The grumpy thread

[SambaS]

shame they didnt come at 4am when the music was loud

[autofive]

try recording the noise on audio or video add a bit of noise (i.e talk over the top of it) to give a yardstick of the volume

 

keep a diary of the noise, then tell your landlord you are thinking of moving because they have failed to provide an environment that you can live in.

[plasticvandan]

the weed thing can be something you can use as leverage,after all,its illegal,and they prob wont want unwanted attention.

I recorded the noise,filmed them,noted reg numbers etc,the more you have the better.

[SambaS]

My housing officer came round and the music was "acceptable" for the time of day............ then he turned it up and she got out her notepad and took things more serious.

 

Score 1.

[HillmanImp]

The council should fit some noise monitoring equipment if it is persistant. This will fit to the point in the building where the noise is coming from and will detect the volume and type of noise and log it.

 

Mutha Imp's next door neighbours boiler was borked and was making a huge banging noise in her garage which is attached to my Mums living room wall 24hrs a day. The neighbour did not care as she could not hear the noise in her house so my Mutha Imp called in the council who fitted the box, decided that the noise was too much and served an order on the old dear next door to fix or replace the boiler.

[HillmanImp]

shame they didnt come at 4am when the music was loud

 They were probably ripped to their tits at another party.

[myglaren]

I have Amazon Prime, which means I get 'next day delivery'. Which means I get it delivered four days after ordering it.

Also agree on the 'guys' thing - my dad or mum has never called me and my brothers 'guys' thank God, but I've heard it used loads by 'modern parents'. Horrible.

I use the cheapskate delivery option (free)

My order placed on Tuesday night was delivered this afternoon

My son uses Amazon Prime, works nights and is always in bed when his stuff is delivered 

 

Commiserations Mr. Bickle, hope it all turns out well.

[sporty-shite]

Best wishes from Sporty Towers for you, Nigel. Hope Mrs B pulls through.

 

My grump for today? That old chestnut, car buyers.

 

Got the Celica on C&C for £2500 with 12 months MOT. Bloke phones last week, wants to view. Arrives here, starts picking faults and saying it needs MUCH more doing to it than it really does. Then starts on the "what will you take?" lark. Told him he could have it for £2000 if I didn't MOT it, as I haven't actually put it through test yet. He umms and aahhs, then starts with the "I Don't want to insult you" shit when I ask him what he wants to offer. Then says he'd only want to pay £1200. I was surprised how polite I was, but suffice to say, he didn't leave with the car.

 

Today, I miss a call at work, then get a text. "Have you still got car, what will you take?" 

 

Replied, telling them to come and see the car, then we can talk money. Get a reply, "my mate saw it last week, he told me all about it".

 

My reply: "if your mate saw it, he will have told you what I'll take"

 

His reply "£1400, I can buy tonight"

 

FUCKING HELL.

 

So I calmly and politely reply, "you know how much I want, if you don't want to make a serious and NEAR offer, please don't reply"

 

"What about £1500?"

 

I didn't reply. I really think this car is going to end up back in my garage for another few years,

[Cavcraft]

That's the run of the mill these days sadly. Had similar stupid offers for some of my bikes and I just remind them that I clearly stated 'offers invited when you've seen it, please don't embarrass yourself by asking my best/bottom/lowest price'. They still do of course so they either get it with both barrels or I ignore them.

 

I strongly suspect these two bob, penniless morons usually end up with either nothing at all or something shit.

[Station]

How can a lowest insurance quote for a 50bhp 850cc 700kg car worth £300 with the 32 year old driver having no claims for 6 years be £1300?

