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John Lewis's technical support helpline and the people who work on it. If you buy a computer and keep the receipt you can call them when you have technical problems and you don't have to pay for it. It's like having your own IT helpdesk and they look after you like they've been practising on their grannies, which certainly works for me.

Unfortunately John Lewis's computer department gave me totally wrong info about something last week.


Don't think it was their tech support people though.


BTW are you sure their support is for an indefinite period? I thought it was just three months?

Sue, I asked that as I'm coming up to the three months and they said no, you can always call and we'll do our best to help. All good experiences so far on my side and it made returning the previous laptop easier as the faults were already logged in their system.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Sue, I asked that as I'm coming up to the three

> months and they said no, you can always call and

> we'll do our best to help. All good experiences so

> far on my side and it made returning the previous

> laptop easier as the faults were already logged in

> their system.




Oh, that's really useful to know, thanks!

LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> My great-nephew, two years old, sneakily taking a

> selfie video on my niece's phone and sending it to

> me, telling me that he loves me... It's

> irrational because it is so unexpected...



Are you sure it wasn't actually sent by your niece?


I know kids are extraordinarily technologically advanced these days, but ....... ????

Sue Wrote:

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> LadyNorwood Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > My great-nephew, two years old, sneakily taking

> a

> > selfie video on my niece's phone and sending it

> to

> > me, telling me that he loves me... It's

> > irrational because it is so unexpected...

>

>

> Are you sure it wasn't actually sent by your

> niece?

>

> I know kids are extraordinarily technologically

> advanced these days, but ....... ????



I'm sure as she was talking to me on the landline at the time and she could hear him chattering away to himself in the next room...

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