WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Sold a camera bag on eBay.

Get paid, withdraw money then 2 days later buyer wants to return as not big enough!! This ain’t an online store. It was carefully described so not my problem.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
It may become your problem...

Return an item for a refund

If you've changed your mind about an item you bought or there's something wrong with it, you can request a return.
www.ebay.co.uk www.ebay.co.uk

That's one reason I gave up on eBay. :(
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I declined said return - I hate eBay too, why should I faff around because he can't work out what size bag he wants
 
Our Sky broadband has been down since yesterday morning and, as we both work from home, we've had to use the personal hotspots on our phones to connect our laptops. I've just contacted Sky to see if there was any update. I also told them that we had so far had to use 25gb of data only to be told that, due to ofcom regulations, they can't refund that data! :mad:

also got this via email

Hello Marc,
We noticed that recently you experienced a Sky Broadband outage.
As you're a Sky Broadband Boost customer, you're entitled to 2GB of mobile data, which we've added to your Sky Mobile Piggybank to say sorry.
 
Marc said:
I've just contacted Sky to see if there was any update. I also told them that we had so far had to use 25gb of data only to be told that, due to ofcom regulations, they can't refund that data! :mad:
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I don't know if this may help you...

www.ofcom.org.uk

Automatic compensation: What you need to know

Our automatic compensation scheme means broadband and landline customers will get money back from their provider when things go wrong, without having to ask for it.
www.ofcom.org.uk www.ofcom.org.uk
 
Just a cyclist. One of so many.

As I approached a junction today a cyclist came at me head on. He'd taken a right turn and turned the wrong side of a little island with bollards and thus ended up coming at me head on on the wrong side of the road. To do it right he'd have needed to travel another 6 to 9 feet before turning which he'd have been able to do by free wheeling, he wouldn't have even needed to peddle. This wasn't a kid, it was a man. Honestly, so many cyclists just make me sick. Wrong side of the road? No problem. Through a red light? Routine behaviour. Peddle like mad on the pavement scattering pedestrians? Their right and they'll scream abuse at you if you protest or even, shame on you, make eye contact.

There may be cyclists who do things right but so many are just a menace and if they caused an accident would no doubt do a runner and if caught refuse to pay up. I do wish that they could face the same rules and punishments as car drivers.
 
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My wife hates cyclists...Lol. She curses each and everyone we pass in the car.
 
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woof woof said:
There may be cyclists who do things right but so many are just a menace and if they caused an accident would no doubt do a runner and if caught refuse to pay up. I do wish that they could face the same rules and punishments as car drivers.
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As someone who often cycled to work and back. on fairly busy roads, I agree that too many cyclists are problematic.

However, the majority are sensible, decent people, just trying to get from A to B as safely as possible.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
As someone who often cycled to work and back. on fairly busy roads, I agree that too many cyclists are problematic.

However, the majority are sensible, decent people, just trying to get from A to B as safely as possible.
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I very often see cyclists doing stupid and dangerous things. I haven't cycled for years but when I did I (obviously, as an obsessive in many things) did it right. I never weaved through traffic, I never undertook traffic on the inside, I never went through red lights, I never rode on the wrong side of the road and I never as an adult rode on pavements.

Of course there are idiot car drivers too but they stand a much higher chance of facing consequences because they're easier to find and easier to fine and punish. All I'd ask is a level playing field but its never going to happen.
 
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I very often see cyclists doing stupid and dangerous things. I haven't cycled for years but when I did I (obviously, as an obsessive in many things) did it right. I never weaved through traffic, I never undertook traffic on the inside, I never went through red lights, I never rode on the wrong side of the road and I never as an adult rode on pavements.

Of course there are idiot car drivers too but they stand a much higher chance of facing consequences because they're easier to find and easier to fine and punish. All I'd ask is a level playing field but its never going to happen.
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If anything it isn't, get hit by a car and the cyclist will be far worse off.

Its about driving to the conditions - there are far too many drivers (as a car driver) I think shouldn't be on the road, like on my way to the gym yesterday someone doing 40 in a 60, or on the way back, someone kept braking on a roundabout. as for undertaking, I always stick to the left while driving on dual/mortorways but the amount of people who are in the middle lane I go past is incredible.

