The grumpy thread

[Tickman]

Other than adding a serious misfire, how have they added £3500 to the value of this?

Had this before where I missed out on a free Morris Minor in Glasgow for it to be offered for sale about 10 months later for £1000 on the same site.

 

I may* have copied the original listing and got a load of abuse off the seller for pointing out his £1000 mark up!

 

I was just gutted that I had missed it first time round by seconds.

[BavarianRetro]

Surely what a seller has paid for what he's selling is totally irrelevant?

 

I heard of a chap buying a car that the market probably values about £2500 for £150 last week or the week before. What should he sell it for?

[trigger]

The same could be said for this, i was quite tempted by it myself but couldn't get to Manchester to collect it, it was at £3100 for ages without selling.

 

 

2 weeks later its back on with a trader...

 

[Sheefag]

Surely what a seller has paid for what he's selling is totally irrelevant?

 

I heard of a chap buying a car that the market probably values about £2500 for £150 last week or the week before. What should he sell it for?

 

Aye, it's called business and it makes the world go around. I put a margin on everything that I sell..... or I just don't sell it.

[jakebullet]

Possibly* a bit of a weird grump. I took Kinky Girl to the pub 'cos hungry. This bloke walks in with missus n 2 ankle biters. Said pub food also includes 'challenge' meals, ie way too much food. Bloke has ordered one of said meals...... but when they bring it out on a fuck off sized plate he says "can I have 3 spare plates as well", and proceeds to feed missus n kids for nowt.

 

You could say he's being enterprising and saving money. Or call him a tight twat. My judgement could be clouded 'cos I've got shares in the pub chain so he's 'stealing' from me.

[Doctormop]

Having worked briefly in such establishments and dealt with smart arse customers who are quite eloquent at stating "Your menu doesn't say one person has to eat it all" or "The offer says free champagne, no mention of buying food" you can rest assured that any food served to such people has a few 'special' ingredients added in the kitchen*

 

*I once walked in to find a commis chef, trousers round his ankles with a fillet steak strategically inserted into a certain orifice that I would rather not mention, he just commented that the customer who had ordered said steak was well known as a serial complainer and that his current form of retribution was nothing compared to what he had done into the unfortunate Gentleman's starter.

[purplebargeken]

It was a Volvo mate, so it was comfy

[Sheefag]

Having worked briefly in such establishments and dealt with smart arse customers who are quite eloquent at stating "Your menu doesn't say one person has to eat it all" or "The offer says free champagne, no mention of buying food" you can rest assured that any food served to such people has a few 'special' ingredients added in the kitchen*

 

*I once walked in to find a commis chef, trousers round his ankles with a fillet steak strategically inserted into a certain orifice that I would rather not mention, he just commented that the customer who had ordered said steak was well known as a serial complainer and that his current form of retribution was nothing compared to what he had done into the unfortunate Gentleman's starter.

 

An ideal establishment for those who persue a high protein diet.

[Doctormop]

If the living hell of working in such places taught me one thing it was never complain until you have finished eating, oh, and if you complain afterwards, never go back again.

[beko1987]

Aaaah when did I become so shit at guitar hero?

[overrun]

Aaaah when did I become so shit at guitar hero?

The summer of '69?

[Eddie Honda]

you can rest assured that any food served to such people has a few 'special' ingredients added in the kitchen*

 

*namely "Winner's Sauce"

 

[Cavcraft]

Chester races again yesterday, oh how I love being elbowed in the back and shoved about by some gobshite in a shiny Matalan suit in a pub. Oh, you've still got your County Stand badge on at 11.00pm? I'm so impressed, now jog on back to the railway station and don't forget to urinate in the street on the way.

[Richard]

If the living hell of working in such places taught me one thing it was never complain until you have finished eating, oh, and if you complain afterwards, never go back again.

I think everybody should be made to work in catering for a year or two. It would teach them how to behave as a customer and also that other jobs aren't so bad.

[DeeJay]

Chester races again yesterday, oh how I love being elbowed in the back and shoved about by some gobshite in a shiny Matalan suit in a pub. Oh, you've still got your County Stand badge on at 11.00pm? I'm so impressed, now jog on back to the railway station and don't forget to urinate in the street on the way.

If I had of known that was you Cav I would of sold you a Suzuki.

[Cavcraft]

Good luck with that one, you'd have gone home minus a car and £50 for my troubles.

[jakebullet]

Evilbay:

 

I haven't received my item.

Aha, this ones tracked. tappity. Er, it went out early July. Courier attempted delivery twice.

Well I haven't got a card.

You will have had in July. Why has it taken you till September to notice it's not arrived?

I work away. Haven't got a card.

