Hat tip to Nintendo
31 Aug 2010: We’re quick to criticise companies who provide awful customer service, so we should draw attention to those who do something brilliant too. A couple of weeks back my son’s Nintendo Wii, which was about two years old, stopped working. The power light was on, but nobody was at home. I plugged the unit into a neighbour’s TV to check the connections weren’t at fault (they weren’t), and – not expecting much joy – typed “Nintendo Wii repair” into Google. I was surprised to find an official Nintendo site as the first result, so I clicked through to The Nintendo Service Centre for the UK. It still seems too good to be true. They provided a freepost label to return the [...]What else is new?
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- RT @AndrewMaleMojo: Dexys 2012 live were astonishing. But this, this is... *mouth moves, words do not come out*: http://t.co/S2UjCkKQ <- Yes 2 hours ago
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