Minor complaints thread (16 Viewers)

[dudley]

Just marched out of the house in me hasmat gear to go to the post office, to post something for my daugher to Korea, only to be told Korea isn't accepting post from Ireland right now!

That's how you manage Coronovirus restrictions...

 

[therealjohnny]

€24.90 to post a record that costs €25.00 from Belgium to Ireland. What's the point of the EU anyway? Irexit now!

€22.33 p&p if I buy from the band's shop in the U.S.A.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Last time I bought a record from Belgium was a few years ago. The postage price has put me off ever since.
It's pretty similar to buying from America.

 

[Unicron]

I have actually been meaning to ask if anyone can recommend a record shop in the EU for buying vinyl. Can see issues with my usual UK sources (Norman and Resident) in the future.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

https://www.hhv.de/shop/en

Haven't shopped there often but found it decent.

 

[dudley]

Amazon is actualy great for buying vinyl at the moment if you have Prime. Anything under £22 is getting vat taken off for Irish deliveries. Got the new King Gizzard delivered for 17 euro or thereabouts...

 

[pete]

Amazon is actualy great for buying vinyl at the moment if you have Prime. Anything under £22 is getting vat taken off for Irish deliveries. Got the new King Gizzard delivered for 17 euro or thereabouts...

You monster.

 

[dudley]

You monster.

When was the last time you actually bought a record and didn't just stream it? Even more of a monster...

 

[pete]

When was the last time you actually bought a record and didn't just stream it? Even more of a monster...

I don’t own a record player.

 

[dudley]

I don’t own a record player.

Worse than Hitler...

 

[the_jen]

I don’t own a record player.

Lots of people find not owning a record player (or owning one uselessly buried under piles of books) to be no obstacle at all to buying records.

 

[Cormcolash]

€24.90 to post a record that costs €25.00 from Belgium to Ireland. What's the point of the EU anyway? Irexit now!

What've the EU ever done for us, eh?

 

[rettucs]

the pandemic has caused thumped to get busy again and now I can't keep up with everything anymore

oh how I long for the days when about 8 threads were updated since my last visit

 

[Kermit McDermott]

It feels like its been raining nonstop for the last 2 months.

 

[pete]

the pandemic has caused thumped to get busy again and now I can't keep up with everything anymore

oh how I long for the days when about 8 threads were updated since my last visit

I should turn the ads on again.

 

[pete]

I should turn the ads on again.

No?

 

[Unicron]

What the hell is my package doing in Germany now? It was in the right country last week!!!

1. Feb 8, 2021
2. 2:18PM LT
   
   
   DE
   ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION COUNTRY
3. Feb 4, 2021
4. 10:04AM LT
   
   
   IE
   ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION COUNTRY
5. Feb 2, 2021
6. 10:04AM LT
   
   
   - FRANCE
   DEPARTED FROM TRANSIT FACILITY
7. Feb 1, 2021
8. 10:04AM LT
   
   
   PARIS - FRANCE
   CLEARED CUSTOMS
9. Jan 30, 2021
10. 9:56AM LT
    
    
    PARIS - FRANCE
    IN CLEARANCE PROCESSING
11. Jan 29, 2021
12. 9:56AM LT
    
    
    LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    LOADED FOR TRANSPORT
13. Jan 23, 2021
14. 11:39AM CT
    
    
    Melrose Park, IL, US
    PROCESSING COMPLETED AT ORIGIN
15. Jan 20, 2021
16. 6:35AM CT
    
    
    Melrose Park, IL, US
    PROCESSED
17. Jan 19, 2021
18. 6:38PM CT
    
    
    Melrose Park, IL, US
    PACKAGE RECEIVED AT DHL ECOMMERCE DISTRIBUTION CENTER
19. Jan 18, 2021
20. 4:45PM EST
    
    
    EN ROUTE TO DHL ECOMMERCE DISTRIBUTION CENTER
21. 4:35PM EST
    
    
    ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION RECEIVED: YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN PROCESSED AND TRACKING WILL BE UPDATED SOON

 

[pete]

What the hell is my package doing in Germany now? It was in the right country last week!!!

1. Feb 8, 2021
2. 2:18PM LT
   
   
   DE
   ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION COUNTRY
3. Feb 4, 2021
4. 10:04AM LT
   
   
   IE
   ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION COUNTRY
5. Feb 2, 2021
6. 10:04AM LT
   
   
   - FRANCE
   DEPARTED FROM TRANSIT FACILITY
7. Feb 1, 2021
8. 10:04AM LT
   
   
   PARIS - FRANCE
   CLEARED CUSTOMS
9. Jan 30, 2021
10. 9:56AM LT
    
    
    PARIS - FRANCE
    IN CLEARANCE PROCESSING
11. Jan 29, 2021
12. 9:56AM LT
    
    
    LOS ANGELES - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    LOADED FOR TRANSPORT
13. Jan 23, 2021
14. 11:39AM CT
    
    
    Melrose Park, IL, US
    PROCESSING COMPLETED AT ORIGIN
15. Jan 20, 2021
16. 6:35AM CT
    
    
    Melrose Park, IL, US
    PROCESSED
17. Jan 19, 2021
18. 6:38PM CT
    
    
    Melrose Park, IL, US
    PACKAGE RECEIVED AT DHL ECOMMERCE DISTRIBUTION CENTER
19. Jan 18, 2021
20. 4:45PM EST
    
    
    EN ROUTE TO DHL ECOMMERCE DISTRIBUTION CENTER
21. 4:35PM EST
    
    
    ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION RECEIVED: YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN PROCESSED AND TRACKING WILL BE UPDATED SOON

Is it a World Tour tshirt?

 

[Unicron]

Is it a World Tour tshirt?

It's something I ordered back in August that was supposed to be with me for Christmas.

 

[Cormcolash]

Was in the post office today, the GPO to be exact. Queueing system there is a fucking mess, and of course the 2m distancing makes it a bit less clear, so I queued up, only to have a woman come along and stand a bit over to my right, making her own queue. I wasn't in a rush, so I went fuck it and joined in that instead, behind a guy that had already got in behind her. As that guy gets to the counter, a GPO guy directs some man with his kid to form a new queue for the same counter, standing in the spot I'd been standing in before.
Fuck it, guy has a kid and all, I'm not in a rush, so I just stand and wait. As this new guy gets up to the counter, they open another counter just off to the right of me, and the guy at that counter calls up the woman queueing behind me. He's then bewildered when I start to loudly proclaim "YEAH SURE YOU JUST GO AHEAD THERE THEN, IT'S NOT LIKE I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE 5 MINUTES OR ANYTHING"