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Online Pizza Ordering Arrives In Kilkenny

Ordering a pizza in Kilkenny just got a whole lot easier. On Friday (and again on Saturday) I tried the new online ordering system from ExtremePizza.com, the US-based pizza company, Kilkenny being the first Irish franchise location. The flier in the door suggested online ordering was available so I clicked on over to the website…

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A Helpful Bunch At Turnkey

If your first shopping experience with a new company is a good one, in my case, it’s enough to bring me back for more. Such was the case yesterday with Turnkey, one of the leading European music technology suppliers. With a Digidesign Mbox 2 sitting in my cart on Thomann (Germany) since Thursday, yesterday was…

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First Purchase From AllPosters.com, Satisfied

Just before the weekend I ordered a few ‘door posters’ from AllPosters.com and I genuinely forgot I had ordered them. There was money sitting in my PayPal account, enough to cover the investment, so I placed the order and arrived home yesterday to find a note from An Post – failed delivery, collect tomorrow, foreign…

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Don’t Wait Around For Online Flights

If you see a decent price for a seat on a plane online, don’t wait around to make up your mind!! Just booked flights to Amsterdam for myself and my brother, his girlfriend and a friend and, by my reckoning, because we waited until after just after midnight to make the booking, having started looking…

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The Mighty Mouse Arrives

Having ordered from Apple earlier in the week, my lovely ‘mighty mouse’ arrived today (post scheduled for the photo blog later). A pure gem. Been after a mouse for the laptop for ages and grabbed one from the Apple Store this week. Order went through on Monday, text message confirmation of shipping on Tuesday from…

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Apple’s Address Verification

I’ll give thumbs up today to Apple’s address verification in the Apple Store. I made my first purchase today from the store, picking up a new Apple mouse for the MacBook Pro. Why do I give thumbs up? Well, when I put the office address down as the shipping address, they said they couldn’t verify…

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Online Duty-Free Scrapped

RTE report this afternoon that proposed plans to allow the online sales of duty-free cigarettes and alcohol have been scrapped by the European Court of Justice. It would have been seen as a golden opportunity for Irish online shoppers (who would be smokers and drinkers) seen as the price of above items in Ireland is…

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Site Helps You To ‘Regift’

What, you might ask, is regifting? Regifting, according to Wikipedia is “the act of taking a gift that has been received and giving it to somebody else in the guise of a new gift.” Many times has it been the subject of humour in TV and film (like Seinfeld, which I’ve finally started watching and…

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Delaying Your Online Shopping

Just wondering, is there anywhere online that allows you to schedule when you would like an item to be shipped and charged for? I do an awful lot of shopping for musical equipment on Thomann which purchase invoices going to break silly figures after Christmas but they’ve recently improved their online customer centre and added…

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Paying Bills Online Made Too Easy

Last week I switched over to a postpay option through O2, picking myself up a Sony Ericsson K800 (very snazzy I might add, nice little RSS reader built in) but when I logged into the O2 site this morning I saw my bill had arrived already. Now, I’ve only had the phone around a week…

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