Weaving through traffic in a town centre, motorbikes do that and I see nothing wrong with cyclist doing that, otherwise you are stuck in the jams the same amount of time as a car. Jumping red lights, there is a dangerous way to do it, or, if like me you live in the sticks and there is a cross roads with nothing coming in any direction there is no harm in going. In fact you can get off and walk over, I don't see the difference.

I have no problem with people breaking the law (in car or bike) as long as it's done without inconveniencing other road users, as often the laws make no sense.
 
cambsno said:
I have no problem with people breaking the law (in car or bike) as long as it's done without inconveniencing other road users, as often the laws make no sense.
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The law generally makes sense, especially on safety issues.

Those who say it "makes no sense" are those who think obedience to the law is optional. One can only hope they learn the error of their ways before they cause harm to other people.
 
I was out on my bicycle this morning, single track country lane. I'm on the left and up ahead is a walker, on the right side walking away from me.

Ding ding. Ding ding ding. Nothing. Ding ding ding ding. Ding ding. Nothing and I'm getting closer.
Suddenly she looks at something in the field to her right and I now see she has air pods in so maybe cannot hear me.
Ding ding. Nothing. Then she takes step to her left and is now almost in the middle of the lane.
Ding ding ding.
As I ride past her she jumps because I've startled her!
I shout out 'Sorry', but I imagine she didn't hear that either.

I suppose I'll get the blame for that?
 
Sky said:
Your mistake was in assuming she could hear you - in her case, her deafness was self-inflicted, but a deaf person doesn't have that choice.
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I would expect a deaf person to compensate and be much more aware visually.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
The law generally makes sense, especially on safety issues.

Those who say it "makes no sense" are those who think obedience to the law is optional. One can only hope they learn the error of their ways before they cause harm to other people.
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Not really - this increase in 20mph limits (like the one planned in the next village) are crazy in many cases. There is a corner they have but on the new town they are building with a crossroads. The crossroads won't be open for years yet but they have the lights on even though its currently operating as normal road with a bend in it, but so poorly designed they feel they need to put lights on to alternate traffic. No pedestrian areas there so if I am sat there with no-one else in sight why not go?
 
cambsno said:
Not really - this increase in 20mph limits (like the one planned in the next village) are crazy in many cases. There is a corner they have but on the new town they are building with a crossroads. The crossroads won't be open for years yet but they have the lights on even though its currently operating as normal road with a bend in it, but so poorly designed they feel they need to put lights on to alternate traffic. No pedestrian areas there so if I am sat there with no-one else in sight why not go?
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Reduction in speed limits seems to be very much a thing and often it seems to be for no reason I can see. There are long stretches out of town which used to be NSL and now are not. There are some limits I'd like to see reduced but year after years they remain the same and I do wonder why. For eg there's a high street near me with a 30mph limit and honestly if you tried to do 30mph it'd be irresponsible and dangerous and I do wonder why it hasn't appeared on the council radar and been reduce to 20mph.
 
Norkie said:
I suppose I'll get the blame for that?
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Probably but I do think that in this case she should shoulder a large portion of any blame as it seems common sense not to be distracted or have senses reduced by headphones and the like. If a car driver caused an accident do to being distracted or hampered by an entertainment device wouldn't they share more blame? Probably.
 
woof woof said:
Reduction in speed limits seems to be very much a thing and often it seems to be for no reason I can see. There are long stretches out of town which used to be NSL and now are not. There are some limits I'd like to see reduced but year after years they remain the same and I do wonder why. For eg there's a high street near me with a 30mph limit and honestly if you tried to do 30mph it'd be irresponsible and dangerous and I do wonder why it hasn't appeared on the council radar and been reduce to 20mph.
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Maybe because it's hard to do that speed and there would be no revenue from speed cameras! Between my and next village there is a speed camera as you go out the village, no sense in that and you just carry on a bit longer and speed up. Not a blackspot, just there to raise money off non locals. Not been an accident there caused by speed in the 18 years I have been here!
 
