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Really minor annoyances

daveyc said:
When ever you buy anything online nowadays you're constantly bombarded by emails asking 'How did we do?'
You did fine, I paid for the stuff and you arranged for delivery, I then received it. If you ignore them you get another email, then another, then another . . . until you get sick and fill in a review just to shut them up. Then you get annoyed at yourself for giving in to their demands. Then they'll bombard you with measly 5% off offers for then until eternity.
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That happens when you book self catering accommodation via various agencies - or even hotels in booking.com.

I got so sick of constant reminders to comment or rate some cottages in Scotland once that I accessed the website/s and rapidly rated them all a random ‘7’ or ‘8’ for everything. No additional comments.

But one cottage owner contacted me and asked for an explanation for my ‘low rating’. If I recall correctly I simply responded that I’d remove the review and left it at that, explaining that I was simply generically clicking boxes because I was sick of getting reminders.

The owner then E-mailed me explaining how upset she’d been and that she’d been in tears all morning. I actually didn’t think that 7 was that bad. And I’d removed it anyway.

But it had the impact of convincing me never to return to that location again.
 

ned_werby said:
Use of the word "kids". No idea why but I dislike it intensely. Try not use it at all.
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Our new headmaster back in late 60's, early 70's sent a letter out to all the parents referring to us schoolchildren as "kids" Me mother went ape, demanded to see him & wanted to know why he was referring to us kids a s baby goats! Think it was the only time she did owt like that...
 
BiG said:
That happens when you book self catering accommodation via various agencies - or even hotels in booking.com.

I got so sick of constant reminders to comment or rate some cottages in Scotland once that I accessed the website/s and rapidly rated them all a random ‘7’ or ‘8’ for everything. No additional comments.

But one cottage owner contacted me and asked for an explanation for my ‘low rating’. If I recall correctly I simply responded that I’d remove the review and left it at that, explaining that I was simply generically clicking boxes because I was sick of getting reminders.

The owner then E-mailed me explaining how upset she’d been and that she’d been in tears all morning. I actually didn’t think that 7 was that bad. And I’d removed it anyway.

But it had the impact of convincing me never to return to that location again.
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Hotels.com send you an email to let you know it’s confirmed, then one for expenses, then a the hotel has sent you a message, then please fill this in before check in and now as I said I’d check in around 8pm an email at 8:05 asking how was check in, in bit even checked in, then like you say another 2 tomorrow about rating the hotel. I’d love to know the open percentage of their emails as surely most just delete straight away.
 
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