I was expecting £300 - £400 max - it doesn't make any sense

[Station]

If I see a car with ONO on for example, I've always avoided awkwardness by negotiating the price beforehand. I hate renegotiating in person, and I hate buyer picking minor faults which were outlined in the advert (paint needs work - "it needs a respray!"). I can feel my urine start to boil thinking back over some of the sales I've had.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

These celica buyers sound like they have some potential, but are operating like rank amateurs. This ‘what will you take’ stuff is nonsense of course. You have told them you’ll take £2000 and their offer started at £1200, they’ve bothered to inspect it and have obviously been chewing it over all week and then upped their ‘valuation’ to £1500 so they seem interested at least. (Notev of course that’s them asking if you’ll take 1500, which is different from them offering you £1500). Would you actually meet them half way at £1750? I don’t know anything about the celica so I’m not commenting on its value there. If so, and they ring up any more, tell them to stop arsing about and just come round with some cash in their pocket, and you’ll try to thrash out a deal there and then. That’s a sort of ‘test’ for them and also a way to tell them you’re up for dealing with them. If they actually bother turning up I reckon you’ll be 95% of the way there. If that’s too much commitment for them, they are messers.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I remember being distracted by something when I was locking my bike up this morning, that must explain why it was like this when I came back to it. Dimwit. 

 

[inconsistant]

Sporty Shite... Re the Celica:

Get them both round at the same time, take £1200 off the first guy and 1400 off the other.

 

You get asking price (after I take my £100 commission) and they BOTH get the deal they want. 

 

My pleasure!

Richard

[chaseracer]

Then they can fight to the death over who keeps it, while we place bets.

 

Everyone's a WINNAR... 

 

[autofive]

two men enter one man leaves....

[Spiny Norman]

If I see a car with ONO on for example, I've always avoided awkwardness by negotiating the price beforehand. I hate renegotiating in person...

 

Must say, when someone starts trying to haggle me down over the phone before they've even seen the thing I usually start thinking they're a timewaster and just hang up on them. Haggling face to face can be the best bit of a sale, if you can hold your nerve and keep your cool.

 

If you want rid of it badly enough, or if the buyer wants it enough, you'll find a way.

[sporty-shite]

Some good ideas re the fight to the deathCelica sale. However, I really can't be arsed washing blood off the drive.

 

Seriously, they want the car, but they're either traders (most likely) or just want it for nothing. An example of his annoying negotiations is that because it's a bit crusty on one back arch (which was photographed and shown in the ad) it needs a new rear quarter. His justification: I don't like my cars having bog in them. Fair enough, but how will he blend the C post? He was also going on about putting a Lexus V8 in it, which won't be my business if he buys the car, but also doesn't exactly fill me with joy.

 

I think this guy is well known in the old Japanese car scene, and has punted on plenty of 70s Japchod in the past. He knows the worth of the car, especially considering the only others currently for sale are around £3500 to £5000. I'm certainly not out to publicly slate him, but I told him I can't be bothered being messed around. He knows the score, it's £2000 with no MOT. That's £500 off the full asking, which is a decent discount. 

 

We'll see what happens........

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Fair enough SS. Is the guy from Manchester by any chance?

 

I don’t know how crusty the arch is but it sounds like you’re on the receiving end of some patter there, spesh if he’s talking about fitting a Lexus V8 as well, sounds like he’s full of ‘big ideas’.

 

I say fook him off and get a ticket sorted on it, then if his curiosity gets the better of him and he does come back in the future you have deleted one possible lever which can be used to barter you down. I bet you won’t need to spend £500 to get it tested and as for needing a new quarter the guy is on drugs. It looks flipping sweet on carandclassic, I’m surprised you haven’t had loads of Guinness slurpers ringing you up… saying that theyre all unemployed and stony broke aren’t they now.

[Cavcraft]

Must say, when someone starts trying to haggle me down over the phone before they've even seen the thing I usually start thinking they're a timewaster and just hang up on them. Haggling face to face can be the best bit of a sale, if you can hold your nerve and keep your cool.

 

If you want rid of it badly enough, or if the buyer wants it enough, you'll find a way.

 

Exactly.

If you let people bid you down on the phone (or by text or e-mail) then one of two things will happen: they will just 'forget' their offer to you and reply to the countless others they sent the same message to and play them off. Or they'll think that as you've come down X amount on the phone that you'll come down even more when they've turned up to pick holes in it.

Even I do the latter, i'll phone people up, sound them out, ask if the price is negotiable (without saying an actual figure) and if they instatntly say they'll take X amount off I assume they'll drop further when I've viewed it.

 

Also if you make the first offer yourself without seeing the car you're just shooting yourself in the foot/making life hard for yourself as if the seller agrees then you view the car and it's shit at the very least you're going to look a tit.

