Thread: Being Screwed by local Business'

Originally Posted by Riverland

Anyone wanna buy a welder so l can buy a new couch .............

I'll give you $200 for it, and just to show you what a great bloke I am, I will pay for the transport to Brisbane.

PS I'll even buy the helmet off you for another $25

Originally Posted by HJ0

Anyway little towns aside. @ holes have been known to operate in many different locations.

Having spent 16 years living in Sydney, I know who I would trust more between a city mechanic and a country one!

My point is that country towns are small communities and everyone knows everyone - except you! It's like walking unannounced into a room full of old mates (even if half of them hate each other) and asking them where the best fishing spots are. They're hardly going to tell you.

I'm with you, Riverland. I've dealt with some of these small town crooks. Where I live we have a choice of small town and Brisbane or Gold Coast City. Whenever I purchase anything big or to do with tools or machinery, I go to the city.

I once had a run in with a local mower place when I bought a Stihl weedeater. I didn't have the money at the time and it was the last one, so I put it on Lay-by with a $100 deposit, telling the shopowner that I'd be back in two days. When I went back he'd sold it, and he told me that I'd have to wait two weeks for a new one. When I sparked up and had a few words with him he agreed that when a new one came in he'd deliver it personally. Three weeks later he did, but to someone else. This someone else was honest enough to ring me and ask "why have I got a weedeater on my front porch with your name and address on it?"

All through this, the shopowner blamed me for being some sort of a whingeing customer and unreasonable and so on. He thought it was completely reasonable and within his rights to sell a weedeater that he had held on layby for me, and he even tried to say that I'd given him the wrong delivery address.

Well guys l am abit red faced today for two reasons. First from my wife and second because my wife went and seen the guy who sold me the generator and it cost another $350.00, but l now have what l wanted all along. A genny to run my small home mig. As for the wifes car that l electricuted almost to death well l now can say that after talking with the auto elec l have a good understanding of the 12 volt and 240 volt system now. Now l just have to wait for the car to be fixed and somehow pay for it. lnsurance did not want to know about it.
What aweek glad to see the end of it.

Riverland,

Are you QUITE sure you want to play with elektrickery again? :eek:

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Riverland,

Are you QUITE sure you want to play with elektrickery again? :eek:

"Hold my beer, watch this"
Power from a welder can do some strange things to cars electronics and find it's way into normally inaccessible places, not via the fuses.
Bit like RF, does not require a return path to perform its magic

Sorry, Riverland, but bad things usually happen in cycles of three.
If we group the welder fiasco as one, we have the car as two.
What and when will Number Three be?
If you have a right (and you did), you must also remember to contain anger, at least on the outside. Otherwise you just put up the barriers to any hope of effective communication.
If only we could practice what we preach!!!!!!!