Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626243 times)

fuzzy · « **Reply #6675 on:** 29 July, 2015, 04:18:33 pm »

Quote from: Biggsy on 29 July, 2015, 02:47:57 pm

I even hoover the hoover after empting the hoover. (Vax, actually)

Another grumble: Argos haven't sent me a confirmation email with the number I need. Been more than an hour.

This saga just proves- you aren't meant to have it Biggsy.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #6676 on:** 29 July, 2015, 04:36:47 pm »

Quote from: Biggsy on 29 July, 2015, 01:49:51 pm

I'm now ordering from Argos, where I can collect without showing any ID at all, regardless of payment method. They obviously agree that the risk of a thief presenting the code numbers is too slight to bother about.

Are these sent by email?

Given the notorious insecurity of email, I wonder how long this policy will last...

mcshroom · « **Reply #6677 on:** 29 July, 2015, 04:45:56 pm »

Email and Text IME. Collect+ now doesn't require ID, just the Emailed/Texted collection code either.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #6678 on:** 29 July, 2015, 04:46:17 pm »

Anyway, my grumble.

Trying to book a holiday. Shallot#2 won't go anywhere hot. Not even vaguely warm like mountains & lakes. Tough, you can stay here and feed the cat then.

Email a list of suggestions and dates to Shallots#3 & #4. End with: DYOR and choose.

Shallot#3: "OK"
Shallot#4: "Looks good to me"

So I go to book the flights, it's a day off what I emailed so I thought I'd double-check. Shallot#4 now says he's got a job and can't come. FFS I was within a mouseclick of booking everything, when were you going to tell me???

tiermat · « **Reply #6679 on:** 30 July, 2015, 07:29:30 am »

In the Grumble thread as it doesn't fit anywhere else.

My grumble is about me, I went out last night to see Soulfly @ The Corporation in Sheffield.

It was a good night, lots of moshing and loud music.

Why the flaming heck did I join in the pit? This morning I can hardly move my left hand, and when I do it is painful. Standing on my left leg is painful, too. I must have bruised parts when I fell over

Kim · « **Reply #6680 on:** 30 July, 2015, 12:33:42 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 30 July, 2015, 07:29:30 am

In the Grumble thread as it doesn't fit anywhere else.

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=87402.0 ?

Biggsy · « **Reply #6681 on:** 30 July, 2015, 01:58:57 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 29 July, 2015, 04:18:33 pm

This saga just proves- you aren't meant to have it Biggsy.

That's what it's feeling like, yes. Nearly a whole day now with no confirmation email (not even in my spam folder). Argos have my money, I have nothing, not even an order number. I'm on to them via Twitter, a bizarre platform for customer services, but they seem to do stuff, eventually.

T42 · « **Reply #6682 on:** 30 July, 2015, 03:27:28 pm »

Wife snowed under with work, Inlaw Paw "has the doctor coming this afternoon", so instead of going for a ride I stay home to interpret. Four o'clockish the doc has not appeared, so I phone down to the surgery. "Oh no, it's next Thursday". Fuck.

Biggsy · « **Reply #6683 on:** 31 July, 2015, 10:19:25 am »

I'm disgusted with Argos. Took my money and gave me nothing, not even an order number. Customer services not responded at all via email and only asked questions via Twitter. I'll try a human in bricks & mortar. Can't face the hell of the telephone call centre.

Should have stuck with John Lewis. I didn't like all their policies, but at least they were very prompt with a reply and refund.

Biggsy · « **Reply #6684 on:** 31 July, 2015, 11:12:22 am »

At last I have a collection number from Argos (via Twitter of all daft places, where they're painfully slow but helpful eventually).

Biggsy · « **Reply #6685 on:** 31 July, 2015, 03:00:55 pm »

Still more trouble! Went to store and told the collection number was invalid. Had to cancel and pay again.

jsabine · « **Reply #6686 on:** 31 July, 2015, 03:53:39 pm »

I know we shouldn't mock, but given your fit of pique with John Lewis, this is making me titter slightly.

