happy to expect poor customer service?[/b]

Of course I would now expect brant to come along and agree with chela, but then again most of us are aware what his customer service skills are like.

Depends, if after going to that shop for a while they went "tell you what, have a load of free stuff to go with what we do" I would definitely go back. If some of the stuff was not there first time and they cracked a joke about it (because I asked about it via megaphone outside the shop rather than calling/walking in) then yes I would still go back. I would just be a little embarrassed about my initial approach.
Oh, and I have won stuff from these "people", and they have sorted me out, both times, eventually 🙂

Think I'll go do some more gardening beats reading bullshit from littlesthobo and Gary_M.

Oh, and I have won stuff from these "people", and they have sorted me out, both times, eventually

Me too although the second prize I won company supplying the prize were the ones who failed to supply the item. After 2 years of emailing the company with support from STW they finally sent me it.

That just shows a red cross

Ah. Still, better than the gay porn Fredwhotist posed up once.

Not to worry.

Think I'll go do some more gardening beats reading bullshit from littlesthobo and Gary_M.

I shall continue discussing bearing tolerance with Taiwanese factories 🙂

I was hoping for a ban then, but, ah well.

KINGTUT - Member

Jesus wept.

So would you if you got nailed to two bits of wood 😯

Top Gear pic, I see it, and now wonder what episode of Top Gear I missed, having Dave on Sky I didn't think it was possible to avoid them all...

Joxster - Member

KINGTUT - Member

Jesus wept.

So would you if you got nailed to two bits of wood [8O]

Being nailed to two bits of wood would be preferable to reading some the shite spouted on here.

It must take big balls to follow the leader like sheep

As an aside, I re-discovered Pink Floyd's Animals in the glove compartment the other day. Magnificant album.

[i]Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream[/i]

What is with expecting free stuff when a mistake is made? Has the mistake cost the original poster income?

Anyway who did win 'that' jacket?

[i]What is with expecting free stuff when a mistake is made? Has the mistake cost the original poster income? [/i]

No doesn't even look like he buys the mag.

I won some Michelin tyres from Bikemagic a long time ago. They're pretty worn out now but to be honest they seem fine - I think there's a lot of crap talked about tyres. Does that help?

[i]What is with expecting free stuff when a mistake is made? Has the mistake cost the original poster income? [/i]

Cost of a stamp maybe? But hey competitions aren't there to be won are they.

Mountains and molehills spring to mind.
As always, STW entertains...

[i]What is with expecting free stuff when a mistake is made? Has the mistake cost the original poster income?

No doesn't even look like he buys the mag. [/i]

At what point has the OP or anyone else stated that he wanted anything extra to the prize? I think someone suggested an entry to the event he missed for 2010 but that was just 'humour'.

All we did was comment on Chipps lack of customer service with regards to his humour in this instance. Its you guys who jumped on our backs because we werent following the sheep.

It's cause they all love chipps et al and want to be part of their gang 😆

[i]At what point has the OP or anyone else stated that he wanted anything extra to the prize? I think someone suggested an entry to the event he missed for 2010 but that was just 'humour'.[/i]

No one has including me.

[i]All we did was comment on Chipps lack of customer service with regards to his humour in this instance. Its you guys who jumped on our backs because we werent following the sheep. [/i]

What are you talking about I gave a view based on experience.

for the record, I didn't win anything and also have received no trumpet playing.

Do i get £5?

I won a Muckoff cleaning kit on another site once.

It didnt arrive so i put up a similar post to the OP because i didnt have any contact details for the person arranging it. Funnily enough they said they had forgotten about it and it would be in the post and that was the end of it. I was well chuffed when it arrived and made sure i said thanks.

Tracker1972 - Member
Top Gear pic, I see it, and now wonder what episode of Top Gear I missed, having Dave on Sky I didn't think it was possible to avoid them all

It is the one where they go to a track in spain? and test the M3 RS4 and some monster merc thing.

Big Balls. AC/DC. dirty deeds done dirt cheap. Marvellous.

Morning all,
I'm sorry that my quick reply seemed to be taken the wrong way. I'll make sure I only stick to factual answers in the future so that things aren't taken in the lighthearted and friendly manner in which they're meant.

We've been in touch with him now and are sorting out his £1000 worth of prizes pronto.

(However, harmonica solos are still available for competition winners who would like them. We still don't have any trumpets here...) 🙂

I'm with chela. This forum has become intolerable due to the weird sensitive nature of many folks. I'm sure they are only like it when behind a keyboard or they would really only be able to spend their life alone.

Oh dear 🙄

chela you obvioulsy have far too much time on your hands.

Not so much that I'm inclined to sit here all day and talk BS and whine and complain about trivial stuff.

Out of interest if you were to walk into a shop and be be treated like shit would you go back. Or are you happy to expect poor customer service?

You're not in a shop. And it wasn't you that walked in. And the man that did walk in wasn't treated like shit. And he'd got free stuff. And the poor customer service is a genuine (aplogised for) oversight that happened cuz the staff have other things to be doing, some of which pay for a forum for you to use. Which I expect you, if you're true to your holier-than-thou implied belief that we're treated like shit and shouldn't go back, won't be using again. Uh oh, you appear to have backed yourself into corner from which any comeback on this forum undermines your own argument. Checkmate.

chipps, is there a facility to upgrade for past winners? I have some Kona stickers I don't need that I could return?
(anyone need any Kona stickers?)

[img] [/img]Chipps, thats great news and i hope the guy was well chuffed.

I think a big trumpet is fitting now 🙂

And in my defence, I'd like to point out that he had a reply within an hour of posting his message, at 8pm at night... And despite email being our preferred method of contact.

And Benji is getting him sorted with prizes as I type.

[i]Not so much that I'm inclined to sit here all day and talk BS and whine and complain about trivial stuff[/i]

Oh the irony.

[i]chipps, is there a facility to upgrade for past winners? I have some Kona stickers I don't need that I could return? (anyone need any Kona stickers?)[/i]

I have some Maxxis stickers that I can upgrade you to. Or how about some Chub hub stickers?

i'll take a penny worth of harmonica please Chipps 🙂

Bah! I can't post pictures. Ignore this post.

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Somehow I don't think that this is the end of the thread...

a bit daft considering the OP merely asked if he'd won a prize or not and would he be getting some kind of confirmation or something.

Anyway, I shall be entering the comp for that Lynksey frame, hopefully this episode will put most other folk off entering 😉

oohh, stickers swap shop?

*sorts through drawers*

ooooooo, Chub! Now there is a name. I guess all I would need would be something to put them on...
Bugger, I have spotted a flaw in my plan, I don't really put stickers on anything. Tell you what, give them to MrSparkle with my love, drop me an email with his phone number, I own a harmonica but would be better playing guitar at him. No chance with a trumpet though.