DarkMonohue said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Look at their feedback rating. It's below 97%. They're not interested in making it right.
Open a dispute with eBay or PayPal.
Yep, that's exactly what I'm going to do. eBay makes you wait 3 days before opening a dispute which means I have to wait another day, which isn't a big deal. I'm not even going to bother with a response to the seller.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Any chance the Maverick or Santa Cruz would work better for her anyway? IIRC, you don't tow with it, so it'd be down to whether it has enough bed and interior space?
In reply to eastsideTim :
I know the Santa Cruz is out- I really like them and have said as much since they came out, but she thinks they look ridiculous. The Maverick might be an option, but we've not really looked that much into anything but the Colorado- she has really liked the ones she's had and was just figuring that getting a newer one would be best. But if the sliding window on them ends up being a deal-breaker, we may have to start looking at things again from scratch.
*sigh* Either way, I seriously doubt anything will happen for another month now- I was really hoping that she'd really like one after driving it such that we could find one that had the features she would want that the dealership could do a dealer trade for and we'd be able to get the new one this weekend. But as things are, I doubt she's going to want to make the time to do anything else until after the Winter show in a bit under a month.
Edit: I just looked- and the Maverick has a 4.5' bed vs the Colorado's 5' bed... and she uses every inch of the bed lenght to fit what she carries around for her outreach work. So the Maverick would be out. The Ranger has a 5' bed though, and is probably closer to the Colorado in many other aspects as well.
i want it all. proximity, square footage, price. i can afford proximity and sqft, but i've squeezed pennies for so long that i can't get up off my wallet to buy something close to home.
My satellite provider has dropped the ball so large I will be leaving for their competitor. I would have stayed if I could have negotiated a significantly better rate, which I'm sure I could have, but at this point it is not possible to contact them in any way. They did give me a call back this morning, put me on hold, then hung up on me.
The rant? I can choose 10 channels of my choice to add to the base pkg. We can't find 10 channels that are worth watching
Not exactly a rant, but sort of a random "WTF?"
Watched a line of cars crowding a semi that had its right merge blinker on for at least a minute. Eventually the semi just merged over and the last one in line backed off so there was *just* enough room for the semi to squeeze in.
Do semi drivers just... do that regularly? Like they know that drivers are asshats who won't give them room so they eventually have to force the issue when they think there's maybe enough room, and trust that the other drivers have enough sense of self preservation to make way?
In reply to Beer Baron 🍺 :
I don't know about truck drivers, but I have had to do that in the RV and pulling a trailer many times before. Signal on, way ahead of the merge or whatever, and pretty much every car will tuck in on the bumper of the car in front so you can't get over. When I had the Excursion I didn't have many problems because nice cars will part like the Red Sea for Moses when a dude driving a banged up, giant SUV with a E36 M3box on a trailer starts coming over.
In reply to wae :
Been in the same spot with a horse trailer-- great fun with ~1200 lbs of not quite completely secured cargo.
Beer Baron 🍺 said:Not exactly a rant, but sort of a random "WTF?"
Watched a line of cars crowding a semi that had its right merge blinker on for at least a minute. Eventually the semi just merged over and the last one in line backed off so there was *just* enough room for the semi to squeeze in.
Do semi drivers just... do that regularly? Like they know that drivers are asshats who won't give them room so they eventually have to force the issue when they think there's maybe enough room, and trust that the other drivers have enough sense of self preservation to make way?
In Houston if you want to change lanes in traffic jams forcing a lane change is usually the only way to go. Just make the other guy who won't let you change, even though your blinker has been on for a while, think you aren't going to stop moving over and they get the message, hit the brakes, call you "shiny happy person", and you get the lane change. I have found this does not work well with my Miata but works fine with my pickup truck.
Beer Baron 🍺 said:Not exactly a rant, but sort of a random "WTF?"
Watched a line of cars crowding a semi that had its right merge blinker on for at least a minute. Eventually the semi just merged over and the last one in line backed off so there was *just* enough room for the semi to squeeze in.
Do semi drivers just... do that regularly? Like they know that drivers are asshats who won't give them room so they eventually have to force the issue when they think there's maybe enough room, and trust that the other drivers have enough sense of self preservation to make way?
Many years ago, I was up in Pennsylvania. The road I was on had a lane closed and a semi was stuck right infront of the merge. Nobody would let him in. I crept up for half a mile till I got up to the truck and still nobody had bothered to let the truck merge. I stopped and let him in. The guy behind me lost his friggin mind.
The the lane closure lasted all of half a city block, and the guy behind me was laying on his horn, screaming, and waving his arm at me the entire time. As soon as traffic opened up, the truck moved right and I followed. The guy behind me pulled up alongside and was all but frothing at the mouth as he yelled, screamed, and gesticulated. I looked over, smiled, waved, and slammed the brakes after noting that nobody was behind me. The guy paused a moment and just decided to floor it. He's lucky he didn't stop, the truck driver was watching too.
In reply to Beer Baron 🍺 :
that's how it worked for me driving my regular vehicle when i lived in DFW. People don't let you in unless you make them
There is a spot on I94 through Minneapolis where you enter from the left, and exit to the right about 3 miles later. Across about four lanes of traffic. In a Semi, at rush hour, you put on the right turn signal and start moving over slowly. Don't even look. Just move over slowly enough for people to realize that somebody bigger than them is coming over. Otherwise, you wind up in Denver instead of Canada.
