A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Pleased you found it. Nothing more annoying than losing something and wondering where it went! I shall forever wonder what happened to my lovely late Mum's Wedding ring. We searched the house from top to bottom, bottom to top, sideways and all the other ways too and never found it. :(:hmm:
 
The fact that I have had a reminder yesterday at about 6pm saying I have a dentist appointment on Monday, but they are closed until Monday, and If I don't give 24hours notice I will get a fine. And the answer phone message if left. What's the bet it doesn't get heard. Not paying anything.
 
Yodel and their rubbish service. I've been waiting in for a parcel, the weather is lovely I could have been getting the garden sorted for winter. The tracking service all morning has been saying it arrived at the depot at 2am, just been updated to say they can't find me. What they mean is the driver has too much to deliver and he decided not to come here. I live on a large estate with straight roads in the middle of a terrace, what's not to find? He's got the postcode! This isn't the first time Yodel have done this to me either.
 
piggieminder said:
Yodel and their rubbish service. I've been waiting in for a parcel, the weather is lovely I could have been getting the garden sorted for winter. The tracking service all morning has been saying it arrived at the depot at 2am, just been updated to say they can't find me. What they mean is the driver has too much to deliver and he decided not to come here. I live on a large estate with straight roads in the middle of a terrace, what's not to find? He's got the postcode! This isn't the first time Yodel have done this to me either.
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Yodel, Hermes and DHL are the unholy trinity of godawful delivery
 
Lorcan said:
Yodel, Hermes and DHL are the unholy trinity of godawful delivery
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I've always found Hermes OK. Yodel on the other hand .......

I was waiting in all day for a Yodel delivery, saw the van park up opposite my house, the driver stayed in van for 5 minutes and then drove off. Then I got a text message an email saying I wasn't in! It was peeing it down with rain at the time, could it be that the driver didn't want to get wet? 🤔
 
Betsy said:
I've always found Hermes OK. Yodel on the other hand .......

I was waiting in all day for a Yodel delivery, saw the van park up opposite my house, the driver stayed in van for 5 minutes and then drove off. Then I got a text message an email saying I wasn't in! It was peeing it down with rain at the time, could it be that the driver didn't want to get wet? 🤔
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I think he saw it was raining, thought that oh he's already behind its. A busy day, sod this one and a few more, but not all in a row, and then get home lol
 
It's these lies and excuses that drive me mad. I've wasted most of today waiting for a delivery I suspect was not going to happen. OH and I are going through what we buy on line and are looking into what we can source locally. All these delivery vans driving around the country are not good for the environment, (I had six call here one day for various neighbours who were out). It's too much stress and hassle buying online, costs a fortune in phone calls and twice I've had to write money off because the sellers wouldn't refund on undelivered goods thry said had been delivered. Our online shopping is going to reduce considerably.
 
piggieminder said:
It's these lies and excuses that drive me mad. I've wasted most of today waiting for a delivery I suspect was not going to happen. OH and I are going through what we buy on line and are looking into what we can source locally. All these delivery vans driving around the country are not good for the environment, (I had six call here one day for various neighbours who were out). It's too much stress and hassle buying online, costs a fortune in phone calls and twice I've had to write money off because the sellers wouldn't refund on undelivered goods thry said had been delivered. Our online shopping is going to reduce considerably.
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Yea vans are bad, ours only does 20 mpg, we spend £120 on diesel probably on average every 2 to 3 days
 
Yes, Royal Mail 24 have lost my parcel which was supposed to be delivered on 24th September! Luckily the Ebay company are sending the goods out again, I’ll see if Royal Mail 24 can manage to deliver it within 24 hours, if at all so far!
 
I like amazon, I order my wife a very expensive box set for Christmas, it was from America so that's why. And it turned up with a broken case, I emailed amazon, and they said keep it and we will refund you. So got a £90 box set for free.

I wouldn't do this, but what's stopping me ordering another box set, and stamping on the case and saying look broken
 
I ordered two jewellery boxes (ones with a ballerina and swan lake music) for my granddaughters from John Lewis. They arrived in a well packed box but one had damaged Perspex box packaging and I knew whoever got it would be disappointed so rang them and they said bin it and we’ll resend your order. I was expecting one replacement but got two more, so ended up with four, one minus it’s Perspex box. Sold it on eBay, and gave the other to my friends granddaughter, a win win 🤣
 
Bill & Ted said:
I ordered two jewellery boxes (ones with a ballerina and swan lake music) for my granddaughters from John Lewis. They arrived in a well packed box but one had damaged Perspex box packaging and I knew whoever got it would be disappointed so rang them and they said bin it and we’ll resend your order. I was expecting one replacement but got two more, so ended up with four, one minus it’s Perspex box. Sold it on eBay, and gave the other to my friends granddaughter, a win win 🤣
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Nice one. I like it whe this happens, like the time I ordered our guinea pig cage and got 4 lol. Emailed, never heard back, so I sold 1 and donated two to a rescue. The money went in our vet bill savings.
 
