The grumpy thread

[sierraman]

20 hours ago, maxxo said:

At my parents house today in the loft

decided to faff on with the original opening ventilation sky light up there and successfully opened it

anyway

had a glance at the rear two chimney stacks

oh they’re not in a good way

their side is the right hand side obviously 

the closest one has a gas fire and back boiler (still in one) at the bottom of it so can’t be taken down

rear one is used as an extractor for a cooker hood which I know is terrible

i know for a fact they won’t sort it so it’ll be up to me to arrange to sort this out

what an absolute state they are

Bricklayer this week then? 😂

[sierraman]

11 hours ago, robt100 said:

Trying to sell the van is putting me in a mood.

Popped it on Autotrader for a bit more exposure, had 3 enquiries in 24hrs (good news), 1 guy was very concerned about the bodywork condition, seemed very hung up on the fact there is a square, less than A5 sized where I think someone has forgotten to lacquer after painting, can only be noticed at certain angles from under 2ft away as having a little less shine. Never heard back after the first call.

2nd guy tried to offer £2k under the asking price over the phone and seems surprised when I say no🙈.  "but its 2004, its not worth that" was his reasoning, I'm guessing he hasn't looked at prices for these things. He didn't seem keen on my suggestion that he doesn't have to buy it if its too expensive for him...

3rd guy says he will be there in 30mins.....that was at 7:30pm today,  never arrived and has now gone no-contact. Which is more concerning as he now has my address, hopefully the van will still be there tomorrow😬. I just don't understand why you wouldn't say anything if you changed your mind or something came up and you couldn't make it, wasted a good hour or so of my evening when I had other things to do.
 

Selling a car is enough to make you want to go and live on some uninhabited island. Rule one is never go out of your way to be in for someone, they’re wanting to buy your van, you are the oasis in the desert. 
 

I wouldn’t even get into any negotiations on price over the phone, inevitably they arrive and it drops yet further. 

[IronStar]

4 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Selling a car is enough to make you want to go and live on some uninhabited island. Rule one is never go out of your way to be in for someone, they’re wanting to buy your van, you are the oasis in the desert. 
 

I wouldn’t even get into any negotiations on price over the phone, inevitably they arrive and it drops yet further. 

The unfortunate rule is - the cheaper it is, the more nonsensical questions you get.

I had like 50 people sending messages, calling, and wasting my time when I was trying to get rid of 300€ Stilo. I wrote everything there is in the ad itself and took 15 photos. Didn't stop anyone from asking everything all of the same questions in the messages or over the phone. 

Same thing with anything else. Selling a 100€ lens? Million idiots. 2k L glass? 3 people with sensical questions, and 1 came to collect. 

My theory is that despite being as cheap as it can possibly get, it's still a lot of money for the target group that's looking to buy it, so they want to get as much as possible out of their money and get it as cheap as possible. Moving more upmarket gets people's expectations more aligned with reality, as they're not spending every last cent they have.

[Metal Guru]

32 minutes ago, IronStar said:

The unfortunate rule is - the cheaper it is, the more nonsensical questions you get.

I had like 50 people sending messages, calling, and wasting my time when I was trying to get rid of 300€ Stilo. I wrote everything there is in the ad itself and took 15 photos. Didn't stop anyone from asking everything all of the same questions in the messages or over the phone. 

Same thing with anything else. Selling a 100€ lens? Million idiots. 2k L glass? 3 people with sensical questions, and 1 came to collect. 

My theory is that despite being as cheap as it can possibly get, it's still a lot of money for the target group that's looking to buy it, so they want to get as much as possible out of their money and get it as cheap as possible. Moving more upmarket gets people's expectations more aligned with reality, as they're not spending every last cent they have.

It’s that cunt Brewer’s fault. Smug git beats down the price everytime. Everyone thinks that’s what you have to do.

