The grumpy thread

[dave21478]

I have given up trying with those sorts. If there is no price in the advert, I dont bother anymre.

 

How much is the car?

 

Come and see it and we will talk.

 

*sigh*

 

 

I hate bellends who try to haggle over the phone without viewing first as much as the next guy, but I need to know a ballpark figure to see if its worthwile viewing or not. I am happy to travel a long way and pay a fair 1500 for the car, but if I get there to find the guy wants 3k, its a waste of everyones time as we will never meet at a common price.

Also, I know there is a lot of "how much can I rinse from the stupid foreigner" at play when they hear my accent. A lot of people expect me to turn up in a gold-plated Rolls Royce and pay double their asking price cos all Brits are apparently minted.

[skattrd]

Ditto ... If they can't tell me a price for the car I don't bother.

I understand viewing the car, but if its 200 mile round-trip and the seller has an overestimated value it's wasting my time and petrol going to view it.

[michael1703]

I'm hungry,I'm constantly hungry, I eat all day, but... I'm hungry

[Cavcraft]

People who advertise cars with no price or 'gauging interest' are just hoping someone will offer a daft amount of money. This is often followed by 'I'm not bothered if it doesn't sell'

 

I have had cars where I genuinely wasn't sure what they were worth, so an internet auction site listing with no reserve is favourite.

[jakebullet]

- Order different item through ebay

- Its relatively expensive but worth paying for quality.

- Arrives today. Its cheap bullshit that doesnt fit together.

- email seller, get immediate reply. "thats the way they all are, it needs welding to fit, as stated in the advert"

- reply suggesting I am happy to weld it up as stated in the advert but the bits to be welded together are      massively different sizes, I am a good welder but not a miracle worker."

- "if you dont like it send it back, but postage is at your expense;"

 

This one's easy. Open not as described dispute, seller gets the option of paying massive inflated ebay price for return, or can give you money back. Sucks for sellers, but some deserve it.

[wuvvum]

My weekly rota, same days never changes, has just been rearranged - no notice/lead in period.

 

From Thu/Fri every second week to Mon/Tue every second week.

 

Im not too fussed, OH retired for our anklebiter cover BUT a proper ffup to other workers who have childcover/shifts overlap.

 

Just 'aye.. whatever'

 

All treated like contractors

 

 

TS

I reckon you must be more upset than you're letting on - almost that entire post was in English.

[tooSavvy]

I reckon you must be more upset than you're letting on - almost that entire post was in English.

Well.... If you take the week of 7days (Sat - Fri) usually followed by short week (Mon - Wed) BUT reverse ROTA in the middle of short week = I worked 7straight/2off/7straight

 

OK... So my oppo got 2 weekends off, so 'ill wind'

 

Bastards

 

 

TS

[Chas4545]

I'm hungry,I'm constantly hungry, I eat all day, but... I'm hungry

 

Bored?  No?  Try a pint of water and a banana.  Still hungry?  See a doc

[scaryoldcortina]

This one's easy. Open not as described dispute, seller gets the option of paying massive inflated ebay price for return, or can give you money back. Sucks for sellers, but some deserve it.

I got stuck in a post office queue behind a guy who was trying to use one of the ebay return labels to send back a motorcycle fairing. It was in a box that must have been 4 foot square, and the woman was trying to explain why it couldn't be sent on a royal mail parcels ticket! He just kept insisting that eBay told him to do it, and it had to use that label so they could track it back to the seller's house. It turned out to be too big for parcelforce as well in the end, and he took it away.

[Cavcraft]

The recent trend of 'only selling because I've bought another car' on social media adverts. Presumably you've only bought another car because the one you're selling is shit then?

[oldcars]

Selfish thoughless people i have the pleasure of living next to. I painted my fence and when i did i was careful. Don't you worry, just paint my shed, caravan and wee ones play stuff. I need to move sick of these folk they always piss me off somehow.

[Dave_Q]

Going to the tip on a vaguely sunny day.

 

What a stinking cavalcade of everything that's bad about driving and parking.

[scaryoldcortina]

Hey! Another "GAH, eBay" grump...

 

Bought a greenhouse the other week, standard alu framed 8x6 thing. When I went to put it up at the weekend I noticed a distinct lack of instructions in the box so I emailed the seller asking if they could send me a PDF, and they did that this morning.

 

Now I've got instructions it is suddenly obvious that I don't have all the parts of the frame! FFS. Advert said "brand new, unopened" and they've sent me one someone else already opened and sent back with bits missing.

 

Waiting for a reply from the seller before I use the eBay "not as described" system.

[scaryoldcortina]

Gawd, reply recieved. "please can you send photographs of the damage"

 

I've asked how exactly they expect me to take pictures of the MISSING PARTS

[tooSavvy]

Gawd, reply recieved. "please can you send photographs of the damage"I've asked how exactly they expect me to take pictures of the MISSING PARTS

.... Hmm, lash it up with the bits you have - video your self walking straight through it - sign yrr complaint mail 'Harry Houdini'

 

 

TS

[strangeangel]

Selfish thoughless people i have the pleasure of living next to. I painted my fence and when i did i was careful. Don't you worry, just paint my shed, caravan and wee ones play stuff. I need to move sick of these folk they always piss me off somehow.

