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Speed course debacle

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BurnoutGP · Yesterday 17:54

Booked a speed awareness course online (yes I was speeding i accept this). They use zoom (who still uses zoom??). Anyway they send you a link to check all working. Everything was fine. Day of course the trainer couldn't hear me, told me he'd give me 5 and come back to me. Still couldn't hear me so just removed me from the course. Had to rebook at an additional £39 tried to explain but they were insistent technical issues are my fault. Tried to explain all the tests were working fine beforehand. Am worried will just happen again. Have downloaded it on my phone now as a back up and videoed the test to show all working with all the ticks.
AIBU to be cross I wasted my time and had to pay again when clearly the fault was on their end!?

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Thortour · Yesterday 18:41

Obsessed with all the saintly people who have never ever gone over the speed limit.

LlynTegid · Yesterday 18:44

Lbcde · Yesterday 18:40

No sympathy here. You did the crime ….

Exactly.

Plenty of people still use Zoom, even though it is not dominant as it once was. Not every virtual meeting is on Teams.

The unreasonable thing here is not making you attend in person, or preferably still, just be given points on your licence.

ToKittyornottoKitty · Yesterday 18:58

Thortour · Yesterday 18:41

Obsessed with all the saintly people who have never ever gone over the speed limit.

Nobody has been saintly. I’ve done a speed awareness course, and I did it on my iPad but downloaded zoom onto my phone just incase. If I somehow missed the course I’d have accepted I needed to pay again because I sped and I’m an adult so that’s my bill to pay 🤷‍♀️

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · Yesterday 18:59

Are you using a MacBook? Mine is very weird about Zoom, although iPhone and iPad fine.

ILoveKits · Yesterday 19:09

@BurnoutGP can you use headphones with your computer/laptop? Very recently, the internal mike on my laptop failed - just like that. It's an internal hardware issue. Is this happening on other video calld? I plugged in headphones and sound was restored.

TBF this is why I have opted to do speed awareness courses in person.

GasPanic · Yesterday 19:10

Am I the only one who thinks it somewhat ironic that they use an app called Zoom to deliver a speeding course ?

Edit : Anyway, you have to take it. You broke the law and the law won.

PersephonePitstop · Yesterday 19:13

I’m not a fan of Zoom so chose a course provider that uses Teams, you can choose from lots of different providers.

tomorrowfollowstoday · Yesterday 19:14

Thortour · Yesterday 18:41

Obsessed with all the saintly people who have never ever gone over the speed limit.

A lot of people don't speed - think it's about half?

sillycoldmondays · Yesterday 19:17

Zoom isn’t old but it’s pretty terrible. I thought it had its day during lockdown.

MyLimeGuide · Yesterday 19:31

Yeah that sucks, id be annoyed too.

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