Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

There's a baby and bathwater clumsiness to this. It might have been warranted but this is like repossessing someone's parachute halfway through a skydive!

Which is my point, agree that LMU are at fault, but I don't think the response was accidentally clumsy but rather a deliberate and cynical move to generate a particular set of headlines.

I have also sold two cars on ebay, the fact that there is no comeback from the buyers if it is as described in the listing is reassuring to me.

If you end up spending £300 and 2 days collecting the car from Scotland is it really any better value than buying locally?

CKhalvashi

Spirit wrote: »

We have sold two cars on ebay. A discovery and a yaris. Both went for considerably more than we expected and with no fuss or special effort on our part. Mr S took pics including any damage and spelt out any mechanical flaws. Took calls from interested enquiries and had one visitor for the discovery (who was subsequently the winning bidder - and did drive the price up). Definitely would do this agin.

I put our company ones up on eBay.

We've got a fleet of 300 now, so we're paying next to nothing for them, and I do my service by selling them cheap.

A lot of them do end up in dealerships.

CK

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

Which is my point, agree that LMU are at fault, but I don't think the response was accidentally clumsy but rather a deliberate and cynical move to generate a particular set of headlines.

I have also sold two cars on ebay, the fact that there is no comeback from the buyers if it is as described in the listing is reassuring to me.

If you end up spending £300 and 2 days collecting the car from Scotland is it really any better value than buying locally?

Yes.

'61' plate Octavia 1.6 TDi S from Arnold Clark is £11,999 (16,000 miles) (Estate, silver)

'61' plate Octavia 1.6 TDi S from Trans City is £13,495 (27,000 miles) (Hatch, red)

I've got 2 receipts in the last month to prove it!

CK

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Which is my point, agree that LMU are at fault, but I don't think the response was accidentally clumsy but rather a deliberate and cynical move to generate a particular set of headlines.

I have also sold two cars on ebay, the fact that there is no comeback from the buyers if it is as described in the listing is reassuring to me.

If you end up spending £300 and 2 days collecting the car from Scotland is it really any better value than buying locally?

Sustantially. I was in a discussion with another NP some time ago about the difference in car prices from area to area and how big it can be.

We did this almost 10 years ago when we had a relative test-drive a car up there and tipped us off about it; we flew up on cheap tickets and test-drove it. Bought it on the spot and tore up the return tickets and drove home.

I knew someone who visited his relatives in Aberdeen fairly regularly and always bought a car from local ads in the paper. He'd drive it back down and sell it at a profit in a county bordering your own county(and the NP's "Hertland").

I get to combine our trip with a visit to my parents who live over 400 miles from me, so that's a plus.

It'll be £160 in petrol if we drive both ways, but probably over £200 if we have to fly. Train fares - don't get me started.:mad:

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Yes.

'61' plate Octavia 1.6 TDi S from Arnold Clark is £11,999 (16,000 miles) (Estate, silver)

'61' plate Octavia 1.6 TDi S from Trans City is £13,495 (27,000 miles) (Hatch, red)

I've got 2 receipts in the last month to prove it!

CK

Haha- just crossposted with CK! A hard man to beat, is Arnold Clark!

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

Sustantially. I was in a discussion with another NP some time ago about the difference in car prices from area to area and how big it can be.

We did this almost 10 years ago when we had a relative test-drive a car up there and tipped us off about it; we flew up on cheap tickets and test-drove it. Bought it on the spot and tore up the return tickets and drove home.

I knew someone who visited his relatives in Aberdeen fairly regularly and always bought a car from local ads in the paper. He'd drive it back down and sell it at a profit in the a county bordering your own.

I've got a friend (one of our singers' fathers) who lives between Serbia and Italy dealing cars.

High end stuff in Italy is cheaper than Serbia, so he sells BMW's, Mercs, Audis etc. in Pancevo (about 30 minutes from Belgrade).

Lower value stuff in Serbia is cheaper than Italy, so he sells Ford, Opel (Vauxhall) etc in Italy.

There are also cars that aren't openly available in Serbia, and I know that he imports about 100 Toyota Prius models into Serbia from Italy each year to use as taxis, at around €2,000 profit per vehicle after taxes paid/reclaimed. He's also undercutting the Toyota dealerships by around €6,000 per car in Belgrade, making it very profitable.