</schadenfreude>

Canardly · « **Reply #6687 on:** 31 July, 2015, 03:59:38 pm »

Ah the British service culture.....sigh....

perpetual dan · « **Reply #6688 on:** 31 July, 2015, 03:59:55 pm »

On the ID to collect things, I had to pick something up from the post office the other day. They wanted ID - passport, driving licence or credit card. They want this for anything where they leave a card, not just signed for. Interestingly they want my ID. They don't care if I lend it to someone else to do the collecting though. Which is bizarrely relaxed given the ID requirements they create for redirecting post.

Biggsy · « **Reply #6689 on:** 31 July, 2015, 04:25:04 pm »

Sensibly relaxed, I call it.

Ironically, I offered to present more ID (my bank card) to Argos to prove the item was mine, but all they valued was the collection number (that I didn't have correctly). We are the robots, we're functioning automatic, and we are dancing mechanic.

I wouldn't be surprised if Argos fail to refund my original payment. (I only have their word that they will, so far). That'll really get on my titters!

perpetual dan · « **Reply #6690 on:** 01 August, 2015, 09:21:18 am »

Oh yes, very sensible. As evidenced by the hassle experienced when trying to redirect Mrs Dan's other name, which she uses for professional purposes, not passport, bills etc.

Good luck with the refund.

andrewc · « **Reply #6691 on:** 01 August, 2015, 08:40:59 pm »

It's "summer" . so why is my nose leaking ? I've had to dig the emergency stash of tissues from the bag of camping kit

Kim · « **Reply #6692 on:** 01 August, 2015, 10:10:46 pm »

Noses normally leak in summer, shirley?

Otto · « **Reply #6693 on:** 03 August, 2015, 09:24:25 pm »

It's 21.23... I have now been in the office 12 hours and 23 minutes... this is shite!

That is all

tiermat · « **Reply #6694 on:** 05 August, 2015, 02:03:53 pm »

No ranting this week as it is week 12, so zero energy for anything other than looking like GrumpCat.

Anyways, Shimano, why do you have to be so confusing? There would appear to be no such thing as a R685 brake caliper. R685 only applies to the shifters, the calipers being the same as the R785, which in turn are the same as XT. This means that any pad that fits the XT and R785 will fit the R685, but I have had to dig around a load of places to find this.

Incidentally the calipers will take G01s, G03 and similar pads.

Basil · « **Reply #6695 on:** 05 August, 2015, 02:54:40 pm »

Bugger. I'm in a pub, 5 miles from home, and it has started to piss down.
Only five miles? Yes, but other than spd shoes and mits, I am dressed in civvies. Non waterproof civvies at that.
*checks rain radar*
Doesn't look good.
*orders unplanned second pint*
This could end badly.

Basil · « **Reply #6696 on:** 06 August, 2015, 09:02:16 pm »

God, I'm an idiot.
For today's little outing, I googled Newcastle Emlyn market day. Hurrah! It's Thursday. Yummy.
So off I trundle.

Bugger. Should have read in more depth. Yummy stuffs market is Friday. Thursday is live stock.
I'm not that hungry. Well, nearly. But not quite.

Oh well, nice ride to Lampeter tomorrow.

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Paul · « **Reply #6697 on:** 06 August, 2015, 10:22:57 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 05 August, 2015, 02:54:40 pm

Bugger. I'm in a pub, 5 miles from home, and it has started to piss down.
Only five miles? Yes, but other than spd shoes and mits, I am dressed in civvies. Non waterproof civvies at that.
*checks rain radar*
Doesn't look good.
*orders unplanned second pint*
This could end badly.

Not really a grumble. More speculation. In circumstances that could go either way but aren't currently terrible.

Bit of a mouthful for a new thread title, granted.

T42 · « **Reply #6698 on:** 07 August, 2015, 08:07:09 am »

Silly bloody Garmin. Their site lists spare cable ties & magnets for their speed/cadence sensor but not the sensor itself. Tw@s

Andrij · « **Reply #6699 on:** 08 August, 2015, 08:03:31 pm »

Busker at Bond Street Station this afternoon, singing don't worry 'bout a ting... should have worried about at least one ting - tuning his guitar.