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Episode 15 - Power Tool Racer
This week on The Gadget Show Jason and Ortis join forces to build a power tool racer. Following The Gadget Show’s thorough trouncing in 2008’s Silverline Power Tool Drag Race Event, they decide to enter again! In the first part, they assess the competition. Deciding that chainsaw-powered vehicles are the way to go, in part 2 Jason and Ortis, with the help of engineers Stewart Pilley and Matthew Ward and three chain saw engines, set about constructing a chainsaw powered go kart that will hopefully mean glory is within their grasp. Finally, the race day arrives and Ortis and Jason head for Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset to see just what their go kart is made of. Will Jason, Ortis and their chainsaw powered go kart blow the competition out of the water or will they be humiliated and defeated by the end of the day?
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Kate Moffett09 November 2009
What about Jon's piece on Customer Service? I want to know where to find those cheaper numbers to contact phone companies but I can't remember what the website URL was!!
Report as inappropriateBrianW09 November 2009
when you advertise a website... it might be useful to check that their servers can handle the increased level of attention they will receive as a result.... had terrible experience trying to get anything out of Animoto...
Report as inappropriateRon Bailey09 November 2009
Where can I get a list of those 'complaints' goodies. The CEO list, the local phone numbers etc? Thanks
Report as inappropriateRichard09 November 2009
It would be useful to see the links to the websites that Jon Bentley used in programme 15. CAn you put them on the site, please?
Report as inappropriatekerry will09 November 2009
John did a feature which gave sites that have email addresses of CEOs of companies. What was the site?
Report as inappropriateDr_Zeus09 November 2009
Great show, I particularly enjoyed Jon Bentley's customer service piece, I came to the website hoping to find some of the website's he reviewed. Will you include them here please? Thanks Carl
Report as inappropriateMike10 November 2009
I'd like to have shortcut to the list of the phone numbers that you can use instead og the 08 prefix numbers, and also the shortcuts to get a person on the automated phone systems that Jon mentioned. PLEASE!!!!!! That ws the single most useful artical ever!
Report as inappropriateroy matthews10 November 2009
The phone prefix site is www.nomore0870.com dont know the site to avoid waiting in queues on customer service sites or the CEO site hope this helps.
Report as inappropriatelennyfsf10 November 2009
http://gethuman.com/numbers/uk http://www.saynoto0870.com/ Can't remember the other one's..., if there were any
Report as inappropriateMark10 November 2009
The websites are http://www.saynoto0870.com/ for geographical numbers for 08 numbers http://gethuman.com/ for phone system shortcuts to get a real human And I think this is the one for the CEO email addresses http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html I would just like to add to what John said on the programme emailing the CEO can work wonders. I was having real problems with Sky obtaining a MAC so in desperation I emailed James Murdoch, although I guess he never saw the email personally someone was on the case and was resolved in a couple of days
Report as inappropriateFiona Elaine Bliss10 November 2009
Like others who have put posts on your site about some websites featured in programme 15 I would also like to know the one for landline numbers instead of 8070, the one for CEO's direct numbers and the one for the one for shortcutting automated phone systems. Please put them on the site.
Report as inappropriatemajanelly10 November 2009
please provide shortcut to the list of phone numbers of CEOs of telecomms companies, I missed it and can't find it on here. Thanks
Report as inappropriateRobert Owen10 November 2009
Can you also e-mail me for the telephone Numbers regarding the 870 rip offs. That was the most brilliant piece of TV yet !!!!!!!!!!! Many thanks
Report as inappropriatesteve10 November 2009
Suzi stated that Jon Bentley's vt as "the best bit of info on TV..ever" So what where the web-sites ? Come on GS......
Report as inappropriatesurfersbabe10 November 2009
The site for skipping the queues on phones is gethuman.com Hope this helps, i had to quickly write it down last night, luckily i had a pen and paper handy otherwide would have missed it as well. I agree there should be some links on this page, or maybe they are hoping we will fill this role as I have just done..!
Report as inappropriateJohn Midgley10 November 2009
I have had past experience emailing a CEO which worked wonders, I was unhappy with a coffee I had purchased from one of those machines at the Motorway Services, so I went online with the said company and emailed Customer Services and copied the CEO in, he was glad of the feedback and they sent me some vouchers.
Report as inappropriatemike.10 November 2009
Just after the web sit so I can email the CEO of t-mobile.
Report as inappropriateCraig10 November 2009
I also watched the show and would be interested in receiving the links to the sites Jon discussed. Great show last night!
Report as inappropriateNeil Stead10 November 2009
I was disappointed to see Ortis testing the underwater camera with captive dolphins. The Atlantis hotel shipped their dolphins halfway around the world from the Solomon Islands, with no regard with the stress caused to them, just so that they could charge tourists upwards of £75 a time to swim with them. Swimming with dolphins is, unfortunately, gaining in popularity, and these sort of facilities are popping up around the world. Most of them are in countries which have no legislation to cover animal welfare, and there have been some appalling stories of abuse. Dolphins are used to roaming thousands of miles through the Oceans each year. Locking them up in facilities such as the one in Dubai is, in my view, a throwback to the times when we used to keep zoo animals in tiny cages, to pace back and forth and eventually go mad. Please, whenever you're featuring animals in a program, do your research, and make your viewers aware of any issues such as these. I know several Scuba divers who have vowed never to watch the Gadget Show again as a result of this week's show.
Report as inappropriateAdrian Wilkinson10 November 2009
Please, please, please can we have the list of web addresses that Jon Bentley featured last night. Surely enough people have asked for them on this comments board for somebody to do something about it!
Report as inappropriateadam10 November 2009
What about the peice on customer service thats the really important bit we all want to know about : )
Report as inappropriateAlan Massey10 November 2009
I couldn't remember that website for the phone numbers either, but a bit of searching with Google revealed http://gethuman.com/numbers/uk Hope you all find it useful
Report as inappropriateTerry Jane11 November 2009
Yes again links mentioned in the episode are not available online. It really is a shame that such a simple and important aspect of the follow up to the show is not available all in one place. Why not have a links page for each Episode
Report as inappropriateshu41b14 November 2009
The websites are http://www.saynoto0870.com/ for geographical numbers for 08 numbers http://gethuman.com/ for phone system shortcuts to get a real human And I think this is the one for the CEO email addresses http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html
Report as inappropriateJon Bent14 November 2009
you really need to have a link page so we can find the web sites you refer to.
Report as inappropriateIsabella14 November 2009
last episode was a legend. Good tv guys, especially the CEO and the alternative numbers to call for customer service.
Report as inappropriateJohn16 November 2009
I want to complain to the chief exec of Acer Computers. Acer won't give me his email address. Anyone know it so that i may get in touch. Programme was excellent
Report as inappropriateSammie24 November 2009
http://gethuman.com/numbers/uk www.saynoto0870.com http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html For those that haven't spotted it further up the page.. I expect there are a fair few CEOs whose inboxes are now full of customer complaints.. :) hahaha!
Report as inappropriateSammie24 November 2009
For John.. Customer Service http://gethuman.com/numbers/uk www.saynoto0870.com http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html
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