Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
Clockwork Cupcake said:
eBay sellers that have items set to "collection only" because they can't be arsed to package it up properly and ship it.
(I'm talking about items under 15kg, for which myHermes will charge less than a tenner)
(I'm talking about items under 15kg, for which myHermes will charge less than a tenner)
and again. Annoys me even more is that some of the items are quite rare and THEY are losing out by not posting which would clearly expand their selling range. talksthetorque said:
But they also know that they won't get ripped off by people claiming it never arrived or was broken
That's why when I sell stuff on eBay, I always send items insured, and my listings disclaim liability once the item is handed over to the courier. Once in the hands of the courier, loss, damage, or non-arrival isn't my problem. Also, I don't actually want people coming to my house. But I guess some people do.
If the seller isn't really interested in selling the item other than to local people in person, I really wonder why they are bothering to list it on a national (optionally international) selling site.
Anyway, it annoys me beyond reason.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
talksthetorque said:
But they also know that they won't get ripped off by people claiming it never arrived or was broken
That's why when I sell stuff on eBay, I always send items insured, and my listings disclaim liability once the item is handed over to the courier. Once in the hands of the courier, loss, damage, or non-arrival isn't my problem. Also, I don't actually want people coming to my house. But I guess some people do.
If the seller isn't really interested in selling the item other than to local people in person, I really wonder why they are bothering to list it on a national (optionally international) selling site.
Anyway, it annoys me beyond reason.
If you send the item (i.e. buy the service) then if it goes missing or is broken in transit, it's up to you to sort it.
I took off my boots the other night and the next morning there was only 1 boot there.
I wouldn't have taken them off individually, surely?
Have the cats nicked them? Bugger if I can tell really. Would have been way more comfortable than the slip-on-steelies I ended up wearing in the snow.
I wouldn't have taken them off individually, surely?
Have the cats nicked them? Bugger if I can tell really. Would have been way more comfortable than the slip-on-steelies I ended up wearing in the snow.
The fact that the little steel wire "scale catcher thing" out of the kettle went missing.
Simple really. Pop this thing...
*Other brands of kettle scale catchers are available
...into your kettle, then fill/boil/pour/repeat. After a little while, pop the ball of wire out, crush it a few times, rinse out the scale and replace it.
How could this process go wrong?
Anyway, a week or so ago, ours disappeared. Not in the washing up bowl, not in either sink bowl. Nowhere to be seen and an absolute denial from my wife that she could have even inadvertently poured it out. So I reasoned that Leprechauns did it and forgot about it save to add a new one to the shopping list.
Then, yesterday, SWMBO bought some fresh flowers while we were shopping. No special occassion, just a bunch of nice Tulips in a vase on the kitchen table to add a splash of spring colour to things. I placed the old Tulips into a pot we keep in the back garden. They'll die off while still having some colour about them, before getting moved onto the compost heap. And there, on the floor, underneath a hanging basket, is the little scale-collector from the kettle.
Based on the fact that I get lots of Flak for "never watering the hanging baskets" (objection, M'lud, that's not true!
), and the fact that when I do water the hanging baskets I use a large plastic bottle destined for the recycling bin, then I deduced that it must be another member of the household what did this nefarious deed.
I questioned the suspects.
First up my adult son. He replied "Hanging basket? What's one of them?", so I discounted him as a suspect. Which left my wife, and her habit of watering various baskets and pot plants with the kettle from the kitchen.
All I'm getting is folded arms and denials that she's responsible though, so I'm trying to develop new evidence to advance the Leprechaun theory!
Meanwhile I washed and rinsed the ball of wire, then boiled it a couple of times with water I poured away, and it's back in the kettle once more...
Just call me Sherlock!
Simple really. Pop this thing...
*Other brands of kettle scale catchers are available
...into your kettle, then fill/boil/pour/repeat. After a little while, pop the ball of wire out, crush it a few times, rinse out the scale and replace it.
How could this process go wrong?
Anyway, a week or so ago, ours disappeared. Not in the washing up bowl, not in either sink bowl. Nowhere to be seen and an absolute denial from my wife that she could have even inadvertently poured it out. So I reasoned that Leprechauns did it and forgot about it save to add a new one to the shopping list.
Then, yesterday, SWMBO bought some fresh flowers while we were shopping. No special occassion, just a bunch of nice Tulips in a vase on the kitchen table to add a splash of spring colour to things. I placed the old Tulips into a pot we keep in the back garden. They'll die off while still having some colour about them, before getting moved onto the compost heap. And there, on the floor, underneath a hanging basket, is the little scale-collector from the kettle.