Sky said:
That's the trouble - you expect. :facepalm:
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I think thats a reasonable assumption. If you are impacted by something you are more aware of things. Like my GF is more aware of her surroundings when dark and going for walks, or when I bike back from the pub it's slower than when I biked to it. When I have headphones on I always look behind before pulling out (bike or foot). But that said, whenever I pass someone (especially a dog) either running or on a bike, I expect them to step in front of me so that I can hopefully avoid it should it happen. Same with cars at junctions waiting to pull out - ready to brake hard and swerve if needed!
 
Cold caller.

I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't have told the same person just 2 months ago that I didn't want my roof soft washed and coated. Despite the warning notice on our front door and a camera doorbell, he still rang it.

Gotta love a tryer. :rolleyes:
 
Pixbarmy said:
Persimmon Homes destroying the local hedgerows!
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Hmmmm! if not in 'licensed' in the planning application I hope the Local Authority have the balls to prosecute them and the restore the hedgerow with (advised by the county WT?) mature native hedgerow plants......that will cost them more the cost of the removal!
 
Box Brownie said:
Hmmmm! if not in 'licensed' in the planning application I hope the Local Authority have the balls to prosecute them and the restore the hedgerow with (advised by the county WT?) mature native hedgerow plants......that will cost them more the cost of the removal!
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The LA seem to ignore lots of rule breaking by local businesses because it is a tourist area. Grade 2 listed building locally being converted into a "Western Themed" restaurant, with no planning permissions at all, over a period of several years!!! Cars parked on verges, near to entrances and exits, insufficient on site parking. Georgian interior ripped out and replaced with rough, sawn timber internal cladding and corrugated iron ceilings! Outside gardens covered with open woden huts and fencing, together with amplified, loud rock, ska, etc., etc.
 
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woman took my coffee order while i was waiting 15 mins... and i got her terrible tasting cappuccino
 
Dale. said:
Cold caller.

I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't have told the same person just 2 months ago that I didn't want my roof soft washed and coated. Despite the warning notice on our front door and a camera doorbell, he still rang it.

Gotta love a tryer. :rolleyes:
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Yes..but they can really be very "trying" ...:D
 
Yodel tracking, 24th November - "We have your parcel. Please check back for updates." Been "checking back" every day since and ................................................................. nothing!
 
Adverts on television with talking animals!

I don’t want a talking ferret trying to convince me to buy car or house insurance!
 
WAMT - Doing the bank's job for them online, transferring our ISA's, so that they don't move it into a low interest account. Something that I used to do annually, in branch, when we had one!!! (Usually with the manager, coffee and biscuits provided!). Ah for the old days when the customer was king!
 
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...Ah for the old days when the customer was king!
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The sad truth is that the people who run banks, now, think of branches as an expesive luxury and want the whole thing online, doing away with lots of staff and increasing the loot pouring into the managers' pockets.

My brother in law used to be a branch manager, many moons ago. I dare not repeat his description of the current crop of senior management in banks, for fear of being chucked off the site! :naughty:
 
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WAMT - Doing the bank's job for them online, transferring our ISA's, so that they don't move it into a low interest account. Something that I used to do annually, in branch, when we had one!!! (Usually with the manager, coffee and biscuits provided!). Ah for the old days when the customer was king!
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Never understood the need for in-branch banking. Everything can be done online now and yes, I think they are an expensive luxury. Most people shouldn't need to visit a bank - pay cheques (if people still use them) online, just do bank transfers for anything. Mortgage, maybe - but my last remortgage with a broker was just over the phone. Businesses are different so a more personal touch may well be needed.
 
