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

[MingtheMerciless]

Facebook market place, trying to sell MTB parts on it is a royal pain, chancers wanting 50% off the list price, wanting it posted at your cost and last week first I had someone waste an entire morning messaging endless questions me about a set of forks before coming over and once he'd explained what he wanted to do with them realised they'd never fit.

Then I had someone message about a frame, we agreed a price and I warned him it'd be costly to post and insure and he agreed to that as well. He wanted to pay via PayPal (no problem) and said he would have the money at the end of the week, I wasn't in any hurry but then he tries to renegotiate the agreed price today and after a bit of profile checking it turns out he's 16 and Paypal rules state you have to be over 18......

That place is brilliant, chancers wanting 50% off or more, as soon as an item is listed. There are a core of surnames on my black list, as they are always nothing but trouble.

What's your best price? I often double the asking price just so that they go away. Questions which can be answered if you read the advert. Sometimes dealing with people is a special task on its own.

So 5 minutes after I sack off spotty youf No.1, spotty youf No.2 with a very similar friend base is making enquiries.............

[Jody]

I'm a Sun-Pat Crunchy man, but I had my head turned by Meridian as it was on special offer.

What ever you do, DO NOT buy Meridian Peanut butter. It was wet, really wet, very oily. It doesn't sit on the bread it soaks in, it's just WRONG!

I stirred it thinking it had separated and the oil was sat on the top, but it was like that all the way through the jar.

I asked a friend to bring me some whole earth back but he doesn't really do supermarkets it seems (couldn't find a magazine for me cos the supermarkets near him don't do that one! )

He brought Meridian (I'd said just bring a crunchy version without sugar in it!). It's just I'm trying to use it up in cooking, but I don't use a lot of peanut butter apart from on toast!!

Sadly, I've had to stop asking people to bring it back as the last person brought me smooth stuff - Whole Earth, but smooth

The all natural / organic / yogurt weaving ones all are, and surprisingly are supposed to be too, I went through a phase looking for something other than sun-pat but couldn't find one that wasn't oily, so yep sun-pat crunchy is my go to.

Whole Earth Crunchy is definitely worth a go

Send me a picture of the label Smix and I'll bring you some in December

But maybe the company running the garage should either offer pay at pump or a queue/till specifically for people who only want to buy fuel! I get that they are trying (have succeeded?) to put the corner shops out of business but TBF, if I just stop for fuel quickly I really don't want to stand behind someone waiting to pay for their weekly shop or some fancy doodah coffees!!

I don't even want to stand behind someone buying a raft of comedy coffees in a coffee shop tbh.

I must confess, I hate it when I'm in a busy bar and the person infront orders cocktails. They take soo damn long to make. I honestly believe that the bar often looses out because people can't be arsed to queue.

More of a haarrrrrumph really.

Got a coffee at the local sports centre. Handed over my loyalty card with 7 stamps on. Ah. They're 'under new management'.

'We don't do those any more, would you like a new card (with 1 stamp on)'?

"No, but I'll take a new card with 7 stamps on. Ohh you can't do that? you've literally just got here and you've already lost a customer"

Facebook market place, trying to sell MTB parts on it is a royal pain, chancers wanting 50% off the list price, wanting it posted at your cost and last week first I had someone waste an entire morning messaging endless questions me about a set of forks before coming over and once he'd explained what he wanted to do with them realised they'd never fit.

Then I had someone message about a frame, we agreed a price and I warned him it'd be costly to post and insure and he agreed to that as well. He wanted to pay via PayPal (no problem) and said he would have the money at the end of the week, I wasn't in any hurry but then he tries to renegotiate the agreed price today and after a bit of profile checking it turns out he's 16 and Paypal rules state you have to be over 18......

All I get on FB Marketplace is scammers who want to get DPD to pay me cash when they collect the item. Except DPD don't offer that service !

[Noggin]

I asked a friend to bring me some whole earth back but he doesn't really do supermarkets it seems (couldn't find a magazine for me cos the supermarkets near him don't do that one! )

He brought Meridian (I'd said just bring a crunchy version without sugar in it!). It's just I'm trying to use it up in cooking, but I don't use a lot of peanut butter apart from on toast!!

Sadly, I've had to stop asking people to bring it back as the last person brought me smooth stuff - Whole Earth, but smooth

Send me a picture of the label Smix and I'll bring you some in December

That'd be AWESOME Thank you

And, to get a photo I find that Tesco do a 1kg 'tub' Wowzers - now working out where I can clear space for it! LOL




Awesome A 400 ish g jar here is generally over 7€ !!!

[Mr. Dazzle]

I'm fairly sure they do 5/10kg "paint tubs" of it, someone bought a colleague one as a joke leaving present ISTR.

Probably a job for Costco or similar.

[Count Steer]

I've worn out my faithful 'Cousances' (ie 'Le Creuset') 22cm casserole. There's granular, shiny iron showing through on the base inside and stuff sticks and burns. Never used metal utensils on it, just wooden spatulas etc).

Stuff just isn't made to last any more, it's probably only 30 years old. Did the same some years ago with a Le Creuset frying pan but that had a harder life. Bah.

(Double bah looking at the price of new ones ).

[Mr. Dazzle]

Le Creuset is a total rip off IMO. My no name but 1/4 the cost enamlled casserole is just as good. Probably made in the same factory I think it was TK Maxx but mighta been Sainsburys.

