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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2021
    The ‘amazing’ ones will be from the sales folks family members. They seem to be paid almost totally on commission and staff turnover is so rapid it’s like a revolving door.  They have security men on the door and one time we were there police were called because a customer tried to return a car and they wouldn’t let her ... after just a couple of days!!!  There was almost a fistfight!  

    They told us the cam belt  on the car had been changed - it hadn’t. When we proved it they said they’d do it. Leave the car with us they said .. he did ... after a week they returned the car and said they’d changed the cam belt ... again they hadn’t .., when we told them they said they didn’t have anyone capable of doing it!  So why did they say it’d been done?

    There were major electrical faults ... again they said they’d fix it if he left the car with them .... son had their electrical chap Kev’s mobile number as they’d discussed meeting up at a festival later in the year, so he rang him to see how he was getting on ... he was on the beach in Portugal! He rang Car Shop who told him that ‘Kev’s working on it right now’.  And thats just a few of their lies. 

    One time when the car came back from ‘repair’ the mileage had increased by several hundred and the tank was on almost empty. 
    Grrrr! 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    that's the  problem with trip advisor, trust pilot etc etc. 
    I tend to ignore the best 5% of comments and the worst 5%. 
    It's too easy to get a bunch of mates to sing praises, slag off anyone
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    But there's nothing in the middle.
    In my, fortunately limited, experience , I'd give them  1‱5. Anyway, we've escaped unscathed and a little the wiser. Who knows what delights the next dealer will bring?  They might even have a salesperson who can tell a dipstick from a lipstick.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    KT53,one of my friends put on Facebook,did I like his cakes,my old man said "no, because they are "ruddy hard'
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2021
    A couple of years ago,I decided I'd had enough of lilies and their beetles. I left the lilies in their pots and they grew the next year so I killed the beetles and gave them the odd squirt of water. They've come up again this year, but mostly only the ones with the narrow leaves. I'm still looking for beetles
    1 why?
    2. Why do I not mind grabbing hold of a red beetle when I wouldn't dream of touching a black one? Is it the ladybird thing? BTW I haven't seen one ladybird this year.
    3 A good way of killing the buggers is to snip them in half with a nail scissors/ embroidery scissors. They're pointy enough that you can get them on the leaf without damaging the plant.
    I hope this tip will be useful for those of you who aren't waiting for your lilies to pass on 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We had loads of ladybirds hibernating round our windows this last winter but I've not seen any in the garden this spring.

    I do grow lilies but in pots so they're higher up than passing pussies.  It's worked so far.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I'll bear that tip in mind B3, I've just noticed two lily plants trying to grow.

    We're feeling curmudgeonly on behalf of one of our acquaintances down our lane. He has a camper van which apparently he hires out via an agency when he's not using it.
    it was booked for this long weekend, so he collected it from storage, thoroughly cleaned and sanitised it ready for collection yesterday. Hirers never turned up, no communication, no apologies, no nothing. He's fuming, as he could probably have hired it out several times over this paweekend. That is so rude and arrogant. We don't know whether a deposit was paid, didn't like to ask.  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I read somewhere that people are making multiple bookings because the  deposit was low, returnable or non-existent, none of which will be honoured if they can go abroad. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I can deal with the apocalyptic nappy I had to change this morning, I can put up with our youngest casually throwing up his entire body weight in half digested food all over the place during dinner this afternoon, I can even almost tolerate my oldest boy's new game of picking every bloody flower he can get his hands on as soon as I turn my back (except for the one that took about three years to grow from cuttings and was looking amazing), but I still haven't been able to find the lens cap from my camera that the little git launched across the garden this morning. :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    That's terrible Wild edges,I had 3 kids when I met my (second,) hubby,he is VERY squeamish, I had our lovely daughter,had to return to work,my older kids got the honours. People used to say he would HAVE to change nappy,mop up vomit,but if he sees some one "faking" vomitting in a film, that's enough to start him "reaching" I came home from s night shift about 20 years ago, he's sitting in the living room with a tea cloth found his face,I say 'youre up early" (, Sunday morning) he was woken up by a "strange noise" one of our dogs had had diarrhea,it was up the walls,he told me Id be sick,nah nursing,eating my breakfast toast at the moment!
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