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Amazon has messed up shipping twice in the 3+ years I've had prime and I have at least 2 orders a month. Both times I talked with support and was credited to my account for $15 or something each time. That's what customer service is for, to fix things.
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Be that as it may, I wanted my loving exhaust by Friday night so I could install it over the weekend, not $10 or $15 after wasting my time on the horn with tier 1 customer service. By the time I determined their page was lying to me, it was too late to get the parts locally anytime before Sunday evening for a ~30% price premium. So I just angrily click the "poo poo did not arrive on time you assholes" button on the tracking page and move on with my life. If it happens enough I will probably hassle them about it.
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I never order anything I absolutely need. I still like going to the store and having poo poo in hand. Also helps that both Napa and Car Quest have distribution centers with in 5 miles of my house that I can walk into.
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Dec 29, 2014 23:54
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kastein posted:Be that as it may, I wanted my loving exhaust by Friday night so I could install it over the weekend, not $10 or $15 after wasting my time on the horn with tier 1 customer service. By the time I determined their page was lying to me, it was too late to get the parts locally anytime before Sunday evening for a ~30% price premium. The transcript of the last time I was on the horn with Amazon CS was basically this: CS: How may I help you today? Me: The guaranteed delivery date was yesterday for order #1234567890 and I still don't have my stuff. I bought Prime to have guaranteed 2 day shipping not eventually 2 day shipping sometime whenever UPS and USPS feel like it CS: I'm very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused, I have credited your account $15. Once again, apologies, blah blah blah You do have to be careful since some stuff is Expected Delivery Date vs Guaranteed. If it says Guaranteed and it isn't there, go yell at them.
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Dec 29, 2014 23:59
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Kinda related, and as much as it sucks for everyone working there, are any other Brits glad to see the back of City Link? I've had all of 3 parcels handled by them and none of them have successfully made it to me first time. The best one was being told over the phone that my parcel was definitely at the Basingstoke collection centre, only to drive there and be told it had been sent to Manchester by mistake. 
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My Amazon orders page noted one of my two packages was now showing as "delivered". Suspicious that they may have hidden it behind my bin or something, I went out to check... and found both packages in my porch. So at some point this evening (I was last outside at about 7pm) they've turned up, not rung the doorbell (I thought maybe it was playing up, but no, it's working), and just dumped the stuff there (and not closed the door properly after them). So yes, in the strictest sense, they have delivered my stuff today as promised, but that's taking the piss a bit.
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Dec 30, 2014 00:11
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freelop posted:Well still feeling pretty good, eaten all the sushi now so if I've poisoned my family... whoops. Realistically, the biggest concern is to be sure the fish was properly frozen to kill parasites. The freezing process is what makes it sushi grade fish. Some of the parasites can be pretty nasty, but as a whole most of the fish will be frozen immediately after it is caught anyway.
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I just ordered a bunch of Mark Ronson CD's off of Amazon. Now I feel the need to buy the biggest bargiest 1970's landbarge money can buy.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Guys.... Guys... GUYS!!!!! My gfs and my computer parts are now meshed as one. What does this mean? my gf has had my monitor for years. you're fine. Galler posted:The only late delivery I've ever gotten from Amazon was when I paid for Saturday delivery and the refunded the shipping cost since it didn't make it on time. I've actually had a bunch of orders arrive a day before they were supposed to. Sailor Jerry is good. My pallet has aged to the point where I prefer a good single barrel rum. Horse Divorce posted:Sailor Jerry is the best rum there is, and anybody who says otherwise is either wrong or hasn't had it yet. It's not what it used to be. $5 cheaper for a liter and tasted better too.
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Ugh. The Ebay vinyl I bought ended up being horrible. Every time I went to heat and stretch it maybe a centimeter it broke. Not very good for large areas.
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About to start a road trip from long island ny to chapel hill nc gonna have a long nap and head out
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Man, today sucks. Aside from my job being soul sucking today what with my boss reaming me out about writing dry emails to people in the company I support who I literally just talked to minutes ago and was writing as a formality for 'accountability' an apparently filthy word. I get home and I realize it's pretty darn cold. Apparently the furnace chose today to have the thermocouples fail on the pilot light, won't stay lit unless I keep the override depressed. Going to get down into the 20's this week in NNJ.
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Dec 30, 2014 02:11
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:So I'm thinking that I'm going to not build a 383 for the Nova as originally planned, but go Gen III/IV instead. Probably go with LQ4/LQ9 to save some cash. Anybody want to buy a tired 350 crate motor? How much? I know you live somewhere in Illinois and my wife wants to rebuild a motor with me and this would make the perfect and easiest opportunity.
