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Post by alexanderhoward on Aug 4, 2024 19:01:31 GMT
After a very expensive few weeks, leading up to paying for holidays and university accommodation and all that goes with it, it was time to stop spending anything. Then my laptop hinge broke and ripped something out of the screen.
Right - take it to a repairer. The cheap temporary job, sir, or the expensive refurb? - make it cheap. Well, they mended the hinge swiftly, but cracked the whole screen in doing so. A screen repair with a brand-name shop would have cost half the price of buying a new one, so my 'no more spending' resolution ended with buying a whole new laptop.
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Post by jenny on Aug 4, 2024 19:50:34 GMT
Ugh I hate those unexpected but essential things that land on one, always when otherwise broke.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 4, 2024 20:35:26 GMT
FedEx can get to feck! Package delivered? Was it fuck?! Heard nothing from FedEx. Takes two working days, or something. Do FedEx stop work and go home at the weekend?
I also contacted the seller and asked about a refund or replacement. The item in question has sold out so there's no chance of a replacement. OK, refund it is.
Fucker offered me £3.30.
It cost me £32.93.
I wrote a reply asking if he'd got the decimal point in the wrong place but decided against sending it because the seller is in China and the sarcasm would be lost on someone who doesn't have English as their first language.
Instead, I asked again for the full amount. He countered with £29.73. I refused the offer and again asked for the full amount. Why should I end up out of pocket, even if it is only a few quid!
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Post by crissdee on Aug 4, 2024 22:50:37 GMT
Tried doing my NI number without spaces and it seems to have worked, in that the claim has gone in. Just hope it gets accepted, although I see no reason why it shouldn't.
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Post by amanda on Aug 4, 2024 23:20:11 GMT
A friend of mine has had similar experiences with second hand books not being in the condition claimed, or a stock photo is used and not the real book (because maybe the seller does not have the book) He paid over $100 Aus for a book that had underlining in pen on every page, and the seller is offering him only a fraction of a refund. FedEx can get to feck! Package delivered? Was it fuck?! Heard nothing from FedEx. Takes two working days, or something. Do FedEx stop work and go home at the weekend?
I also contacted the seller and asked about a refund or replacement. The item in question has sold out so there's no chance of a replacement. OK, refund it is.
Fucker offered me £3.30.
It cost me £32.93.
I wrote a reply asking if he'd got the decimal point in the wrong place but decided against sending it because the seller is in China and the sarcasm would be lost on someone who doesn't have English as their first language.
Instead, I asked again for the full amount. He countered with £29.73. I refused the offer and again asked for the full amount. Why should I end up out of pocket, even if it is only a few quid!
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Post by jenny on Aug 5, 2024 17:39:13 GMT
I had a similar issue with a seller in China, from whom I ordered a basketball hoop for my grandchildren. It arrived with various bits missing that made it impossible to set up. They wouldn't send me the missing bits but offered to refund or replace if I sent the whole of the original back at my expense. I gave up in the end and resolved not to order anything that size from China again in the end.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 5, 2024 21:30:39 GMT
I finally heard from FedEx this morning. The tracking number I have doesn't match the details of my order, ie, the package was delivered, but it hadn't originated from China and it wasn't addressed to me.
I've contacted the seller to ask if they can check their details and send me the correct number, but I'm doing a very good impression of someone who's not holding his breath.
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Post by amanda on Aug 5, 2024 22:38:12 GMT
I finally heard from FedEx this morning. The tracking number I have doesn't match the details of my order, ie, the package was delivered, but it hadn't originated from China and it wasn't addressed to me.
I've contacted the seller to ask if they can check their details and send me the correct number, but I'm doing a very good impression of someone who's not holding his breath.
I've seen issues with Aus Post parcels/tracking numbers where it turns out a four digit code that resembles all our postcodes is being scanned so instead of the destination address/code being scanned, the tracker number or other is it and that's why it goes back and forth more often than a football..... |
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Post by Bondee on Aug 6, 2024 11:48:03 GMT
No reply regarding the tracking number, and his latest offer is £31.93.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 8, 2024 9:45:18 GMT
Success! I got customer services involved and they sorted it out in less than 5 minutes.