 

This one is bound to end well.

[Pillock]

When you say "well", do you mean "with an Argos catalogue"?

 

Do you sell via anywhere else? Amazon Marketplace or owt? Is there even anywhere for someone working from home to sell their stuff without the arseache of setting up and maintaining a site, advertising etc?

[jakebullet]

He's not at argos level yet, but I can see it going that way. It'll be not his fault, followed by a claim to ebay which gets him a full refund. I'm struggling to understand why you'd think I'm going away tomorrow for 12 weeks, I know I'll buy things off ebay.

 

I've got a bit on amazon, but they're expensive and whoever is cheapest gets all the sales. I've had things on there where the cheapest is making 6p profit.

[jakebullet]

I think I've been a bit food poisoned. All this last week I've had gut ache, shits etc.

 

Said to Ma I'll have sausages today. Got some out of the freezer and they're not properly frozen. Investigation with laser thermometer has temperature ranging anywhere from +2 to -10, so freezer is fucked at a quick guess. I had sausages last Sunday as well, and they was shite, so guessing that's source of poisoning. I'd put shiteness down to Ma having face on as usual cos I'd dared to go out and have fun.

[purplebargeken]

^^ Good luck.

[Frogchod]

I'm in my old stopping ground for a weekend in October without Mrs Frogchod. Great chance to get together with old mates and go for a few* pints

Except so far two are under orders from their Mrs' and two have given up the evil alcohol.

FFS all I miss from the UK is real beer and curry

 

Perhaps they've heard I'm still driving about in unfashionable motors ?   

 

Theale / Beenham area if anyone's up for too much beer and a curry on the 22/23rd....

[Rocket88]

0625 this morning, fuelling up the truck before end of shift at the Shell garage on the Ilminster bypass roundabout. BMW one series parked up outside with a couple of likely looking lads therein.

Waiting behind driver of said conveyance at the checkout, he doesn't have enough cash to pay a can of Red Bull, leaves it on the counter, and returns to his car.

I pay for fuel with card, and exchange light banter with bloke behind the counter. Red Bull bloke returns with a mit full of shrapnel to pay for caffeine infused shite.

I walk out, and perambulate truck wards...........someone behind me shouts "Paedo!". I turn round to see passenger in Beemer madly pointing at the bloke in the back in a "It was him" gesture.

I slowly walk over to the Beemer, open the back door, and enquire of the fat gobshite within the nature of his problem. At this point the Beemer driver emerged, rushed over, started up, and sped off, still with the back door open. Gobshite nearly fell out....

W.T. actual F. ?

[RoadworkUK]

I went to Halfords today.

[messerschmitt owner]

I've been cutting up a car today! More fun than Halfords!

[RoadworkUK]

I should probably elaborate on the above.

 

Haven't been to Halfords for A Very Long Time, but I gave Mrs RoadworkUK a lift to work, whence we would continue for a nice drive in the country after she's done the couple of things she needed to do. Anyway. I was in town, Halfords, also, was in town, so I and they became one.

 

Needed more P38 ready to embark on the final cosmetic making good of project Bridge? No Fear on wifey's 306. I also bought some primer, a brush and a pair of amusingly hopeless looking "sanding sponges" for a few shekels each.

 

I also had want of a Bilt Hamber Clay Bar. I've never tried it before, and Halfords On Line reckon they can supply one for some £10.49. I fancied seeing if I can miracle up a bit of "new car shine" on the Audi, so I went over to the 'detailing' section, where it wasn't.

 

Shrugging, in the same way I do when my most local branch of Argos inevitably has everything in except anything I need, I went to the till.

 

"Alright buddy?" He asked.

 

After I shuddered, vomited, smashed his head against the "Wipers Fitted For £5" sign, released his lapel from my grasp and calmed down I asked him:

 

"Bilt Hamber Clay Bar. Regular. £10.49. Do you have one in stock?"

 

"Built, sorry. What?"

 

With the aid of a few diagrams and a game of charades I saw the low-wattage light bulb dimly illuminate above his head, and his lips straightened as if to break troubling news,

 

"Ah. Web exclusive, I'm afraid m"

 

He stopped short of saying "Mate."

 

I bloody hate this Web Exclusive bollocks. Customers should be rewarded for making the effort to go INTO the shop. Instead, by actually visiting the retailer's premises in the flesh, they run the risk of being spoken at in ASBO TXT SPK language by people who probably only just know which facial orrifice to stick their Vapestick into, only to then find the item you're after is either not in stock, only stocked in certain branches, or not stocked AT ALL.