 

Next time use a HVLP sprayer for the fence and overspray like a muthafucka.

[oldcars]

Next time use a HVLP sprayer for the fence and overspray like a muthafucka.

I intend to. The amount of stuff of mine they have damaged over the years is just silly.

[chaseracer]

I have had cars where I genuinely wasn't sure what they were worth, so an internet auction site listing with no reserve is favourite.

 

Seems to be working for Mr. Conelrad's Big Bad Benz!

[scaryoldcortina]

.... Hmm, lash it up with the bits you have - video your self walking straight through it - sign yrr complaint mail 'Harry Houdini'

 

 

TS

The missing bits are the ones that go from the floor to the gutter, and the ones from the gutter to the roof peak. It's going to be difficult to do anything with it except pack it back up and demand a refund (which I have done)

 

Latest reply wants me to do a full inventory of all parts from the packing list they also didn't send me so "their engineer" can decide what is best. Counting down to claim via ebay in 5,4,3.....

[strangeangel]

Latest reply wants me to do a full inventory of all parts from the packing list they also didn't send me so "their engineer" can decide what is best. Counting down to claim via ebay in 5,4,3.....

 

I imagine their engineer is a similar, mythical entity akin to "The Underwriter" that a well-known motorcycle insurance broker's call centre always puts me on hold to talk to when I tell them I've got a cheaper quote than my renewal.

 

Every year. Without fail. For the last two years I haven't even been arsed to obtain a cheaper quote, I just make one up and then they come back with the price they should have quoted me in the first place.

[jakebullet]

I too would like to join the 'kill the neighbours' club. The arse next door has disappeared and let it out to another bunch of fuckwits. Their basic mode of operation appears to be crank barry boy boom boom music, take off your shirt so everyone can appreciate your lobster red skin with wanker tattoos, get some sluts round and drink till you drop. Cheeky twats have even half filled my bin with their beer cans.

 

Does anyone know anything about mobile phone signal jammers? Thinking as they spend half their lives taking selfies, if there was a strange loss of signal every pissup they may fuck off and annoy somebody else.

[jakebullet]

While I'm at it... another ebay one. Which ball would you like?

 

My mini is bright red so red ball but would want number 7 not 3 on it so don't think that's possible. I'll just have 8 ball

 

It's not an exam, you don't have to show your working out to get maximum marks.

[dave21478]

 

 

Does anyone know anything about mobile phone signal jammers? Thinking as they spend half their lives taking selfies, if there was a strange loss of signal every pissup they may fuck off and annoy somebody else.

 

My boss has one. Apparently they are really really illegal, but easily available from China. Its a plain black box a bit bigger than a smartphone....maybe 3 times thicker....anyway, its just got a recharging jack, an on off switch and a LED to show its on. It works really well. Not sure what the range is though, he used it to kill phone signals during board meetings.

[Bren]

Selfish thoughless people i have the pleasure of living next to. I painted my fence and when i did i was careful. Don't you worry, just paint my shed, caravan and wee ones play stuff. I need to move sick of these folk they always piss me off somehow.

Have a word - if they do nothing call the 5-0.

 

Criminal damage does'nt have to be intentional- it can be reckless. If a cop comes out tell him you know this.

[Bren]

People who advertise cars with no price or 'gauging interest' are just hoping someone will offer a daft amount of money. This is often followed by 'I'm not bothered if it doesn't sell'

 

I have had cars where I genuinely wasn't sure what they were worth, so an internet auction site listing with no reserve is favourite.

Dealt with many sellers like this - I have informed them that there are two people who aren't bothered if it sells.

[tooSavvy]

My boss has one. Apparently they are really really illegal, but easily available from China. Its a plain black box a bit bigger than a smartphone....maybe 3 times thicker....anyway, its just got a recharging jack, an on off switch and a LED to show its on. It works really well. Not sure what the range is though, he used it to kill phone signals during board meetings.

Illegal.... hmmm.

 

So, the 'insurgents' use toyband baby monitors to orchestrate the attack on a shopping centre BUT PC Plod cant order a pizza from the carpark...

 

Like thats guunna happen

 

*better to sell the plods a 'box full of used pinball parts'.

 

 

TS

[M'coli]

Does anyone know anything about mobile phone signal jammers?

My boss has one. Apparently they are really really illegal, but easily available from China. Its a plain black box a bit bigger than a smartphone....maybe 3 times thicker....anyway, its just got a recharging jack, an on off switch and a LED to show its on. It works really well. Not sure what the range is though, he used it to kill phone signals during board meetings.

Very illegal, and some have the power to interfere with signals from a mast up to half a mile away from the site of the jammer - just don't ask me how I know .  Ofcom get extremely interested about why signals are being interfered with in such a way, and why mobile phone signals would return at about 6 in the evening, to the point of turning up at your place of work and demanding to be let in.

[cort16]

A picture of a Rover P6 v8 on the internet

 

 

a picture of my Rover P6 v8 from my computer.

 

 

One of these has the heater hoses the wrong way around and I don't think it's the one on the internet.

TWAT

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, yours is wrong. Always plumb a radiator to fill from the bottom!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

cheap fix!!!