The grumpy thread

[Craig the Princess]

Ebay twats, I won the auction for 500 "storage boxes" for £1 (this is the auction here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140645043880&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123#ht_500wt_1156)

 

Almost immediately, I get an invoice for £1 for winning the auction, 1p to collect in person and £4 sellers charges (not mention in the listing)

 

Basically the knobjockey insists that they aren't selling for less than a fiver and wants the money right now.

 

Where do I stand with this contemptible little shit?

 

I would be telling him where to stick his boxes and sending a report to ebay

[barrett]

Just photoshop a few eyes on for RA's mrs.

 

 

There you go, saved you a job Eddy. These are deffo what your puppies look like

[eddyramrod]

Thanks Barrett! That's a big help there, all I have to do now is sort out a few small discrepancies, such as colour, breed, quantity, background.....

[ruffgeezer]

Yeah but I don't want the little bumbox taking a dump on my feedback, I know he can't neg me but he can still put shitty remarks in it.

 

Edit: it gets better!

Hi please please please pay the full price tonight because i need it tonight to get something and i will give you the rest back on collection

 

Wtf could be so urgent?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The guy sounds like a total cockwhisk, just fook him off. DOnt worry about your feedback, cos as you say he can't neg you and no-one reads feedback anymore anyway seeing as it can only ever be positive.

[autofive]

Yeah but I don't want the little bumbox taking a dump on my feedback, I know he can't neg me but he can still put shitty remarks in it.

 

Edit: it gets better!

Hi please please please pay the full price tonight because i need it tonight to get something and i will give you the rest back on collection

 

Wtf could be so urgent?

 

report to ebay

 

hes a tosser, and ebay takes a very dim view of tossers like him trying to get more cash out of buyers. watch out, because he will claim no contact from you, and you will get a non-payment strike from ebay.

 

i won over 100 classic ford mags for 20 quid, i asked the seller when i could pick up (he was 40 miles away) he said come now, at 9pm on a sunday night, or next weekend. i said next weekend, arranged a time and day then on the wednsday he reported me as a non payer.

[maxpower]

just report it to ebay saying he never said in his advert that there would be further charges

 

fuggin cheeky knob monkey

[RedSparrow]

Report.

This is a good reason to only communicate through ebays messaging thing, It means that whoever looks at your case can see all the evidence.

Aslo, since you can't neg buyers anymore I have no hesitation in opening non-paying buyer proceedings against morons.

[Cavcraft]

..then set up a new eBay account, wait for him to list something else and NEG HIS ARSE OFF.

[TimothyClaypole]

Listed something on Ebay for £620, there are 3 for sale by other people at around £799.00, I put offers

just in case someone would pay maybe £500 or so etc.

 

Some arse offered £230, then when I bounced that he dug a bit deeper - £250... er ok mate.

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My (trivial) eBay complaint right now is that no-one's leaving me feedback. Want my red star.

[maxpower]

and invest in a fleshlight.... a pussy that doesn't answer back

 

Surely the Autoshite way is a third-hand 'Lusty Linda' blow up doll purchased from the back pages of of a dog eared 1984 copy of 'Razzle', with at least 3 puncture repairs?

 

nope the autoshite way would be a marigold and a handfull of swarfega

[andrew e]

Me posting cynical responses. MEH. Its been pissing down all day and I'm house bound. Double MEH.

[Guest]

My NAD C542 has given up the ghost after 6 years. It's been intermittent for a while, sometimes refusing to read pristine CDs for no given reason. Tonight it refused point blank to read a brand new album I'd just bought. It took nearly five minutes to bring up the total elapsed time, then after another painful lurch into 'Play' it managed about ten seconds before skipping out.

 

After the infuriatingly mixed week I've had the temptation to twat it one was rather strong, but I don't doubt it can be fixed. I don't think it's had a particularly hard innings, and I expected more for the £300 or so I paid back in 2005. I'm now listening to the album I b[r]ought on my ten year old Philips AZ7882 Discman. The one I had in sixth form. It still works brilliantly, and sounds pretty good for something so ancient.

 

I just didn't need it after a long and unproductive week and my SR80 cans AND my notepad mixer giving up too.

 

That's THREE things I need to pack off for repair.

[Pete-M]

Mark can probably fix that as well y'know.

[M'coli]

Re old stuff sounding good: the missus found my dad's old Panasonic personal stereo on Wednesday, so I dug out some old tapes for a bit of a listen. Decent earphones and a decent cassette player mean that I've been able to pick out so much more from stuff, but despite forgetting some lyrics to a song I haven't listened to for at least 8 years, I can still whistle along to Frank Usher's guitar solo as tunelessly as ever!