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SouthsideSaint posted:How much? I know you live somewhere in Illinois and my wife wants to rebuild a motor with me and this would make the perfect and easiest opportunity. Umm... that was more of a "haha, I won't need this anymore" sort of jokey statement. I plan on using ol' Wheezy for some time as I rebuild the suspension. Sorry to get your hopes up.  You could probably hit up a salvage yard and find a cheap one to pull and rebuild. Looking to put it in anything in particular?
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SouthsideSaint posted:How much? I know you live somewhere in Illinois and my wife wants to rebuild a motor with me and this would make the perfect and easiest opportunity. I bet you will have access to a VG30E that needs rebuilding in the very near future.
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^^^ yeah id rather not. Im not gonna spend time helping someone out of the well while there digging downwards. Ive got my own headaches and projects to deal with. Plus a wife and three kids...so my little bit of free time isn't gonna be given out so freely anymore. And BoazMcpherson I was just fishing in the dark. Shes into old muscle but wants us to get a suburban and completely redo that. Ive almost got her into the thought of a K5...
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kastein posted:I bet you will have access to a VG30E that needs rebuilding in the very near future.  Yer really going full rear end in a top hat today. Did you get more work done on the house, or not?
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SouthsideSaint posted:^^^ yeah id rather not. Im not gonna spend time helping someone out of the well while there digging downwards. Ive got my own headaches and projects to deal with. Plus a wife and three kids...so my little bit of free time isn't gonna be given out so freely anymore. And BoazMcpherson I was just fishing in the dark. Shes into old muscle but wants us to get a suburban and completely redo that. Ive almost got her into the thought of a K5... Oh hell yeah K5. A monster big block would be awesome for that if you don't mind single digit mileage.
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SouthsideSaint posted:^^^ yeah id rather not. Im not gonna spend time helping someone out of the well while there digging downwards. Ive got my own headaches and projects to deal with. Plus a wife and three kids...so my little bit of free time isn't gonna be given out so freely anymore. And BoazMcpherson I was just fishing in the dark. Shes into old muscle but wants us to get a suburban and completely redo that. Ive almost got her into the thought of a K5... A second gen K5 was on my short list of lovely old 4x4s I wanted when I ended up with my XJ. The other options were a second or third gen Bronco or a Wrangler... then I realized Wranglers actually cost money and an XJ was more in line with the body styling I like anyways. So basically not much has changed, except if I owned a Bronco or a K5 now I'd take the back off and never put it back on, and XJs have given way to MJs. What I'm saying is buy a K5, you know you want to!
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Went to a local mazda dealer to try Mazda2. The sales guy says "We don't have any units right now, we might have some tomorrow, but give me a call before showing up just to make sure". Ok then, how's that any way to make money?
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iv46vi posted:Went to a local mazda dealer to try Mazda2. The sales guy says "We don't have any units right now, we might have some tomorrow, but give me a call before showing up just to make sure". Ok then, how's that any way to make money? Sometimes they don't have certain cars in stock, it happens, same as any other retail store. Try another dealer in your area or call them and check again tomorrow afternoon.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:It's your project but why the change of heart? You could easily swap it to megasquirt and run a throttle body if it's deliverability your after. Sorry this is a page back, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to cheerlead. LS motors already have everything you could possibly want on a gen1 SBC, and usually those things are big dollar items. For instance, the LS motor is full roller (cam, rockers), and has has 1.7:1 rockers. 1-piece rear main seal. A good classic SBC has 4-bolt mains; most have 2-bolt mains. LS motors all have 6-bolt mains. Everything except one motor in one year has aluminum heads. It's already set up for sequential spark and fuel, and the stock ECU is incredibly flexible. Plus, you can get big-block displacement in a small-block package, and with an aluminum block if you want to spend some more money. Oh yeah, and they're cheap; an iron block 5.3 should run you less than $500. The only argument for a classic SBC that I can think of is wanting to keep a swap simple (carburetor and distributor) just for the sake of being simple. If you're going to go through with wiring up electronic engine control, might as well get the whole package.
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Gramps is "really-really" dying this time. Despite not being able to afford it, I need to go home. I may just give up and stay there this time.
