The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

I've had sellers get seriously grumpy when I've opened a case, but as Panhard say, it does it automatically these days. Stupid system.

[beko1987]

I bought a £2 phone charger cable last week and got the wrong one in the post (lightening rather than micro USB). Clicking on the 'wrong item delivered' link on the ask seller a question fired up page 1 of 'open a case and teach the scum what for'. I hit back, asked an other question and matey is sending the right one out, told me to keep the wrong one etc.

 

Fucking eBay. Matey will now get good feedback, rather than the first thing he knows is he has a case against him for a simple mistake

[brickwall]

Agreed. All I want to do is send a polite message asking for info.

[cort16]

Nothing ebay has done recently is as bad as that delivery and return policy shit they've put in place. It's highly infuriating.

[panhard65]

I think the most sneaky back door con from ebay is charging a final value fee on the cost of postage. Selling anything cheap will end up costing the seller money to give the item away. Robbing buggers

[ProgRocker]

Some delightful person has caused some damage to the near side wings and doors of my Almera. Friday morning there where some parallelwhite lines down the side and this morning there a shoe print on the back door and a dent.

 

Can't prove it happened in the residential car park at my flat or when it was parked elsewhere.

Just as well the car is a bit 'shite' . Would be livid if it was much newer.

 

I hope that karma catches up with the son of a bitch (or daughter) who did it.

[Spiny Norman]

Bottom one looks like a kick. These fucktards really don't deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us.

[MrDuke]

When I sent the seller an email asking where it was you have a choice of title and when you pick item not received it starts a case rather than just letting you send an email. It appears that ebay have once again changed things to side with the buyer.

 

Ah, didn't realise that - useful to know about if I need to politely chase up a purchase in future. Still doesn't explain why my buyer threw a wobbly when I tried to do the sensible thing though.

 

Eventually, I reckon eBay will only let you sell anything under a business account. If it doesn't have a recognisable catalogue number and/or is more than 5 years old, you won't be able to list. I just hope that another option will be up and running by then.

[ruffgeezer]

I miss Yahoo Auctions.

[daveb47]

Maybe i will set up  an auctions site........

Shitebay

 

Reminds me i already have domain Davesbay.com

http://davesbay.com

Started doing it ages ago then forgot about it.

[Cavcraft]

I try and only buy from ebay these days (though I do understand they still get business from that) as I don't like giving them money or being pissed about by so called buyers.

 

I did purchase a phone holder for my bike recently which was absolutely useless, so I mailed the seller (a business| who told me they would refund half the money as it would cost me a fortune to post it back to them abroad. I then pointed out the listing clearly stated it was being sent from the UK, so said 'no thanks, but a partial refund is no good as the item is no use at all, I'l like a full refund, where do I send it back to as postage to the UK won't be much'. 

A couple of hours later I got a message telling me to keep it and I got a full refund.

 

 

I've had some pretty good experiences as a whole recently though and scored quite a few bargains, so can't complain much as a buyer.

[Lankytim]

Nearly hit a guy on the M6 south near J19 today. I was in a 44 ton container lorry and this fella was standing on the passenger side of his ford focus, which was on the hard shoulder. As I approached in lane 1 he walked round to the drivers side, crouched by the front wheel and fell backwards, landing on his arse- his head was right in the middle of the lane! I was about a trucks length away when he did this, doing 56mph, so no time to brake. I instinctively pulled the wheel over and veered hard into lane 2, the wheels just missed this guy by inches. Fortunately there was nothing in lane 2 so I didn't cause an accident.

 

I was pretty shaken up, so pulled over at Knutsford services and rang the police, giving them the details. I thought the guy must have been drunk and was worried about his safety. When I got home I had a quick surf of the net and ended up on a truckers forum I used to frequent. The exact same thing happened to another driver today, same guy, same car, same place, same time. This time he ran into lane 1 and stood there waiting to be hit, fortunately the driver managed to just miss him, I can only think he was trying to commit suicide. I hope the police picked him up before he found oblivion.

[trigger]

Bloody hell! That would have shit me up too, horrible.

 

I had a young girl do that to me once in this village I was driving through, she just stepped out into the road in front of me, luckily I stopped in time.

 

I pulled over to the petrol station across the road as it shock me up and I needed fuel anyway, as I stood there the girl appeared again and this time she got ran over by another young girl driving past, amazingly she got up and ran off leaving this young lady crying in the car with her two young children in the back.

 

The next day I was reading the local rag and this girl was in there, it turned out she had been raped by a taxi driver the night before and was killing herself because of the upset she felt...

[michael1703]

Ebay is shite to sell on but I keep going back to it, collection only though as the price of sending a parcel is getting silly.

 

I just had some beetle bits for sale and there was an item I sold which I should have posed but thought it was going to be collected but I was thinking of a different item.

 

Buyer lodges a case rather than message me,my PayPal account gets frozen so I can't use the money to send my other bits, i sent the bits off but no reply,account still frozen, so I said fuck it and refunded the buyer, result is my account is unfrozen so I can keep everyone else happy but money lost again

[MrDuke]

I fully appreciate the level of mental/psychological torture that might lead someone to top themselves, and I understand that self-infliction is beyond many people, but jumping in front of a truck or car would remove any sympathy I might have for them. OK, if it's a train, it's still not pleasant for the driver but at least there's some degree of removal there and they wouldn't actually see it happen. But hitting & killing someone in a road vehicle would be so massively traumatic for most drivers, not to mention the risk of causing injury or death to others, that anyone who did it could only be an utter sh1tbag in the first place.