The seller seems to have disappeared from the site. I don't know if I had anything to do with that, but at least they can't attempt to con anyone else.
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Post by amanda on Aug 8, 2024 10:15:37 GMT
Sometimes if they are reported, they are banned. May not apply to all sites though.
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Post by celebaelin on Aug 10, 2024 9:48:59 GMT
I've been a little under the weather in several unpleasant but not too extreme ways but the combined effect was and still is to some extent a bit debilitating. Anything that requires more than cursory mental effort is, most often, too much to bother with.
This is a shame because I have some stuff that needs doing and will, as a result, not get done in the very near future.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 10, 2024 10:00:07 GMT
I've been a little under the weather in several unpleasant but not too extreme ways but the combined effect was and still is to some extent a bit debilitating. Anything that requires more than cursory mental effort is, most often, too much to bother with.
This is a shame because I have some stuff that needs doing and will, as a result, not get done in the very near future.
I hope you improve soon |
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Post by jenny on Aug 10, 2024 14:15:42 GMT
Have you been to the doctor Cele? If it's going on that long it probably wants medical eyes on it.
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Post by celebaelin on Aug 13, 2024 13:41:58 GMT
No doctors were harmed during the progress of my illness!
I was getting better gradually so I wasn't overly concerned just feeling majorly sub-par and surprised by the weird combination of symptoms. That said if I'd started this week still feeling crook I'd have made an appointment.
Thank you both for your concern.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 13, 2024 19:43:58 GMT
In the supermarket earlier, I noticed one of the tabloids (I did not burden my memory with the name...) was complaining that the Labour party was not doing anything to stop the asylum seeker's boats coming in. Now I am no apologist for any of the parties or individuals, but the whole asylum seeker/migrant/boat thing seems like a fairly substantial problem to me, one that requires a good deal of planning and considering before a workable solution might be arrived at, so the fact that the new government has not yet made any advance in solving the issue after barely a month in power, does not surprise me at all...
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 14, 2024 11:04:43 GMT
Signing up for the South Glos green bin collection. They wanted the date I moved in here. The system won't let you type in a date, instead you have to click back through the months individually. Given I moved in here in April 1992, that took some time. Texan s-in-l came over to show me the dog's new haircut in the middle of me doing that. She said that, if it wasn't for that system she'd have shown Little Brother as having lived next door since August 1963 - a few days after he was born! She opted for the date they moved in together in 2010 as that was less hard work.
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Post by emily on Aug 15, 2024 14:29:54 GMT
people that feed cats things other than cat food
I just see it a cruelty to the animal- trying to feed it toast and chocolate
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Post by crissdee on Aug 15, 2024 14:43:48 GMT
What I don't understand is the idea that cats are some kind of gourmets. They will eat mice and lick their own genitalia, why do we think we have to give them the finest salmon?
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 15, 2024 19:08:04 GMT
They only accept the finest salmon until they decide it is not good enough
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Post by crissdee on Aug 15, 2024 20:37:27 GMT
Filling in an online application form in the hope of agency employment as a multi-drop driver. Quite apart from the huge volume of information they want (the number of my birth certificate?...) if the system doesn't like one of the answers, it just sends you back to the page without indication what it is it doesn't like, so you have to scan the whole page for an errant comma or unwanted space.....
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Post by Bondee on Aug 15, 2024 20:42:22 GMT
people that feed cats things other than cat food I just see it a cruelty to the animal- trying to feed it toast and chocolate
My last cat liked peanut butter. I discovered this when I was making peanut butter on toast one Saturday morning. I turned my back for a few seconds to make the tea, turned back to my toast and the little so-and-so had jumped up on to the worktop and was helping herself. And my neighbour's old cat mugged me for my egg mayo sandwich.
