The grumpy thread

[EssDeeWon]

After all that, the Victor didn't sell. It ended at £1800 RNM - had nearly 250 watchers though. Loads of stupid questions, mainly asking what the reserve was and for a BIN price. One fellow who asked for a BIN price then said it's too expensive has just messaged me saying it's "obviously reached what people were prepared to pay" and if I would reconsider my BIN price he would be interested. I say he won't be willing to pay what it's worth, as the reserve was a fair bit lower than the BIN price I gave him, and he didn't bid anywhere near it. I'm not that desperate to sell. So many wasters who bid in £10-£50 increments as well. What's the point?

 

That's the last time I try to sell a car on ebay. My Austin Cambridge also reached a very disappointing figure considering the sky high prices others were fetching, but at least this time I had the sense to put a reserve on it. It seems that unless you shill bid your classic into the next century, all you get are timewasters and stupid bids.

 

If anyone here is interested, I'd let it go for £3250. It's in excellent condition, I've spent loads of money having paintwork done on it and I've just remembered I have an overdrive gearbox in the shed I bought for it (cost £250!) that I'd include for that price.

 

Seriously mate, I know I have said it on here before but Ebay should be the very last last last resort for selling a car IMHO. Full of chancers and dealers looking for a bargain, plus all the mouth breathing timewasters. Also its bloody expensive when they take their percentage.

 

Try Car&Classic, thats free too.

 

Regarding the helmet saying "obvioulsy reached what people are prepared to pay".........As we all know Ebay is not a proper auction therefore the final bid is not necessarily what someone is actually 'Prepared to pay'. For example...one bidder could enter his highest bid at £5k but if the other bids only push it up to £2k then the auction ends at £2k and not the £5k someone might be prepared to pay.

 

Tell him he can have it then give him directions to the end of the stairs road, then tell him to keep going....

 

Are there a few classic Vauxhall forums you could advertise it on?

[Angrydicky]

Yeah, I won't be using it again. It seems a very overrated way of selling classic cars to me. I just thought it was the quickest way to get it advertised to a massive audience with deep pockets, obviously not.

 

There is a VX4/90 Drivers Club forum but it seems pretty dead, and to be honest most members will already have at least one or two so won't be in the market for another one. Most of the other Vauxhall forums seem much more geared towards 90s-on GM stuff.

 

I'll give Car and Classic a go. Also had three more people message me and ask me what I'm looking for, so if I'm lucky I'll get a decent offer from one of them. Fortunately I'm not desperate to sell, so I am tempted to do what Anonymous User suggests and keep it until next Spring, but it would be a shame to see it sitting outside over another winter.

[Richard]

In my experience owners clubs are the worst places to buy or sell, they always seem to overvalue what they are selling and undervalue what they are buying.

[rml2345]

Well if it's your ma reading messages, then put a PIN on it. In fact it needs a PIN anyway, I can never figure out why people don't. One lost phone equals a world of pain.

Pretty confident that the sort of opportunistic shitehawk who would nick my phone would be bored to death once they find it's just notes on shed dimensions and pictures of Cavaliers and that.

[Pillock]

Depends if you have any email accounts on it, or a web browser that stores passwords or keeps you logged in. Naturally if you have a Nokia 5110 you're safe, but a Google account on an Android phone will use all your Chrome passwords and access your email (and hence any "please send me a password reset" emails) by default.

[vulgalour]

There is a group of kids who play football in the street.  As a thing, kids playing football in the street doesn't bother me.  However, when the football comes sailing towards and then bounces off my car because they're paying no attention to the busy road it grates.  I was quite irate and told them not to play in the road because they might get run over, it wasn't meant as a threat, more as a word of caution because they didn't seem to recognise any danger.

 

As I'm parking up another car goes down the road and nearly runs one of them over who runs out to get a football.  As I get out the car another car nearly runs them over again because they're still paying zero attention!  I don't want them to get run over, that would be a horrible thing, but I also don't want someone to run them over and have to deal with the upset of skittling a kid.

 

Oh, and the parents don't give a fig about the safety of the kids from what I've seen.  Their form of intervention is to go inside and shut the curtains.  The stupidest thing about it is that there's a park and other safe areas for them to play football on within child-walking distance so they don't even have to play amongst the traffic.  At least I'm not one of the people on the road that has the football bounced off their car regularly like some of our neighbours have to put up with.