[vulgalour]

When you're suicidal, you don't really think about the effects on others.  At least that's my experience of it.

[sporty-shite]

When you're suicidal, you don't really think about the effects on others.  At least that's my experience of it.

 

This, in a nutshell, is how it is. People commit suicide and leave children, families, businesses with people dependent on them and God knows what else. If you're suicidal, you really don't care about anything but dying. 

 

Hopefully, the guy on the M6 got help before he screwed a lot of lives up. 

[MrDuke]

I guess it's different for everyone - arguably any suicide will negatively affect someone, whether it's the person who finds the body or the people who grieve afterwards, and I totally understand how mental illness can overrule those considerations. Personally (and I'm going back many years) I seriously considered doing a number of really dumb-ass things, but I'd never have deliberately smeared my entrails over a random stranger's car or truck. In my far-from-expert view, if someone's far enough 'gone' to completely lose all concept of collateral trauma, then they'd surely be capable of doing it themselves, on a smaller scale.

[Negative Creep]

Harold Ramis RIP

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/26327020

[Ghosty]

Nothing ebay has done recently is as bad as that delivery and return policy shit they've put in place. It's highly infuriating.

I got sent an incorrect but usable item for a bike a while back. Asked for a 50% refund though I was willing to keep the item - 'return for a full refund' was the response.

 

Another one was some '90s headphones. Damaged in the post due to poor packing, asked for a refund, but said I didn't want to send them back, after all they were useless (perished rubber parts crumbled). Seller ignored me and I just got the 'return for a full refund' message.

 

And then there's the iPhone story from Christmas, that was a joke, seeing as I couldn't checkout through eBay, the person didn't understand fees, and the 'mark as payment sent' button is fucking useless.

 

I'm only ever using email/'other questions' now.

[SambaS]

Drove through London from the A1 through Park Lane, Vauxhall Bridge, Peckham to Brockley. Wont forget that drive in a hurry, I have some pictures for the Polonez thread to up, when I can.

[TimothyClaypole]

Youtube, thanks for the latest "improvement", now everything's in middle of my screen I can go back to a 15" monitor... 

[michael1703]

"Everythink"

 

The word is everything

[Angrydicky]

Harold Ramis RIP

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/26327020

Very sad. 69 isn't even that old.

[HillmanImp]

He is probably just doing it to get some more in depth research on the ghosts. He was a bit of a nerd like that.

[Cavcraft]

Amongst celebrities kicking the bucket, here's someone who had a fascinating, but equally horrifying tale to tell, who's sadly passed away. Music saved her life and to have survived at all, never mind to 110, is something of an achievement imho...

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/holocaust-survivor-death/

 

 

 

...without wishing to sound morbid (or whatever) it's a good thing some people did survive, and for so long, as what happened should never be forgotten, nor repeated.

[dollywobbler]

I guess it's different for everyone - arguably any suicide will negatively affect someone, whether it's the person who finds the body or the people who grieve afterwards, and I totally understand how mental illness can overrule those considerations. Personally (and I'm going back many years) I seriously considered doing a number of really dumb-ass things, but I'd never have deliberately smeared my entrails over a random stranger's car or truck. In my far-from-expert view, if someone's far enough 'gone' to completely lose all concept of collateral trauma, then they'd surely be capable of doing it themselves, on a smaller scale.

 

I can kind of see where you're coming from, especially when you consider the chap a few years ago, who deliberately stopped his car on a level crossing. He took himself off, and several other innocent people. Almost makes me wish there was an afterlife, just so he could have a good shoe-ing for that. For eternity.

 

Problem is though, mental health really does have a 'you weren't there man' problem. If you haven't experienced it, you really cannot understand. I've learnt this not from having mental health issues, but by causing issues with those who have... (many, many years ago! I'm more sensible these days)

[gordonbennet]

Unless you've been there you can't possibly know the why's and wherefores of whats in a suicides mind, quite obviously the one contemplating is, at least temporarily, out of their mind..

 

What i will say about the bereaved that a suicide leaves behind is this, that old saying about time healing is complete bollocks, the scene of the type of death involved when its shown on TV in films and dramas (too often), is still as devastatingly vivid painful and shattering as it was all those years ago.

The scene translates to your loved one, and the memories flood you.

 

You do not get over this tragic and intensely wasteful death, ever.

[vulgalour]

Thought my back was better, it was a bit niggly when I was doing the oil change, but I've done something today - I have no idea what - and it's bad again.  Serves me right for being impatient with it I suppose.

 

 

Problem is though, mental health really does have a 'you weren't there man' problem. If you haven't experienced it, you really cannot understand.

 

Even when you have the problem it makes no sense.  It's like someone else pulling the strings.  You'd be amazed at how rational and normal things appear when you're in that frame of mind, when you have easy access to the method and it no longer matters how long it takes just that it's done.  You get to a point beyond depression and there's this strange sort of beautiful detachment from everything where everyone else is just scurrying around and it's almost amusing seeing them trying to help.  You end up aware that they have no idea what to do, that they're the ones panicking as you let yourself float away and out of the reach of everything.  Reaching the point of suicide is liberating, it's bringing oneself back down again that's the difficult part and what's worse is that it's addictive.  I've come back from the brink three times now and every time it's been just that bit easier to consider letting go, I don't doubt that one day I will because one day there won't be someone there at the other end of the rope to stop me drifting off.

[Lankytim]

More things to get pissed off at- I got a parking ticket from Parking Eye. 100 quid. MOTHERFUCKA!