 

They say mp3 is such a "lossy" format - they're right, it'll never match the nostalgia of the tape hiss from your past.

[Lankytim]

Trying to break the 30 MPG barrier in the Volvo. After a session of A framing, and a seized caliper I managed 27.2 MPG. After removing the engine driven fan and temporarily freeing up the duff caliper I drove carefully for a couple of weeks trying to get it up to the magic 30. Result? 27.3MPG

[wuvvum]

Trying to break the 30 MPG barrier in the Volvo. After a session of A framing, and a seized caliper I managed 27.2 MPG. After removing the engine driven fan and temporarily freeing up the duff caliper I drove carefully for a couple of weeks trying to get it up to the magic 30. Result? 27.3MPG

My dad found that with his old 240 estate back in the day. The longest regular drive it used to make was to visit my grandparents 70 miles away. Normally he'd trundle along at 70-75 trying to use as little fuel as possible; one time we were running seriously late so he put his toe down as soon as we hit the motorway and kept it there all the way (109mph!), and the fuel consumption was almost the same. Weird.

[chaseracer]

 

The reason...

 

[Waderider]

My 11 year old NAD C520 displayed the same symptoms a few weeks ago.

 

I took the top of and used a vacuum cleaner to carefully lift dust out of the laser area. Fixed. Tools required, 1xphilips screwdriver and 1x hoover. Skills required, ability to differentiate between clockwise and anticlockwise, basic co-ordination, and ability to plug in a hoover.

 

Good luck.

[Minimad5]

Mark can probably fix that as well y'know.

 

I can't fix anything

 

Jon - I had the same problem with a CD Player* and it turned out to be a slight tear in the flexi-cable coming from the laser.

 

*CD player was in the shape of a beetle and had the worst speakers known to mankind.

[Felly Magic]

I had the same issue with the CD player on my Philips Midi system recently. It involved stripping the case down (35 torx screws!)removing the laser unit, and cleaning the laser with cleaning fluid. What a mare that was. Worked perfectly after that.

 

Anyhow, my moan..DIGBY'S Models. Ordered stuff over a week ago, allegedly sent out 1st class on Wednesday, still not here, and no reply to e-mails! W*nkers!

[Negative Creep]

Doing my weekly wash and as usual left the washing machine to it. Housemate noticed it was leaking so switched it off, but didn't bother to actually inform me. So I opened the door thinking the cycle had finished and it dumped a drum full of water over the floor. So just spent the last hour cleaning that up and unclogging the filter. Great fun

[dollywobbler]

 

The reason...

 

 

Yet a 2.3-litre 740 automatic can quite easily top 30mpg. Odd. Maybe Volvo just became experts at brick aerodynamics?

[eddyramrod]

That's THREE things I need to pack off for repair.

 

While you're at the Post Orifice, Jon... (nudge, wink)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I used to get 30mpg out of my 240 Torslanda so it can be done! In fact i got a PB of 34 on a trip to France.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Bloody printer. I paid sixty-odd quid to get one of the better Canon all-in-one models (together with a container-load of ink cartridges) from someone on ebay...Must have used it about 15 times over the last 5 months or so, and today it seems to have expired (it was printing fine, then I spotted a couple of errors in the letter I was printing, made a couple of changes and aborted printing...and ever since it's coming up with an error that, according to the internetz, usually means a fucked print head). Can't stand having to go to the 'ethnic' internet cafes to get something printed while I decide what to do with this crock of shite.

 

As if that hadn't been enough, when I went out to the car I was horrified to find out that the bastard drunks had smashed the tailgate of one that was parked two spaces behind mine! I am incensed...

[scaryoldcortina]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

[autofive]

Bloody printer. I paid sixty-odd quid to get one of the better Canon all-in-one models (together with a container-load of ink cartridges) from someone on ebay...Must have used it about 15 times over the last 5 months or so, and today it seems to have expired (it was printing fine, then I spotted a couple of errors in the letter I was printing, made a couple of changes and aborted printing...and ever since it's coming up with an error that, according to the internetz, usually means a fucked print head). Can't stand having to go to the 'ethnic' internet cafes to get something printed while I decide what to do with this crock of shite.

 

As if that hadn't been enough, when I went out to the car I was horrified to find out that the bastard drunks had smashed the tailgate of one that was parked two spaces behind mine! I am incensed...

 

flash the bios by removing the onboard battery for 30 seconds then replace and it will be fine

 

oh wait

 

buy another printer

[CIH]

Snow oop North and the tv weather woman declaring things will be much colder on Monday