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Post by Gene Hunt on Sept 1, 2021 21:34:14 GMT
You could have got a brand new Cortina for a shade under a grand Carty! Oh... hang on. You're not stuck in 1973 like me, are you. Gene
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Post by Sparky on Sept 2, 2021 6:59:13 GMT
Talking about cars, I'm now on the road again, in a black 57 plate Renault Megane estate, which I got for £300.00. It's got 12 months mot, and it's not that bad, apart from the fact that the clutch is slipping a bit and the rear seat upholstery had been chewed by a dog. It's just a tool to get me to work, the shops, and the Life on Mars meet! One day, I will get another proper car.😀 Hows it under the bonnet?
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Post by Del Boy on Sept 2, 2021 14:07:05 GMT
Good luck with it Carty Some of the cheap cars I've had have been better than the expensive ones in terms of reliability.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 2, 2021 18:22:54 GMT
Talking about cars, I'm now on the road again, in a black 57 plate Renault Megane estate, which I got for £300.00. It's got 12 months mot, and it's not that bad, apart from the fact that the clutch is slipping a bit and the rear seat upholstery had been chewed by a dog. It's just a tool to get me to work, the shops, and the Life on Mars meet! One day, I will get another proper car.😀 Hows it under the bonnet? As the actress said to the bishop .................
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 21, 2022 18:52:47 GMT
I list on ebay regularly & something that never fails to wind me up is after you've filled out all necessary info on the listing & click the button to list your ad, you invariably get a prompt in red lettering preventing your ad from being listed & telling you to add more specific info. Say you're listing a dvd, you'll be asked to add the director, so you add it, then you get another prompt to add the film title ( even though the title is in the title of the listing ), so you add that, then another prompt to add the language & so on Then when you've sold your item for £3 after ebay, paypal & the royal mail have taken their cut you're left with about 40p
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Post by Nightfly on Jan 21, 2022 21:15:24 GMT
Then when you've sold your item for £3 after ebay, paypal & the royal mail have taken their cut you're left with about 40p Whilst I'm not a regular seller, Ebay taking a cut of the postage money as well as the fee from the sale winds me up. I get that they had to do something about those who were selling for a penny then charging £10 postage on a small light parcel to get round the fees, but just grabbing a portion of the shipping fee when it isn't even their service is cheeky.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 22, 2022 17:39:15 GMT
Another annoyance which happens too often is paypal doing a security check which involves them phoning you & leaving a recorded message with a security number code you then have to type in. Ridiculous.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Dec 11, 2022 12:24:10 GMT
I can’t believe that this thread has gone to sleep, with all of the annoying things in this modern world. May I offer a particularly relevant one at this time of year ... people using self-service checkouts who have absolutely no intention of doing so. When I worked in Exeter I saw this more than anywhere else but it is a common practice everywhere down here, particularly for older people, to not queue to see a person and instead go to the self-service checkouts and then basically call or wave or whatever to the person who is tasked with overseeing all of them and saying “well are you going to do this for me or not?”. I could of course add in self-service tills themselves and the fact that we are now almost given no choice but to use them, but having a lot of retail connections, I am aware that it’s because no shops actually have a wage budget any more, because no one can afford to pay the living wage any more, so actually they have no choice. The whole thing is a ridiculous situation!
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Post by Cartman on Dec 11, 2022 12:43:16 GMT
Adding to this, self service tills which are card only. The Tesco express near me has three and they used to be either card or cash, but they did away with the cash option so now they're just card. The result is now that no one bothers with them and you now have to queue up if you want to pay cash
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 11, 2022 19:58:46 GMT
Being asked for your email address when you go to Halfords and buy some screen wash and an ice scraper.
No, I don't want to give you my email. God knows how much it slows the queue down having to ask that.
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