[horriblemercedes]

45 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Selling a car is enough to make you want to go and live on some uninhabited island. Rule one is never go out of your way to be in for someone, they’re wanting to buy your van, you are the oasis in the desert. 

There's a middle ground though. I had good communication with a seller until I got into my car to drive two hours to Manchester to look at the car he was selling. Got to his house and no one was there.

I phoned him and he said "we went out for the rest of the day because I didn't think you were coming"

 

The last message from me was "just setting off now, I'll see you in a couple of hours"

[DSdriver]

23 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

 

I mean, come on, how hard is it to have working bloody air-con? Do I need a mortgage now to buy a whole new system? 🤬

In my experience with a Saab 9-3 estate the answer is yes. Not sure if it is related to the Vectra.

[castros_bro]

I thought I'd be easy to hire a van for a day, used to be easy when I spent time shifting motorcycles, pianos, cement mixers, lathes etc.

Now its impossible and takes hours to find out it's impossible, bloody interweb mess.

[Pieman]

47 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

It’s that cunt Brewer’s fault. Smug git beats down the price everytime. Everyone thinks that’s what you have to do.

That and Antiques Roadtrip and Bargain Cunt, which seems to be the origin of "wots ur best price m8" and knuckle draggers now think they can say that whenever they buy anything.

[ETCHY]

Conveyancing Solicitors.

We're selling our house. If they'd have a 5 minute fucking phone call then we could exchange contracts & get a completion date... But no it hasn't been sorted in the past 2 weeks. I mean  it's a fucking phone call - yes a fucking phone call between two people, how the holy living shit can that not have happened, how can there not have been time to do this??

Utter & complete bloody twats !🤬

[Remspoor]

On 04/07/2024 at 14:55, maxxo said:

At my parents house today in the loft

decided to faff on with the original opening ventilation sky light up there and successfully opened it

anyway

had a glance at the rear two chimney stacks

oh they’re not in a good way

their side is the right hand side obviously 

the closest one has a gas fire and back boiler (still in one) at the bottom of it so can’t be taken down

rear one is used as an extractor for a cooker hood which I know is terrible

i know for a fact they won’t sort it so it’ll be up to me to arrange to sort this out

what an absolute state they are

Whilst the lads* are on the roof maybe get them to look at the lead too.  I can see all sorts of things wrong with that. I am surprised that there is no water ingress from that . Wonder what the flashing is like on the other side of the ridge?

[robt100]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Conveyancing Solicitors.

We're selling our house. If they'd have a 5 minute fucking phone call then we could exchange contracts & get a completion date... But no it hasn't been sorted in the past 2 weeks. I mean  it's a fucking phone call - yes a fucking phone call between two people, how the holy living shit can that not have happened, how can there not have been time to do this??

Utter & complete bloody twats !🤬

I know that feeling. We were waiting on the seller's solicitors for about 5 weeks! Our solicitor just needed a signature back from them, kept saying to them "we will get it to you tomorrow" and then nothing. They waited till 2 days before our mortgage offer ran out till they finally did it😕
Just ring daily and chase it, they will soon get a move on to get rid of you😅

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Conveyancing Solicitors.

We're selling our house. If they'd have a 5 minute fucking phone call then we could exchange contracts & get a completion date... But no it hasn't been sorted in the past 2 weeks. I mean  it's a fucking phone call - yes a fucking phone call between two people, how the holy living shit can that not have happened, how can there not have been time to do this??

Utter & complete bloody twats !🤬

Two houses ago the doorbell rang when we were in your situation. Our buyer in a state:
"My lawyer says he's still waiting on the copy of the plans for your extension"
"Oh, I dropped them off to their office THREE weeks ago"  (local family firm)
"Really?"
"Yes - here, have another copy - you can drop them in yourself tomorrow"
The guy was a really nice bloke - he stomped off with a sheaf of papers in his hand and a glint in his eye.

We exchanged and completed on the same day about a week later.

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

It’s that cunt Brewer’s fault. Smug git beats down the price everytime. Everyone thinks that’s what you have to do.

