What cheeses me off

[TheRealTMA]

I don't think I've eaten Cadbury for years - it was never great but obviously gone downhill

Try this then!

Russell Crowe endorses his lifesized chocolate Gladiator statue: ‘I will be available to eat’

Oscar winner shares photo of sculpture, modelled on his Gladiator strongman Maximus, made for chocolate festival in Malta

www.theguardian.com

 

[VPS]

Try this then!

Russell Crowe endorses his lifesized chocolate Gladiator statue: ‘I will be available to eat’

Oscar winner shares photo of sculpture, modelled on his Gladiator strongman Maximus, made for chocolate festival in Malta

www.theguardian.com

Still waiting to get to Malta because there is apparently an excellent hot chocolate shop.

 

[RooFlyer]

WCMO are unadvertised cultural performances at hotels during dinner.

 

[Pushka]

WCMO are unadvertised cultural performances at hotels during dinner.

Can’t wait to my main course so I can leave. I’m getting a headache and I’m on the opposite side of the restaurant which is open-air.

Normally you pay more for these.

 

[Scarlett]

WCMO are unadvertised cultural performances at hotels during dinner.

Is the issue that the performance was carp, or the fact that EVERY Indonesian music/sound system only has OFF and OH MY BLEEDING EARS level?

 

[RooFlyer]

Is the issue that the performance was carp, or the fact that EVERY Indonesian music/sound system only has OFF and OH MY BLEEDING EARS level?

Definitely the latter. Now I would not pretend to be any expert on Indonesian music or much music at all for that matter, but it sounds to me very much like a primary School recorder recital. Lots of those false high notes, etc. Maybe that’s normal, maybe that’s artistically great, but it’s very jarring to my ears.

And WCMO now is that it still going on two hours later, loud and clear in my room above the aircon.

 

[JohnK]

EBay is starting get extremely annoying.

My brother has not received a shipment from a seller on eBay. He contacted eBay and they are not interested. He's trying to contact the seller. In the purchase history he can see that it says postage not paid. So he has not paid postage (which is dumb excuse) and the seller has every right to keep the money for the goods without saying anything?

I said to him this one should go to Fair Trading.

 

[Pushka]

EBay is starting get extremely annoying.

My brother has not received a shipment from a seller on eBay. He contacted eBay and they are not interested. He's trying to contact the seller. In the purchase history he can see that it says postage not paid. So he has not paid postage (which is dumb excuse) and the seller has every right to keep the money for the goods without saying anything?

I said to him this one should go to Fair Trading.

That's why I use PayPal. They will sort it out quick smart.

 

[luckypierre]

EBay is starting get extremely annoying.

My brother has not received a shipment from a seller on eBay. He contacted eBay and they are not interested. He's trying to contact the seller. In the purchase history he can see that it says postage not paid. So he has not paid postage (which is dumb excuse) and the seller has every right to keep the money for the goods without saying anything?

I said to him this one should go to Fair Trading.

On the occasions that I have had issues with Ebay sellers, I have never had a problem obtaining a refund. Ebay will intervene if required if you cannot resolve issue with the seller. Refer :

Returns, items not received and refunds for buyers

In most cases, if your order doesn't arrive, or is faulty or damaged, you'll get your money back or a replacement. Most sellers accept returns if you've changed your mind – check the listing for details of their returns policy.

www.ebay.com.au

 

[Lynda2475]

In the purchase history he can see that it says postage not paid. So he has not paid postage (which is dumb excuse)

Curious how he managed to check-out without paying postage? Its usually added (if not free) before payment is taken. Can he go into the order and pay for the missing postage so the sender will send the goods?

If once postage is paid you are not provided with tracking ID and do not receive the goods, just do a credit card charge back.

Like Pushka I only ever use Paypal for Ebay or Esty as they are very good at refunding if goods do not arrive.

 

[JohnK]

That's why I use PayPal. They will sort it out quick smart.

We do use PayPal and to be honest I didn't think to contact PayPal.

Why do sellers try these tricks? I need to check account later.

 

[Flashback]

We have a battle axe property, so long driveway, we have had issues with the neighbour directly behind us before.
Came home today and he was down our driveway, trimming branches over hanging the fence. If he was a sensible, rational person, it wouldn’t be a problem, and I would be happy for him to do this, however due to previous issues, this is not the case.

I asked him if he had asked the boss who was home, if it was alright for him to be on our property, didn’t answer. I explained to him that it was actually our property and he had no right to be there unless agreed to it by us. He swore at me, so I gave him a piece of my mind, although there isn’t much left. He then hit his pruning tool against the fence.

