The grumpy thread

[tooSavvy]

Local drop-off has so many upsides... Like having what you want/where you want it/when you say you want it/and ready for YOU to get it...

 

Fuck 'chucked over hedge/no one in' couriers.. Eh?

[sierraman]

Give GMP a bell with their reg.

They won’t give a flying fuck about it. I guarantee that.

[sierraman]

Welcome to my world!

 

Problem i have is living in a building with stairs and a security door.

 

Was waiting a while back for a parcel, there's a card through the door, DHL.... not a hope in hell the guy rang, was in all day. "You weren't in". Phoned to rearrange delivery... "We'll deliver tomorrow", annoying but fine.

 

Knowing what happened the day before, i watch for the van, it pulls up outside.... good. Guy then just drives off. I phone DHL and they say they will investigate... they call back "He couldn't get access to your property". NO SHIT SHERLOCK, He didn't get out the van to try. I watched him pull up and drive off again. It took a week to finally get someone who could be arsed to get out the van AND carry the parcel up stairs.

 

I've had UPS divert a parcel from Edinburgh to Dundee via Lincolnshire and lose it there.

 

I've had TNT manage to misplace an entire engine.

 

FedEx deliver the package right back to the sender without it ever getting further than their first relay depot.

 

Yodel, much like DHL, plain refuse to deliver due to there being a security door.

 

etc etc, if you are waiting on 3 parcels, 2 of them will have an issue of some sorts.

 

I detest home delivery.

 

I suspect a lot of it comes down to unreasonable targets for deliver drivers though, they see something that might delay them when they have x amount to do in a set time = avoiding to save time.

This is what happens when you pare the business model down to paying people 50p a drop.

[sierraman]

Rimmers... never has a company been so aptly named.

 

They stock a lot of impossible to get hold of elsewhere Land Rover parts.

 

I was unfortunate enough to need them when the security ring sheered off on my Discos lock barrel for central locking/alarm, the part itself must have cost about 30p to manufacture, list price was meant to be something like £4.80.

 

Rimmers price? £12.

 

+ VAT

 

+ P&P (full price, despite it just being put in a plastic bag covering a normal envelope!)

 

+VAT on P&P.

 

Ended up costing around £20 for what was effectively a giant guitar plectrum with a hole bored out it.

 

They still send me glossy magazines every so often, so the money they are wasting on that is slowly reclaiming some of the overpay.

In any situation where you have the gold so to speak you can pretty much charge what you want. They know people will pay it as there’s no alternative, they’ve no interest in keeping things affordable for people as they are running a business, while ever someone somewhere can afford it they’ll price things at a point.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Rimmers... never has a company been so aptly named.

 

They stock a lot of impossible to get hold of elsewhere Land Rover parts.

 

I was unfortunate enough to need them when the security ring sheered off on my Discos lock barrel for central locking/alarm, the part itself must have cost about 30p to manufacture, list price was meant to be something like £4.80.

 

Rimmers price? £12.

 

+ VAT

 

+ P&P (full price, despite it just being put in a plastic bag covering a normal envelope!)

 

+VAT on P&P.

 

Ended up costing around £20 for what was effectively a giant guitar plectrum with a hole bored out it.....

Sounds a bit like CX-Basis, the German profiteers.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Because Rock Auto sent it (even though it isn't their fault) it's their problem to sort out. You should contact them and advise the parts failed to arrive. Let them chase DHL/Yodel. They'll end up sending replacements out. No point you getting stressed about it! This kind of thing happens regularly at work and when it's flagged to us that a parcel has gone astray, it's usually my job to chase the firm involved and often they um and ah about it for a while before admitting they've lost the parcel. We then have to send replacement goods to the customer, before filing a claim if it's a high value parcel, or writing it off if it's a low value one. The track and sign method is supposed to stop parcels going missing, but it doesn't take into account the stupid drivers who sign for it themselves then lob it over a wall/leave it at another address across town/around the corner/in the wrong town entirely.

Have you tried using US Automotive in Bedford for parts? I believe they keep a lot of stock here in the UK.

 

even if you did get through to yodel they will tell you to contact the seller as its them who are "in contract" with them not you

 

i won 4 renner steel wheels in which the seller parcel taped the 4 original renner alloy wheel boxes together- i recieved 1!

[Tamworthbay]

If that doesn't work I've got a chop saw you can borrow ..

Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk

Thanks mate, had a look and pretty sure I can make it work, I just need to knock up an angle bracket at work on Monday and should be good to go.

[xtriple]

Rimmers are the same as 'Flying Spare' pretty much a monopoly so charge what they want. Just read some of the prices I paid for obscure bits for the BGD!

[warren t claim]

Running a man and his two girls aged 3 and 5 through the local McDonald's drive through. On the way back passenger sees a pretty black lady in her early 20s jogging and says to his kids "look at the monkey running for the bus". You sir are an utter cunt. As I know exactly where you live you may expect some unexpected junk mail shortly.

[LightBulbFun]

minor grump in the scheme of things

 

after reading about purplebargekens FX4

 

I came to the sudden and sad realisation that the London ULEZ would pretty much dash any hope of owning one

 

all the more reason to find an invacar tho since thats ULEZ exempt   (and all the more reason to try and GTFO of London...)

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Running a man and his two girls aged 3 and 5 through the local McDonald's drive through. On the way back passenger sees a pretty black lady in her early 20s jogging and says to his kids "look at the monkey running for the bus". You sir are an utter cunt. As I know exactly where you live you may expect some unexpected junk mail shortly.

 

 

What would have happened if you'd just pulled over and told him to get the fuck out and get the bus?  Out of interest.