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Post by emily on Aug 16, 2024 8:37:40 GMT
Filling in an online application form in the hope of agency employment as a multi-drop driver. Quite apart from the huge volume of information they want (the number of my birth certificate?...) if the system doesn't like one of the answers, it just sends you back to the page without indication what it is it doesn't like, so you have to scan the whole page for an errant comma or unwanted space..... that is annoying as hell even on forums when they asked you to pick a username or pick a password, you do it and the first 200 you try are taken or those stupid websites that ask you to fill in the form to prove your human you fill it in and they go sorry, do it again the latest is one where you need to arange the items in to the right categories |
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Post by emily on Aug 16, 2024 8:40:18 GMT
people that feed cats things other than cat food I just see it a cruelty to the animal- trying to feed it toast and chocolate
My last cat liked peanut butter. I discovered this when I was making peanut butter on toast one Saturday morning. I turned my back for a few seconds to make the tea, turned back to my toast and the little so-and-so had jumped up on to the worktop and was helping herself. And my neighbour's old cat mugged me for my egg mayo sandwich.
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Post by amanda on Aug 17, 2024 11:15:59 GMT
Backache/muscle pain means sitting at the computer for too long is an issue - but that's solved by being able to do some book covering at the dining table! I might be able to get some of those books done at long last. I keep buying more and not covering those I have.
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Post by jenny on Aug 17, 2024 15:02:31 GMT
I don't think I've covered a book of my own since I left school, though I did have to cover some of my children's books when they were at school.
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Post by amanda on Aug 17, 2024 23:06:58 GMT
I cover all my hardback books with library-quality plastic from one of the suppliers here.
And my shoulder pain indicates I need a massage but without my friend visiting, and the funds to have one at the shopping centre today, I'm going to be in pain until Wednesday at least.
I do get some pay tomorrow but it's in the bank at 1pm, but have to be in the city for two cathedral tours and get home too late to get to the massage place.
Then I have to leave at 8am Tuesday with buses resuming on the train line here and working officially at the history library.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 18, 2024 10:07:38 GMT
My bookshelves are a positive panorama of leather, buckram, and shiny paper. Dust jackets go into storage as soon as a book comes home, especially if the book has a particularly nice binding. Sadly, a lot of books have bindings identical to their jackets, which always looks cheap to me. I love the look of gold/silver lettering on a leather or buckram binding.
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 18, 2024 14:28:28 GMT
It tends to be the cheaper mass-market hardbacks that have identical covers and dust jackets. I just throw the dust jacket away in that case. It's not like the book is ever going to be a collector's item.
My vent is a general one. I don't know if there are any other fans here of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and Rifftrax (same guys, same schtick, different company). MST3K has an official YouTube channel, and Rifftrax has an official YouTube channel, where they post trailers and things, and such items they've done that they see fit to make available for free viewing. For unknown reasons, YouTube decided to take down the entire Rifftrax channel. When I say "unknown reasons", Rifftrax themselves has no idea why. YouTube didn't contact them, warn them, ask any questions. They just woke up Saturday morning to find it gone.
The only thing I can think of is that YouTube unilaterally decided their stuff is a breach of copyright, as it's all old films that they perform "riffs" about (making jokes over the film). It's not in breach of copyright, though, as everything they work with is either in the public domain or they've licensed it. They're extremely careful to stay legal with their work. Even if the YouTube bots took a dislike to the channel, you'd think they'd issue a warning and let them explain the situation.
Anyway, Rifftrax is trying to mount an appeal/argument with YouTube, which isn't easy. They say it helps if viewers complain too, so if anyone here is a fan, put a complaint in to YouTube about the vanishing of the official Rifftrax channel.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 18, 2024 19:30:32 GMT
Just made a 10-second video with my phone and sent that to a cousin here in Cloggieland.
No problem.
Then forwarded that same video to bro in Oz, and it bounced back as it being 'too large'.
Tried again, with the same result.
WTF?
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