This is the same guy that left a nasty note in our letterbox complaining we had pruned a hedge that is on our side of the fence line.
The boss also came home one day to find him down our driveway planting a tree against the fence. When questioned as to what he was doing, he said “this is a laneway isn’t it”, meaning that it was public property, wrong.

Bad neighbours are the worst - we only had it for 5 months, but gosh that felt like a lifetime from listing our property, to moving out day.

Curious how he managed to check-out without paying postage? Its usually added (if not free) before payment is taken. Can he go into the order and pay for the missing postage so the sender will send the goods?

If once postage is paid you are not provided with tracking ID and do not receive the goods, just do a credit card charge back.

Like Pushka I only ever use Paypal for Ebay or Esty as they are very good at refunding if goods do not arrive.

Little known fact - a lot of the stuff you can buy on Etsy, you can buy cheaper on eBay, then to really level up - buy off AliExpress where it's even cheaper again. I bought some items a few months back that were $20-25 on both the bay and Etsy, got them for $2 on AliExpress.

 

[anat0l]

WCMO Instagram reels (including those displayed through Facebook) don't have scrubber controls. You can pause, but you can't scroll forward or back within a reel.

 

[SYD]

WCMO

When you’ve had extended periods away from home and the local possums think that the unattended trees are far game - basically the nightly salad bar….

Who knew that Nth American species such as Liquidambar and Golden Robinas were the natural diet of nocturnal visitors...

 

[dajop]

WCMO, - voiceovers on programme promos on channel 7, 9 and 10. So ridiculously over dramatic, not to mention very blokey. Only exposed to commercial TV when visiting Australia and staying with people who watch them, but find it annoying. Maybe I've been away too long (not that I was ever a fan of commercial TV, never really watched 7 & 9 much anyway).

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

I am continually and amazed at the habit of shops that hang knitwear and worse still push the hanger through the neck.
This procedure is guaranteed to cause a medium garment to end up with a xxl opening.
As a student I worked part time in one of Melbourne's finest department stores, in the mens knitwear, where each and every
garment was treated with the utmost respect. Of course they were the days when jumpers were made from wool.

 

[Quickstatus]

#WCMO

having to renegotiate contracts every year

#electricity
#gas
#insurances
#loans

The electricity took me 45 min of tedious online chat to get the discount from 9% to 25%
At least Ive dumped FoxHel finally after several years of threatening to cancel just to get a discount.

 

[Guvner]

Went to pick up a script yesterday at my local pharmac_. Been going there for 15 years or more. A new Pharmacist was on duty and when I gave her the script she informed me they’d have to order it in. It would take 2 days and cost $800. ”Sorry what?”.. I told her that it should be $80 for a private script and $30 on PBS. I assumed she just misread the info on her computer. Well.. she gave me a dressing down in front of the other customers, told me I had no idea what I was talking about and that she’d been a Pharmacist for years.
I dialled up the drug on the PBS website and browsed the major pharmac_ chains’ prices. Yep, my prices were correct. She simply umphed, no apology, nothing. I grabbed the script back off the counter, walked out and went to the opposition across the road.
WCMO is if they did in fact have it in stock, and I sent another family member to pick it up, they likely would have been none the wiser, just handed over my CC and $800 would have been taken out.

 

[anat0l]

Went to pick up a script yesterday at my local pharmac_. Been going there for 15 years or more. A new Pharmacist was on duty and when I gave her the script she informed me they’d have to order it in. It would take 2 days and cost $800. ”Sorry what?”.. I told her that it should be $80 for a private script and $30 on PBS. I assumed she just misread the info on her computer. Well.. she gave me a dressing down in front of the other customers, told me I had no idea what I was talking about and that she’d been a Pharmacist for years.
I dialled up the drug on the PBS website and browsed the major pharmac_ chains’ prices. Yep, my prices were correct. She simply umphed, no apology, nothing. I grabbed the script back off the counter, walked out and went to the opposition across the road.
WCMO is if they did in fact have it in stock, and I sent another family member to pick it up, they likely would have been none the wiser, just handed over my CC and $800 would have been taken out.

A case where those signs that say, "Our staff deserve respect - unruly behaviour will not be tolerated" should be ignored.

Mustn't be such an old hand at this after all.

I can understand that the customer is not always right, but I'll assume here that @Guvner was quite diplomatic about this until the pharmacist started to put on attitude, such that there should have been a more diplomatic way of resolving this.

 

[Guvner]

Trust me I gave her no attitude whatsoever. If anything I was probably too mannerly given her demeanour. I’ll put it down to her having a stressful day.