an idea from ie.comp

GoneShootin

I am sure that all of you must have an Eircom.Net CD some where, they seem
to be just about everywhere. I bought PC Live the other day and Eircom had
planted one its CD's on the cover. Now, my idea was why not send the CD
back to Eircom!?! It costs them a lot to get these CD's distributed. I
know this will cost the sender about 50p but what a great protest it would
be if Eirconning was to get all its CD's back with a note; "Sorry no thanks,
I support irelandoffline.com"

It was just an idea,
Krouc

from ie.comp

Bluehair

Actually screw the 50p... why not 'forget' to stamp it and post it anyway... no ID on the outside, if Eircom want to find out whats inside they have to pay for the postage!

sceptre

I'd much rather see a public dumping of the discs on the Eircom HQ doorstep (after they'd been scratched) or a public burning

Our problem is more with Eircom parent company than Eircom.net though (obviously they're effectively the same thing but they are technically different companies)

MarcusGarvey

Hmmmmm, thats an interesting idea. Don't they have a freepost address though ? So if you send it to that they'll have to pay for it, whereas if its delivered without freepost they could refuse to take it and thus not pay for it.

smokin' an'chewin' man

I can just see it now:

"Internet pressure group IrelandOffline members, claimed by Eircom to be an anti-Eircom group, return installation disks supplied free of charge by Eircom's internet subsidiary. Many were vandalised. Eircom spokesman dismissed the action as " a misguided action by a tiny unrepresentative group of computer nerds egged on by Eircom's competitors"."


Just a thought.

billy the squid

I say send them back

say pick a day like april fools day (that should give people time to collect several eircom CDs seeing as their availible just about everywhere) then send them individually back

Eircom.nets adress

eircom plc
PO Box 1
Ennis
Co. Clare

Funny that you would think that they would have ADSL at least for them selves think those people in the region asked if their exchange in Ennis was kitted out for it

MarcusGarvey

Yeah, they could spin that around too the bastards.

billy the squid

Ok hows this

get those free eircom CDs send them all off to rehab to be recycled and ask aircom to make better use of their recourses

Bard

notice chunk cut out of CD to make it un-re-usable

I'm not putting it in the post, tho'... its sharp

NeilF

Originally posted by Bard
notice chunk cut out of CD to make it un-re-usabl

Ah Bard..... Why didn't you slice the "fast" out of it

MarcusGarvey

Since it costs Eircom for everyone used why not take one everytime you go into one of the petrol stations and other outlets that give the cds away ?

Keep on taking them and use them for coasters or something, or use the reflective side as clock faces. I've seen this done with kiddie projects. Good reuse of them.

MS

I'm not putting it in the post, tho'... its sharp


Not 'SHARP' enough for those guys though. I have loads of Razor Blades to attach the the edge of it if you want ? LOL


MS

davros

Since it costs Eircom for everyone used why not take one everytime you go into one of the petrol stations and other outlets that give the cds away ?

The more Eircom spends on CDs, the less it has to spend on rolling out broadband.

Valentia is going to be ruthless with expenditure to pay down its debt so hitting their bottom line is likely to be counter-productive.

Otherwise I could suggest a couple of easy ways to deny Eircom revenue (stop renting phones from them, nominate your Family & Friends numbers). But I'm afraid it would make a bad situation worse if everybody did this (tens of thousands of households still rent their telephones, paying 15 quid a year for a phone worth about 10).

MarcusGarvey

Originally posted by davros


The more Eircom spends on CDs, the less it has to spend on rolling out broadband.

I don't think its the cost of rollout thats stopping Eircom right now. Maybe it was the millions it blew on local, nua, rondomondo and all the other companies and bonuses to its directors. Eircom are stalling for other reasons than costs.

billy the squid

Firstly i didnt know you could stop renting equipment from eircom anyone know how you go about that

secondly



would make a good banner or website image

or better still

email signiture

ando

LoL, had to make that my wallpaper

billy the squid

would you mind if i belted that onto me site to more i see it the more i love it

sceptre

Originally posted by fcddunne
Firstly i didnt know you could stop renting equipment from eircom anyone know how you go about that

Simplest way is probably to phone 1901 and ask them how you go about bringing back your overpriced rented phone. They'll probably tell you to bring it into your nearest Eircom centre. Ask them what date they'll stop billing you for the phone - ideally they'll say "from right now". then it's really up to you whether you actually bring the phone back or not.

And don't forget to tell your friends (all of them) how they can save themselves money by coughing up a tenner for a phone in Argos (or wherever) and stop renting that phone from Eircom.

(don't forget phone rental prices went up due to erm (hehe) "increased cost of providing the service")

This isn't anti-Eircom by any means. It's plain common sense.

Q_Ball

Originally posted by Bard
I'm not putting it in the post, tho'... its sharp

Hehe, why not use some sand paper to blunt it. I was gonna say a sander and turn it to dust and send it off but then they might think we're trying to kill them...

Robbo

You can get CD sized padded envelopes from the Post Office for about 40-50p.

Knowing Eircom, they'd probably accuse you of sending these sharpened CDs as "malicious material" through the post and you'd incur the wrath that anthrax hoaxers got.

Bard

Originally posted by fcddunne
would you mind if i belted that onto me site to more i see it the more i love it

er... I'm not sure... legal implications and stuff... don't credit me with it, if you put it up there, please...

or if you do, - do something to the eircom logo - blur it or something.

jd

Originally posted by Robbo
You can get CD sized padded envelopes from the Post Office for about 40-50p.

Knowing Eircom, they'd probably accuse you of sending these sharpened CDs as "malicious material" through the post and you'd incur the wrath that anthrax hoaxers got.

whatever
I think all that would happen is some mailroom clerk in Ennis (I think thats where Eircom/Eircomnet/Indigo print their bills) would throw the cds into a bin
jd

El_MUERkO

Good idea on the CD's

Also anyone who wants to save a few quid while thumbing their noses at Eircon should return their phone and save the line rental money to spend on sweets

disConnected

Originally posted by MarcusGarvey
...Keep on taking them and use them for coasters or something, or use the reflective side as clock faces. I've seen this done with kiddie projects. Good reuse of them.

I am an avid gardener, soI usually take my coasters to shoo the birds away from seeds and anything else they could find interesting...
Using those Eircom Cd's would probably get me into trouble with the ISPCA for a case of cruelty against wild animals... I'd assume the birds would start puking immediately once they see the Eircom logo on the CD:D

rymus

Originally posted by Q_Ball


Hehe, why not use some sand paper to blunt it. I was gonna say a sander and turn it to dust and send it off but then they might think we're trying to kill them...

Emm, I'm confused.. Wasnt this what some of us are trying to do? (No no, I joke, jovial, chortling sort of black comedy directed at the spawn of satan.)

Take your sharp cd and round the points. Perfectly postable.

I have quite a large collection of perfectly good eircom cd's to return to their sweatshops but first I have to use them to scrape the carcases of various dead animals and mammals

if anyone hears anything about a madman breaking into the CUH morgue with a suitcase full of cds, think nothing of it for they are going home... *sha la la laaaa*