Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
Discussion
bristolracer said:
Being Gazumped
I hope Mr Vendor that your future purchase falls through and you have to ring up your wife and hear her cry when you tell her.
I hope the new buyer screws up and lets you down
Bunch of pricks,rot in hell
Sometimes they get their comeuppance. It happened to us when my wife needed to move urgently due to already having started a new job. We knocked £20k off our house to secure an offer from a first time buyer (to keep the chain short).I hope Mr Vendor that your future purchase falls through and you have to ring up your wife and hear her cry when you tell her.
I hope the new buyer screws up and lets you down
Bunch of pricks,rot in hell
We had an offer £5k below asking price accepted on a nice house with plenty of space. A day later a mysterious "other buyer" who had been "waiting in the wings" dropped an offer £5k over the asking price. Mr (and/or Mrs) Vendor apparently accepted that offer. Two days later we get a call telling us that they were "sorry to have done that to you, we're feeling bad - please have it for what you originally offered". Well, erm??? No, actually.
No sooner had we gotten gazumped, we moved to our second choice house (three shortlisted) and had an offer accepted. So we told our erstwhile gazumpers what we'd told them in the first place - that we were serious buyers on a mission to get a suitable house bought as soon as practicably possible, and that we were in no mood for messing people about, and very definitely not willing to be messed about ourselves. We're in the second choice house now, with the one we were gazumped on about 500 yards away as the crow flies. It's still on the market, still with the same car and caravan sat outside, and the price has dropped below what we had offered.
And it might sound like we've cut off our noses to spite our faces by flouncing and buying a smaller house in poorer condition, but this one has great neighbours and potential to extend if we want/need to. The other one was already extended, and because it's on a bend in the road, was isolated from all it's neighbours save for the one next door. Our neighbours in the "inferior" house are all fabulous, really really friendly and helpful. And although we're spending tens of thousands getting it really nice, we at least had a small surplus from the sale to pay for works, and it will be to our taste rather than what the previous owner decided to do.
The vendors of the "nicer" house had said they needed to move because they had a bungalow lined up to buy to retire into. They may have lost that now, but I'll probably never know. For us, location (in relation to my wife's job) was always more important than a particular size or style of house. And the new one is coming together nicely. Oak internal doors are next on the list of works to accept a quote on.
All I can say is "best of luck with the ongoing search" really. I hope you find what you want and get a move all sorted sooner rather than later.This moving lark ain't easy when it goes smoothly, so getting messed about by smart-arsed vendors really leaves a sour taste.
Oh, and we got friendly with the selling agent too. He told us that, reading between the lines, the gazumping buyer had told porkies to his mortgage provider, and been found out, which was what led to the swift demise of their deal.
I am getting annoyed with these hire bikes that keep popping up in London. Like the Boris bikes but they don't have a docking station, you just leave them wherever you like and they lock. The next person unlocks them with an app.
They have become such a problem in some areas in China that they can’t get rid of them quicker than they get replaced. There are now huge bike graveyards and no signs of slowing down.
They have become such a problem in some areas in China that they can’t get rid of them quicker than they get replaced. There are now huge bike graveyards and no signs of slowing down.
Cotty said:
I am getting annoyed with these hire bikes that keep popping up in London. Like the Boris bikes but they don't have a docking station, you just leave them wherever you like and they lock. The next person unlocks them with an app.
They have become such a problem in some areas in China that they can’t get rid of them quicker than they get replaced. There are now huge bike graveyards and no signs of slowing down.
You see a lot of ex-Ofo bikes here in Cambridge, with the locks smashed off.They have become such a problem in some areas in China that they can’t get rid of them quicker than they get replaced. There are now huge bike graveyards and no signs of slowing down.
Gary29 said:
'Faceapp' and all the associated f
kwittery and weekend comedians coming out of the woodwork.
'Rough day at work' etc.
Not teens, let them get on with it, I'm talking about grown men here.
It’s odd, the app has been available for ages but somehow seems to be this weeks thing. kwittery and weekend comedians coming out of the woodwork.'Rough day at work' etc.
Not teens, let them get on with it, I'm talking about grown men here.
Cotty said:
bristolbaron said:
It’s odd, the app has been available for ages but somehow seems to be this weeks thing.
I read this morning that it came out in 2017Now they've added the "old" filter and its popular again, no doubt a couple of high-profile stars have boosted it again.