 

I really hate living in this house, every week it pisses me off a little bit more.

[scaryoldcortina]

Same thing here, despite there being an actual football pitch right behind the terrace, some kids seem to like dicing with death and angry car owners by playing footy in the street.

[jakebullet]

Some twat has somehow created an extra admin login on my website and then changed the config so they get the paypal payments while I get the orders.

 

Fortunately I get somewhere in the region of bugger all orders, so noticed on the first order after the change. I've told the punter to claim back the money from paypal, but not sure I can be bothered with the ball ache of creating a new website. Fucking thieves.

[Pillock]

Won't they also get the refunds? Buy loads of stuff from your own website, forget to send it to yourself, wait till they've withdrawn the cash and spent it on pornography and then claim back.

[anonymous user]

Could this be something linked to your phone going strange? I knew that once direct dailling caught on nobody would be safe.

[Station]

I whacked my finger at the start of summer with a hammer which left a mark on the nail. I've just trimmed my nails and the mark reached the top and it was effectively 'trimmed' off. It's always a sad occasion doing this, it's been with me through the sunshine, we got a new job, we've been to London, France ... so many memories. :(

[Angrydicky]

That playing football in the street thing must be a northern thing, they actually use parks round here. Which is good, because it keeps them out of the way, and I hate annoying little kids.

[jakebullet]

Could this be something linked to your phone going strange? I knew that once direct dailling caught on nobody would be safe.

 

Don't think so, I've never used the phone for my website. Phone is for texting people, n obsessively checking how late the train I'm on is.

[richardmorris]

Aside from the enjoyable drive up to the Citroen rally this morning and the meeting itself, the drive back had three idiots. First was a t reg bmw who pulled out from a side road behind me. Phone plastered to his right ear and left hand stuck to the steering wheel at the 2pm position. He mounted the kerb twice as far as I could see befor turning off the road t Aylesbury.

 

Then, on the a404 just before the m4- boy racer in a golf didn't like me overtaking a stream of slow moving traffic ( I was in the 2cv so they must have been particularly tardy) and shot up behind flashing his lights-on the sat nav I was doing 71. Once I'd finished overtaking I indicated and pulled in only for idiot boy to get stuck in traffic I was following and so I passed him on the inside lane to turn off at the junction.

 

Then immediately after some drug dealer in a Range Rover with personalised plate ( 248 cod) or similar decided that me doing 40 in a 40 limit through holy.port was too slow for someone of his imortance and so over took at about 70mph only for him to slam the brakes on when a jag pulled out in front of him. He was also all over the road- centre line in the middle of his wheels, and so given the time expect was on the way back from a liquid lunch at the golf club.

[beko1987]

Just been up the hospital to see swmbos nan.

 

Dementia, what a cunt.

[xtriple]

Back to feeling like shit after a few days of feeling okay.  Sick, dizzy and weak as a kitten.

 

Cock!

[Noel Tidybeard]

Back to feeling like shit after a few days of feeling okay.  Sick, dizzy and weak as a kitten.

 

Cock!

yep thats what happens when a shitter opens his wallet

[dugong]

Just been up the hospital to see swmbos nan.

 

Dementia, what a cunt.

Heartbreaking. Hang in there sir, and the best to her and yourself.

[fred]

That is a very good point Ken.

 

Aye but she looks like a CGI made up ''Perfect'' sort which would mock me and laugh loudly if I even entered the room she was in

[beko1987]

I had a problem 'down there' a few weeks ago, and got some cream . The cream sorted out that 'little problem', but gave me a reaction so now I have a scary looking rash 'around there'.

 

Waiting for someone to arrive at work so I can phone up, thrn off to the docs to hopefully get some more cream (that i csnt get till tomorrow as amy gets paid and we cant afford the prescription until then...)

[Bren]

Yeah, I won't be using it again. It seems a very overrated way of selling classic cars to me. I just thought it was the quickest way to get it advertised to a massive audience with deep pockets, obviously not.

 

There is a VX4/90 Drivers Club forum but it seems pretty dead, and to be honest most members will already have at least one or two so won't be in the market for another one. Most of the other Vauxhall forums seem much more geared towards 90s-on GM stuff.