[Silly Car]

Facebook market place, trying to sell MTB parts on it is a royal pain, chancers wanting 50% off the list price, wanting it posted at your cost and last week first I had someone waste an entire morning messaging endless questions me about a set of forks before coming over and once he'd explained what he wanted to do with them realised they'd never fit.

Then I had someone message about a frame, we agreed a price and I warned him it'd be costly to post and insure and he agreed to that as well. He wanted to pay via PayPal (no problem) and said he would have the money at the end of the week, I wasn't in any hurry but then he tries to renegotiate the agreed price today and after a bit of profile checking it turns out he's 16 and Paypal rules state you have to be over 18......

That place is brilliant, chancers wanting 50% off or more, as soon as an item is listed. There are a core of surnames on my black list, as they are always nothing but trouble.

What's your best price? I often double the asking price just so that they go away. Questions which can be answered if you read the advert. Sometimes dealing with people is a special task on its own.

I had really special one a couple of weeks ago who got the arse with me because I had sold the item to someone else.

‘But I’ve been here for 20 mins’
‘Where? And why didn’t you let me know when you arrived?’
‘I’m in the back lane and I was waiting for my wife’
‘You should have told me someone else was coming’
‘I think you’ve been really unfair’

Last three messages came through in quick succession

*Block*

[Mussels]

Le Creuset is a total rip off IMO. My no name but 1/4 the cost enamlled casserole is just as good. Probably made in the same factory I think it was TK Maxx but mighta been Sainsburys.

They do make them for TX Maxx.
I saw a consumer show where people did a blind review of LeCreuset, John Lewis and TK Maxx with them all coming from the same factory. There are deliberate differences but they were all just as good as each other and the panel guessed the wrong shops.

[Mr. Dazzle]

How much better/worse can "big lump of cast iron + enamel" really be?

[Screwdriver]

Cast iron can be seasoned. Super hot, oil and salt, wipe down with paper.

At least raw cast iron can be "sealed" like that and should never, ever be washed with soap...

[Mr. Dazzle]

AFAIK Le Creuset make both...enamelled and er, not enamelled (naked?)...cast iron pots.

6 of one really. Cast iron gets freaky hot and is great for searing etc, but it doesn't enjoy having an acidic tomato dish in it for hours on end.

[Count Steer]

Le Creuset is a total rip off IMO. My no name but 1/4 the cost enamlled casserole is just as good. Probably made in the same factory I think it was TK Maxx but mighta been Sainsburys.

Hactually, I have a couple of cheapo Sainsbury Le Creuset lookalike orange pans...the enamel chips at the slightest abuse/hard stare.

I agree that LC are now another High Street occupying, aspirational brand name and priced accordingly, but they didn't used to be and I've been happy with them. (I use a couple for particular things - most of my pans are either heavy-based stainless steel or Mermaid heavy duty alloy + those that St Delia made famous for omelettes*). My defunct one is Cousance, but LC swallowed them up in 1957 and it's not that old .

I just want another 22cm cast iron casserole and will check out the John Lewis offering at around £1/3 of the LC one, but I want to see them before buying so it'll have to wait.

* the company that made them boomed and bust.

[Count Steer]

AFAIK Le Creuset make both...enamelled and er, not enamelled (naked?)...cast iron pots.

6 of one really. Cast iron gets freaky hot and is great for searing etc, but it doesn't enjoy having an acidic tomato dish in it for hours on end.

My Cousance isn't enamelled quite like the orange type, it's grey on the outside but has/had a less glassy looking surface than the typical pans on the inside. However, once that goes it's classic slightly sparkly grey crystalline iron which no sort of seasoning will ever seal. The frying pan was orange on the outside but black on the inside.

[cheb]

Any of you cast iron pan lovers want this:



Found in a skip, unbranded, seems undamaged, has been washed. haven't got round to putting it on Ebay yet.

[Count Steer]

Any of you cast iron pan lovers want this:



Found in a skip, unbranded, seems undamaged, has been washed. haven't got round to putting it on Ebay yet.

Got one that looks identical (Sainsbury's). They're currently £21

Postage may be

[Noggin]

I'm fairly sure they do 5/10kg "paint tubs" of it, someone bought a colleague one as a joke leaving present ISTR.

Probably a job for Costco or similar.

I 100% do NOT have space for a 5gk can!!!

[cheb]

Any of you cast iron pan lovers want this:



Found in a skip, unbranded, seems undamaged, has been washed. haven't got round to putting it on Ebay yet.

Got one that looks identical (Sainsbury's). They're currently £21

Postage may be

Is that all. It'll be off to a charity shop then.

[Count Steer]

Any of you cast iron pan lovers want this:



Found in a skip, unbranded, seems undamaged, has been washed. haven't got round to putting it on Ebay yet.

Got one that looks identical (Sainsbury's). They're currently £21

Postage may be

Is that all. It'll be off to a charity shop then.

That's if it's the same sort.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/pro ... re-griddle

[David]

Got one that looks identical (Sainsbury's). They're currently £21

Postage may be

Is that all. It'll be off to a charity shop then.

That's if it's the same sort.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/pro ... re-griddle

YEP>>>> we have one as well.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Thats the exact one I have, from Sainsbury's. Goes with my TK Maxx casserole and genuine LC frying pan just fine