WAMT....what annoyed me today!

taxboy said:
Well that's the hat trick this week
Call this morning from a different trader responding to a request for a quote.
I'm over your way this afternoon...see you later.
Has he turned up ??!!!
Just as well I wasn't staying in to wait his arrival
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It's really frustrating..or was...We have a joiner who has fitted two new internal doors and replaced slats on the summerhouse roof. He's very good. Early early summer he said he'd pick up some planks and replace the support 'planks' for two sides of the greenhouse and renew one of the four garden swing housing posts. As autumn is here and the weather has changed for the worse I reckon that will be it until next year.

We now have a gardner in to trim all the bushes with an electric cutter on a pole.They're quite large at 8' x 3', a privet even higher. I've been banned from going up a ladder :) The man, who has come a couple of times, lives 500m up the road and answered our call quickly and said he was busy but would come when he's next free..that was 3 weeks ago. The sensor on the security light at the front needed adjusting after installation last May as it was picking up people walking by on the footpath which is 15m away. We went away for three weeks but it didn't matter,said the fitter as he didn't need indoor access so he'd do it. He didn't. When he did, after we contacted him again on our return, it took 5 minutes. He passed our house most days. We had a PVC door chap highly recommended and quote "That's if you can get hold of him".

This doesn't cover those, as you've mentioned, who say they'll come in the morning/afternoon on a particular day and don't. I tell them, when they eventually turn up, that if they're caught up on a job longer than they expected it's not a problem but let us know. Waste of time. I've actually given up caring. If they come, they come, if they don't, they don't.
 
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JohnC6 said:
We now have a gardner in to trim all the bushes with an electric cutter on a pole
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Those Poles get everywhere, I thought they’d all been sent home :) :exit:
 
sphexx said:
Get a new phone? ;). You can certainly see the screens in bright daylight.
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You can't. One of my sisters and her hubby regularly get new phones and they are better than my old hand me down but you still can't see them in sunlight.
 
I can see mine, even under the Cretan noon Sun. It's a cheap, 2-3 year old Huawei.
 
Nod said:
I can see mine, even under the Cretan noon Sun. It's a cheap, 2-3 year old Huawei.
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Me too, not Cretan though, only U.K., iPhones.
 
Krispy Kreme section in Tescos. It’s a self serve station where you take the doughnuts you want and can pack them into a single (paper bag), box of three, or box of twelve. They supply a plastic tong, some tissue paper, and cardboard boxes.

An elderly lady who couldn’t reach the top rack, reached into the cabinet, unmasked face mere centimetres above the doughnuts I wanted, with her bare hands.

I’ll stick to prepackaged doughnuts from now on.
 
omens said:
Krispy Kreme section in Tescos. It’s a self serve station where you take the doughnuts you want and can pack them into a single (paper bag), box of three, or box of twelve. They supply a plastic tong, some tissue paper, and cardboard boxes.

An elderly lady who couldn’t reach the top rack, reached into the cabinet, unmasked face mere centimetres above the doughnuts I wanted, with her bare hands.

I’ll stick to prepackaged doughnuts from now on.
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I once saw a small child 'sampling' sweets at a pick & mix counter, watched by his mother. The ones he didn't like (after tasting) he returned to the sweet container........ I have never bought pick & mix sweets since.

My pet hate is the parent who allows their children to stand in supermarket shopping trolleys, who knows where their shoes have been & what they are transferring to the trolley & then onto the next shoppers groceries.
 
broc said:
My pet hate is the parent who allows their children to stand in supermarket shopping trolleys, who knows where their shoes have been & what they are transferring to the trolley & then onto the next shoppers groceries.
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Mine too!
 
omens said:
Krispy Kreme section in Tescos. It’s a self serve station where you take the doughnuts you want and can pack them into a single (paper bag), box of three, or box of twelve. They supply a plastic tong, some tissue paper, and cardboard boxes.

An elderly lady who couldn’t reach the top rack, reached into the cabinet, unmasked face mere centimetres above the doughnuts I wanted, with her bare hands.

I’ll stick to prepackaged doughnuts from now on.
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An unforeseen(?) consequence of such self service offerings :(
broc said:
I once saw a small child 'sampling' sweets at a pick & mix counter, watched by his mother. The ones he didn't like (after tasting) he returned to the sweet container........ I have never bought pick & mix sweets since.

