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Old 17-12-18, 07:04 PM   #6751
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Old 17-12-18, 07:32 PM   #6752
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sympathies.. although mine was not bad.
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Old 17-12-18, 08:20 PM   #6753
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That's really crap, hope it clears up quickly and you don't end up with the cough I had!
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Old 17-12-18, 10:42 PM   #6754
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Todays waste of time. Now dealing with returns for a few differenet things at once due to people not knowing what they're selling. Pyramid Parts messing about with their wrongly sized SV650 bushes... spending too much time answering their questions.
Another supplier that sent out a multi tool with a bit missing. Rather than put a small 6mm bit in the post to replace the missing part I'm having to deal with two departments, raise returns, fill in paperwork and then wait around for their courier to collect some time in the next 10 days (um, Christmas?). In the meantime I have to order another and will be reimbursed with credit (that I don't want with them as I don't want to order anything else from incompetent idiots).
I've only just got refunds back from someone who sold a gas torch that was a house fire waiting to happen and a cheque from Topyokes for the incorrect throttle cables supplied a few months ago, and I had to pester him for 2 months to even get a reply.
Sick of wasting time sorting out other peoples mess and mistakes.


stop buying stuff online and go to your local shops? I know it's often more convenient, but this is why big companies keep getting bigger and taking over the small shops and eventually closing them.....
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Old 18-12-18, 07:56 AM   #6755
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stop buying stuff online and go to your local shops? I know it's often more convenient, but this is why big companies keep getting bigger and taking over the small shops and eventually closing them.....
Ever tried finding a local shop to buy anything specialist? Plus Halfords, Argos, Currys etc require you to order online and collect a few days later, they don't keep things in stock often.

If I go into town it costs £3.30 bus fare or £4 parking, can take 40 minutes each way to do the 3 mile journey, and there's no guarantee the store will have what I want, and if they do it'll be way more expensive than online.

I try to skip local but this is why small shops and high streets are dying.

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Old 18-12-18, 08:17 AM   #6756
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care in the community or escapee from local nursing home?

you should have gone up to the customer service counter and said to them about the "stalker".

BTW think of the looks i get as i put my goods in a shopping bag. this stops me buying too much.
Quite possibly someone with mental health problems or dementia. Last time I took my mum to a hospital appointment she started harassing a nurse because she said she owed my mum money. No amount of me telling my mum that no one owed her money would stop her. I managed to mouth 'she has dementia' to the staff so they understood what was going on, but goodness knows what the other patients thought. This is why mum isn't allowed out on her own anymore, or she would probably behave just like this towards random customers.


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Old 18-12-18, 08:24 AM   #6757
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stop buying stuff online and go to your local shops? I know it's often more convenient, but this is why big companies keep getting bigger and taking over the small shops and eventually closing them.....

Living in the countryside... no one on my High St stocks SV K8 fork bushings, throttle cables etc .. and one purchase was through a works distribution co who I have to use. There's no shortage of butchers, pubs and bakerys in our area, but anything beyond that or house clutter shops for the elderly and it's a 2 hour round trip to not find what you need.


I do buy as much locally as possible (always have), having felt the pain of a business (mine) going down the pan recently due to online companies selling below prices I get trade.
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Old 18-12-18, 10:00 AM   #6758
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I do buy as much locally as possible (always have), having felt the pain of a business (mine) going down the pan recently due to online companies selling below prices I get trade.
Massive problem when you can buy goods posted from China for less than the cost of postage within the UK.
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Massive problem when you can buy goods posted from China for less than the cost of postage within the UK.

Most of what I'm undercut on comes from the same (cycling) UK distributors that I get it from. Only the big online companies can buy larger quantities enabling them to cut deals, store in remote warehouses, not paying High St costs and then also avoid a lot of tax and VAT, which no one seems to mind even though they get riled about Amazon, Google, Starbucks etc.
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Most of what I'm undercut on comes from the same (cycling) UK distributors that I get it from. Only the big online companies can buy larger quantities enabling them to cut deals, store in remote warehouses, not paying High St costs and then also avoid a lot of tax and VAT, which no one seems to mind even though they get riled about Amazon, Google, Starbucks etc.
That's why we need a digital tax on these online sellers, as they have an unfair advantage over the high street and a government prepared to enforce it.

With all these companies it's not going back into our economy, but vast US run giants.
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