The grumpy thread

[meggersdog]

I was never superstitious but this friday the 13th can fuck right off.

 

Everything at work was a ballache today.Nothing went right.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I was never superstitious but this friday the 13th can fuck right off.

 

Everything at work was a ballache today.Nothing went right.

To be honest, I wasn't even aware it was Friday The Thirteenth.

[LightBulbFun]

Todays grump:

 

bidding on a Vintage Laptop for a Project, sold as dead as a door nail but I know this model of Laptop has an issue that causes them to go into said vegetative state, but which is an easy fix.

 

laptop is at £1.07... 10 seconds to go slap a bid on, FUCK made a typo quickly corrects it and clicks through everything with 2 seconds left to go but what do you know! ebay does not put my bid through (even tho it said it did) and someone else wins the laptop for £1.07
 

well pissed about that. (both at eBay at at my self for making the initial typo. bloody CP...)

[Guest Hooli]

I was never superstitious but this friday the 13th can fuck right off.

 

Everything at work was a ballache today.Nothing went right.

 

If it's any help everything went well at work for me, so it balances out

[omegod]

Day and week from absolute hell here so not quite balanced 

[madrat]

https://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1082.aspx?CategoryID=68

Already done.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Imagine replacing the 'clearly knackered' gearbox, and THEN discovering that!

 

Imagine jaguar landrover replacing near on every part of a RR sport and then discovering that! (Actual true story)

[mercrocker]

If it's any help everything went well at work for me, so it balances out

 

I have only just realised it WAS Friday 13th!   Not superstitious but I probably wouldn't have got under the Cowley or the T25 today had I known.   Still, brakes adjusted on one and a bit more underside protection done on the other.

[madrat]

When you get the lap top out start it up and then forget what you were going to do.

 

Spend a few hours pissing about on line, email etc, still cant remember what you were going to do, shut it down, put it away and then remember what you were going to do

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Does anyone here like eating rabbit? Only reason I ask is because I'm just after colliding with one after leaving the stables tonight.....

[madrat]

Haven't had rabbit since I was a kid, can't even remember what it tastes like.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Haven't had rabbit since I was a kid, can't even remember what it tastes like.

 

It was still warm when I picked the poor thing up. 

[Pillock]

FFS, I've sold one thing on eBay in the past 6 months. ONE THING.

Guess how many items have generated idiotic messages followed by a request for a refund? That's right, 100 fucking percent.

 

Found an Apple Macbook charger in my cupboard. Vaguely remember having a Macbook Air from work about 4 years ago, probably from that right?

Advertise as "Apple A1374 45W charger from a Macbook Air". Untested, no returns, 99p start and included photos of all writing showing the model number, rating, connectors, everything. Sold for £17, incredibly, presumably because Apple Tax so it's still a quarter of the price of a new one.

 

The day it got delivered, message. "This is not the right item". Yes it is, refer them to the photo clearly showing A1374 model number. 

Another message, "This is not for Macbook Air". Send them URL from Apple's online store showing that an A1374 fits a Macbook Air.

Another message, "Can I have a refund". FUCK YOU.

 

I'm not paraphrasing by the way, these were all single-line messages. No apologies for ordering the wrong item, no pleasantries, just "Can I have a refund". They've now clearly hit the Request Refund button as I've got an automated message so I'll leave it a few days, because FUCK THEM and then hit the FUCK YOU button. No, you can't. And since the automated request says "Ordered the wrong item" and my advert says "No returns" I reckon I can argue this one out. Watch them suddenly claim that it's faulty even though it apparently doesn't fit their laptop too. 

 

I might offer them a 50p partial refund just to drag it out a bit. I mean, basically I'm only down on postage because I got the thing from work anyway. Or start responding to their messages in SHOUTY GERMAN CAPITAL LETTERS or something.

 

Also, I hope they are fond of Argos catalogues.

 

Fucks sake. I don't know why I bother. Next time I want to sell something on eBay I'm just going to grab a hammer, smash the thing to pieces, hit myself in the face a couple of times to remind me what it feels like to deal with eBay buyers, and have a drink. Easier all round.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

FFS, I've sold one thing on eBay in the past 6 months. ONE THING.

Guess how many items have generated idiotic messages followed by a request for a refund? That's right, 100 fucking percent.

 

It's probably the trading territory you're in; maybe Apple items attract that kind of crowd. I sell Swiss model railway items from time to time, and have never had any eejit messages. Always a first time for everything, though....

[HillmanImp]

Quality rant there Pillock. Would read again. 10/10.

 

Sent it to my mate trying (and failing) to sell the MR2 on ebay.

[paulplom]

Working from home today. Went downstairs earlier to find a "you were out" card from DHL with nothing written on it except the number of the building next door.

 

This is flats. Next door is flats. So I don't know who the parcel was for, nor where it is now.

 

Plus I was in all morning and the buzzer didn't ring.

 

Who knew delivering stuff could be so difficult?

I actually caught royal mail postman pushing a card through my letterbox. He nearly shit himself when I grabbed open the door. Never rang or Knocked. urely it's easier to deliver it than to right the card out?