Well, that might be an exaggeration...but not much.
When we were moving.
18' trailer pulled by an old diesel Ford that's worth less than your shirt.
People would try to keep me from changing lanes but it never worked for them.
Peabody said:My satellite provider has dropped the ball so large I will be leaving for their competitor. I would have stayed if I could have negotiated a significantly better rate, which I'm sure I could have, but at this point it is not possible to contact them in any way. They did give me a call back this morning, put me on hold, then hung up on me.
The rant? I can choose 10 channels of my choice to add to the base pkg. We can't find 10 channels that are worth watching
Do you really need another TV package? There are probably more than 10 decent channels on pluto.tv alone...
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Why not get the Colorado and change out the rear window?
You give a nice, big, fat, vigorous wiggle of the trailer, and all but the most hardened combat driver will break from their text message, target fixated stupor to give way.
Started using a rewards card for less than a year and now this is the second time a new one needs to be issued because of fraud charges.
Kind of annoying, I can't remember if my old card through the same bank was ever compromised.
ShawnG said:When we were moving.
18' trailer pulled by an old diesel Ford that's worth less than your shirt.
People would try to keep me from changing lanes but it never worked for them.
The M715 forestry truck has both a push bumper and a PA/loudspeaker. Not only can i make someone move, i can tell them exactly what I think of their E36 M3 driving while I do it. :)
GameboyRMH said:Peabody said:The rant? I can choose 10 channels of my choice to add to the base pkg. We can't find 10 channels that are worth watching
Do you really need another TV package? There are probably more than 10 decent channels on pluto.tv alone...
Yeah, we dropped TV entirely and bought a $40 Roku. Our service bill is less than half what it was and we actually have more channels we are interested in watching than we did with a cable TV package.
Duke said:GameboyRMH said:Peabody said:The rant? I can choose 10 channels of my choice to add to the base pkg. We can't find 10 channels that are worth watching
Do you really need another TV package? There are probably more than 10 decent channels on pluto.tv alone...
Yeah, we dropped TV entirely and bought a $40 Roku. Our service bill is less than half what it was and we actually have more channels we are interested in watching than we did with a cable TV package.
If Nascar had a streaming service, cable would be toast in my house. Firestick is my choice.
Duke said:GameboyRMH said:Peabody said:The rant? I can choose 10 channels of my choice to add to the base pkg. We can't find 10 channels that are worth watching
Do you really need another TV package? There are probably more than 10 decent channels on pluto.tv alone...
Yeah, we dropped TV entirely and bought a $40 Roku. Our service bill is less than half what it was and we actually have more channels we are interested in watching than we did with a cable TV package.
We did the same thing a few years ago. The Roku is great considering it's free, but there are about 10 specialty channels that PW watches regularly. To get them through the various streaming services, because they're spread out, would cost about the same as the satellite. The benefit of having satellite is spreading the services out over two providers. I would not want to have to rely on internet only for TV.
We live in the country and our internet options, though much better than before, are limited, and not as reliable as I would like. We now have fiber optic to our door, but it's the same company that bought our satellite provider and shut down customer service. The company that says in order to cancel you have to call us, but no longer answer the phones. The same company that said this year, we're shutting down our pay as you go phone service. Anybody with a balance is SOL. PW had $120 balance and lost it.
Fortunately, our current (towers and line of sight receiver) provider is bleeding customers to the fiber optic company, meaning our internet AND customer service is actually getting better. Because of that I was able to negotiate a much better deal after a few weeks of them screwing up our service, and email addresses. Since the Roku is free monthly, and we have internet anyway, I'll be paying just the $40 (sat) for TV. It's not ideal, but I can live with it. We're actually now paying about a third of what we used to pay, but if it were just me I'd have the Roku and call it a day, TV costs would be zero.
I'm always blown away when I find out someone has cable. The only place I've seen it in the past 15 years is in a hotel.
We ditched satellite years ago and went 100% streaming. Everything was great for a while, but now almost all the content that used to be free or included with 1-2 subscriptions is spread out over a dozen or more streaming services as they all try to squeeze out their piece of the pie. So you pay as much as you did for satellite/cable, or you jump around joining and canceling after a trial, or a month when you've watched what you want. Cheaper, but a lot more work...
In reply to Beer Baron 🍺 :
Yep that is how it works. When I got my CDL I was trying to change lanes and wait for an opening. No one would let me in, the guy teaching me said what are you doing? I said waiting for an opening. He said turn on you blinker, ok the third flash start changing lanes, they will get the point.
If I am driving a car I always flash them in and make a gap but almost nobody does so you kind of have to do it that way.
I had to give my insurance company of 22 years the "Dear John" phone call yesterday. This was after I asked where the hell the final payment to the body shop that did the PDR on my Maverick was at. All the claims rep knew is that the check was printed out on January 6th but stated that the date isn't the mailing date. Yeah, no E36 M3.
When the policy rep asked if I dropped the coverage or went with another carrier, I gladly told them which carrier earned my business. I know that it doesn't matter at all in the grand scheme of things but it felt like a minuscule amount of vengeance.
(Yes, I made that meme just for you guys)
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