 

I'll give Car and Classic a go. Also had three more people message me and ask me what I'm looking for, so if I'm lucky I'll get a decent offer from one of them. Fortunately I'm not desperate to sell, so I am tempted to do what Anonymous User suggests and keep it until next Spring, but it would be a shame to see it sitting outside over another winter.

Ebay is shite for selling unless you have something everyone with an arsehole wants.

Expensive with little protection for the seller.

 

I remember advertising a car in the auto trader, no sale first week, rep rang me to see if car was sold.

 

I replied in the negative, I was told that maybe I should drop the price.

I told rep that maybe they advertise too many bastard cars which just serves to drive the price down.

Look at the auto trader now - on life support with no paper copy.

Ebay will go the same way unless it starts doing something other than collecting it's outrageous fees.

[gordonbennet]

Toss pots behind the wheel again.

 

Another Range Rover tosser stuffed right up me arse yesterday (probably drives a Vivaro van in the week), plenty of opportunity to overtake but lacked the bollocks, why don't they suss within a few seconds that the closer they tailgate the slower some arse like me will go, finally he found his bollocks and overtook as close as possible, bravo.

 

I often have to turn right onto the A43 at Broughton on me way home from work...A43 peak times is a bastard, once in a while some decent stick in the never ending train of cars o the main road will lift off the throttle and give you a good flash so you can go...when that happens i get gone bloody quick so as to not inconvenience the one remaining said stick....nine times out of ten i'm stuck behind a modern piece of junk also turning right, we get the flash and we both pull out, then the twat in the car in front takes as long as humanly possible to get up to about 30, now when everyone behind has slowed up because of them they finally find the throttle and zoom off.

Invariably the twat who pulls out and then messes about fails entirely to thank or acknowledge said stick, that is something that really pisses me off, sheer ignorance.

 

Lastly why do so many twats, who can't drive, drive so bloody fast and aggressively as if their very life depended on it around Daventry, water come from the same rezy as Milton Keynes?, where thousands of the sods to the same.

 

What the fuck is wrong with people.

[Lacquer Peel]

I had a problem 'down there' a few weeks ago, and got some cream . The cream sorted out that 'little problem', but gave me a reaction so now I have a scary looking rash 'around there'.

 

Waiting for someone to arrive at work so I can phone up, thrn off to the docs to hopefully get some more cream (that i csnt get till tomorrow as amy gets paid and we cant afford the prescription until then...)

TMI

[EssDeeWon]

Toss pots behind the wheel again.

 

Another Range Rover tosser stuffed right up me arse yesterday (probably drives a Vivaro van in the week), plenty of opportunity to overtake but lacked the bollocks, why don't they suss within a few seconds that the closer they tailgate the slower some arse like me will go, finally he found his bollocks and overtook as close as possible, bravo.

 

I often have to turn right onto the A43 at Broughton on me way home from work...A43 peak times is a bastard, once in a while some decent stick in the never ending train of cars o the main road will lift off the throttle and give you a good flash so you can go...when that happens i get gone bloody quick so as to not inconvenience the one remaining said stick....nine times out of ten i'm stuck behind a modern piece of junk also turning right, we get the flash and we both pull out, then the twat in the car in front takes as long as humanly possible to get up to about 30, now when everyone behind has slowed up because of them they finally find the throttle and zoom off.

Invariably the twat who pulls out and then messes about fails entirely to thank or acknowledge said stick, that is something that really pisses me off, sheer ignorance.

 

Lastly why do so many twats, who can't drive, drive so bloody fast and aggressively as if their very life depended on it around Daventry, water come from the same rezy as Milton Keynes?, where thousands of the sods to the same.

 

What the fuck is wrong with people.

 

Im glad im not the only one who finds the roads faster and more frantic every time I go out. I had to drive into Southend yesterday which I hate doing. It seems that your not allowed to let anyone change lanes nowadays, instead you speed up for no apparent reason because mr dickhead might lose 5 seconds off his journey time. 

[chaseracer]

Cannock Churchbridge "Silly Isles" - latest report...

 

The road markings have been changed - good: much more logical - but the signs remain the same!