My pet hate is the parent who allows their children to stand in supermarket shopping trolleys, who knows where their shoes have been & what they are transferring to the trolley & then onto the next shoppers groceries.
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+1
Again a consequence of changes in behaviour that will become perpetuated.

All the above can only be counteracted by the stores taking action and stepping in to 'correct' such poor behaviour.......either by changing the likes of the self service cabinets.

And intervention in regard to misuse of the trolleys, labels on them to instruct & inform will only work if store personnel step where needed!
 
I've seen an assistant ask a parent to seat her child rather than have it standing in the body of the cart. She (a "lady of indeterminate years") got told to "f*** off and mind your own f*****g business!"
 
I've always washed fruit when I get it back home,the like apples,pears toms (fruit or veg ? ) but it brought it home to me one day when I saw a man in a local supermarket sifting through the apples, stop and have an energetic pick of his nose and then wipe whatever on his trouser leg. It wasn't Waitrose btw:D The sort of person who would do that in Waitrose would not wipe whatever on their trousers..it's usually men.. but on a tissue.:)
 
I have been known to surreptitiously drop a packet of condoms into the trolley associated with badly behaved children.
 
Nod said:
I've seen an assistant ask a parent to seat her child rather than have it standing in the body of the cart. She (a "lady of indeterminate years") got told to "f*** off and mind your own f*****g business!"
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Frankly such behaviour needs the be treated as abusive & antisocial.......such that the floor manager should ask the customer(?) to leave/be ejected!

By permitting that to simply pass, only exaggerates the problems!
 
Box Brownie said:
By permitting that to simply pass, only exaggerates the problems!
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Absolutely !
It does seem to be the attitude of many these days though, even though they are in the wrong,
they attack the person pointing it out :(
 
Did see karma a few years back - 2 kids running up and down the aisles until one went flying. The shelf stacker who had just told them to behave almost wet herself trying not to laugh out loud.
 
Cobra said:
Absolutely !
It does seem to be the attitude of many these days though, even though they are in the wrong,
they attack the person pointing it out :(
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A counterpoint to "how to change behaviour" is perhaps to report it to the manager and tell him/her that you will cease shopping there and inform your friends & family to do likewise.......because he/they are not exercising due diligence in stopping the sort of behaviour being done!

By the above suggestion I am thinking that the store can easily ignore the occasional outburst but if folk then actively intend to stop shopping at that store that has greater potential to impact the sales figures......and all managers worth their salaries want to protect sales numbers!

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Thinking about I darned sure I have seen notices in all sorts of stores stating that 'they will not tolerate abusive treatment of their staff members' . Therefore if not acted upon by the store what sort of message does that send to the staff!!!
 
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Just my credit card company.

I have quite a low credit limit, something between £6k to £7k. I used to have a higher one but they reduced it because, they said, I always pay my bill in full. Funny that. If you pay your bill on time they give you a low limit but if you only pay the minimum they may just give you a bigger limit. I've seen this in action as an ex of mine had a massive credit limit while she was massively in debt to the card company. Anyway, I'm stuck with what I think is a relatively low limit.

We're getting the bathroom done so I rang them to tell them what I was doing and for them to expect a couple of large transactions. One now for 50% and another 50% when the job is done. Fine. They said.

Today the bathroom company rang me to say that the payment had been declined.

I rang the card company and asked why, "It's an unusual transaction" they said. Unusual? How often do people get a new bathroom / kitchen? Not too often I'd have thought plus I RANG YOU YESTERDAY AND TOLD YOU ALL ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!

And breath.

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woof woof said:
Just my credit card company.

I have quite a low credit limit, something between £6k to £7k. I used to have a higher one but they reduced it because, they said, I always pay my bill in full. Funny that. If you pay your bill on time they give you a low limit but if you only pay the minimum they may just give you a bigger limit. I've seen this in action as an ex of mine had a massive credit limit while she was massively in debt to the card company. Anyway, I'm stuck with what I think is a relatively low limit.

We're getting the bathroom done so I rang them to tell them what I was doing and for them to expect a couple of large transactions. One now for 50% and another 50% when the job is done. Fine. They said.

Today the bathroom company rang me to say that the payment had been declined.

I rang the card company and asked why, "It's an unusual transaction" they said. Unusual? How often do people get a new bathroom / kitchen? Not too often I'd have thought plus I RANG YOU YESTERDAY AND TOLD YOU ALL ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!

And breath.