Been saying this since he first crawled from under his stone.

[Pieman]

The bit of Brewer's shows that pisses me off the most is when he pulls up outside the workshop and sounds the horn to get the long-suffering mechanic's attention.  Just get out and walk in, you lazy twat!

I always hope that said mechanic will reply with "Surprised you can fit in that, you fat prick!"

[RoverFolkUs]

On 04/07/2024 at 22:48, robt100 said:

Trying to sell the van is putting me in a mood.

Popped it on Autotrader for a bit more exposure, had 3 enquiries in 24hrs (good news), 1 guy was very concerned about the bodywork condition, seemed very hung up on the fact there is a square, less than A5 sized where I think someone has forgotten to lacquer after painting, can only be noticed at certain angles from under 2ft away as having a little less shine. Never heard back after the first call.

2nd guy tried to offer £2k under the asking price over the phone and seems surprised when I say no🙈.  "but its 2004, its not worth that" was his reasoning, I'm guessing he hasn't looked at prices for these things. He didn't seem keen on my suggestion that he doesn't have to buy it if its too expensive for him...

3rd guy says he will be there in 30mins.....that was at 7:30pm today,  never arrived and has now gone no-contact. Which is more concerning as he now has my address, hopefully the van will still be there tomorrow😬. I just don't understand why you wouldn't say anything if you changed your mind or something came up and you couldn't make it, wasted a good hour or so of my evening when I had other things to do.
 

(Edit - ignore the weird underline... I don't know why that's happened!)

Had a van listed on eBay at work, disposing of it on behalf of a customer 

Honestly I was sick of the barrage of fucking messages coming through as follows:

"Send me pos cod"

"Tell me las price cash today no wasting time"

"Send me your phone number please" 

No. Actually please just FUCK OFF. 

All the information is in the advert, it's a 7 day auction. Place a bid, if you win, happy days, if you don't, fuck off! 

I'm not going to entertain 50 people ringing the phone off the hook and coming down to kick the tyres on a spares/repairs van that's being sold well below its up-and-running, MOT'd value. 

I started getting shirty with the "last price" brigade, I bluntly told them that auctions tend to work by bidding the highest price, not a race to the bottom. Of course none of them bothered replying anyway, nor did they have any intention of buying the fucking thing. 

[RoverFolkUs]

On 27/06/2024 at 18:54, cpjitservices said:

Grumpy... Grrrrr got to take wifes 73 plate MG ZS into Dealership tomorrow (motability) It has got just shy of 7k on the clock....

 

 

Shock Absorber pissing oil!!

FFS.

I wouldn't have been surprised if you said it was a rotten subframe on a 73 plate MG 😅

[RoverFolkUs]

On 28/06/2024 at 15:58, Talbot said:

Today's grump.  Looking to purchase a Triumph Spitfire (not for me I should add).  Found one on ebay, looks ok.  Seller has the ridiculous requirement of a £500 deposit to be paid at end of auction.  It's against ebay Ts&Cs, and against any and all advice ever for buying a car to do that.  So I of course ignored it and bid anyway, expecting to tell the seller I would be arriving on X date, with money to buy the car, and wouldn't be buggering about.

Seller gets on the phone and gives me a load of old shit about the fact that I am "violating HIS terms and conditions" and that by not paying it's giving me an "unfair advantage" over other bidders.  All utter horseshit.  We went round and round in circles for a while, untill I ask if I can just turn up and buy the bloody thing.  "no, it's the principle of the matter now".

Oh do get fucked.  I know selling a car is a ballache and sellers get pissed about all the time, but all I wanted to do was turn up, check the car matches the description and photos, pay the man and take it away.  Not difficult, surely?

Turns out it is.

Wanker.

