Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
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Tattle tale!!!! Amazon.
I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.
I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.
I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
DRFC1879 said:
Amazon.
I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.
I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
You went one step too far. I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.
I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
It's not obvious, but it's definitely there. I have Prime on my UK account but just regular user on my German account and I often find I've over-shot and need to move back to get the regular delivery.
captain_cynic said:
Error messages like "this task has failed to complete successfully"
Well no s
t, if it completed successfully it wouldn't have failed. Who writes these things, the department of redundnace department.
I put an "### Out of cheese error ###" message in a VBA macro mainly intended for my own use, caused a bit f confusion when someone else used it Well no s
t, if it completed successfully it wouldn't have failed. Who writes these things, the department of redundnace department. 
Contractor vehicles that park en masse on the council-owned grass verge outside a private housebuild. House finished vehicles depart (Toyota pickups mostly) and the 20m stretch of verge looks worse than Verdun after an artillery barrage. Why don't they put it right? Why don't the council insist on it?
V8mate said:
DRFC1879 said:
Amazon.
I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.
I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
You went one step too far. I want to buy a 3m lightning cable for my son's iPhone. Found a three pack for £15 on Amazon. Great, that'll do.
I don't use Amazon enough to benefit from Prime but I did recently do the month's free trial thing and cancelled it when it ended. Got to delivery options and I can either sign up to Prime for "free" delivery or pay a fiver for next day premium delivery. It's not particularly time sensitive so I would have happily clicked on "standard" delivery to pay £2-3 and get it in a few days' time but that option isn't there.
It's not obvious, but it's definitely there. I have Prime on my UK account but just regular user on my German account and I often find I've over-shot and need to move back to get the regular delivery.
Amazon has gone from being a convenient and reasonably cheap outlet to a begrudging last port of call thanks to this s
thousery.Zipcar - I've looked at this company many times over the years and every time I've come to the conclusion that it's a complete load of ste!
£10.50 per hour or £99 per day to hire a car. It's fking cheaper (and not that much more hassle, relative to the cost) to just use a normal car rental company.
te!£10.50 per hour or £99 per day to hire a car. It's f
king cheaper (and not that much more hassle, relative to the cost) to just use a normal car rental company.popeyewhite said:
Contractor vehicles that park en masse on the council-owned grass verge outside a private housebuild. House finished vehicles depart (Toyota pickups mostly) and the 20m stretch of verge looks worse than Verdun after an artillery barrage. Why don't they put it right? Why don't the council insist on it?
You could always grass them up to management or the council, pw.People parking on my road.
Not full stop or anything, but I live down a relatively narrow mews with entrances at each end. People treat it like a dead end- contractors just park so you can’t get past and are exceptionally bloody minded when asked nicely to move.
One resident is otherwise a nice guy, but insists occasionally on parking his XTrail by his house. Negotiable on most days, but on bing days he parks there anyway opposite bins, which means it’s completely impossible to pass. Next time I have to move the bins out of the way I might put them in front of his car to ‘explain’.
I can generally access the road by the other end, but having to do a three point turn simply because a builder doesn’t want to carry a drill 50m down the road is annoying. And also it then means I have a 54 point turn the other end as my driveway is really awkward to get into from the other side.
That’s better, thanks for listening
Not full stop or anything, but I live down a relatively narrow mews with entrances at each end. People treat it like a dead end- contractors just park so you can’t get past and are exceptionally bloody minded when asked nicely to move.
One resident is otherwise a nice guy, but insists occasionally on parking his XTrail by his house. Negotiable on most days, but on bing days he parks there anyway opposite bins, which means it’s completely impossible to pass. Next time I have to move the bins out of the way I might put them in front of his car to ‘explain’.
I can generally access the road by the other end, but having to do a three point turn simply because a builder doesn’t want to carry a drill 50m down the road is annoying. And also it then means I have a 54 point turn the other end as my driveway is really awkward to get into from the other side.
That’s better, thanks for listening
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