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#11656 Re: Nothing In Particular

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ed wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:44 pm
ed wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:25 pm big trouble at planet hermes at the mo........
I ordered a collection yesterday and paid and got a receipt and notification that courier would be with me today.....
half an hour ago I thought Id track it with the number they gave me.....
transpires it was picked up at 10:13 this morning.....yeah right!....I have it in my hand..
I've tried to get hold of them but it's Saturday....oh waily waily
This get's worse...
My eldest' father in law sent me his hi-end laptop to repair last Friday via, you guessed it, Hermes.

It arrived this evening(18:30) while I was busy so Sandrine brought it in from the porch(it wasn't signed for) and left it in the doorway to the work room.
I've just got round to looking at it........the box fell open as I was inspecting it, and it's empty, just packing paper inside.......

I've just checked the emails that Hermes sent and the last one says package delivered at 18:30 signed for by recipient.

As there is no way of contacting Hermes I've raised a case with resolver.co.uk.....

anybody got any further suggestions?

big waily waily!!!!
I've got the final word on this from Hermes. After I'd been down the police route and the sender had been badgering hermes all this time..they've finally announced to the sender that laptops are not covered by Hermes service......this after they had accepted his insurance cover payment at the same time knowing precisely what the package contained.

I am of the opinion that Hermes were responsible for that package and it was stolen while in their care, by one of their employees......and they are not interested.....I'm certainly not going to use them again.
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#11657 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Who’s mum had one of these on their sideboard, back in the ‘60s?
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#11658 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Nope, in the 1960/70s but she had something like this, populated with little china animals;

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#11659 Re: Nothing In Particular

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and in the 70/80s, several of these;

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Thermionic Idler wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:50 pm
...Have to say, with the sound we're getting now, I'd put the combination of the big Mets and the big OTLs up against any reference system, any day. I continue to be stunned at how well these work, without having to be in the middle of the room.
As you know Dave, my pet hate is speakers that have to be in the middle of the room to work. I always design speakers to work near to walls.
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@Ed that’s absolutely shameful, I’d get on to Watchdog, Twitter, Facebook anything and start making a noise about it
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A non PC advert for WD-40. :lol:

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#11663 Re: Nothing In Particular

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I just came across this listing on ebay - for me it predates nostalgia as only being five at the time I had no awareness of such places - don't think we even had a record player at the time;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IMHOFS-HI-FI ... Sw-qleEwU0

Things are starting to become more recognisable a few years later;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IMHOFS-HI-FI ... SwQOFeEwEu

Pretty sure I spotted one of Ant's turntables...
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I bet they are for sale for a while at those prices Ray, I have most of the hi fi year books, which although seem expensive, look a bargain in comparison
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I'm certainly not thinking of bidding Steve - too many other things making demands on the beer tokens... :wink:
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Interesting public article in New Scientist about bacteria that live off electricity...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn ... re-energy/

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#11667 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Ebay fraud.

Currently there are three (that I know of) Ebay accounts that have been hacked, and just under 9,000 (nine thousand) fraudulent listings for cars, classic cars, motorcycles, boats, commercial vehicles, farm equipment ETC.

I report some of each hacked account to Ebay as fraudulent sales bur sometimes it takes days before the listings are removed. :twisted:
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Ray P wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:07 pm and in the 70/80s, several of these;

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That was my mum! Hundreds of the things! Mail ordered from The Thimble Guild at Biggar.
 
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jack wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:34 am What connects:

1. The Dixie Chicks
2. The gravitational constant

And before anyone says it, it's NOT because they say "G" a lot...
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Ray P wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:07 pm and in the 70/80s, several of these;

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You’ve seen my MIL’s thimble collection then? She lost them all when the bungalow burned down with FIL still in it.
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