Free PowerPod worth £19.99
That’s the tempting offer that dropped on my mat this morning.
Who could resist? But before I rushed to send off for it, I read a little more.
For example, what did it do, other than recharge my iPod or iPhone?
Well, when I read a little further, it turned out it didn’t do those things. In fact, all it did was plug into my computer, suck all the data out (I assume) and mail it, along with the contents of my bank account, to Scottish Power.
Not quite so attractive. However, you could plug it into something, so it still retained a visceral fascination for men. The fact that the device only does one thing — send your money to a single company — isn’t enough to dull its attraction. I mean, Amazon’s Kindle does much the same thing — sends your money to a single company — but at least it allows you to read a book while it’s doing it. As far as I can gather, the PowerPod just sits there, quietly sending out your money. No flashing lights, no meters, nothing.
And it’s only £19.99! I wonder how many they sold before they started giving them away?
Then to my disappointment I found it only worked on Microsoft Vista and Internet Explorer. Shame. I’ll have to pass on that one.
July 30th, 2013 at 16:34
I got a free one and it was going to change my life, no more trudging 8 miles to the nearest shop with a paypoint to put my wotsit in the thingy and fill it with money to bring light to my home.
now I would have my very own thingy to put my wotsit in and could go back to being a recluse.
does it work on windows 7 I asked ” yes sir but you will have to rollback your browser to ie9″
not a problem thinks I and soon tis done
4 hours later I am looking at my power pod still sat there not wanting to take my money from me so I admit defeat and phone Scottish power and listen to green sleaves for 20 minutes, then joy of joy a people spoke to me a real human people
I cant do it says I
and in a wonderful brummy accent (all the Scottish people are working for sky) the reply came ” is your laptop a 32bit it wont work if its not a 32bit”
in a hushed tone I said thankyou and put the phone down
there may well be people out there with 32bit pc,s still but most of us have bought a pc in the last 5 years.
I am selling a power pod 3d jigsaw now