CK

vivatifosi

Kind of related to that CK, when I've been to the Baltics - and I've heard similar of the former Soviet bloc Balkans - I've noticed that a lot of the larger cars such as Passats, etc, end up there. Similar to Japan exporting its older cars to the lower waged Asian countries, I've heard that a lot of old German cars end up in the Baltics and a lot of older Italian etc cars end up in the Balkans. On top of this, I'm also aware of a growing trend in breakers yards in the UK to export a heck of a lot of parts to these countries and others such as Poland, to keep them on the roads.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Kind of related to that CK, when I've been to the Baltics - and I've heard similar of the former Soviet bloc Balkans - I've noticed that a lot of the larger cars such as Passats, etc, end up there. Similar to Japan exporting its older cars to the lower waged Asian countries, I've heard that a lot of old German cars end up in the Baltics and a lot of older Italian etc cars end up in the Balkans. On top of this, I'm also aware of a growing trend in breakers yards in the UK to export a heck of a lot of parts to these countries and others such as Poland, to keep them on the roads.

Reminds me of the old stories about how in the old Soviet Union, the Russian railways got all the new rolling stock before all the Baltic/Caucasian republics did.

When the Russians used to send trains to those republics the local rail companies would disconnect some of the new carriages and the trains would be sent back shorter, while the different national companies would be busy repainting the "missing" carrriages with their own livery.:beer::D

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

Social media. Relationship status updates. Why do it?

My DD started dating a new fellow some months ago. After a month or so he he puts himself in a relationship with her on FB which she accepts.

Yesterday she brings relationship to an end, texts her dad and I to tell us and to say she is not sad about it, then tonight changes her status to single.

DD is 24 newest ex is 35.

I am besides myself with this, I understood it when she and her bf of 4 years had this - they got together at 6th form - but subsequent relationships ?

Do I say something or mind my own business? I think I know the answer to this - it is nothing to do with me.

I feel old generation and worried and mumsy about public profile.

NP...put me straight. Please

My kids friends are in and out of relationships on facebook by the day. They also have their close circle of friends down as siblings and parents. They get married and divorced within days and it bears no relationship to reality.

Those that do have relatively correct relationship statuses (statii?) don't seem to worry about changing them fairly frequently, some even use them to fire warning arrows by changing their status to "its complicated" and then reverting back again.

I'm not sure that you can search for past statuses, you only see the current one. You can scroll down someone's wall and see previous comments, but that takes some effort - particularly as their wall moves at the speed of this thread - try finding something we talked about a year ago by scrolling back through every page written.

People may be more careful now that facebook timeline is being imposed on everyone. Previously you would scroll through everything to go back in time, with timeline you can jump to previous years in one click. Problem is that you don't have much control on what is written on your wall. (In theory you have complete control, but with the 1000s of FB friends the youngsters have they generally leave their wall posts without monitoring them).

I don't think you can look back through previous status changes.

If it worries you, it probably is a sign that you shouldn't be there.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Aside from the fact that it sounds more like something for teenagers, I don't think I would want to advertise the number of relationships I had had, especially not the ones that lasted only a few weeks....I am so old and last century aren't I.

There's a huge opportunity for targetting there ..... you could find girls that are in/out of relationships (easy lay), those that have just split up (comforting opportunity lay), those that haven't been in one for 6 months (desperate lay) ..... it's a boys' dream.... all you need now is a nerd to extract the data and sell the app.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Hello Pastures. Hope you had a warm welcome in your new pad and will be able to sleep tonight.

What is it like? How much space have you got? How long do you expect to be there for?

Sorry if you have previously said all this.

It's warm, but I feel stifled by it.... and little comments that seem targetted and are annoying, but are probably friendly (but I can't tell because I'm speshul). I did sleep well, the sleep of exhaustion.

Room's trickier/smaller than I recalled; bed is super-large (my bedding didn't fit). It'll take me a week or two of living in this space to work out where it's best to put things....

In France, the room would legally have to be called 6'x8' as it's in the roof and they count space based on head height.... in England you'd describe it as 9'x12' + there are a couple of cubby hole areas. Every wall is sloping....

I have food though .... Some in the kitchen and a stash of goodies up here.

Struggling with mobility though. The kitchen floor's lethal. I can't walk in there without skidding (shiny tiles).... and I've nearly come a cropper on the stairs which are narrow, steep, with carpet (again, a skid zone for me). I think we can expect some trips/falls before too long. I don't do shiny floors or stairs well