[Timewaster]

What would have happened if you'd just pulled over and told him to get the fuck out and get the bus? Out of interest.

It would have no impact on the bloke whatsoever. He would simply think that Warren is a "monkey lover" and carried on.

 

I have met these people before.

 

(I mean generically, not that particular prick).

[Frogchod]

Round here they have; certainly Hermes and UPS.

 

Last time I used UPS they needed just six quid to get a fairly hefty parcel from the Midlands to London in less than 18 hours. And behind the newsagents counter was a huge pile of them.... Dunno what their cut is but it probably pays better than Mars Bars.

 

A local launderette is a drop off point. On a Monday morning you cant move in there because of all the parcels. I'd be grumpy if had to pick up some dry cleaning from there.

Some ebay.fr sellers have this "pont relay" option, I use it all the time. Nothing whatsoever to do with the lass in the launderette

[Frogchod]

Blockades are still going on over here.

It's not too bad getting around, it's still quicker to do 5 miles across town than trying to do 5 miles across Reading.

My grump is, why the blockade organisers don't get their act together and blockade Paris ? Macron and big business would take notice of that.

[John F]

^ My grump is there's a bloody Citroen Xsara Picasso bastard carrier in that pic

[oldcars]

Pissing down all week. The 75 is a swimming pool.

[Frogchod]

^ My grump is there's a bloody Citroen Xsara Picasso bastard carrier in that pic

30 seconds before that Picasso there was an 80s Mercedes hippy wagon (207 ?) that would have been more autoshite.

The copper was looking at me then, so I thought it best not to point my phone at him...

[castros_bro]

MOT place said structural FAIL and scrap it but didn't charge me anything so I prodded a few bits. Here's the rear NS sill from underneath.

 

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

MOT place said structural FAIL and scrap it but didn't charge me anything so I prodded a few bits. Here's the rear NS sill from underneath.

 

IMG_20181124_131239.jpg

 

Bit of strategic wob?

[richardmorris]

What would have happened if you'd just pulled over and told him to get the fuck out and get the bus?  Out of interest.

That was my thought. How do people like that still exist?

[richardmorris]

MOT place said structural FAIL and scrap it but didn't charge me anything so I prodded a few bits. Here's the rear NS sill from underneath.

 

IMG_20181124_131239.jpg

I’ve a hernia repair done with mesh like that. No fibreglass though I hope.

[richardmorris]

Blockades are still going on over here.

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It's not too bad getting around, it's still quicker to do 5 miles across town than trying to do 5 miles across Reading.

My grump is, why the blockade organisers don't get their act together and blockade Paris ? Macron and big business would take notice of that.

They are aren’t they? Water cannon on the champs ellysee.

[Frogchod]

They are aren’t they? Water cannon on the champs ellysee.

Are they ? Didn't here anything about that on local radio today...

[myglaren]

Are they ? Didn't here anything about that on local radio today...

Beeb.

[richardmorris]

Are they ? Didn't here anything about that on local radio today...

Must be a cover up!

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/24/french-gilets-jaunes-protests-turn-violent-on-the-streets-of-paris

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46328439

 

https://www.thelocal.fr/20181124/paris-police-use-tear-gas-water-cannon-against-yellow-vest-protesters

[Aston Martin]

I need to tax and insure the Alessi.... And insure the Cacti.

 

£750 the pair, hopefully Churchill multicar can lower a little.

[warren t claim]

What would have happened if you'd just pulled over and told him to get the fuck out and get the bus?  Out of interest.

 

 

No way would I have done that with his two small girls onboard. 

 

Having children as passengers has caused problems before, recently some prick kicked off on both my car and myself for refusing to carry him, his partner and their three small kids in my Mondeo estate which as you can imagine was only plated to carry four passengers. He was under the impression that under fives don't count as occupying a seat, sadly that's not true and I've been in front of a magistrates court a decade ago for just that offence which I escaped any taxi related punishment by virtue of the fact that my plate had expired at the previous midnight and it was my family I was carrying in my car. I ended up with a conditional discharge much to the anger of the licencing officer that stopped me. It still made the front page of the local paper although I wasn't named.

[somewhatfoolish]

Round here they have; certainly Hermes and UPS.

 

Last time I used UPS they needed just six quid to get a fairly hefty parcel from the Midlands to London in less than 18 hours. And behind the newsagents counter was a huge pile of them.... Dunno what their cut is but it probably pays better than Mars Bars.

It's a bit of a desert round my way, there was a drop-off point in the newsagent/cornershop in the next village along, but it closed a few years ago shortly after the post office next to it shut; the nearest one is now 30 minutes drive.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

No way would I have done that with his two small girls onboard. 

 

Having children as passengers has caused problems before, recently some prick kicked off on both my car and myself for refusing to carry him, his partner and their three small kids in my Mondeo estate which as you can imagine was only plated to carry four passengers. He was under the impression that under fives don't count as occupying a seat, sadly that's not true and I've been in front of a magistrates court a decade ago for just that offence which I escaped any taxi related punishment by virtue of the fact that my plate had expired at the previous midnight and it was my family I was carrying in my car. I ended up with a conditional discharge much to the anger of the licencing officer that stopped me. It still made the front page of the local paper although I wasn't named.

 

 

Entirely fair enough.  I suspect I wouldn't have had your restraint and would have loved to have made him look like the prick he is in front of his kids.

 

Which is why I'm not a taxi driver.

[dozeydustman]

What is it with girlies getting through eleventy-hundred million items of clothing in a day? I've done 8 loads of washing today. Just the wife and stepdaughter's stuff.