For the record, it appears that when I am old, I will look like Father Christmas
Cotty said:
I am getting annoyed with these hire bikes that keep popping up in London. Like the Boris bikes but they don't have a docking station, you just leave them wherever you like and they lock. The next person unlocks them with an app.
They have become such a problem in some areas in China that they can’t get rid of them quicker than they get replaced. There are now huge bike graveyards and no signs of slowing down.
They've started appearing in Bournemouth now. Green bikes with an odd-looking frame. Not in huge numbers, but there was a "parking area" for them painted on a pavement in Boscombe (I think) and I spotted one being ridden near Hengistbury Head, and two more just randomly "parked" on corners of residential streets. I don't think it will be too long before they start needing to be fished out of the Stour or the sea. Or someone who owns a van will get fed up with them and dump them hundreds of miles away. Easy done too, even when they're locked they aren't locked to anything so they can be lifted and shifted easily.They have become such a problem in some areas in China that they can’t get rid of them quicker than they get replaced. There are now huge bike graveyards and no signs of slowing down.
They're like shopping trolleys. Great in the right place, such as Homebase*. But absolutely no use to anyone dumped two miles from the nearest Homebase*. And so it is with these bikes. Great on the seafront, or in town, perhaps near a railway station. But useless once they've been ridden home by someone because they'll be miles from where they're likely to find another person who wants/needs to use one. No bloody use at all if you need to walk two miles in the wrong direction to find one, then cycle the four miles to where you want to go. You may as well walk to your destination in the first place. They'll either need to be as ubiquitous as 'Boris' bikes, or they won't have any effect on the environment and congestion levels.
* - other chain DIY stores are available
yellowjack said:
... They'll either need to be as ubiquitous as 'Boris' bikes, or they won't have any effect on the environment and congestion levels.
They'll actually have a negative impact on the environment, due to the vans having to be driven round to collect them from where they've been dumped yellowjack said:
They've started appearing in Bournemouth now.
Reading BC stopped their bike program a few months back... not sure exactly why but probably because no-one was using them. As such we've got a bunch of abandoned bike racks that are just taking up space in public areas. I suppose they'll be torn out and replaced at the speed of government. Cotty said:
I have not tried it, there are a couple of rumours that it keeps a copy of the photo you use, the other rumour is that it gains access to all the photos on your phone.
It will gain access to all of your photos if you click to allow access to all of your photos! If you just take a photo and use that then yes it could keep a copy. There’s probably something in t&c’s about allowing unlimited use/ownership too.
MartG said:
yellowjack said:
... They'll either need to be as ubiquitous as 'Boris' bikes, or they won't have any effect on the environment and congestion levels.
They'll actually have a negative impact on the environment, due to the vans having to be driven round to collect them from where they've been dumped I know it's an attempt to improve things, but I can't see it working unless there is a sea-change in the way the British public view the bicycle as a primary means of personal transportation...
Cantaloupe said:
SCEtoAUX said:
I email Ken on a regular basis. Costs nothing and he's probably read out 50 of my musings in the last couple of years.
One every two weeks ?Impressive, a veritable Oscar Wilde in our midst, or do you have some saucy snaps of Ken in compromising
situations ?
Just to throw the cat among the pigeons they have just introduced a dockless electric bike scheme at the same time as banning electric scooters
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dockless-el...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dockless-el...
Cotty said:
Just to throw the cat among the pigeons they have just introduced a dockless electric bike scheme at the same time as banning electric scooters
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dockless-el...
...and then presumably have to have people driving around in vans to change the batteries? Surely dockless makes even less sense for e-bikes than conventional ones. they've started a scheme around here with electric scooters and I seem them parked up all over the place, but I have no idea what they do about charging them.https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dockless-el...
Cotty said:
Just to throw the cat among the pigeons they have just introduced a dockless electric bike scheme at the same time as banning electric scooters
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dockless-el...
That article is dated 6 Dec 2018 and states there would be 1000 of the bikes around by the end of the year (2018 ?). Has that happened ?https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/dockless-el...
Lily the Pink said:
That article is dated 6 Dec 2018 and states there would be 1000 of the bikes around by the end of the year (2018 ?). Has that happened ?
I have only just stated seeing them in the City not sure about the rest of London.They have competition now from Uber's bike called the Jump
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/london-electric-bi...
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