News ; In France, you can buy a phone contract from a vending machine.

[Anonymous]

In France, you can buy a phone contract from a vending machine

How very novel !

Do we think this will work in the Uk ?

Source ; Engadget.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/operation-free-mobile/

[Cleoriff]

As you say @Anonymous ...how very novel!

I just wish that things were a bit more relaxed in Spain. The whole set up of going into any phone shop

on the Costa Del Sol is a lengthy nightmare. One may as well take a packed lunch.

To take out a contract on a phone here, involves production of passports and other ID security checks.

I might add this happens in Orange and Vodaphone shops as well as other outlets

If you are any other nationality but Spanish, you will have to come back the following day to collect your

phone.

I use the Orange shop to do my computer dongle top-up. If you arent there, first in the queue,

then forget the rest of the morning....

Even this process is long winded. The sales assistant has to get on the phone to Orange CS in Spain

to authorise and activate the top-up (nothing simple like activating it via her own in-store computer)

So well done France. Maybe Spain will do the same....when they realise it IS the 21st Century

[Anonymous]

Well that sounds like a complete nightmare @Cleoriff

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[Cleoriff]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Well that sounds like a complete nightmare @Cleoriff

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@Anonymous...I DID point out yesterday that anyone who wanted to stay in my apartment, had to

take the 'rough with the smooth'....

[Anonymous]

Nothing wrong with a bit of rough.

[jonsie]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Nothing wrong with a bit of rough.

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I'll drink to that!

Seriously, the day is coming when we'll do everything online or in kiosks and not have to see or speak to anyone. Not in my lifetime thankfully!

[Anonymous]

I concur.

Personally I enjoy the 'shopping experience' in a retail store as well as online.

[Cleoriff]

I am slightly different now....'Back in the day' I loved nothing more than joining a gang of friends for a

shopping spree! NOW, I would rather stick pins in my eyes

In fact my family know my shopping habits very well...

i.e. " If it can't be bought online...it doesn't get bought".....