Random Rants
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Dammit, my 634s degraded faster than anticipated. I need to send them in for repairs now, rather than waiting until October or so, as I'd planned.
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Probably still a first world problem, but here goes:
I listed a rowing machine on eBay. It's big, it's heavy, it would be a huge hassle to pack and ship, so I listed it for local pickup only. Five minutes after the auction closed, I get an email from the winning bidder-"Can you ship it to me in Kentucky?"
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Dumb. How is that question not asked before even placing a bid?
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Honestly, that's the part that pisses me off about the whole episode. He was the first bidder, and he actively continued bidding throughout the auction. If he had asked at any point during that five days, we'd both be happier right now. Well, he's probably happy- I cancelled the transaction and he got his money back. As far as he's concerned, it's no big deal.
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Honestly, that's the part that pisses me off about the whole episode. He was the first bidder, and he actively continued bidding throughout the auction. If he had asked at any point during that five days, we'd both be happier right now. Well, he's probably happy- I cancelled the transaction and he got his money back. As far as he's concerned, it's no big deal.
eBay could easily prevent this from happening. When posting an item, if they allowed you to select where shipping was limited to they could build in a setting that prevented, or at least warned, anyone with a location not selected by the poster. This idiot probably would have bid anyway but it would at least prevent a few of these instances.
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There is such a function, although I'm not sure it allows you to rule out states other than the one you're in… It's usually used to disallow people from Nigeria and North-Korea to bid...
But, of course, you'd suppose the buyer would be able to read before looking into those options...
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I suppose they should just expand or specify their options to include pickup/local only.
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I'm currently in Los Angeles with my family on holiday (theme parks and stuff). The hotel we have is located near lots of chain restaurants so that is pretty much the choice for our breakfast and evening meal, so what the hell is the deal with the portion sizes !!!!
Every meal we are given so much food that we feel physically ill after eating, and we're leaving meals half eaten at that. I've been to the US many times, but this place and these restaurants are the first I have found that seem to think a share platter for 4 people is an acceptable portion for 1.
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I dunno. I've gone to expensive restaurants that give appetizer sized entrees which kinda sucks. guess it depends where you go
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I'm currently in Los Angeles with my family on holiday (theme parks and stuff). The hotel we have is located near lots of chain restaurants so that is pretty much the choice for our breakfast and evening meal, so what the hell is the deal with the portion sizes !!!!
Every meal we are given so much food that we feel physically ill after eating, and we're leaving meals half eaten at that. I've been to the US many times, but this place and these restaurants are the first I have found that seem to think a share platter for 4 people is an acceptable portion for 1.
I'm sure you noticed the appearance of much of the population in that area as well….. A good number of them have spent far too much time in those same chain restaurants. It's a bad combination when much of the population was raised to finish everything on their plate.
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^about that… my wife pointed out something to me the other day about changes in patterns of food consumption. In Norway, they got frozen pizza for the first time in the late 80's and it was a Norwegian made piece of shit called Grandiosa with a cardboard base, rubbery cheese and some alleged, unidentifiable meat product on top. Despite being disgusting, it's still insanely popular today. The point is, one of those pizza's was a standard Friday night family treat way back then. So that works out at about 200gr. of pizza each for a famliy of four. The standard now is one whole pizza each at about 1250 calories.
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@Megatron1505 I saw on IG you all stopped at IHOP…that is not American Dining, that is 'Murican Dining.
We are all just trying to Make Murica Great Again.
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IHOP actually had one of the "saner" portions we have experienced. Our hotel restaurant portions are grotesque, a starter could feed my entire family comfortably.
