What amazes me about Amazon is I can get a book delivered to pretty much anywhere in the USA in two to three days. And that includes printing on demand. The logistics of that is mind boggling.
things that make you go grrr!
One thing that annoys me would be people that aren’t data analysts interpreting data and getting the wrong conclusion or purposefully misrepresenting the data.
Also delivery drivers who ‘attempt’ delivery even though I have been sitting by the door for the last half an hour
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Totally agree on the delivery thing.
And it’s one extreme or the other. Chucking it down with rain, no porch, oh this seems like a great time to leave a cardboard box on the doorstep.
Also why is it the only time anything is returned to the depot and not left with a neighbour or on the doorstep is a bag of coffee on Friday morning when you’ve ran out and now have no coffee for the weekend!
Incompetent people. I find this at work parts people are 95% useless.
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Time wasters on eBay. Not as bad as the other things on this thread, but still. Especially, those with complete disregard to the fact that there are other humans involved on the other side, just like them.
Put up an auction. Got loads of interest and dozens of bids. One j*** uses a snipping tool to snatch the sale at the last second under everyone’s nose, then vanishes - doesn’t pay and ignores all messages. Due to eBay’s policy, there is no option to cancel the sale and offer the item to the next bidders until all the interest is gone and you have to start over. Happened to me a few times already.
I stopped selling on ebay years ago when I’d have offers for my phone that never paid, but ebay still charged me selling fees. You could never get hold of anyone to speak to.
I had a friend have the same happen to him but they were unable to get the money from his account. They tried passing it over to bailiffs and wouldn’t respond to his messages explaining what happened. Horrendous company.
A few years ago, I sold an old Macbook as spares or repair, not working. The guy who bought it thought he new the fix and when he could not fix it, put a claim in saying it was faulty. Ebay paid out despite my protests. I had 1100 feedback and closed my account immediately. I only use them today through gritted teeth!
dutchy101 I stopped selling on ebay years ago when I’d have offers for my phone that never paid, but ebay still charged me selling fees. You could never get hold of anyone to speak to.
I never had a problem with eBay charging fees for non-paid items. It’s all automated, so if a sale fails for non-payment the fees are not paid. As you say, it is very hard to get the attention of a human when something is out of the ordinary, but unfortunately wasting other people’s time is a very ordinary thing on eBay, as there are no consequences to it (they get a strike, and when they have enough strikes to disqualify them - they open a new account and start over). It’s a shame, because there are mostly decent people, but some j**** spoil the experience for the rest.
dfk41 A few years ago, I sold an old Macbook as spares or repair, not working. The guy who bought it thought he new the fix and when he could not fix it, put a claim in saying it was faulty. Ebay paid out despite my protests. I had 1100 feedback and closed my account immediately. I only use them today through gritted teeth!
I once bought a monitor and it arrived with a smashed screen. Posted a photo on receipt but the seller insisted I send the broken monitor back on my expense (!) for a refund. eBay didn’t want to know and I had no choice but to pay for return shipping. Fortunately this was the exception for me, and mostly my experience was fine. Non-payers, on the other hand, is very common. eBay could do more to fight this, but they don’t.
I’m going back probably almost 20 years and was selling a mobile phone at the time. I had someone from Nigeria ‘buy it now’ and offered me money via a Western Union transfer that they would send me when they received the phone. OK mate, I’ll send you the phone on those terms, lol. Ebay still charged me.
Exact same thing happened to my mate. I found out afterwards that you could make your listings UK Paypal buyers only, which would have prevented ebay taking their fees but they did not respond to myself or my friend when we tried to explain. I gave up and decided never to sell on their shitty platform again
I’ve never sold on Ebay for all of the above reasons. I do buy there but with extreme caution. The one time I got burned Paypal eventually made the seller do a full refund.
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Things that make me go grrr…..
People who rip other people off, especially those in trouble or vulnerable in some way…then along come the opportunists.
I remember one story about someone who went to “help” a victim of an accident or medical emergency, but what they were really doing was rifling their pockets for their wallet.
https://www.itv.com/news/2018-09-05/mans-wallet-stolen-as-he-suffers-heart-attack
DavecUK People who rip other people off, especially those in trouble or vulnerable in some way…then along come the opportunists.
I remember one story about someone who went to “help” a victim of an accident or medical emergency, but what they were really doing was rifling their pockets for their wallet.
Makes time wasters on eBay seem like angels.
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Some buyers are as notorious as sellers. Recently, sold a pair of hardly used suit. It was out of fashion. Some one nagged us with endless questions and finally bought the suit. No sooner the buyer received it than he/she complained it wasn’t as described, which was not correct. Demanded a return, despite a no-return policy on used items. It wasn’t worth a hassle to start a futile time-wasting argument. Ebay advised it’s not worth it either. It was expensive to pay for the return postage. We refunded the buyer and advised the person to give the suit to a local charity.
LMSC It was expensive to pay for the return postage. We refunded the buyer and advised to give the suit to a local charity.
Think sometimes making a point like this is the best way. There’s just no pleasing some people.
We had a rug that we were giving away for free that my wife put up on a local Facebook group. Someone said they wanted it and expected us to drop it to them. Lol
Had a guy come in for a quote at work, 2009 Saab.
Conversation starts with, “I’d use a mate normally but you know what they’re like, they want favours back, don’t mind paying cash”
Proceeds to show me round his car, “there’s a crack in the bumper but you can just glass that” (wrong way) then walks round the car to the point we’re painting everything bar 2 panels.
So I email his quote, which is broken down as labour, paint and materials and polishing,
Following day, he replies. “happy with the labour but why is the paint and materials so high? Is it primer, paint, sanding discs? ”
I simply replied - this is what we charge.
Fast forward to the end of the day and he’s left us a negative Google review 🤷 wtf.
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Touch the rental market — landlords. Jeez! Very rare you find a Gem,
based on our experience. Between 2001 and 2014, we stayed in 4 places.
- The first landlord was a thorough gentleman. He gave us a brand new flat. A year and a half later, he sold. Except a general wear and tear, he was surprised how immaculate the house was, despite the 7-years old lived with her parents at the properly. He returned the full deposit.
- Second landlord was ok and not too bad. She did take 25% off the deposit, despite the flat was professionally cleaned by her own appointed cleaning services. The inventory check out was all ok.
- Third was a nightmare. Cleaned professionally and we got a clean chit from the inventory check out. He refused to pay. The issue dragged for more than a year and half. There was nothing we could do. Finally, we gave up and he offered 50% deposit.
- Fourth was similar to the third case. He started harassing and nit-picking us, despite the estate agent told him formally that the house was kept in a great shape. The agency advised us to move as they were also sick of dealing with the landlord and closing the relationship with him. He refused to return the deposit; he had no reason to hold the deposit. Finally paid after keeping 25%. The funny part was he could not find a tenant for almost a year! 😁
Glad, we have a roof of our own since 2015. We keep telling our daughter to get even a single bed as her own roof as soon as she starts her core training and scale up as she grows with NHS. With the NHS salary, she keeps asking how ? 😔