Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[weeksy]

Depends where you are tbh

In London, it's 4 olives for £12

In Spain it's a plate of olives for 50 cent

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

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I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

It's a thing in Andalucia for sure.... Every drink you get a plate.... sometimes it's a meat based, sometimes some potatos, etc... usually it's tasty and after 5-6 drinks you're more than stuffed...

[Yorick]

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

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I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

Probably only happens in small places now, if at all. ie in villages with a couple of competing bars. There was also some story (possibly apocryphal) that the little plates were the right size to sit on top of your glass to keep flies? dust? out of your drink.

Yeah, I've heard that.

[Yorick]

Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?

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I've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.

It's a thing in Andalucia for sure.... Every drink you get a plate.... sometimes it's a meat based, sometimes some potatos, etc... usually it's tasty and after 5-6 drinks you're more than stuffed...

And pissed

[gremlin]

When you fill up the bike, which when costing £27.50 boils my piss a bit anyway, then go to pay and there's a woman in front with a basket of shopping, who then hands over some scratch cards to redeem, which she then fannies about deciding which new ones to buy with the winnings, then, after all that piss arsing about, asks for a cappuccino when he's the only one behind the counter.

And this is why I use Pay-at-Pump whenever posible.

[Yorick]

When you fill up the bike, which when costing £27.50 boils my piss a bit anyway, then go to pay and there's a woman in front with a basket of shopping, who then hands over some scratch cards to redeem, which she then fannies about deciding which new ones to buy with the winnings, then, after all that piss arsing about, asks for a cappuccino when he's the only one behind the counter.

And this is why I use Pay-at-Pump whenever posible.

That's the best thing about retirement. We've loads of time to piss off annoying folk

[Horse]

'Journalists'



Massive plumes of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico has been caught on satellite images at the exact same moment a dust storm sweeped across Colorado.

[gremlin]

Dealing with Virgin Media.

For the love of God, please....

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Dealing with Virgin Media.

For the love of God, please....

Try spending £3,000,000 with them, the service isn't any better.

[Taipan]

Coping a £66 cab bill for getting my Daughter home. The idiot got pissed out of her nut, left a Hen night/party, got lost and couldn't get a local cab to pick her up! Thank God for iPhones and Ubers!

[Taipan]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.

Personally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.

[Mussels]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.

Personally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.

I'd be interested from a GDPR standpoint, it's a poor excuse for estate agents to say they need highly personal information.

[Horse]

Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.

They probably thought that, as a non-uk resident, you'd just got off a dinghy at Folkestone

[Mussels]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

[Yorick]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.

Knock on the door and try to bypass the estate agent.
Will be interesting to get the owner's view on it all.

[Yambo]

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

Ask to see the estate agents accounts - so you can check whether they are a viable business to do business with.

[Tricky]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.

I'm genuinely surprised that you are surprised at that- I'm currently in the process of selling my old house, it's vacant and the agent is free to book viewings at any time but that is indeed how it works and you need to be in a proceed-able position if you want to view- If you're not, you can look at pictures but you're not going inside.
Means you get fewer viewings, but everyone wastes less time too.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Well...we know one house Iccy ain't buying

I can see both sides TBH. I wouldn't send a bank statement though, there must be better ways to find out if someone is good for it? In fact I know there are, cause a close family member of mine works for a very large and well known online property portal that also provides data services

S'like policing i suppose. You just don't get estate agents walking the beat any more, they rely on their databases.

[Count Steer]

Conversely, it would be nice if they could stop people putting their houses on the market when they have no idea where they are going or wet their knickers as soon as someone puts in an offer and then start talking about exchange of contracts at some point around the next monarch's first Jubilee. Then they wait until you've paid for a survey....and take it off the market. Bring on the Scotch system - you nodded, it's yours, cough up.

(Not my problem currently but a friend is chain-free, cash in hand and wanting to buy on the Wirral. The number of old dears that seem to put their houses on the market because they like having visitors ).

[MrLongbeard]

Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.

Knock on the door and try to bypass the estate agent.
Will be interesting to get the owner's view on it all.

It's taken years but the old man has said something sensible.

[Yorick]

I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.

We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.

Knock on the door and try to bypass the estate agent.
Will be interesting to get the owner's view on it all.

It's taken years but the old man has said something sensible.