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Provided chargers at shops

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    #32
    liamog
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 7,794 Mod ✭✭✭✭liamog


    Just the right place to catch you walking exercising your way to Ikea


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    #33
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    KCross wrote: »
    I presume you got lucky with that?
    Normal procedure would be to go into the shop to get them to come out with the fob? Bit of a pain if thats how its going to work.

    I’d say normal procedure once the shop is up and running as normal without C19 restrictions. But with the ques outside etc they have staff Permanently present.

    He also ran over and activated a 2017 Leaf while I was in the que.
    there was also a 201 M3 charging, one of theism Merc B things and an outlander.


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    #34
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,793 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Charging at Decathlon now @23kW. 5 double chargers, had to get Easygo fob inside. Tried my own Easygo fob, but didn't work. Queue to get into shop less than 10 mins. Massive queue at checkout though! Just had a look, now in unreal IKEA queue as I've been tasked to pick up a few specific things there. About 300 people ahead of me though :eek:


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    #35
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    ^^^

    I was longer queuing to pay than I was to get in :)
    Nice bank of chargers alright and 22kw charging is the icing on the cake.


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    #36
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    unkel wrote: »
    Charging at Decathlon now @23kW. 5 double chargers, had to get Easygo fob inside. Tried my own Easygo fob, but didn't work. Queue to get into shop less than 10 mins. Massive queue at checkout though! Just had a look, now in unreal IKEA queue as I've been tasked to pick up a few specific things there. About 300 people ahead of me though :eek:

    There are plenty of cheap RDIF copiers out there and then you can just write to your own fob to save you the hassle of going in store EDIT with store's permission
    I used to have the software to do this on my phone but it seems to have been lost as I upgraded recently.

    This post in no way condones illegal or immoral copying of fobs to circumnavigate externalities

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    #37
    liamog
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 7,794 Mod ✭✭✭✭liamog


    slave1 wrote: »
    There are plenty of cheap RDIF copiers out there and then you can just write to your own fob to save you the hassle of going in store.
    I used to have the software to do this on my phone but it seems to have been lost as I upgraded recently, used it to copy Nintendo Amibo's

    Maybe don't do that, and instead respect the wishes of the store owner.


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    #38
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,186 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    unkel wrote: »
    Get the fob, start the charge, go to Ikea next door, do your shop there and have something to eat, come back to a car that has just taken in 60-70kWh :D

    Expect to have been clamped for walking off the site!


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    #39
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users Posts: 12,195 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    slave1 wrote: »
    There are plenty of cheap RDIF copiers out there and then you can just write to your own fob to save you the hassle of going in store.
    I used to have the software to do this on my phone but it seems to have been lost as I upgraded recently, used it to copy Nintendo Amibo's

    As a moderator on this site, where is the integrity in that suggestion?
    Is it not fraud?

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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    #40
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,793 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Came back to the car 95% charged, it had taken on 59kWh

    More than enough to pay for my fuel for the return trip, for the tolls and for the portion of meatballs I had in Ikea :D


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    #41
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    slave1 wrote: »
    There are plenty of cheap RDIF copiers out there and then you can just write to your own fob to save you the hassle of going in store EDIT with store's permission
    I used to have the software to do this on my phone but it seems to have been lost as I upgraded recently.

    This post in no way condones illegal or immoral copying of fobs to circumnavigate externalities
    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    As a moderator on this site, where is the integrity in that suggestion?
    Is it not fraud?

    Being a moderator has nothing to do with my personal posts.
    If you are going to Decathlon and don't want the hassle of waiting in a long queue to get the fob then this in a potential option - ask in store or do not do it, some mad queues out there at the minute so could be there quite some time.
    Alluded to below...
    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    What would be annoying though (most likely only in the short to medium term), would be having to queue up for 20 minutes just to get into the store to get a fob, only to start the charge, and then probably only need another 10-15 minutes actually in the store to buy what you need! (I'd assume you wouldn't need to queue back up again to get back in after leaving with a fob to start the charge)..

    Life is about avoiding hassle, like copying the ESB card onto a fob so I don't have to flute around looking for a card when charging up

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    #42
    liamog
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 7,794 Mod ✭✭✭✭liamog


    slave1 wrote: »
    Life is about avoiding hassle, like copying the ESB card onto a fob so I don't have to flute around looking for a card when charging up

    Copying your own eCars fob for convenience is ok, duplicating a stores fob which was implemented to ensure only customers use the chargers is unacceptable. I don't think it's illegal, but I'm pretty sure Decathlon would not approve of anybody who does so.

    The chargers are provided by EasyGo, so it's clearly a choice the store has made, and a person would be actively abusing that.


