The grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

On the individual auction, change your postage settings to 'Will Post to UK Only' - that stops anyone outside UK bidding.

 

...As I know only too well, being unable to bid on all kinds of nice models/useful car parts because I'm in Cyprus!

[Albert Ross]

Have a friend with a UK mailing address that will handle the transaction for you!

[mattblack]

Why does the fact we've had a couple of days of good weather mean that rent-a-gob scratters have to attempt to 'cook' meat outside?

[Justin Case]

On the individual auction, change your postage settings to 'Will Post to UK Only' - that stops anyone outside UK bidding.

 

...As I know only too well, being unable to bid on all kinds of nice models/useful car parts because I'm in Cyprus!

 

You can ask the seller to exempt you individually from the blanket ban. I normally block bidders from outside the UK because of the hassle (forign currency, etc), but this way I have sold things to a number of EU countries and Switzerland with no problems, so it's worth a try.

[Station]

Dave, have you ever had a straightforward transaction on eBay? You seem to get shat on continually.

 

Ha, I don't think I actually have. Oh, I fucking hate ebay.

[CIH]

On the individual auction, change your postage settings to 'Will Post to UK Only' - that stops anyone outside UK bidding.

 

...As I know only too well, being unable to bid on all kinds of nice models/useful car parts because I'm in Cyprus!

 

International shipping is no big trial. I've sent plenty of suff, mostly to America.

[Station]

MGF's battery hasn't been charged too well - it went dead when it broke down (rotor arm) last week, and only for a jump start has it been it's only charge and occasional drive about. I've been meaning to give it a proper charge, and starting it is slow to turn over but it literally jumps into life as soon as it strokes.

 

The missus went to get some petrol before going to Uni, and the battery deaded itself on starting to drive from the pump. She phoned the AA for help. They turned up, and after the bloke looked it over, he claimed the alternator was dead. I'm certain it isn't - the last one was two years old (I replaced it when she bought the car), and it seized up (they do this) The last garage replaced the alternator with a new one (so it's had three alternators so far). She could've drove the car the 1/2 a mile home after it was charged up.

She has cover so the car can be repaired at cost to the AA up to 500 quid and the AA bloke talked her into getting it booked into a garage - his mate's garage. To change over a working alternator. On a fucking bank holiday weekend. The car might be back on Tuesday.

 

FUCKING HELL FIRE!

 

To rub salt in the wound, I can see the garage from the end of my road!

[Rocket88]

I'd torch the garage, kill two birds with one stone [nowhere near the M1 are you?}

[eddyramrod]

On the individual auction, change your postage settings to 'Will Post to UK Only' - that stops anyone outside UK bidding.

 

...As I know only too well, being unable to bid on all kinds of nice models/useful car parts because I'm in Cyprus!

 

International shipping is no big trial. I've sent plenty of suff, mostly to America.

 

International shipping isn't the issue, it's a bullet I know I have to bite. What's Grumping me is the number of sellers who have set their preferences to UK only, which means I can't bid.

[Guest]

What's Grumping me is the number of sellers who have set their preferences to UK only, which means I can't bid.

 

What do you need? I can buy it, get it shipped to meh and then ship it out to you.

[CreepingJesus]

HIAB shift out the window, 'replacement' supermarket shift I can't take. Fuck. Big boy's toys fun and/or bank holiday rates gone. Fuckity fuck. Driver's door window on shitey Megane down in door bottom. Skin knuckles getting the fucker back up. Fuckity fuck fuck.

Fuck off April 21st, you were shite. Bring me a better one.

[TimothyClaypole]

I block them too.

 

But get requests for excemptions from people so you can check there feedback first before letting them bid.

 

I find the postage puts 99% of people off anyway.

[Mr Lobster]

International shipping isn't the issue, it's a bullet I know I have to bite. What's Grumping me is the number of sellers who have set their preferences to UK only, which means I can't bid.

 

I don't really know why people do that tbh. Nearly half the stuff we sell goes outside UK. As long as you are sensible and don't send to places where the postal service will [ possibly ] steal it, then theres no problem.

[retrogeezer]

What's Grumping me is the number of sellers who have set their preferences to UK only, which means I can't bid.

 

It's because plenty of sellers have been scammed already and just can't be bothered with it anymore. It works both ways as most americans won't post to the UK in my experience. I had a american fella ask for a shipping price and when I said it was £x pounds sterling he replied saying he didn't know what pounds sterling was!

 

Plus the fact that RM international service are 'Airsure' which is tracked but not signed for or 'international signed for' which is signed for but not tracked.

[Cavcraft]

It's because of the inordinate amount of scammers, spammers and idiots unfortunately. I blocked overseas bidders due to the (mostly) Nigerian scammers and the turds who complained about postage costs after they'd won a listing for something. The worse was the wanker in Iceland who won the listing I had for a damaged 4x4 and it was an absolute nightmare.

 

I did send a BX sunroof visor to Australia though without any trouble.

