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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 20:01:05 GMT
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Post by nob on Mar 28, 2021 14:05:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 14:45:07 GMT
Personally, I've heard what it's like to work for them at one of their distribution centres - and I never would. I think there's one near me though.
It doesn't surprise me at all if their employees hardly have chance for their toilet breaks, and they have to resort to that instead.
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Post by nob on Mar 28, 2021 14:49:25 GMT
There's a big distribution depot in Doncaster, a lot of foreign workers there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 15:59:16 GMT
There was a programme on television ages ago, which I saw a little bit of. I'm not sure which channel it was, but it was on one of the Freeview channels (I don't have anything else). Actually, I bet there's been more than one about them over the years.
The working conditions were ridiculous though, for example order-picking employees timed on how long it took for them to get from one item to the next one.
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Post by banjo on Mar 28, 2021 16:57:12 GMT
Me not impressed with Amazon right now. Dishonest scumbags.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 19:23:15 GMT
I've never personally been impressed by them. Haven't ordered anything from them for over a year now.
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Post by banjo on Mar 29, 2021 9:06:51 GMT
They do have an awesome returns process, I'll give 'em that much. If I ignore the unscrupulous and unrequested funneling into a Prime account that you have to be ruthlessly vigilant to avoid, it's the 98% of irrelevant search results over 19+++ pages that are a constant irritation.
Three or four weeks ago, I bought a new pattern part headlamp from The Big A for Best Beloved's Nissan Almera. The lights were so bad that she was refusing to drive it after sun down and I have to admit she had a point and it beats me how it gets through MOTs. I'd already procured a new offside one from eBay and was astonished at the difference it made. I couldn't get a nearside one on the Bay so off to Amazon I went and found one after about seven pages of pointless results. I waited ten days before Amazon sent an eMail saying I should get notification of despatch within 24 hours. Five days later I received another eMail apologising for the delay and offering me the chance to cancel if it was too late. Two days later I received a second identical eMail, again affording me the opportunity to walk away from the deal. I smelled a rat but sat tight. The very next day I had an eMail notifying me that they've cancelled the order. You could have put money on it. Well phuck 'em P-O-S says I.
My little disapointment is irelevant in the grand scheme of things and I have since bought one via eBay from Oirland, but as a general observation, I hope Bezos chokes on all his cash while his million minnions are furtively lagging in plastic bottles. You don't see many women Amazon drivers do you? According to the OP, Amazon are "handling" the flack arising out of the unsubstantiated claims. No smoke wothout fire says I. Don't you all get sick of public opinion being manipulated? Governments, pressure groups, multi-nationals, religious pundits, anyone with a vested interest of one sort or another. the list is endless. Keep that pressure up at all costs. Never flinch. Each and every one with some stinking agenda of their own to push.
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Post by nob on Mar 29, 2021 9:41:55 GMT
I've just bought a new PC through amazon and no problems it did come from the manufacturer in two weeks no problems at all.  |
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Post by banjo on Mar 29, 2021 13:14:05 GMT
Speak as you find nob- always a good gambit. Apart from their nefarious practices concerning Prime, I've not had any problem before. Trouble is you're only ever as good as your last deal gone down, and I think their method of dealing with this construct of their own making was disrespectful. Just 'fess up from the get-go and everyone's happy- sh1t happens. All they had to do was say "nil stock" and refund, but they dragged it out for nigh on three weeks and were transparently devious in the way they wrapped it up. They could have sourced one for me at their cost but no. Anyway, as I said- I've got one coming from an Eire source. Hopefully!
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Post by nob on Mar 29, 2021 14:02:15 GMT
It wasn't just the plastic clouded up Steve was it I did one once with toothpaste, but you can buy kits to polish the cloudiness out. But like you say with Amazon you have to watch you don't sign up for prime at the checkout, that's a bit naughty.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2021 16:08:49 GMT
Amazon Prime for me is not currently worth it (nor I suspect will it ever be).
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Post by nob on Mar 29, 2021 16:43:50 GMT
Me neither Matt.
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Post by banjo on Mar 29, 2021 20:49:01 GMT
I bought a polishing kit sold by a well known car accessories company nob (so well known that the name escapes me right now!) and I tried to polish them at least twice. They do clean up, but they cloud over again very very quickly and anyway it didn't fix the light problem. You know you have a problem when your own shadow precedes you from the car following you! Also, the supplied protection fluid that you have to apply after the cleaning process appeared to be more like water and thus frankly totally useless.
I queried it with my servicing guy and he just said "they are what they are Mate" which I thought was ducking the issue. I tried more powerful (read- more expensive) lamps which had a much larger impact on my wallet than any detectable increase in lumens per metre squared. I investigated LEDs, but it turns out that you need heatsinks which puzzled me because I thought LEDs were 95% light and 5% heat as opposed to the other way round for incandescent lamps, and I believe they will soon be an MOT failure anyway?
Eventually I realised that the problem was dirt on the internal surface of the freznel lens enclosure inside the luminaire or a dirty / corroded reflector therein. I tried a gynecological approach clean up of the fresnel rings using some rag attached to "a bit of stick" from the rear through the flanged lamp aperture. Waste of time. When I got the new luminaire, I discovered that there is a wedge shaped deflector inside the housing that prevents you from reaching the fresnel lens surface with a bit of stick. So as I said, I elected to try a new headlamp unit. £34 delivered from eBay. Eureka! Even with just the OS unit replaced, I drove down the local bypass where the tory council turns off the street lamps at midnight and the difference was staggering. I then knew that I had to get a NS one too, but the only ones I could get were black instead of grey. When and if the second one arrives and I've installed it, I'll set the beam patterns.
I also bought a pair of used headlamp protectors from eBay for a tenner delivered. I figured the plastic of the new pattern parts may not be as resilient as the Nissan originals (which were made in The UK- Yay!)
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Post by nob on Mar 30, 2021 7:28:22 GMT
Looks like your sorted Steve, I cleaned a set up like I said with toothpaste because of an MOT failure. Then the lad crashed the car so a new headlamp was got from a wreckers. Took it back for a retest and the tube that goes round the lamp was missing, anyway the wreckers gave me one and all sorted and a pass. I bought a new car in October so no tests for three years. I aint a badge snob so got a Dacia and am well impressed, in fact they are Renault all but in badge. Its a bit different to the SLK though I must admit but a damn site cheaper. |
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