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About 20 years ago, I went to buy a hi-fi for £400 and my debit card was declined. When I contacted the bank, they said it was because it was an unusual transaction. A year later, we bought a new car and I paid for it with my debit card, £11k and the bank didn't even blink! :thinking:
 
Marc said:
About 20 years ago, I went to buy a hi-fi for £400 and my debit card was declined. When I contacted the bank, they said it was because it was an unusual transaction. A year later, we bought a new car and I paid for it with my debit card, £11k and the bank didn't even blink! :thinking:
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I can understand the "unusual transaction" caution but how often do people get their bathroom or any other room done? It's not as if this is a transaction people do regularly, it's not something that'll appear on the bill month after month, it will only happen periodically plus as I said, I specifically rang them yesterday to try and stop this happening. Surely they should have put a note on the file as it wasn't an unusual transaction, it was one I told them was going to happen today. I would say "unbelievable" but lets face it, this is unfortunately just par for the course.

I'm just glad I was at home and not 100's or 1,000's of miles from home without all my security details and stood in front of someone telling me "Sorry, you're card has been declined."

Actually that did happen to me once. Years back before Kazakhstan was as open to outsiders as it is now I had an introduction letter from a company filed in Kazakhstan and "all" I had to do was pay a small fee in $ at the desk at the airport when the official retrieved my paperwork. All the paperwork was there and matched up but unfortunately the cost in $ had gone up and I didn't have enough and they wouldn't accept £. A nice man in uniform and carrying an AK47 look alike escorted me to a machine and guess what? Card declined despite me telling them where I was going and to be prepared for transactions in that country.

I just can't trust these people. I know they have to protect against fraud but when I phone them and tell them what's going to happen and they still block the transaction, I'm not surprised, but also not happy.
 
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Marc said:
About 20 years ago, I went to buy a hi-fi for £400 and my debit card was declined. When I contacted the bank, they said it was because it was an unusual transaction. A year later, we bought a new car and I paid for it with my debit card, £11k and the bank didn't even blink! :thinking:
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Possibly because hi-fi along with other tech is a common purchase on stolen credit cards?
 
Things have changed in the world of credit.

Many years ago I and mate got Access cards(yes, that long ago).

He always paid the minimum amount while I paid each month's total in full. After about a year my credit limit was increased while his wasn't. As noted above if that had happened now he'd be the one with the increased limit.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
Things have changed in the world of credit.

Many years ago I and mate got Access cards(yes, that long ago).

He always paid the minimum amount while I paid each month's total in full. After about a year my credit limit was increased while his wasn't. As noted above if that had happened now he'd be the one with the increased limit.

Dave
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That former GF of mine lived on her credit card and only paid the minimum each month and of course the minimum kept increasing and she was... just drowning in debt. I largely paid it off for her but I don't suppose it changed her behaviour. Her limit was much higher than mine. It is IMO irrisponsible for companies to do this.
 
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woof woof said:
That former GF of mine lived on her credit card and only paid the minimum each month and of course the minimum kept increasing and she was... just drowning in debt. I largely paid it off for her but I don't suppose it changed her behaviour. Her limit was much higher than mine. It is IMO irrisponsible for companies to do this.
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I agree about the irresponsibility of companies. However, the banking world seems to have changed. Years ago debt was a bad thing, now it is an asset.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
Years ago debt was a bad thing, now it is an asset.
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It certainly seems to be doesn't it?
I mentioned awhile back, a certain ad,
Something about can't get a CC? we can help, the person concerned ( still an ad) applied and got a "good" credit limit,
Finally they said "Now I can afford to decorate the whole house!
Which actually didn't really look like it was a priority, and not worth getting into more debt for.
 
Tringa said:
I agree about the irresponsibility of companies. However, the banking world seems to have changed. Years ago debt was a bad thing, now it is an asset.

Dave
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So it seems and all those credit score adverts(companies?) are more about finding ways for folks to get further loans and credit! In more ways than one the world has gone mad!
 
Tori_T said:
Might be because a car dealership would check you have tax/licence/insurance before you drive off?
Makes it harder to transact with a cloned/stolen card?
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I didn't have a driving licence when I bought a car in 2012. I had had to surrender it after the brane op but due to the weird way the DVLA (or whatever they're called these days) work, having applied for it to be reissued, I was allowed to drive until they made a decision... I did have insurance though (having explained the situation to the insurance company) and the dealer dealt with the tax.
 
