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Author:  Mimi [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:44 ]
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I like to shop at Waitrose occasionally, because they stock a number of tiems that I can't find in other supermarkets or shops.

I don't think that's the same as being able to buy the same product in a number of places or with different delivery services attached.

Author:  BikNorton [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 13:30 ]
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The Waitrose barrel-aged feta is the most amazing thing.

Author:  myp [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 18:57 ]
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Cobracure wrote:
Some people like lording it over the plebs.... otherwise Waitrose & John Lewis wouldnt exist - let's face it ;)

FTFM

Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:28 ]
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Does Waitrose even cost more than the others for basics? I wouldn't know, as I'm a pleb

Author:  asfish [ Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:15 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Does Waitrose even cost more than the others for basics? I wouldn't know, as I'm a pleb


I have a small one near me, what I find is that they do matches on Tesco prices but other things like cheese and oil and vinegar is expensive.

For example I went there once after Raspberry vinegar and found all they had was some with fresh raspberry juice costing £6 a bottle vs £1.50 for normal stuff in Tesco.

I still go there for midweek stuff like milk and my wife always goes there for everything outside of the Tesco home delivery.

There is never a queue for self scan and the staff are really nice and helpful, a month ago I was looking for charcoal for my barbecue, a guy noticed and went in the back and got me some, he also said they always keep it in the storeroom all year around and to ask for it if I need it.

Contrast that to the local mega Tesco where most of the staff struggle with English and don't appear to know where anything is outside the area they work in

Author:  markg [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:19 ]
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You get free unlimited cloud storage with this now as well. I thought it might swing it for me but the PC application is absolute dogshit. Unless I'm missing something you seem to have to do it manually rather than just having a folder or specify existing ones which will then stay synchronised.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:21 ]
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markg wrote:
You get free unlimited cloud storage with this now as well.

For photos. 5GB of other data storage.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pri ... navpricing

Author:  markg [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:27 ]
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Yeah, forgot that. Photos are about the only thing of any significant size that I need to back up anyway really. Reckon I'll just go for 100GB with Google for $2 a month and fuck Amazon Prime off when it comes up for renewal.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:34 ]
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If you use Google+ to back up your photos it's free and unlimited, isn't it? Though it's also needy and irritating.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:35 ]
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Also Flickr (well, you get 1TB, which is the same thing for most people).

Doesn't G+ resize and compress them?

Author:  markg [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:36 ]
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Cras wrote:
If you use Google+ to back up your photos it's free and unlimited, isn't it? Though it's also needy and irritating.

For phone photos perhaps but this is RAW files from my SLR.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:39 ]
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Ah of course. Duh.

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:52 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Also Flickr (well, you get 1TB, which is the same thing for most people).

I get unlimited with Flickr as I was a pro member before they changed.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:57 ]
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Are you sure?

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:05 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Are you sure?

Attachment:
unlimited.png

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:07 ]
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Huh. They say that once your pro account expires, you get 1TB like everyone else.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:12 ]
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That's what happened to mine.

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:21 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Huh. They say that once your pro account expires, you get 1TB like everyone else.

Maybe mine hasn't expired yet then.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:21 ]
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Mine too.

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:24 ]
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Dragging this back on topic - my Prime runs out tomorrow! *waves*

I've been getting everything over the last month as 'No Rush' deliveries anyway, to build up some credit to buy Kindle books and to see what the standard delivery is like. Completely fine (better sometimes).

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:52 ]
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American Nervoso wrote:
to build up some credit to buy Kindle books

Do what now?

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 13:10 ]
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Grim... wrote:
American Nervoso wrote:
to build up some credit to buy Kindle books

Do what now?

If you have Prime, you can choose No-Rush Shipping, which takes 3-5 days but they give you a £1 credit on your account for music or books.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 13:27 ]
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WHAT THE WHAT?

Is that new?

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 13:28 ]
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Not really. How did I not know about that?

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 13:29 ]
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Grim... wrote:
WHAT THE WHAT?

Is that new?

Couple of months maybe?

It makes sense from their point of view. They bust their asses getting deliveries to you, even when you're not fussed about getting it next day, yet there was never any incentive to pick the standard delivery as they were both free.

Author:  Trooper [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 16:56 ]
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Fucking hell, I never knew about that either. That actually might make it worth subbing back up to prime! I buy a fair amount of books, and order a fair amount of stuff from amazon.
Is there a limit as to how much credit you can earn?