The way I interpret that sort of seller is "it's nothing like the description, but probably just about acceptable enough that you won't be arsed about fighting for your £500 deposit back so you'll just take the car under duress, mwahahaha" 

Especially with classics, I'd always encourage a buyer looks at the car before parting with any money. They're almost impossible to 100% accurately describe, and some people just won't be happy with certain flaws, and that's ok. If someone can just go and make their own mind up about what they have in front of them, happy days

TLDR: wholeheartedly agree

[Dyslexic Viking]

It's now summer so Norway is being invaded by Germans which is fine enough but going on holiday with a freaking tractor is not fine. 

This bellow caused complete chaos on one of our main roads yesterday. This should be illegal. And the driver must be a really selfish bastard to think this is okay.

[Supernaut]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

It's now summer so Norway is being invaded by Germans which is fine enough but going on holiday with a freaking tractor is not fine. 

This bellow caused complete chaos on one of our main roads yesterday. This should be illegal. And the driver must be a really selfish bastard to think this is okay.

I feel the same way about all caravans, regardless of what's towing them...

[chaseracer]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

It's now summer so Norway is being invaded by @hairnet

EFA.  Happy hols, NG - travel safe! 😎😃

[DSdriver]

15 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Conveyancing Solicitors.

We're selling our house. If they'd have a 5 minute fucking phone call then we could exchange contracts & get a completion date... But no it hasn't been sorted in the past 2 weeks. I mean  it's a fucking phone call - yes a fucking phone call between two people, how the holy living shit can that not have happened, how can there not have been time to do this??

Utter & complete bloody twats !🤬

I'm not tryong to stress you out even more but you wait till you see the invoice, some 2 minute calls by the solicitor on our behalf for my mothers probate were billed at £200, total bill was over 10 large. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

I feel the same way about all caravans, regardless of what's towing them...

The highest speed reported on this was 40 km/h downhill.

The average caravan with a car moves faster than this so better.

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

I'm not tryong to stress you out even more but you wait till you see the invoice, some 2 minute calls by the solicitor on our behalf for my mothers probate were billed at £200, total bill was over 10 large. 

I seem to have been very lucky then.  Bought this house from the housing association six years ago, took about a month all told, a few personal visits to the solicitor, close to where I worked, mostly emails though.  £500 all in.

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, Supernaut said:

I feel the same way about all caravans, regardless of what's towing them...

Try the A66 before the Appleby horse fair. Horse drawn caravans normally with the “driver” walking alongside, so 3 mph max on one of the North’s busiest roads.

[maxxo]

No hot water today from the boiler

central heating working as is immersion

ffs

checked everything before venturing into the loft

why is the header tank for the central heating empty?

how is the central heating still working?

more faff

 

[myglaren]

Buggered inlet valve?

[Surface Rust]

On 06/07/2024 at 06:30, Dyslexic Viking said:

It's now summer so Norway is being invaded by Germans which is fine enough but going on holiday with a freaking tractor is not fine. 

This bellow caused complete chaos on one of our main roads yesterday. This should be illegal. And the driver must be a really selfish bastard to think this is okay.

I agree that is selfish, but I am also staggered that he drove it all the way from Germany to Norway! 

Surely it'll be time to turn around when he gets there.

[Dyslexic Viking]

19 minutes ago, Surface Rust said:

I agree that is selfish, but I am also staggered that he drove it all the way from Germany to Norway! 

Surely it'll be time to turn around when he gets there.

Back in 2014, when I was almost at the North Cape, I met a column of German tractors with caravans that had been to the North Cape. 

So would not be surprised if they in picture has plans to go much further north.

[maxxo]

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

Buggered inlet valve?

I’d say so it’s jammed solid

i don’t touch plumbing nor do I want to try and get the air locks out the system

[gm]

gah !

no problem, i have a handy inflator

nope. 

how about that can of foam i’ve been carrying about for years ? 

nope. 

how about i just fit the spare wheel ? 

nope.

bottle jack is too tall to fit under the sill  

time for a mayday call.

 @DVee8 is on his way