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  On 09/06/2016 at 11:47, daveb47 said:

Just got renewal from coop  insurance for my 1976 Volvo 940.Its gone up from just over £300 to just under £500.

Got 8 years no claims.

Any suggestions on where to try.

 

give www.chrisknott.co.uk a shot, UK based-broker who I've used for several years and always come in with very competitive quotes. Saab was £290 fully comp and Nissan was under £200 from memory. I have 5 years NCB.

 

Nice people to deal with too.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 11:56, JohnDeere said:

Could Etsy.com help?

 

Another thought... greetings cards.  Basically you do half a dozen designs - as people have suggested, do the scene stuff ... T2s, Beetles, Fords, blah blah.  Get them printed onto decent card stock, and flog them for £3 a time.  Find people that sell stuff at the shows and get them to sell them for you at £1 commission - leaves you with £1.50 after paying printing cost.  And then sell them direct via Facebook, Etsy, etc.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 11:34, HillmanImp said:

I am considering buying a commercial unit to keep all my shite in and work on it but I can't find any websites that seem to sell this sort of stuff to see if its doable as I have literally NO idea how much stuff like this costs.

 

I am looking or an industrial unit or workshop with room for storage but every website I visit is just trying to sell me a fucking business. Where can you view shizzle like this and see how much they go for?

Go down to your favourite industrial estate and see which letting agency has boards up,there is usually a "preferred" company who rules the roost....
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Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 11:33, vulgalour said:

Thank you for that, guys, that really does help. I've got time on my side at the moment because I've got very little commission work in so I should be able to devote it to some ideas and try and get some prints and stuff set up. I'm really not using online services to their full potential, I think I've been too focused on producing one-off pieces and the poor response to printed items (in terms of actual sales) I've had in the past.

 

I reckon Mini, Minor, Beetle and MX-5 are probably the best ones to go for at the moment and I've already got two popular Mini and Minor pieces I can use in my portfolio. Feeling more positive about that now that I've got a new direction to explore.

The wife has friends who run this sort of printing company

Can get you some details if interested?

Posted

If you can PM them over to me, that would be appreciated.

Posted

Hillman Imp, I think you will have difficulty finding one to buy, most are to rent or lease. Commercial buildings are favourite with pension companies. Even if you do find one you may have difficulty getting it off commercial rates.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 13:07, anonymous user said:

Hillman Imp, I think you will have difficulty finding one to buy, most are to rent or lease. Commercial buildings are favourite with pension companies. Even if you do find one you may have difficulty getting it off commercial rates.

I am looking at setting up a SSAS and buying it with my pension fund, leasing it to myself on a commercial basis and paying the rent into my pension rather than to someone else.

 

May as well try and make my hobby work for me rather than line someone elses pockets.

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Posted

Pedestrian-only lane on campus.

 

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KNOOOOOOB.

 

I actually went back to my office and got one of those horrendous* no parking stickers out of my drawer (I have a stock of proper official university ones from my colleagues in the estates department) and just as I came back to it, the guy was firing it up. DOUBLE KNOB.

 

 

 

*I mean it. They're really sticky and break up into tiny pieces when you try to peel them off.

Posted

He's not causing an obstruction is he ? Parking in places like that on a bike is the payback for being cut up , having screen wash and fag ash flicked in your eyes and getting puss wet through .

Posted

Depends if he's ridden it or pushed it there.

A pedestrians only path should have some sort of expectation that there won't be a ridden motorbike mixing with people on foot, I'd have thought.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 15:09, Supernaut said:

*I mean it. They're really sticky and break up into tiny pieces when you try to peel them off.

 

Nice one, cos that would have been entirely deserved based on the massive* obstruction* he was causing :roll:

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 17:33, Hirst said:

I'm going to run the risk of causing offence here, but have you considered taking up an additional hobby?

 

I think the hobby of not letting shit days at work get to me is to be taken up.

 

Having a cider now to chill out.

 

I do still see a few bikers taking the piss a bit on campus sometimes though. One guy rode through a very narrow pedestrian-only lane to avoid some traffic lights, nearly hitting me and 3 other people recently. However, it was not this bike, it was a Chinese 125cc POS.

Posted

I've had my Kia 15 months now and I still stall the fucking thing 2/3 times a day. It's pissing me right off now, I think it's going to have to go.

 

I know ultimately it's my balls up but unless you're slipping the clutch, it just dies. I managed to stall it going downhill yesterday, somehow.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 11:47, daveb47 said:

Just got renewal from coop  insurance for my 1976 Volvo 940.Its gone up from just over £300 to just under £500.

Got 8 years no claims.

Any suggestions on where to try.

 

Try these, like my broker, they don't even have a website -

 

Gerrard Insurance Brokers Ltd

Hornchurch Business Centre,

5-9, Station Lane,

Hornchurch,

Essex, RM12 6JL

01708 716892

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 17:35, HH-R said:

I managed to stall it going downhill yesterday, somehow.