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 17:23 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Fucking hell, I never knew about that either. That actually might make it worth subbing back up to prime! I buy a fair amount of books, and order a fair amount of stuff from amazon.
Is there a limit as to how much credit you can earn?

I reckon you'll still do better to save your £79 and use that on Kindle books instead.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 18:45 ]
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I suppose you have to weigh that up against whether you'd get the added benefit of use of Lovefilm and the kindle borrowing, that with the £1 credits could potentially make it worth it, depending on your usage (and if those things are still included).

Author:  asfish [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:44 ]
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Had another letter from them this morning. It has 2 cards attached that I can give to my friends who will get a 30 day free Prime trial and a £5 gift Voucher if they sign up.

Maybe the bin men will see it and take them up on the offer :D

Author:  asfish [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:52 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Also Flickr (well, you get 1TB, which is the same thing for most people).

Doesn't G+ resize and compress them?


Still prefer OneDrive, they are giving you 30GB free, 15GB of this is given if you set up photo back up from a smartphone.

Before they gave all this free storage I was tight on space so bought 50GB for £1 a month.

I like the ease of use and the sharing.

Next year we are deploying OneDrive for business, there is not limit to the storage for that and you get the same sharing capabilities although not 100% sure if work will allow that yet.

Author:  Achilles [ Sun Nov 30, 2014 0:36 ]
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..........................................

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:18 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Huh. They say that once your pro account expires, you get 1TB like everyone else.

My pro account just renewed. Still unlimited. :metul:

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 14:20 ]
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So it didn't expire, then?

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 14:33 ]
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Grim... wrote:
So it didn't expire, then?

Nope.

Author:  markg [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 14:35 ]
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So what do you actually get apart from unlimited storage?

Author:  Cras [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 14:39 ]
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American Nativity wrote:
Grim... wrote:
So it didn't expire, then?

Nope.


As in...you've still got pro?

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 14:54 ]
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Cras wrote:
American Nativity wrote:
Grim... wrote:
So it didn't expire, then?

Nope.


As in...you've still got pro?

Yes.

Author:  Cras [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 15:00 ]
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So...totally different from what we were saying, that if you let pro expire, not renew, you go back to 1TB.

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 15:18 ]
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Cras wrote:
So...totally different from what we were saying, that if you let pro expire, not renew, you go back to 1TB.

Thanks for the clarification.

Author:  Cras [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 15:24 ]
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That's okay.

Author:  Cras [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 15:24 ]
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Still, it leads to the other question - why did you renew pro, you bellend?

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 15:31 ]
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Here is what you used to get with Pro:

Unlimited photo uploads (50MB per photo)
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video)
The ability to show HD Video
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Archiving of high-resolution original images
The ability to replace a photo
Post any of your photos or videos in up to 60 group pools
View count and referrer statistics
Limitation of maximum image size available to others
Ad-free browsing and sharing

versus this:


1 Terabyte of space
Upload and download in full original quality. Up to 200MB per image
Ability to create “Collections”
Ability to replace photos
Post any of your photos or videos in up to 60 group pools

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:03 ]
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So why did you renew pro, you bellend?

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:06 ]
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Once my photos get over 50MB each I'll think about dropping it down. At the moment it's still better for a relative pittance.

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:14 ]
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I still don't get why you do it. What's pro giving you that a free account doesn't?

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:37 ]
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Unlimited photo uploads (50MB per photo)
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video)
The ability to show HD Video
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Archiving of high-resolution original images
View count and referrer statistics
Limitation of maximum image size available to others
Ad-free browsing and sharing

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:43 ]
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Scrote.

What's it giving you that you need/want/desire?

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:45 ]
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Archiving mainly, but good that it provides HD video. It doubles up as my backup for all my photos.

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:46 ]
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If you're not interested in anyone seeing them, I'd heartily recommend forking out £3 a month for Livedrive backup: http://www.livedrive.com/ForHome/Backup

(if you're feeling generous, click here for referral fun: http://www.livedrive.com/?tid=DWH4Y2WP&r=1 )

Author:  myp [ Fri Dec 19, 2014 16:49 ]
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Grim... wrote:
If you're not interested in anyone seeing them, I'd heartily recommend forking out £3 a month for Livedrive backup: http://www.livedrive.com/ForHome/Backup

Thanks, but I do share galleries from time to time.

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