The grumpy thread

[Spiny Norman]

Q: hi there do you have a buy it now price regards

A: No.

 

When will people ever learn that the answer to this question NEVER changes?

 

I usually just name a price that's at least 10% higher than my "wildest dreams" hope of what it'll fetch and if they're dumb enough to pay that, fine.

Hasn't worked yet but it's not stopping me trying!

[morris_ital_lover]

Q: hi there do you have a buy it now price regards

A: No.

 

When will people ever learn that the answer to this question NEVER changes?

 

I'll confess that I've sent a fair few of those questions away in the past and have had some very very favourable BINs as a result.

[Louise2cv]

Not really a grump but I'm a bit confused...

 

I'm trying to find a bargain on ebay, and there are a few of this particular item listed but most are listed as collection only. Then in the item description it states "you are welcome to arrange your own courier".

 

Surely as you know the weight of the thing, will have to package it up to some extent and will need to be there for the courier to collect, you'd be making your item more attractive to buyers by having a postage price on it? You know like just about every other small/medium item on ebay?

 

Is it me?

[autofive]

if the seller arranges courier, they are responsible for the parcel, if you arrange your own, you can't moan later if it arrives damaged, or gets lost

[mattblack]

My job has been outsource.

 

...far better to get someone with English as their second language

 

OH, THE IRONY!!!!!!

 

[willswitchengage]

Those kids presently "occupying" the London Stock Exchange.

 

Protesting about the dangers of capitalism via an iPhone and taking photos of "police brutality" with that brand new DSLR... they just don't get irony do they.

[dollywobbler]

Those kids presently "occupying" the London Stock Exchange.

 

Protesting about the dangers of capitalism via an iPhone and taking photos of "police brutality" with that brand new DSLR... they just don't get irony do they.

 

Yeah, because if you find that capitalism just makes rich people very rich by exploiting the poor, you must give up all wordly possessions in entirety if you wish to air your views. These people aren't saying "don't buy new things." What they're saying is "executives do not deserve bonuses for doing sod all, while thousands of underlings work hard for them."

[Guest]

Ah well, that was fun, wasn't it?

 

Oh no, no no no no. You can't have what you want though, get back in your corner.

[willswitchengage]

Those kids presently "occupying" the London Stock Exchange.

 

Protesting about the dangers of capitalism via an iPhone and taking photos of "police brutality" with that brand new DSLR... they just don't get irony do they.

 

Yeah, because if you find that capitalism just makes rich people very rich by exploiting the poor, you must give up all wordly possessions in entirety if you wish to air your views. These people aren't saying "don't buy new things." What they're saying is "executives do not deserve bonuses for doing sod all, while thousands of underlings work hard for them."

 

Champagne. That's all I'm saying...

[warren t claim]

Recent events mean that Nasty Warren may have to be let out of his box. I don't even like him myself.

[RoadworkUK]

Today I'm going to be really bloody grumpy about.... Kitchen Cabinets.

 

The kitchen in the All New Roadwork Towers is, er, on the bijou side, and has therefore required planning down to the last millimetre. Confident of my ideas and posessed of a set of 1/20 scale technical drawings, I ventured to Wickes where I obtained a 1000mm "corner base unit". My expectations were, not unreasonably, that it should be a base unit, a metre in length, that could fit in the corner.

 

Thusly:

 

 

So, tools in hand I set about construction. Relatively pleased with the quality at the price, all seemed to be going well. Then, though, the instructions revealed that, in order to be able to open the doors of this and the neighbouring 300mm base unit, a moulded trim was necessary between the two cabinets, as represented on the diagram by the little red thing:

 

 

In order to install said trim (which willl look lovely, I'm sure) you have to leave a 25mm gap between the two units, and a further 25mm gap between the alleged "corner unit" and the wall. This, in turn, means that the 300mm base unit and the 600mm one next to it will have to shift incrementally along the wall.

 

This means that now my Fridge Freezer won't fit. Much gnashing of teeth, angst and stomping of feet.

 

Ok, chalk this one up to experience, and carry on. But oh ho; what's this? On fitting the door to the "1000mm base unit" it transpires that said door is 500mm wide, or half the width of the unit itself. Fair enough, but this isn't much use when the unit next to it, and every other base unit in the fucking range is 600mm deep, is it? 1000mm minus 600mm is 400, innit? The unit should be built to accept a 400mm door, surely?!

 

Accommodating a 500mm door means shifting the piece of shit alleged corner unit a further 100mm away from the corner it's supposed to be being a unit in, and leaving an enormous fucking slab of wasted space by the wall; as indicated in this diagram:

 

 

If it can't be put in the corner, how the bollocking hell is it a corner base unit, and not just a 1000mm base unit with one of the doors missing?! It now means that my washing machine won't fit, either!

 

Front bottoms!

[willswitchengage]

I should probably take the time to offer you a friend of mine and ex-Wicke's employee's advice: don't shop at Wickes.

[RoadworkUK]

I should probably take the time to offer you a friend of mine and ex-Wicke's employee's advice: don't shop at Wickes.