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Goddamnit. Had another STR massive post typed up, then was having issues logging into the student portal at the community college I used to go to (trying to enroll last minute for spring classes). Did the standard troubleshooting before calling their tech support.... including clearing out all the browsing data/cache/etc and closing the browser.  Had I not cleared everything, I could have just re-opened the tab. Cakefool posted:Why on earth would anyone choose to do delivery? There honestly has to be better jobs. I of all people know about staying in your comfort zone but In this case, my only excuse is I needed a job really quick, when my plans to move to another store got torpedoed. Also this: Renzyal posted:Same reason people work as waiters, in a fairly busy night you can make up for the lower pay and make a bundle ontop of that. Of course that can fail on a slow night or if you don't get the good tables or delivery spots I've had shifts where I've made $5 (including mileage, on a loving closing shift, at that - 2 deliveries in 6 hours  ), and I've had shifts where I've broken $500. This is the first delivery job I've had in 10 years that didn't pay below minimum wage (it actually pays slightly above minimum), but it's also the first one I've had that didn't have some form of fuel or mileage reimbursement. Last time I worked at Papa John's, I got $4.25/hr while dispatched, and $1.59 per delivery ($7.25 while inside the store). At Pizza Hut, I started at $5.50/hr while dispatched (got bumped to $5.85 after a year), and $1.10 or $1.00 per delivery depending which store I was working at (again, $7.25 while in the store). The franchise I worked for just cut 8 cents out of those delivery reimbursements; I need to scan the letter and post it, it's quite literally a "hey thanks for all your hard work, but we're going to reduce what we pay by pennies just because we can".We don't get our own "delivery spots" - it's first driver in, first driver out, oldest orders go out first - it's not like a UPS or USPS driver with a set route. Whenever possible, 2 orders will go out with a driver at the same time, as long as they're fairly close to each other (same general direction), unless poo poo has really hit the fan - then it's 3 or 4 out at a time, and you just hope they're in the same part of town. I always try to work in stores that primarily deliver to upper middle class to downright rich areas; the store I'm at now serves primarily upper middle class to upper class, and the tips reflect it. The store I'm at is also known to have pretty drat good food (meatpimp is apparently familiar with the brand). I've come close to breaking $100 in a shift twice so far at this store, and I've only been here 3 weeks (at Pizza Hut, I only broke $100 3 or 4 times in a year and a half, I rarely broke $50 there). It's not a very busy store, but most of the drivers bitch about orders to one corner of town (I mentioned it before, it's a mixed use residential/commercial property). When they bitch, I offer to take the order, if I'm the next driver after them (again, first in, first out). If I'm not, I check with everyone ahead of me. So far I've only been refused a couple of times. Then they wonder how I wound up with 15 deliveries compared to their 6 or 7. We have a map of the property, we have access cards for all the gates, it's 3.5 miles away... the only difficult part is parking (my car is small enough to fit into those end spots in the curb cutouts for parallel parking and not stick out into traffic). I don't get why they hate it so much  but I have the blessing of both the GM and asst GM to keep doing it, as long as the driver it's supposed to go with (and anybody ahead of me/after them) agree to it.Then the other drivers wonder how the hell I've wound up with 15 or 20 orders compared to their 6 or 7. Not only do I get more orders because everyone else is too bitchy to deal with parking, but it also means the drivers who passed up the orders are stuck in the store a bit longer.. which means they're stuck doing dishes, cleaning, etc. Which means less poo poo for me to do once I'm back in the store.  Boaz MacPhereson posted:Oh hell yeah K5. A monster big block would be awesome for that if you don't mind single digit mileage.  A K5 is on my top 10 list of vehicles to own. Except with a modern drivetrain.A friend has had one for ... 20? 30? years? It's been through 3 engines and 3 or 4 transmissions in that time, the interior may as well not exist at this point, and only the passenger side and rear windows roll down (the a/c doesn't work either, of course). He picked up a dirt cheap Mazda 929 a couple of years ago to use as a daily (body is rough, but it runs well, everything works, and it aligns just fine), and AFAIK the K5 just gets driven when it's less than 80 outside. He loves it, partly because it's one of the few vehicles he can fit in (he's about 6'4, and on the large side). I'd actually like to buy it off of him whenever he's sick of fixing it. Get the front bench reupholstered, get Ol' Wheezy 305 running properly for a bit, get the top broken loose (it's never been off, according to him, so I'm sure whatever gaskets exist between the top and body will need replacing), get all the broken interior stuff fixed, fix the a/c and heat (heater core is cracked, but it's not like doing a Volvo heater core), and eventually do a GenIV 4.8 swap (more because they're dirt cheap, everyone passes them over for a 5.3, and can easily make just as much power as a stock 5.3 with very little work). I know everything on it is completely worn out, but they're very basic and easy to work on. Not sure if I'd swap to a newer grill or not though - it's whatever the last year was of the round headlights, and I prefer the look of the square ones. Though I know you can get modern retrofits for the rounds (including LED). It'd definitely include all new wiring; it has some electrical issues that are likely related to dry rotted wiring. I wouldn't give two shits about the paint; the body is kind of beat, but there's absolutely zero rust anywhere (my Saturn is nearly 30 years newer and has a lot more, thanks to spending half its life in Utah). Sad part is it's 2WD, but it's not like there's really anywhere to go offroading out here anyway. I just really love 70s/very early 80s trucks, especially K5s and Broncos. kastein posted:I bet you will have access to a VG30E that needs rebuilding in the very near future.  NitroSpazzz posted:Amazon has messed up shipping twice in the 3+ years I've had prime and I have at least 2 orders a month. Both times I talked with support and was credited to my account for $15 or something each time. That's what customer service is for, to fix things. I do have a decent rant about Amazon's shipping. They never tell you what carrier it's going out with. For someone who lives in an actual home, that's not an issue. When I lived in dorms, that was a huge issue. If it was going out USPS, I had a PO Box at the university postal center. If it was going UPS/Fedex/etc, they could deliver it to the front desk of my dorm; the person at the front desk would call me or text me to tell me I had a package. While I had an actual street address at the dorm (200 Avenue D, Room #<nope>, Denton TX 76201), USPS didn't handle anything on campus. Anything USPS went to the campus mail center. It wasn't until halfway through my first semester that I learned that the postal center would accept UPS/Fedex packages, but it also meant I had to get there between 9-5, then figure out a way to either strap it to my bike, shove it in my backpack, or wait for the next bus that went in the general direction of my dorm.
