The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

That was 6p each including delivery. Three separate orders, but amazon combined them into a single delivery.

The trouble is that this phone has only just gone on sale, so not that many of them around. And if you had just spent quite a few hundred on one, would you really stick this cheap tat on it?

Why would you be searching for phone covers for a phone you don't own? Least of all then actually buy. Why then buy 3?

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Why would you be searching for phone covers for a phone you don't own? Least of all then actually buy. Why then buy 3?

It was a bargain! 'Nuff said.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Why would you be searching for phone covers for a phone you don't own? Least of all then actually buy. Why then buy 3?

I sometimes wonder if SC gets the internet at all...

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

I sometimes wonder if SC gets the internet at all...

SC is perfectly logical, and I have been idiotic getting something I have no use for. Fortunately, the entertainment value is worth the 18p it cost me.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I sometimes wonder if SC gets the internet at all...

The surfing I get, we all end up on random paths; it is the buying that confused me!

LydiaJ

I've been without a spare key to my bike lock for several years. Now that I'm intending to use it to go to work every day, I thought I really ought to get a spare - particularly since I'm not very good about losing things like keys. I've just been on the Kryptonite website to try to get one. I think the lock's too old for their online system to recognise it, though. I'm hoping they'll still be able to supply one. There's no point in making locks that last decades if the keys are only available for a few years. Anyway, I've filled in the enquiry form, and it occurred to me that the NP might be amused by what I put:

I have just tried to order a replacement key for my lock on your order form, but I don't know what model it is. I think I bought it (in the UK) in 1991 - but it might have been a year or two later. It is, as you would expect after a mere 26 years, and considering the quality of its construction, still in perfect working order. Sadly, the same cannot be said for my marriage. My former husband and I used to keep each other's spare keys, but I have no idea what he did with the spare to mine when he left me, and since he's now dead I can't ask him. My lock is <description of lock and code number on key>. Please can you help me? Thanks.

I am hoping that if I make them laugh, they will be more inclined to put in the extra effort that may be required because the lock is so old.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

The surfing I get, we all end up on random paths; it is the buying that confused me!

You need to spend more time on hot uk deals, typical comment : 'I have bought one....what does it do?'

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

SC is perfectly logical, and I have been idiotic getting something I have no use for. Fortunately, the entertainment value is worth the 18p it cost me.

You're a Delboy clone!

See a raving bargain, snap it up, stick it in a lockup until you find a buyer for it!
Good wide-boy business practice!

Don't forget you'd have to pay tax on any profit! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've been without a spare key to my bike lock for several years. Now that I'm intending to use it to go to work every day, I thought I really ought to get a spare - particularly since I'm not very good about losing things like keys. I've just been on the Kryptonite website to try to get one. I think the lock's too old for their online system to recognise it, though. I'm hoping they'll still be able to supply one. There's no point in making locks that last decades if the keys are only available for a few years. Anyway, I've filled in the enquiry form, and it occurred to me that the NP might be amused by what I put:



I am hoping that if I make them laugh, they will be more inclined to put in the extra effort that may be required because the lock is so old.

Well, it made me laugh!

Couldn't you just take the key to a keysmith, or whatever they're called?
And there are places that will cut duplicate car keys, so they should be able to do you a new one, I'd have thought.

Might be an idea to get two spares, if you'll be using the bike a lot, then you could keep one at work, one at home and have one in general use.



Forgot to say, had a very smooth journey, right from the word go.
And there's a centipede on my bedroom ceiling!
(Beats a long, long worm a-crawling across the roof of my tent!)

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Well, it made me laugh!

Couldn't you just take the key to a keysmith, or whatever they're called?
And there are places that will cut duplicate car keys, so they should be able to do you a new one, I'd have thought.

Might be an idea to get two spares, if you'll be using the bike a lot, then you could keep one at work, one at home and have one in general use.

Hmm...

Can't take it to a normal key cutting person because they're not the normal shape of keys. They look like this:



However, my attempts to find an online pic of keys of that shape to post in reply to you, Pyxis, led me to an article explaining that this shape of key was discovered to be easily pickable ... years and years ago. You can pick them with a plastic pen! Perhaps I'd better buy a new lock tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see what Kryptonite have to say about it when they reply. In 2004 they were offering free replacements to people with the pickable locks, but they'd already closed that deal by 2009, so I think I'm on my own. Trip to bike shop tomorrow, then. Or maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, when my work day won't be so busy because of not having a tutor group and being able to miss out all the "tutor group beginning of term faffing about". In the meantime, I'm not worried. When I'm at home, my bike is in the locked garage, and at work it's in a locked bike shed with CCTV covering it. Its main anti-theft feature, though, is its age. Anybody braving the CCTV to break into that bike shed looking to steal a bike won't choose mine.