 

Of course. If I'd stayed at home, visited the Halfords website and bought my stuff without leaving the sofa, it would all have been delivered to my very house FOR FREE! No postage charge with orders over £20! I need not have have struck up a relationship with mushybrains!

 

What annoys me THE MOST, is that I only went in for P38 and that clay bar and Halfords granted me only 50% of what I was looking for. Yet, I still bought some other things. ON IMPULSE. Because I was in the shop, and that's what people do in shops.

 

Just bloody close and save me the bother of trying. Harrumph.

[Cavcraft]

'Have you still got the (push)bike and what's the best you can do on it?' 

 

Yes it's still here and about 25mph, maybe 30 down a steep hill.

 

{silence}

[Kiltox]

Buy the G3 clay mitt instead - makes it 100000x quicker and easier than a bar

[dome]

I should probably elaborate on the above.

 

Haven't been to Halfords for A Very Long Time, but I gave Mrs RoadworkUK a lift to work, whence we would continue for a nice drive in the country after she's done the couple of things she needed to do. Anyway. I was in town, Halfords, also, was in town, so I and they became one.

 

Needed more P38 ready to embark on the final cosmetic making good of project Bridge? No Fear on wifey's 306. I also bought some primer, a brush and a pair of amusingly hopeless looking "sanding sponges" for a few shekels each.

 

I also had want of a Bilt Hamber Clay Bar. I've never tried it before, and Halfords On Line reckon they can supply one for some £10.49. I fancied seeing if I can miracle up a bit of "new car shine" on the Audi, so I went over to the 'detailing' section, where it wasn't.

 

Shrugging, in the same way I do when my most local branch of Argos inevitably has everything in except anything I need, I went to the till.

 

"Alright buddy?" He asked.

 

After I shuddered, vomited, smashed his head against the "Wipers Fitted For £5" sign, released his lapel from my grasp and calmed down I asked him:

 

"Bilt Hamber Clay Bar. Regular. £10.49. Do you have one in stock?"

 

"Built, sorry. What?"

 

With the aid of a few diagrams and a game of charades I saw the low-wattage light bulb dimly illuminate above his head, and his lips straightened as if to break troubling news,

 

"Ah. Web exclusive, I'm afraid m"

 

He stopped short of saying "Mate."

 

I bloody hate this Web Exclusive bollocks. Customers should be rewarded for making the effort to go INTO the shop. Instead, by actually visiting the retailer's premises in the flesh, they run the risk of being spoken at in ASBO TXT SPK language by people who probably only just know which facial orrifice to stick their Vapestick into, only to then find the item you're after is either not in stock, only stocked in certain branches, or not stocked AT ALL.

 

Of course. If I'd stayed at home, visited the Halfords website and bought my stuff without leaving the sofa, it would all have been delivered to my very house FOR FREE! No postage charge with orders over £20! I need not have have struck up a relationship with mushybrains!

 

What annoys me THE MOST, is that I only went in for P38 and that clay bar and Halfords granted me only 50% of what I was looking for. Yet, I still bought some other things. ON IMPULSE. Because I was in the shop, and that's what people do in shops.

 

Just bloody close and save me the bother of trying. Harrumph.

Yeah, sorry. I'm gonna bite.

 

As an ex Halfords employee(bike hut sales manager for what it's worth) it's worth you knowing a few things.

 

1. Staff are not well trained. It's a Halfords thing. They can't be arsed. I avoided as best I could letting management know I was car savvy as they'd get me fitting wiper blades all fucking day and ignoring my department. Your man may not have been at the top of the evolutionary chain but it sounds like he was trying to help. Crazy as it may seem, he won't know every single product or brand that they sell.

 

2. Web Exclusive. It's a clue-if you'd try to reserve it via click and collect then it'd say it would be a few days before you could get it from a particular store. The information is there, if you look for it.

 

Halfords as a company are a shower of arseholes, don't get me wrong. However they are an easy target for folk to take a shot at and its not always the poor sod on the shop floors fault.

 

Apologies if I sound like a cunt. Too long in retail. The customer is always right? My fucking arse he is.

 

*This post may have been fuelled by beer.

[RoadworkUK]

*This post may have been fuelled by beer.

Yep, as somebody who has worked in retail for 12 years until finally escaping three months ago, I knew all that. And I'm drinking Highland Park right now, too.

 

"Web Exclusive" and "Buddy" still annoy the shit out of me, though. And I may have exaggerated the actual level of violence I exhibited.

 

In fact I was embarrassingly polite, even offered to take my own basket back to the front door. He knew nothing of the fury brewing in my fragile little mind, ready to boil over in a shameful torrent of keyboard warfare.

 

(You'll have to forgive me, I'm really not very good at being grumpy)