I remember once Amazon missed one item out of my subscribe and save order and when I complained they just sent out a whole new order of £90 of stuff because one £6 was missing! It makes you think though how much profit they make on things and what gross huge piles of surplus consumer goods they have if its easier for them to just replicate a £90 order than refund you for one thing...
 
PigglePuggle said:
I remember once Amazon missed one item out of my subscribe and save order and when I complained they just sent out a whole new order of £90 of stuff because one £6 was missing! It makes you think though how much profit they make on things and what gross huge piles of surplus consumer goods they have if its easier for them to just replicate a £90 order than refund you for one thing...
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Its madness, amazon are probably why highstreet shop after shop are going under.

Slowly it will just be coffee shops, hairdressers, estate agents, phone shops, and greggs
 
PigglePuggle said:
I remember once Amazon missed one item out of my subscribe and save order and when I complained they just sent out a whole new order of £90 of stuff because one £6 was missing! It makes you think though how much profit they make on things and what gross huge piles of surplus consumer goods they have if its easier for them to just replicate a £90 order than refund you for one thing...
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Though it was mostly piggy supplies so I didnt complain about their wanton devaluing of mass produced consumer goods that is causing an ecological disaster, I just gave my pigs the extra stuff :)
 
Just waiting for our Sky man to turn up. Last Wednesday we had a planned powercut from 9.00 to 3.00pm. When we put the TV back on to watch Pointless the sky menu was scrabbled. We spent half the evening trying to sort it out, rebooting etc, then spent 1 hour on the phone to Sky. The conclusion was the skybox has blown, caused by a power serge! After reading the small print at the bottom of the letter, it does say unplug all sensitive equipment such as sky etc.
Why on earth don’t they put that in the main body of the letter and underline it, embolden it, large text! Infuriating! We haven’t all day to sit reading the small print! 🤬
 
When you think you are moving house in 4 days time and you and all the people in the chain agree the date. Then the person at the bottom of the chain throws a spanner in the works and it looks very much like you won't be moving at all! We agreed on a price for our house at the end May/beginning June and thought that we were moving by end August....... Nope we are still here in the same house we have been in for the last 29+ years. We have issued our buyers with a ultimatum that they Exchange in the next couple of days or our house is going back on the Market. The person at the bottom of the chain is a personal friend of theirs and so they are more than happy to wait for him to get his arse in gear. We, however, are not. They need to have words with their buyer. We have to move.
 
Betsy said:
When you think you are moving house in 4 days time and you and all the people in the chain agree the date. Then the person at the bottom of the chain throws a spanner in the works and it looks very much like you won't be moving at all! We agreed on a price for our house at the end May/beginning June and thought that we were moving by end August....... Nope we are still here in the same house we have been in for the last 29+ years. We have issued our buyers with a ultimatum that they Exchange in the next couple of days or our house is going back on the Market. The person at the bottom of the chain is a personal friend of theirs and so they are more than happy to wait for him to get his arse in gear. We, however, are not. They need to have words with their buyer. We have to move.
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There’s nothing worse than moving house! I do sympathise x
 
Betsy said:
When you think you are moving house in 4 days time and you and all the people in the chain agree the date. Then the person at the bottom of the chain throws a spanner in the works and it looks very much like you won't be moving at all! We agreed on a price for our house at the end May/beginning June and thought that we were moving by end August....... Nope we are still here in the same house we have been in for the last 29+ years. We have issued our buyers with a ultimatum that they Exchange in the next couple of days or our house is going back on the Market. The person at the bottom of the chain is a personal friend of theirs and so they are more than happy to wait for him to get his arse in gear. We, however, are not. They need to have words with their buyer. We have to move.
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The same thing happened when my parents moved house. Those at the bottom of the chain (who happened to be first time buyers) messed everyone around and seemed to call all the shots. From the time of my parents selling their house and actually moving, it took a painful 8 months of messing around
 
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