 

Sage advice. We've been persevering with the place in a bizarre philanthropic effort to support the underdog; the Wickes car park is usually empty while the B&Q Gigastore is packed. Unfortunately, the difference seems to be that B&Q aren't (as) shit.

[RedSparrow]

It's a mystery to me how Wickes survives. Everything is 25% more than B&Q and every time I go there there is one till open with a massive queue of pissed off builders. Half the people seem to be there to return something which makes the wait even longer.

[willswitchengage]

Similarly there's a B&Q and Homebase next to each in our local retail park - I mainly use them for gardening shizz but the plants in HB are always less minging, cheaper, better selection etc... Also ever noticed that in those Wickes adverts their "red pencil prices" are only about 10% discounted?

 

If I want hardware the local ironmonger is always very helpful, that or ebay.

[Danblez]

Today I'm going to be really bloody grumpy about.... Kitchen Cabinets.

 

Front bottoms!

 

Hmmm how rediculous, do they have no other size options in that style. Ikea only have 1200mm corner cabinets in that style for this exact reason.

[RoadworkUK]

Today I'm going to be really bloody grumpy about.... Kitchen Cabinets.

 

Front bottoms!

 

Hmmm how rediculous, do they have no other size options in that style. Ikea only have 1200mm corner cabinets in that style for this exact reason.

 

I know, it's absurd. Unfortunately no other combination of their available sizes will suit. And, of course, shortly after buying them B&Q introduced a virtually identical range.

 

On top of this, my other half bought a builders drum of white paint, got home and it turned out to be half used. It had evidently been returned and just put straight back on the shelf.

[Pillock]

It's a mystery to me how Wickes survives. Everything is 25% more than B&Q and every time I go there there is one till open with a massive queue of pissed off builders. Half the people seem to be there to return something which makes the wait even longer.

 

Because once you've given a builder a job, he doesn't care where he buys stuff from - he just adds 20% and charges you.

[eddyramrod]

May I suggest sawing a chunk off the offending door so that the corner unit can be fitted in the corner? Perhaps enough to facilitate door-opening too? I know it rankles to be doing this to lovely new stuff, but if it makes room for the fridge, etc, maybe it's worth the sacrifice.

[RoadworkUK]

May I suggest sawing a chunk off the offending door so that the corner unit can be fitted in the corner? Perhaps enough to facilitate door-opening too? I know it rankles to be doing this to lovely new stuff, but if it makes room for the fridge, etc, maybe it's worth the sacrifice.

 

That's plan B. Plan A is to protest and demand that the bastards give me a 400mm door. Like it should really have had all along if they'd put any thought into it!

[messerschmitt owner]

Note to house owner of house I want to buy.

 

Just because you don't mind a commercial (ie shop licence) on two rooms of your house and have nothing in those rooms, does not mean that a. I want to do the same and b. my mortgage lender will mind paying for two rooms I can't use!

 

What is difficult about getting change of use consent! It is only £335, a form, a map and a couple of sketches drawn on the back of a fag packet!

 

Rant over!

[TimothyClaypole]

What style/colour of doors are they?

 

Does it have any pull out baskets in it etc.

 

 

I've a container full of kitchen shite...

[vulgalour]

So, I've got funds to do things like buy a pair of new steering rack gaiters for the Princess, how awesome! I have some disposable income in the first time since forever. Oh but wait, what's this? A letter from nPower telling us that the estimated bill for the past 6 month period is £400 short... so they waited 6 months to tell them we were going to owe them £400? I'm... less than impressed by this. That £400 doesn't exist yet and if it did, it was going into stuff like having fun, maybe even a drink of the boozeytipple. But no, life has decided that I need to stay poor for a bit longer.

 

Gone through the numbers and the amount is correct, I just don't understand why they didn't inform us of this impending debt sooner so I could have adjusted finances to cope with it rather than waiting this long for it to be this high. Suffice to say, I will be paying it back over the longest term possible and then switching to a cheaper provider. Fuck you nPower and your insanely expensive gas.

[RoadworkUK]

What style/colour of doors are they?

 

Does it have any pull out baskets in it etc.

 

 

I've a container full of kitchen shite...

 

Cheers! Fortunately, completely plain gloss white with slightly chamfered edges, so I can probably look around for a duplicate if Wickes don't play ball. Only problem could concievably be, as we've experienced before, how many shades of gloss white there are out there.

[trigger]

Today on my drive to Leicestershire i saw a Sainsburys lorry serving all over the A14, twice running of the road and into the stones, A bloke driving a Unimog on his phone, a Latvian registered Volvo S80 on the motorway doing 80mph+ with a young child standing between the two front seats and a VW Touran driving the wrong way up the slip road on to the A14 at Bury St. Edmunds, luckily pulling over just as they hit the slow land.

 

I wish i was a traffic cop sometimes.

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

I wish i was a traffic cop sometimes.

 

 

 

Sorry you can only be a pirate.

[trigger]

Dear god

[HillmanImp]

Dear god

 

Is this the reason you should not make friends with people from forums on Facebook?

[trigger]

I think so ! the worse bit is i can't remember who Lufthansa-Terminal is on my facebook?!

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

I think so ! the worse bit is i can't remember who Lufthansa-Terminal is on my facebook?!