things that make you go grrr!

A near-perfect incident

When you make 3:30 hours round trip on a Sunday morning to check and take a delivery of 2016 Major Automatic for nothing! Looked perfect every way including a few videos of it running. The grinder looked spotless, it comes alive without beans on the hopper. The seller throws a full bag of beans. Grinds at the highest setting, switches off to go finer at the espresso setting and it won’t run anymore. They empty the hopper, open the burrs, give it a clean, run again and nothing! It won’t even run in at the coarsest setting! A few more tries were in vain! The seller was equally disappointed, surprised and didn’t want to sell until it is fixed.

A waste of Sunday, the time and money for fuel, but saved £350 cash.

LMSC

I understand not wanting to buy something faulty but were the burrs jammed?

Exactly the same thing happened with my Super Jolly. Guy gives me a demo in the coffee shop I bought it from and I get it home, and it won’t run. Loosened the burr up and it was fine and has been ever since.

I’m just wondering as you said the guy switched it off to go finer which would make it possible to adjust the burrs too tight which you wouldn’t do with it running as they’d chirp like crazy before it got jammed.

DavecUK

The watch world has become somewhat of an infuriating space to deal with due to trends over the past couple of years, fuelled by our friends the ‘influencers’.

I for one can’t wait for all the hypebeast ‘drops’ to stop and watch buying/selling can go back to how it was where people just bought watches to enjoy and not solely to flip for a profit. Thankfully prices have already started to come down from the recent insanity.

Casio have seen some fanfare lately due to a collab with Ed Sheeran and a video he did for Hodinkee.

Definitely doesn’t excuse the fact you’ve had to queue but could explain why their traffic is high at the moment.

drdre89

Firstly, sorry for your loss, that’s really sad.

It’s become almost impossible to buy Rolex new from Authorised Dealers. There’s a ‘waiting list’ of sorts and as a result there isn’t a single reference that’s cheaper used than new. A new Submariner is about £6k. If you want one immediately you’re looking at £10-14k on the grey market.

People obviously cotton on to this and so many watches are purchased with the sole intent of profiting. Meaning anyone wanting to mark a memorable occasion with a certain watch is unable to do so. It’s sad but somewhat unsurprising.

Same with Patek. A Nautilus is about £40k new, I’m not sure of current resale prices but you were looking at £80k for a ‘almost new’ one.

I tried to buy a Rolex Explorer last year, was told I’d have to wait up to two years. I ended up with two Tudors which actually turned out well as they’re fantastic.

Very few of the people in that Casio queue were probably buying for themselves. Rather just buying to turn a profit, stopping those who actually want to buy for themselves from accessing them.

And then when you finally do get through the person defers to a computer and then still can’t answer your question…

Really seems like the number of vocations you’re able to do in this country where you can just do half a job and quite comfortably get away with it is growing rapidly.

Politics might play a part but I do think there’s a toxic culture of idleness and victimhood that’s really holding us back,