Will probably get a soft sentence - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75w63epx31o

Now we can all make mistakes, can all misjudge things in the car and accidents happen. But people like this are serious crash waiting to happen and he should be treated the same as if I walked up to someone in the street and punched and killed them
 
cambsno said:
Never understood the need for in-branch banking. Everything can be done online now and yes, I think they are an expensive luxury. Most people shouldn't need to visit a bank - pay cheques (if people still use them) online, just do bank transfers for anything. Mortgage, maybe - but my last remortgage with a broker was just over the phone. Businesses are different so a more personal touch may well be needed.
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How do I pay in my gallon whiskey bottle full of change and cash notes online?
 
cambsno said:
Will probably get a soft sentence - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75w63epx31o

Now we can all make mistakes, can all misjudge things in the car and accidents happen. But people like this are serious crash waiting to happen and he should be treated the same as if I walked up to someone in the street and punched and killed them
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With the evidence of such reckless behaviour as a precursor of the fatal accident, surely a manslaughter conviction with a significant custodial sentence is appropriate???
 
cambsno said:
Never understood the need for in-branch banking. Everything can be done online now and yes, I think they are an expensive luxury. Most people shouldn't need to visit a bank - pay cheques (if people still use them) online, just do bank transfers for anything. Mortgage, maybe - but my last remortgage with a broker was just over the phone. Businesses are different so a more personal touch may well be needed.
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This is all very well if it works but it does not. As a Treasurer of an organisation we changed bank and they made a series of mistakes thus blocking us from our funds for several months. Trying to sort on-line did not work because you are conversing with a computer which does not understand things like "why have you ignored the written instructions. In one case they refused to transfer the contents of our savings account so I contacted the banking Ombudsman who ordered them to get on with it. A few days passed and no change and I managed to get the local branch manager on the telephone and explained that unless he took immediate action, I would go back to the Ombudsman. Would you believe everything was then fixed in a few hours as they realised that they would have received a heavy fine.

The same thing happened to my Wife's Townswomens Guild. In fact I received over £500 in compensation from across 3 banks over a 5 year period for poor service. Yes I and the various organisations I am with do everything on-line except when things go wrong and thus the bank need to be able to resolve such issues which often needs dealing directly with the customer. In all these cases of problems, the bank was at fault each time though I accept customer scan also make mistakes.

Dave
 
Box Brownie said:
With the evidence of such reckless behaviour as a precursor of the fatal accident, surely a manslaughter conviction with a significant custodial sentence is appropriate???
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In my opinion, having killed someone on top of his previous offences, the only sensible sentence is life with no chance of release. Twelve years, probably out in six, is madness.
 
Dave Canon said:
This is all very well if it works but it does not. As a Treasurer of an organisation we changed bank and they made a series of mistakes thus blocking us from our funds for several months. Trying to sort on-line did not work because you are conversing with a computer which does not understand things like "why have you ignored the written instructions. In one case they refused to transfer the contents of our savings account so I contacted the banking Ombudsman who ordered them to get on with it. A few days passed and no change and I managed to get the local branch manager on the telephone and explained that unless he took immediate action, I would go back to the Ombudsman. Would you believe everything was then fixed in a few hours as they realised that they would have received a heavy fine.

The same thing happened to my Wife's Townswomens Guild. In fact I received over £500 in compensation from across 3 banks over a 5 year period for poor service. Yes I and the various organisations I am with do everything on-line except when things go wrong and thus the bank need to be able to resolve such issues which often needs dealing directly with the customer. In all these cases of problems, the bank was at fault each time though I accept customer scan also make mistakes.

Dave
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I am not saying we don't need branches, I did say for businesses we do (and that probably includes charity and the like) - but for 95% or more of people, there is probably no need to enter a branch
 
Norkie said:
I was out on my bicycle this morning, single track country lane. I'm on the left and up ahead is a walker, on the right side walking away from me.

Ding ding. Ding ding ding. Nothing. Ding ding ding ding. Ding ding. Nothing and I'm getting closer.
Suddenly she looks at something in the field to her right and I now see she has air pods in so maybe cannot hear me.
Ding ding. Nothing. Then she takes step to her left and is now almost in the middle of the lane.
Ding ding ding.
As I ride past her she jumps because I've startled her!
I shout out 'Sorry', but I imagine she didn't hear that either.

I suppose I'll get the blame for that?
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As cyclist with a bell! Now there’s a rarity, good on you.
Food delivery rider expected me to get off the pavement the other day when there wasn’t room for my wife and I and him/bike to pass, kept coming at me shouting ‘move’ so I dipped my shoulder as we collided, guess who landed on his arse, we kept on walking as a bar lunch was calling.
 
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