[SambaS]

I don't fit into the same bracket of car buyer as most, condition is rarely important to me due to the rarity of the cars I get.

 

My beige Polonez hit ebay at £800 at least two times, the first time I rang up and offered £500 over the phone, which was all I had. He declined saying it had cost him more to bring back from Poland, fair enough I tried.

 

The thing being though, I would have gone down handed my money over and took the car regardless of condition.

 

As it happened the 3rd or 4th time it hit the bay it started at 99p, or buy it now £500, I weighed up my chances of getting it cheaper in an auction but the possibility of someone else pressing buy it now was too great so I pressed BIN.

 

I paid a deposit so he knew I was for real, agreed a date went down with a trailer, paid and brought it home.

[wuvvum]

This forum is seriously pissing me off at the moment.  Not the posts, the forum itself.  Every fucking time I try to view a new page, it sits there taking up 100% of my CPU for anything up to 2 minutes.  From the messages I get on the security bar at the bottom of the screen I think it's something to do with a link to Facebook, but why the fuck does it make my computer rev its nads off for two minutes (2 minutes at 2.68GHz is 321,600,000,000 binary calculations by my reckoning), and how do I stop it doing it?  It's winding me up so much that I'm on the point of buggering off to browse Retro Rides instead.

[cobblers]

Two moans - I was sold a window recess to weld in my van 3 weeks ago. There was two I needed, This came up first so I said I would deffo buy it off the guy, but he was busy so it would take a few weeks before I could collect it.

 

I drove 240 miles last weekend to cut the final middle one out of a van which the seller said I could cut everything I wanted out for the same price. I just took the one that I hadn't accounted for because I'd already agreed to buy the other one.

 

Did an 80 mile round trip to finally pick the other recess up and got a phone call from the seller when I was 500 yards from his unit to tell he he couldn't find it. So tomorrow I have to go 240 miles again for something I could have picked up for nothing last week.

 

 

Secondly, my mate's missus is trying to set me up with girls which is fair enough, saves me trying myself.

Anyway if she described them on ebay she would get her account shut down and paypal would DEFFO offer a refund. Yes I've been single for a while, but it's partly because I'm not interested in obese single mums off council estates who are good pals with the most infamous petty crime family in the area. She was described as "Lovely 22 year old nurse" which TBH could really not have been any more misleading, I need to really be as cynical with these descriptions as I would a car on ebay or something.

[Vin]

The fuggin gnats are out. BASTARDS!!111!1!!!1!111!11!

[cobblers]

The fuggin gnats are out. BASTARDS!!111!1!!!1!111!11!

Deodorant and a lighter will knock them out of the air within about a 2 meter radius, 100x more effective than citronella candles or playing nickelback CDS etc.

[TimothyClaypole]

Secondly, my mate's missus is trying to set me up with girls which is fair enough, saves me trying myself.

Anyway if she described them on ebay she would get her account shut down and paypal would DEFFO offer a refund. Yes I've been single for a while, but it's partly because I'm not interested in obese single mums off council estates who are good pals with the most infamous petty crime family in the area. She was described as "Lovely 22 year old nurse" which TBH could really not have been any more misleading, I need to really be as cynical with these descriptions as I would a car on ebay or something.

 

Foreign import.

 

You'll get used to the left hand drive.

[Danblez]

This forum is seriously pissing me off at the moment. Not the posts, the forum itself. Every fucking time I try to view a new page, it sits there taking up 100% of my CPU for anything up to 2 minutes. From the messages I get on the security bar at the bottom of the screen I think it's something to do with a link to Facebook, but why the fuck does it make my computer rev its nads off for two minutes (2 minutes at 2.68GHz is 321,600,000,000 binary calculations by my reckoning), and how do I stop it doing it? It's winding me up so much that I'm on the point of buggering off to browse Retro Rides instead.

What browser are you using? If it is IE you only have yourself to blame!

[Cavcraft]

A real man would pictures up on here and let us decide for you.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

L@@K NICE 22YR OLD NURSE *BARN FIND*

 

GOOD CONDITION FOR YEAR

 

 

 

[TimothyClaypole]

My monies on girl 2.