Hey you guys!

Last week I received lots of emails from the HES/HvA with questionnaires asking for my opinion about all sorts of HES related stuff. Of course the HES would not be the HES if half of them was not applicable to me but I did fill most of the questionnaires because i study at hes.

Sure it will cost you a little of your precious time but I know all you guys are complaining about everything but never to the right person. SO TAKE YOUR CHANCE, FILL IN THESE QUESTIONNAIRES and help to improve the quality of the HES.

By the way, there is one about Sorbon so you can actually tell Sorbon all about your good and bad experience. Do you remember one of the early days iStudyatHES.com discussions about Sorbon?

Click here for the ”Getting ripped off at sorbon” story

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Awesome quality , good service, clean and neat, well-known brand products but EXPENSIVE prices. Everyone complains about it, but little is done to change this. A few months ago, an email with news about the school was sent saying that the school knew about this high prices and that they would do something about it… have you seen any changes? NO.

This is clearly a monopoly. We don’t have a second option, actually we do, we can walk 1000m till Lidl, Burger King or any-other place in Bijlmer centre, but when you look through the window analysing that option in your mind and you see that it is raining or there is a wind-katrina-style-storm, then you will have to buy at Sorbon or just wait till get home or die of hunger.

Once I went to the HES Cafe and I saw an incredible offer: Adez + snikers= €1!!! I thought, wow, they start making good offers, finally they understand the small pocket of the student… still a bit surprise, I bought the offer, of course, and while drinking I looked for the ending date and: 1 day to go! I understood that this wasn’t an fair offer… two days after, new stuff came and prices were high again: Adez €1,85 and snikers €0,60 – way beyond the friend and lovely €1.

Perhaps they could lower the prices and increase demand, right? Or buy smaller cups to fit with the amount of coffee… (did you notice that the cappuccino in the cantine is smaller than the cappuccino in the Cafe and both cost €1,15? and even the cup only gets filled till 3/4). Sorbon prices seem to be almost at the same level of AH To Go, but the difference here is that we don’t go anywhere, we stay.

What we could do, is to take action by ourselves since the school seems to be busy with something else. With the European style of protests, we could just don’t buy anything for a day or two… or we could apply the Southamerican style which is just block the doors and don’t let anybody buy anything in exchange of a drop in general prices of, say, 20%?

Well, express yourself here and if you are serious, we could really do something.

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