Based on the fact that I get lots of Flak for "never watering the hanging baskets" (objection, M'lud, that's not true!
), and the fact that when I do water the hanging baskets I use a large plastic bottle destined for the recycling bin, then I deduced that it must be another member of the household what did this nefarious deed.I questioned the suspects.
First up my adult son. He replied "Hanging basket? What's one of them?", so I discounted him as a suspect. Which left my wife, and her habit of watering various baskets and pot plants with the kettle from the kitchen.
All I'm getting is folded arms and denials that she's responsible though, so I'm trying to develop new evidence to advance the Leprechaun theory!
Meanwhile I washed and rinsed the ball of wire, then boiled it a couple of times with water I poured away, and it's back in the kettle once more...
Just call me Sherlock!
MartG said:
Receiving multiple e-mails nagging me to leave feedback anytime I buy something online 
Why do on line retailers do this?If someone jumped you with a clipboard asking how your experience was when you left a shop you would soon lamp them.
See also pop up surveys about their website,which appear before you have looked through the site.
bristolracer said:
MartG said:
Receiving multiple e-mails nagging me to leave feedback anytime I buy something online
Why do on line retailers do this?If someone jumped you with a clipboard asking how your experience was when you left a shop you would soon lamp them.
See also pop up surveys about their website,which appear before you have looked through the site.
Talking about eBay their new thing is telling me "Am I still interested in item....?" after I clicked on it ONCE and not watching it.
SlimJim16v said:
MartG said:
Receiving multiple e-mails nagging me to leave feedback anytime I buy something online
Sellers on Amazon do this now also.BT at the moment.
How can it be cheaper to have their call centre in India - when it takes 10 times as long and 10 times as many calls to get anything sorted.
I'm 4 hours in and counting - just to have an email account turned back on (something they managed to do in about 5 minutes on Friday - but then somehow screwed it up again).
Every call is like pulling teeth - you have to start everything over from scratch as they seem incapable of reading the notes. Perhaps they actually can - but I guess it pays to create more work huh!.
How can it be cheaper to have their call centre in India - when it takes 10 times as long and 10 times as many calls to get anything sorted.
I'm 4 hours in and counting - just to have an email account turned back on (something they managed to do in about 5 minutes on Friday - but then somehow screwed it up again).
Every call is like pulling teeth - you have to start everything over from scratch as they seem incapable of reading the notes. Perhaps they actually can - but I guess it pays to create more work huh!.
I asked: "How are you?" not "I'm looking for another person to understand my binary joke. Only ten do so far. Are you good or bad at understanding nerdy jokes?"Currently annoying me beyond reason: My wife and her mum.
I love my wife dearly of course, and I get on well with my mother in law
but they both suffer from the same condition which is an inability to see the bleeding obvious or accept when they are wrong.
Their current fixation is the doorbell to my house. It works. You press the button, it rings the doorbell. if you don't press the button properly, it doesn't work. Which apparently means it is broken.
I removed the doorbell button to appease the situation, leaving a perfectly functional door knocker on the front of the house, as have been used since doors were invented no doubt.
Mother in law, in her well meaning ways, buys us a new doorbell that she has seen cheap in Wilkos. It is my duty to put this up. It is exactly the same as the old doorbell only now, it comes with an extra wireless ringer for upstairs in the house. The only fact is that the button is the same, the kind of cheap button which only works if you press it exactly correctly, just like the old one, with an audible and tactile "click" when you do. This means that we are back at square one but somehow, its my fault that the new doorbell doesn't work
I love my wife dearly of course, and I get on well with my mother in law
but they both suffer from the same condition which is an inability to see the bleeding obvious or accept when they are wrong.
Their current fixation is the doorbell to my house. It works. You press the button, it rings the doorbell. if you don't press the button properly, it doesn't work. Which apparently means it is broken.
I removed the doorbell button to appease the situation, leaving a perfectly functional door knocker on the front of the house, as have been used since doors were invented no doubt.
Mother in law, in her well meaning ways, buys us a new doorbell that she has seen cheap in Wilkos. It is my duty to put this up. It is exactly the same as the old doorbell only now, it comes with an extra wireless ringer for upstairs in the house. The only fact is that the button is the same, the kind of cheap button which only works if you press it exactly correctly, just like the old one, with an audible and tactile "click" when you do. This means that we are back at square one but somehow, its my fault that the new doorbell doesn't work
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