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Further to complaints about badly driven Range Rovers.

A couple of weeks ago I was in That London in Mrs N's Gaylander , when I came up behind a pimped RR Sport . It was being driven very erratically weaving around and braking randomly- even worse than you usually see them being driven.

I thought, I must get a dash cam, just as it swerved left hit a black cab and flipped over!

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/euston-road-crash-six-injured-as-range-rover-flips-over-in-collision-with-black-cab-a2925076.html

Luckily all those involved were ok, just cuts and bruises, the RR driver was a Russian steroid abuser by the look of him and started punching fuck out of a lamppost even as we were lifting his wife,baby,little boy and dog out of the car. The cab driver had quite a gash on his head and it took some real brute force and ignorance to get his door open( the top of the frame snapped when I was pulling it) but he was panicking because of fluids and steam coming out of the RR. There was a Spanish family in the back of the cab, the woman and two toddlers are actually sitting in my car in the newspaper pictures- one had a cut lip but ok .

I think the person with a ' back injury' was in the little van that the BMW was shunted into- opportunist whiplash claim?

The bloke shouting at people on the road above is actually plain clothes copper, looked about 15!

[UmBongo]

I was putting air in my tyres recently at one of those 20p for two minutes air jockeys.

 

Anyway, as I was finishing up and putting the dust caps back on a baldy Ned twat in an Audi started mumping about the time I was taking to complete said operation.

 

He said that he was in a rush to get to work, like the two minutes he would save by being first in the queue would have made a difference.

 

I then proceeded to drag him out of his shitebox, batter his heid with my hammer and smash all the windows and lights on his wannabe drug dealer mobile.

 

Actually, I just told him to wait a minute in a brusque manner, then drove off in a deliberately slow fashion.

[dugong]

After all that, the Victor didn't sell. It ended at £1800 RNM - had nearly 250 watchers though. Loads of stupid questions, mainly asking what the reserve was and for a BIN price. One fellow who asked for a BIN price then said it's too expensive has just messaged me saying it's "obviously reached what people were prepared to pay" and if I would reconsider my BIN price he would be interested. I say he won't be willing to pay what it's worth, as the reserve was a fair bit lower than the BIN price I gave him, and he didn't bid anywhere near it. I'm not that desperate to sell. So many wasters who bid in £10-£50 increments as well. What's the point?

 

That's the last time I try to sell a car on ebay. My Austin Cambridge also reached a very disappointing figure considering the sky high prices others were fetching, but at least this time I had the sense to put a reserve on it. It seems that unless you shill bid your classic into the next century, all you get are timewasters and stupid bids.

 

If anyone here is interested, I'd let it go for £3250. It's in excellent condition, I've spent loads of money having paintwork done on it and I've just remembered I have an overdrive gearbox in the shed I bought for it (cost £250!) that I'd include for that price.

eBay's a fickle shithole of a selling platform and needs reigning in. Its fees are astronomical and its clientele skinflint penny pinchers who expect a bargain regardless of the circumstances.Start something off with a low opening bid and it makes a fraction of what similar items made. Put a reserve on it and no-one bids (or makes insulting offers).

 

I've been burned enough times to know eBay isn't worth bothering with; my IPD rocker cover wheezed to £210 after routinely seeing them sell for double that. Then there was that 'hilarious' incident with the 106 Rallye wheels where the seller hid behind the returns scheme and lied her arse off about the state of the tyres she sold me.

 

Buy unusual stuff on eBay by all means, but don't rely on it as a selling mechanism unless you're fine with things routinely selling for buttons.

 

If you're a member of any general Facebook groups interested in classics, try it there with a decent description. Car & Classic (as stated) is also a good place to start. I've sold stuff on East Coast Retros more than once, although experiences with Facebook groups vary massively. There are several I'm never, ever returning to because life is just too short.

[Des]

Further to complaints about badly driven Range Rovers.

 

 

That's the Euston Road underpass yes? I was there just after it happened, trying to collect a vanload from that UCL hospital, didn't get home until about 10.

[EssDeeWon]

That's the Euston Road underpass yes? I was there just after it happened, trying to collect a vanload from that UCL hospital, didn't get home until about 10.

 

Yes I thought that location too, I used to work right by there a few years ago.