[twosmoke300]

Parcel farce turned round in my yard while I was there then buggered off . Later that day I checked the tracking online and it said - delivery attempted insufficient address. Despite there being the name of the Farm at the end of the lane and my name on a number plate on the yard gate . Useless cunts and by far the worst delivery company . Dpd are brilliant for me tho

[dozeydustman]

Woken up at 5:30 to take stepdaughter to work. Fog. Not mega-thick pea soup, but visibility less than 10 yards in some places.

 

How many idiots do you think I met on the journey with no lights on at all? Andwhy do they drive white or silver (i.e. fog coloured) cars?

[mercrocker]

 Andwhy do they drive white or silver (i.e. fog coloured) cars?

 

Because told to......

[danthecapriman]

Woken up at 5:30 to take stepdaughter to work. Fog. Not mega-thick pea soup, but visibility less than 10 yards in some places.

 

How many idiots do you think I met on the journey with no lights on at all? Andwhy do they drive white or silver (i.e. fog coloured) cars?

I was out the other night on standby, it was about midnight so pitch black - night time.

 

You’d be surprised how many cars I saw driving around with no lights on at all! I was following one guy for ages flashing my full beams at him, eventually he woke up and turned them on but how can you go out in the dark and not switch your lights on? Unless there was another reason for it...

[dozeydustman]

but how can you go out in the dark and not switch your lights on? Unless there was another reason for it...

 

 

DRLs. Some of them have such a high light output it's just like having dim-dip at the front, but invariably nothing on at the back.

 

Then again some people are just knobs and need their licenses revoked.

[purplebargeken]

^^ pissed?

[Timewaster]

Street lights and dash boards that light up with the ignition.

 

That's how.

[dozeydustman]

Also I think the large number of cars with 'auto' headlamps doesn't help. Get in another car, or someone has switched the headlamps from auto to off, and drive off without checking.

 

 

Street lights and dash boards that light up with the ignition.

That's how.

 

 

Don't you get a 'headlamps on' tell tale on the dash now?

[The Moog]

It's probably the trading territory you're in; maybe Apple items attract that kind of crowd. I sell Swiss model railway items from time to time, and have never had any eejit messages. Always a first time for everything, though....

Don't say that . Am going to put my MacBook Pro on eBay this weekend.

[Jazoli]

Don't say that . Am going to put my MacBook Pro on eBay this weekend.

You are asking for a world of pain right there.....

 

I'd be seeing what CEX offer or trying to sell it on FB marketplace.

[Cavcraft]

Appreciate some of us like a moan about eBay, and some of us probably want to think it, but surely it must be losing it's market share nowadays. The whole set up is getting a pain in the arse, from not allowing people to view things first, to the plethora of idiotic bastards trying to get refunds for either no real reason, or spurious ones. Yeah, the swindling/conniving types have pretty much always been on there, but it does seem to be getting worse with eBay's sort of state sponsored allowance of scammers.

[dozeydustman]

I'm not paraphrasing by the way, these were all single-line messages. No apologies for ordering the wrong item, no pleasantries, just "Can I have a refund". They've now clearly hit the Request Refund button as I've got an automated message so I'll leave it a few days, because FUCK THEM and then hit the FUCK YOU button. No, you can't. And since the automated request says "Ordered the wrong item" and my advert says "No returns" I reckon I can argue this one out. Watch them suddenly claim that it's faulty even though it apparently doesn't fit their laptop too. 

 

Before eBay went all buyers' rights, you could argue with the buyer/seller til the cows came home and get nowhere until the problem died a natural death. You can't leave buyers bad feedback any more, which sucks, as its them that dick you about as opposed to being you being a bad seller, with no way of marking someone as a PITA or swindler. It sounds like the buyer doesn't have English as his native language with the "Can I have refund" line.

 

I'd just escalate it for eBay to decide for you TBH. If they come up with some BS about not working etc eBay should take your side as you were selling it as untested/for spares.

 

 

It's probably the trading territory you're in; maybe Apple items attract that kind of crowd. I sell Swiss model railway items from time to time, and have never had any eejit messages. Always a first time for everything, though....

 

 

 

Don't say that . Am going to put my MacBook Pro on eBay this weekend.

 

 

Sold loads of Apple MacBooks, iBooks and iMacs in the past, never had a quibble apart from the one guy who claimed I sold him a broken Apple aluminium keyboard, and sent me an old PS/2 keyboard back with some keys missing. Set your buyer requirements up quite strictly and don't offer international postage. Found it stops 99% of eBay idiots, shysters, scammers and dickheads.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Don't say that . Am going to put my MacBook Pro on eBay this weekend.

Don't say you haven't been warned!

[C1am]

Eurocarparts - ordered (and paid for) a filter eight days ago, not delivered. Ring the customer services number and you're kept on hold for 15 minutes, with regular "...your call is important to us" messages, until a final message of "there are no representatives available, call back later."

 

E-mailed the customer services address and received an automated reply, but nothing more. Logging into their website shows a message in red stating a move to a new warehouse has delayed deliveries (by 48 hours)!

 

Edit: now received.