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March 9th, 2009

Is this the UK’s Cheapest Aston Martin DB9 - less than £500

November 11th, 2008

A good friend of mine came to me recently and said, “i’m getting an Aston Martin DB9 next week, to be honest the deal was just too good to turn down”. Admittedly the car is nearly 4 years old but with a purchase price of over £50,000, i was absolutely amazed when he told me that the monthly PCP payments would be £470 with a guaranteed balloon at the end of 2 years which would enable him just to walk away if he wanted. Ok, so what about the deposit?. Well £3000 plus 24 payments of £470 adds up to £14280. Now by my thinking, you could go and buy an average saloon car and lose nearly that over 2 years. A bit of a no brainer really. Where’s the catch? Well apparently the finance company had messed up the figures and offered a guaranteed residual after 2 years of £47,000, blissfully unaware or ignorant to the fact that the values of the Aston Martin, along with most other cars, had taken a bit of a bashing lately. At the latest count, the finance broker was doing about 15 of these deals each week (obviously he didn’t feel it was necessary to alert the finance company to their “error).

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Apple ichat connection issues - the fix

November 10th, 2008

We’ve just upgraded some of our equipment and thought we would give the Apple imac a try. First impressions, great but have had some teething issues, in particular the “ichat” function. Tried everything, just couldn’t get the video chat up and runnning. OK on text chat, but each time we got an incoming video call, the message “…..has terminated the connection”. Changed all the settings on the machine, still nothing so we turned our attention to the router. Bingo, a few simple adjustments to the port settings and we’re up an running. Might not work for everyone, but we got all the information we needed here:
http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/