That's... impressive!

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 17:35, HH-R said:

I've had my Kia 15 months now and I still stall the fucking thing 2/3 times a day. It's pissing me right off now, I think it's going to have to go.

 

I know ultimately it's my balls up but unless you're slipping the clutch, it just dies. I managed to stall it going downhill yesterday, somehow.

 

MOAR REVS M8  ;)

Posted
  On 08/06/2016 at 17:01, chaseracer said:

The modern AA is a financial products broker with a breakdown 'service' loosely aligned.

 

As someone who actually works for them, as a recovery driver, this isn't so.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 11:47, daveb47 said:

Just got renewal from coop  insurance for my 1976 Volvo 940.Its gone up from just over £300 to just under £500.

Got 8 years no claims.

Any suggestions on where to try.

 

I signed up to quidco.com, used their comparison tool and ended up with elephant.co.uk. Saved £100 on my V70 policy, plus £25 cash back

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 11:33, vulgalour said:

Thank you for that, guys, that really does help.  I've got time on my side at the moment because I've got very little commission work in so I should be able to devote it to some ideas and try and get some prints and stuff set up.  I'm really not using online services to their full potential, I think I've been too focused on producing one-off pieces and the poor response to printed items (in terms of actual sales) I've had in the past.

 

I reckon Mini, Minor, Beetle and MX-5 are probably the best ones to go for at the moment and I've already got two popular Mini and Minor pieces I can use in my portfolio.  Feeling more positive about that now that I've got a new direction to explore.

 

Ping me over a few pics (with your watermark on) and I'll do you some free quality A4 card copies and post cards at work then you'll see it they could shift them.

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Posted

Vulg. Have a look at Cafe press.

I've bought a keep hot mug from from a Facebook group with a meme on it for my Mrs.

When it didn't arrive, the Facebook group owner explained that she had nothing to do with the merchandise, she just generated orders and cafepress produce and dispatch and play her a cut.

Some of those negative space pics might go well on mugs etc.

Maybe you could apply the same technique to other things that geeks might splash out on. ZX81 or PS1 stuff like that.

Far better to do one drawing and sell it over and over.

I'm amazed you make anything doing one offs.

Then again I'm amazed people can sell threaded pool balls for a living too!

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Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 17:53, colc said:

As someone who actually works for them, as a recovery driver, this isn't so.

 

I defer willingly, but this is not how they present themselves.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 18:31, timolloyd said:

I signed up to quidco.com, used their comparison tool and ended up with elephant.co.uk. Saved £100 on my V70 policy, plus £25 cash back

 

Do you get spammed to death, or is that an urban myth?

Posted

I get probably 2 emails a week from quidco ... I've earned over £1k cashback through them.

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 19:30, chaseracer said:

Do you get spammed to death, or is that an urban myth?

 

Not that I'm aware of. But I'm pretty ruthless with the spam filters

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 15:09, Supernaut said:

Pedestrian-only lane on campus.

 

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KNOOOOOOB.

 

I actually went back to my office and got one of those horrendous* no parking stickers out of my drawer (I have a stock of proper official university ones from my colleagues in the estates department) and just as I came back to it, the guy was firing it up. DOUBLE KNOB.

 

 

 

*I mean it. They're really sticky and break up into tiny pieces when you try to peel them off.

I have to ask,did you still apply the sticker whilst he was there? Or say anything?.......

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 19:38, skattrd said:

I get probably 2 emails a week from quidco ... I've earned over £1k cashback through them.

 

Sometimes I check out the price on a work computer, with fake details, before using quidco at home, and reckon that occasionally the price is higher by the amount of the cashback. 

In 4 years about £1200 cashback.

 

That said, I've been using it to get hotel rooms via hotels.com, price checked on trivago at work, then ordered via a link from quidco at home, and collection of reward points. So far I have 3 spare nights to use.  If I was responsible for booking tickets at a place of employment, I'd definitely be scamming my boss for both cashback and points,

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 05:50, Junkman said:

Next time you do this, rub the affected areas of your skin with a piece of butter.

I wish I had thought of that last night.

I bought some orange oil and put one single drop in the bath.

Shortest bath I have ever had.  Two minutes rather than two hours.  Had to leap out and take a long cold shower.

Turned bright red and it felt like a nettle bath.

Must be allergic to that as well :(

Posted
  On 09/06/2016 at 17:35, HH-R said:

I've had my Kia 15 months now and I still stall the fucking thing 2/3 times a day. It's pissing me right off now, I think it's going to have to go.

 

I know ultimately it's my balls up but unless you're slipping the clutch, it just dies. I managed to stall it going downhill yesterday, somehow.

 

Don't replace it with a TDCI Transit.

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