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    #43
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,186 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    unkel wrote: »
    Came back to the car 95% charged, it had taken on 59kWh

    More than enough to pay for my fuel for the return trip, for the tolls and for the portion of meatballs I had in Ikea :D

    Poor Decathlon subsidising the government (Westlink) and Ikea!

    I used to love Decathlon in London. Like a warehouse full of sports things that you’d almost dream didn’t exist.


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    #44
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    Just to be 100% in my previous posts, I am in no way condoning the illegal or immoral copying of a stores fob without their permission, that is in my previous post but maybe not clear to posters.
    End of.
    Back on topic.....

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    #45
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,793 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    I just walked straight to the door, asked the security guy about charging. He told me to go to the customer service desk just inside the doors to get a fob. There were people queuing there too, but I asked straight away for a dongle and got one 2 seconds later. Went back to car, started charge and then queued to go into the shop


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    #46
    Rotary939
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Rotary939


    Gumbo wrote: »
    I’d say normal procedure once the shop is up and running as normal without C19 restrictions. But with the ques outside etc they have staff Permanently present.

    He also ran over and activated a 2017 Leaf while I was in the que.
    there was also a 201 M3 charging, one of theism Merc B things and an outlander.

    The M3 was me. Skipped the queue to get a fob from the returns counter and was told they'd pop out. Waited 10 mins and no sign, went back in and was given the fob. Then queued as normal to get back in, store was nuts, no regard for distancing once inside. Returning everything I got as sizes all over the place lol . And yes, I gave the fob back :)


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    #47
    Gumbo
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    Rotary939 wrote: »
    The M3 was me. Skipped the queue to get a fob from the returns counter and was told they'd pop out. Waited 10 mins and no sign, went back in and was given the fob. Then queued as normal to get back in, store was nuts, no regard for distancing once inside. Returning everything I got as sizes all over the place lol . And yes, I gave the fob back :)

    I was wondering as I seen you plugged in when I got there.
    Then I seen you at your car.
    Then I seen the car still there.

    I just pulled up and the fella ran over. He must have been in the look out after you’d just been in with them.

    Wasn’t you towing a trailer on the M2 this evening was it?


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    #48
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,222 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Hope the Facebook post isn't true and that people are actually returning the fobs after use and that they are not down to the last few.


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    #49
    Gumbo
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    Sheep Shagger wrote: »
    Hope the Facebook post isn't true and that people are actually returning the fobs after use and that they are not down to the last few.

    Didn’t see anything mentioned about dons on their page. What happening?


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    #50
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Gumbo wrote: »
    Didn’t see anything mentioned about dons on their page. What happening?

    They had 22 fobs when they opened, they now only have 2 because people are not returning them. Shameful stuff. This is why people can't have free things. They just abuse it until the courtesy has to be removed.

    IEVOA facebook mentioned it in a comment around how to charge there.


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    #51
    Felexicon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    They had 22 fobs when they opened, they now only have 2 because people are not returning them. Shameful stuff. This is why people can't have free things. They just abuse it until the courtesy has to be removed.

    IEVOA facebook mentioned it in a comment around how to charge there.

    They didn't have 22


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    #52
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Felexicon wrote: »
    They didn't have 22

    How many did they have?

    I'm just repeating what I read on facebook.


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    #53
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,222 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    How many did they have?

    I'm just repeating what I read on facebook.

    Even if they only had 3 it's still a ****ty thing to steal a fob when you've just got a free charge.


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    #54
    Felexicon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Felexicon


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    How many did they have?

    I'm just repeating what I read on facebook.

    They had 10 to start with


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    #55
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Felexicon wrote: »
    They had 10 to start with

    Fascinating.


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    #56
    Sheep Shagger
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    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Fascinating.

    So 8 ****ers then.


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    #57
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Sheep Shagger wrote: »
    So 8 ****ers then.

    Maybe we should of cloned them like slave1 totally wasn't suggesting. :p


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    #58
    kanuseeme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭kanuseeme


    get slave1 on it


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    #59
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users Posts: 12,195 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    unkel wrote: »
    Get the fob, start the charge, go to Ikea next door, do your shop there and have something to eat, come back to a car that has just taken in 60-70kWh :D

    Where is your personal and social/ community integrity with that suggestion?

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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    #60
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    Where is your personal and social/ community integrity with that suggestion?

    Hey! That's our line we use when charging spots are iced! :p


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    #61
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,793 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    Where is your personal and social/ community integrity with that suggestion?

    You would have stopped the charge when you came out of Decathlon and driven the 50m across the road to Ikea, to park there, would you?

    If you answer yes, I don't believe you :p And if you really did, you'd be a right fool to do so, particularly when most of the chargers were empty...

    I did of course hand the dongle back (to the security guy), but Decathlon are very foolish to have chosen a system like this. Why not have them free vend? This dongle setup is only going to cost them more and it is inefficient and not customer friendly.


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