Box Brownie said:
So it seems and all those credit score adverts(companies?) are more about finding ways for folks to get further loans and credit! In more ways than one the world has gone mad!
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Banks have always carried debt as an asset on their balance sheets, just like every other business. It only becomes a liability when it goes into default. Other businesses then buy the debt at a big discount, intending to profit by collecting it. The bank writes off the loss as a cost of doing business against its tax liability.

This isn't new. It's been happening for centuries. I'm fairly sure that the myth of the wise, friendly bank manager was put about by middle class writers, who never had less money than they needed.
 
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Two weeks ago bought a new phone, got a message from Samsung to say it qualified for a promotional, a pair
of live buds, not something I will use but nice gift
Filling out the claim was a nightmare but I did it and it was accepted last friday and said it would take 45 days to arrive
Yesterday I got a text from Samsung saying that had been sent and should arrive within 5 days, being delivered by Yodel
who would text or email when they were coming so I could rearrange delivery if I wasn't going to be in !
Went out this morning and when I got back they had been delivered to the doorstep next to a public footpath !!!!!
 
Gremlin said:
Two weeks ago bought a new phone, got a message from Samsung to say it qualified for a promotional, a pair
of live buds, not something I will use but nice gift
Filling out the claim was a nightmare but I did it and it was accepted last friday and said it would take 45 days to arrive
Yesterday I got a text from Samsung saying that had been sent and should arrive within 5 days, being delivered by Yodel
who would text or email when they were coming so I could rearrange delivery if I wasn't going to be in !
Went out this morning and when I got back they had been delivered to the doorstep next to a public footpath !!!!!
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At least they were still there!
 
I had this with Hermes a couple of years ago. The delivery was a very small jiffy bag that would EASILY have gone through the letter box. :banghead:
 
Sky said:
I had this with Hermes a couple of years ago. The delivery was a very small jiffy bag that would EASILY have gone through the letter box. :banghead:
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The box wouldn't have fitted through the letterbox but there is a note asking the items are left in the shed
This was a fairly valuable item and it was stated in the original email that a signature would be required :rolleyes:
Not heard anything of Yodel for a long time but never thought well of them from past experience
 
Gremlin said:
Not heard anything of Yodel for a long time but never thought well of them from past experience
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I've only had them deliver to me a few times - each was late, but at least they arrived. Unlike Hermes - they just can't seem to manage that part of the process at all. :mad:
 
Nice day so had a bit of a clear up outside and a chuck out from indoors.

Thought I would do a tip run ...

Now appointment only and cannot book one for the same day :banghead:
 
I'm a man of habit and as far as I'm concerned Monday starts the week. According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is also the first day of the week.So..after fiddling about with a small compartment seven day pill box like this one starting on a Monday https://www.essentialaids.com/home-health/medicine-dispensers/7-day-mini-pill-box.html I asked my wife is she could get me a larger one as I was fed up dropping the same type of pill twice into one compartment and sometimes they were difficult to get out if one got stuck. I'd have to 'dig' it out with small scissors or tweezers. She got me one through her Amazon Prime. It's great. When I want something I just ask her to get it and it's here the next day. However this turns up..a similar one
www.millercare.co.uk

7-Day Extra Large Pill Box

A large dispenser to enable a selection of pills to be added to each daily compartment. The large letters and compartments are helpful for users with poor eyesight o
www.millercare.co.uk www.millercare.co.uk

See ? It starts on Sunday whereas I've been used to Sunday being the 7th day and after I take me pills on Sunday morning I refill it for the forthcoming week. For someone like me that is a creature of habit and likes everything in order it's quite disconcerting. I then saw that it was made in Taiwan. What day starts the week in Taiwan ? Sunday. Actually, Sunday starts the week in China, Japan, the US, Australia, Canada,most of S.America, the Philippines a few more countries including the UK but in the UK Monday is the first day of the working week. Who'd have thought to check that ? My wife is getting me one that starts on a Monday.:) No doubt when it arrives I'll be posting in WCMUT :D
 
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Tigger.ufo said:
Nice day so had a bit of a clear up outside and a chuck out from indoors.

Thought I would do a tip run ...

Now appointment only and cannot book one for the same day :banghead:
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I had the same experience. What a pain. I posted about it on here because I came up against Mrs Jobsworth who had my name on her list but against a different car..I hope when Covid is past, which is why they introduced the system, we can go to the tip as and when. Maybe they won't go back to the old system because quite often there were long queues. Having said that, there were long queues with the new system too. It remains to be seen.
 
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