Comments on: An open letter to Table Pouncer

By: Hungry

Hungry — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:02:41 +0000

I have to say, with respect, that unless the total bill is £10.00 or below, the £5.00 fee is incredible value for money. I have used TP for about 35 meals and to date saved approximately £1,000 yet only paid £120 in fees, they send discount codes!!! I do not see this as disproportionate in the least

TP encourages me and my partner to try costly restaurants, we have made discoveries and return regularly, a 50% saving is huge. (IMHO)

By: Brian McClough

Brian McClough — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:38:39 +0000

I used the TablePouncer website after seeing it advertised in the free London newspaper. I booked a table and it cost ME £5 for the privilege. I tend to use Bookatable.com which has more restaurants near me – more offers and it doesnt cost me a penny. Silly business idea – booking fees are a thing of the past.

By: Trudeth

Trudeth — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:30:03 +0000

Thought it was a good idea till I realised there was fee attached to the bookings which disproportionately high in comparison too the savings in many of the bookings.

Especially as quite a few if the listed restaurants (in London at least) have the same or a better deal bookable though Top-table who don’t charge and let you book further in advance.

Also the calculated savings are often based on if you order the most expensive item on the menu as opposed to the adverage cost of say a starter or main, making the saving often far less then expected.

Why would anyone pay someone for a service someone else has been offering at a better standard for free for years?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:42:53 +0000

No matter what has happened, Table Pouncer is a dreadful idea for a website. Why pay £5 booking fee?! Pay for a discount?!

By: Canford Crinkly

Canford Crinkly — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:24:03 +0000

This all leaves me a bit, well……….(sic)

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:02:51 +0000

How much had you drunk before writing that?

By: Will

Will — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:47:05 +0000

Dear Martin (if that is your ‘real’ name).

I am oftentimes remarked upon by strangers for my exorbitant choice of telemarketing garb. And this has stood me in wondrous stead for the oft’times remarked as aforementioned.

What that I would have given to be of the inflection that slander is written libel! Oh, how the joyous will contemporaneously sing the praises of the damnation.

As you may now have forsaken, my mother tongue is not in that of libel or slander, but that of the laws of the maritime. And wondering if this is indeed the case.

Would that it were not so, but alas and alack! For therein lies the rub when all is said and negated to a level such as this that we are contemporaneously seeing. Inconceivable!

I do not mean these words what you think they are to meaninglessness.

In forgoance of a traffic-related-reply – oh post haste, would that though comest faster! – I shall simply say ‘adieu’.

I hope this clarity of the system of analysis will provide more of a conclusion naturally.

Will

(P.S. Please do not write back to me again, as I require no uncertain explanation)

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:28:38 +0000

What an embarrassing response from the CEO of a company. Just give some money to charity and be done with it. Don’t blame u Martin stick to your guns.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:12:43 +0000

You seem to have misunderstood my point, let me elaborate;
Accidentally using a photo to which you don’t have permission of the copy-write holder isn’t something which I would view particularly negatively. CEO reacting to someone pointing this out with false threats of slander to a “small time blogger” is enough for me to avoid them.
Storm in a tea-cup really, not quite sure why everyone is getting so worked up about it!

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:38:50 +0000

Any solicitor would laugh before saying “well you can hardly bring a clean case can you?”.