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Raluek posted:Sorry this is a page back, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to cheerlead. LS motors already have everything you could possibly want on a gen1 SBC, and usually those things are big dollar item. I'm well aware of how awesome ls motors are, I was just interested in his line of thinking. I've considered it for the jjjjaaaagggg but I'm not about to dive in and monkey with the swap that was done. Because who ever did the swap on mine did a really nice job... I know.. The po did a decent jobjob. But with all the kits for converting jags to Chevy motors there's almost no excuse to do poo poo work.
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jammyozzy posted:The best one was being told over the phone that my parcel was definitely at the Basingstoke collection centre, only to drive there and be told it had been sent to Manchester by mistake. Knowing the people of Basingstoke, I might almost wonder if they did it on purpose.  Delivery services here in Japan are pretty drat excellent though. The one time they missed a delivery date the driver called personally to profusely apologize. 
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Torn Quad Jones posted:About to start a road trip from long island ny to chapel hill nc gonna have a long nap and head out Just made it here cookie dough ice cream, dunkin donuts coolata, reeses peanut butter cups, 1/4 lber habanero burger from mcd, jerky and a 5 hour energy is a terrible combo and my rear end in a top hat is suffering
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Got sent home after 90 minutes at work this morning. Coughing up a lung and no one wants me to get them sick. I was coughing so hard last night I puked up a pint of pure phlegm.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Got sent home after 90 minutes at work this morning. Coughing up a lung and no one wants me to get them sick. I was coughing so hard last night I puked up a pint of pure phlegm. Don't go into work with whooping cough, dude. Other people also gotta make money.
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I get this sick like twice a year. My chest always gets congested as gently caress for a week or two. When I was little I got Bronchitis every year until high school.
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InitialDave posted:On a similar level, I loving detest Big Bang Theory. Working in IT, the guys on my shift (all older techs) have declared putting BBT on the TV in the break room to be a beating offense. Can't loving stand that show, just want to take a ball-peen hammer to the lead's knees until he stops being a smug sperglord.
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kastein posted:A second gen K5 was on my short list of lovely old 4x4s I wanted when I ended up with my XJ. The other options were a second or third gen Bronco or a Wrangler... then I realized Wranglers actually cost money and an XJ was more in line with the body styling I like anyways. Yeah I am definitely getting a K5 or late eighties early nineties suburban. basically pre vortec and pre SPIDERS!!!! My wife has a love for all things small block Chevy. And single digit mileage wont really matter to much since I drive blocks to work every day and have other cars for better gas mileage. Also the blazer and bronco always look better with the back removed.
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Extra posted:I canceled my prime this year because they never met the guaranteed shipping times. Newegg gets parts and equipment to customers and I faster for free. RockAuto beat Amazon to getting parts to me last month. I was amazed. 
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Maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but some of y'all like racing games too, right? I have a Driving Force GT that I love but when I last moved I think I chucked the power adapter. And now I can't play Assetto Corsa, which I am excited to try because racing games. Does anyone know where the hell I can get a replacement power adapter for the wheel?
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tuna posted:Don't go into work with whooping cough, dude. Other people also gotta make money. Where I come from, the only way to get out of work is to show up coughing out organs. Otherwise they don't believe you and passive-aggressively resent you for weeks once you come back. "Yeah, we're still behind from when you were sick." "We weren't able to complete the ad because you weren't here." "(boss) is saying the DM is going to write her up because the store wasn't cleaned when you were out." "Last friday was the biggest day of the month, we wish you could have been here." Man, gently caress you for laying guilt on me for being sick. Called out one time and they acted like the mongols had pillaged the store and it was all my fault. Next time I'll come in with a bucket of vomit and let them make the call. No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?
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