[Station]

I've never had any problems with Nigerians so far. I ordered loads of stuff a couple of years ago from Australia and they got here -within a week-, that's amazing considering. Chinese mail is fast too (for 9p bootleg electronic gadgetry).

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I bought some film from Hong Kong recently - I was expecting to be waiting weeks but it turned up in a few days. I was very impressed. The guy must have been sat with his laptop at the airport, and my Paypal notification appeared on his screen just as the plane was taking off, prompting him to chase it down the runway in the stair car, throwing the package to someone waiting at the lowered cargo door just as the plane's wheels left the ground.

 

A+++ would buy again

[Cavcraft]

There seems to be a hidden law regarding housing estates that insists residents must adjust the decibels of their music to ten fold the current temperature in fahrenheit. This seems to be enforced by shirtless skinheads smoking odd smelling cigarettes and carry cans of 0.00001% proof Aldi Mingebagberg lager.

[revolting peasant]

[Station]

I'd torch the garage, kill two birds with one stone [nowhere near the M1 are you?}

 

The car wasn't at fault this time!

[TimothyClaypole]

Getting a job in a retail establishment...

 

 

That'll be two days off a year then, thanks.

 

 

Shoppers - it's 6pm on a Bank Holiday Friday - go home ffs and sit in the garden, it's 23degrees C outside in April what more do you want?

[eddyramrod]

Thanks for all the ebay thoughts, fellas, and Wat, especially thanks for the offer, you might be getting a few (hundred) PMs incoming!

 

New grump: try living just down the hill from a Greek Orthodox church at Easter. Our narrow road is parked-up both sides for the congregation, there are fireworks going off at odd intervals and scaring my dog and cats, and the church is equipped with a (very) loudspeaker system for whoever's leading the prayers/hymns. The bells are rung twice daily anyway, approx 6am and 6pm, even without Easter, but tonight the place is still jumping. It's 11pm now on Good Friday. Saturday, Sunday and Monday to go. Good thing we didn't take the house next door to the church, which we were looking at!

[trigger]

I've just been following this twat up the road, 200cc Quad with no crash helmet or protective bodygear, At one point on the roundabout he even had it on 2 wheels whilst only doing 25 mph as well as missing a few other cars with late braking.

 

I thought you had to wear a hat when on the road with these, if not, why not?.

 

2009 Bashan BS200S-7 Quad in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

2009 Bashan BS200S-7 Quad in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[revolting peasant]

[Richard]

I don't think you need a helmet on quads or trikes.

[Lord Sterling]

Warm weather - Yes, seriously.

 

I've never really taken to warm weather here, it always makes me feel tired, low on energy and pretty depressed, I cant sleep properly, mother nature cant make up her mind on whether it should rain or stay sunny, so the gardens are almost always in need of constant attention. Plus there are bleedin flys everywhere in the house.

 

This is in contrast to when I was in Kuwait, I felt happier there. The air is dry and we had air conditioning in every room and no gardens to contend with so its pretty bearable unlike here.

 

I cant think straight either, hence the "Edited by Lord Sterling, edited 3 times in total" bit

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Warm weather - Yes, seriously.

 

Yeah, the warm weather makes me a little grumpy too - I get light hayfever for a couple of weeks around now, but once that clears I brighten up a bit. Still have difficulty sleeping when it's hot at night.

[Rover414]

Those quads are annoying along with fart can bikes that are farting around all day and night. Also unrelated but next door neighbour twats who think its acceptable for them to sit outside laughing like rent-a-mouth pondlife til 4.50am on a Monday morning. They're the same neighbours who complained to us one time when we were in the back garden at 2.30pm in the afternoon. Twats.

[Albert Ross]

Some retarded fucking knobber was pissing around on a 2 stroke moped at half past cunting 5 this morning, up and fucking down the bastard park and the footpath..... I NEARLY got out of bed to run the cunting bastard down and throttle him with my starting handle. before thinking better of it, and going back to sleep for 10 minutes.

[shite_meister]

Some retarded fucking knobber was pissing around on a 2 stroke moped at half past cunting 5 this morning, up and fucking down the bastard park and the footpath..... I NEARLY got out of bed to run the cunting bastard down and throttle him with my starting handle. before thinking better of it, and going back to sleep for 10 minutes.

 

Like very much, two stroke bikes are for wankers.

 

I've just been to B&Q to acquire some AA batteries not for a vibrator you understand nor indeed any other sex toy of which I do not own, merely for my CD Walkman because I'm modern like that. So I look around at all the batteries and pick up a pack of 12 Duracells for just under eight quid, after paying for the aforementioned goods I then notice at the exit there are packs of the same Duracells but 18 for just over a fiver...WTF thinks, so I return the packet of 12, ask for a refund and pay for the 18-pack, the till-operating bastard-bitch makes some comment about I should of seen them before so I retort something along the lines of 'Yes, but if you put the twatting things by the exit I won't see them untill I've paid for anything and made my way around your twatting one-way till-system'

 

I really do question the logic of putting special offers AFTER the tills by the exit doors, whats the fucking point? now I CAN HAZ ROSE SO FUK U BEE AND QUE.