WAMT....what annoyed me today!

[mj4456]

Last night actually, answered a call on my phone and was pleasantly greeted by an Indian voice asking about my EE phone, obviously a call centre by the background noise, well with the noise and her accent I couldn’t make enough out to understand so politely said I need to hang up, which I did, within seconds another call with another woman trying to tell me the same, I told her I could not understand the call and was going to end it when she said I’ll put my supervisor on, at this point as the silence on call it was a “ah f*ck this” thought and I hung up, and it rang which I blocked. Could not hear anything clearly understand but decided it was a scam as I don’t use EE so why were calling was beyond me. Scheme not working if their reps can’t be understood, blocked all the numbers and nothing today, good.

 

[Marc]

With Scotland having different laws regarding house sale / purchase it seems easier up here to do, English method seems so open to one party screwing it all up for a chain right up to the point of collecting keys.

Yep, it's absolutely atrocious. We should be exchanging tomorrow, or Tuesday at the latest, but we can't relax until we're actually IN the new house.

 

[Nod]

Hope all goes to (close to...) plan, Marc.

 

[JohnC6]

We're still without internet..today is a week. I have to sit with my iPad and mobile to get a signal . I don't know why I get a signal but my wife went into my iPad setting. I will haave to call Nat West to pay my credit card bill. I usually do it online. The iPad is limited compared my iMac so it's a real bind. There are actions here on TP that I can't carry out on my iPad. A pain. Several houses locally have been affected and it needs a specialist engineer to sort it...say BT this morning. The customer care chap thinks it should be sorted by 6.00pm today. We're up to about £70 plus in automatic compensation.

The TV runs on the internet,too so no TV for a week.If Putin decided to cobble our internet it would do a darned sight more 'damage' than missiles.

 

[Marc]

Hope all goes to (close to...) plan, Marc.

Had a call from our agent about an hour ago. Without any explanation, our buyers have decided to withdraw. We were due to exchange today!

They came to have another look round on Saturday. All was positive. They even had a conversation with our neighbour's telling them about their plans for the house!

c***s!

 

[woof woof]

I've had terrible IBS today, just awful, and I have no idea why. Mrs WW gets an awful rash which I'm sure is mind driven. The mind is a powerful thing.

 

[JohnC6]

I've mentioned our internet loss last week. We got a letter today from BT saying that they have closed the file. We had to call them again today.. The landline doesn't work, the BT remote won't change channels on the TV, the two internet boosters don't work. After speaking to a very helpful young man at BT he's decided we need it all renewing and has given us two time slots. One for the BT engineer and another for Openereach..Openreach didn't find out what caused several local houses to lose the internet. They found the problem in the nearby junction box and the engineer said he'd never come acrosss what he found before but said they don't know why it happened. At least our experience with BT has been very good..speaking to customer care and the engineers that attended.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

c***s!

We've bought and sold a few houses and every transaction had a few bumps.

English Law is crystal clear on the subject: until the contracts are signed and exchanged, there is no deal.

 

[Marc]

We've bought and sold a few houses and every transaction had a few bumps.

English Law is crystal clear on the subject: until the contracts are signed and exchanged, there is no deal.

I'm we,ll aware of that but it's wrong IMO. We are now selling via Modern Method of Auction which requires the successful bidder to pay a non-refundable deposit of 4.5%. Should be that way for all house purchases.

As we are selling via auction, we have to use a different solicitor, but still have to pay our other solicitor for the failed sale.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

We are now selling via Modern Method of Auction which requires the successful bidder to pay a non-refundable deposit of 4.5%.

I had to look that up.

Seems like a good way for the estate agents to make money but, as you've discovered, it doesn't appear to guarantee anything to the seller other than extra costs.

Should be that way for all house purchases.

I doubt it will be. It seems that consumer support organisations and Trading Standards departments are taking an interest in the thing, at least according to this site ...

Modern Method of Auction Pros and Cons - Property Solvers Explain...

The auction team at Property Solvers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a Modern Method of Auction house (from both a buyers + sellers perspective).

auctions.propertysolvers.co.uk

 

[Earley Man]

Hope all goes to (close to...) plan, Marc.

Buying and selling property in England was clearly set up by the legal profession, to make money for the legal profession, by making them essentially to the processs.

 

[Earley Man]

What annoyed me today and every single day recently, is the fact that when I log into most sites an advert for Google Chrome pops up.

This is somewhat mitigated by the thought that if Google needs to do this, then I'm far from being the only one who has realised that Chrome, far from being secure, is just another way Google is trying to obtain my personal information.

 

[Marc]

I had to look that up.

Seems like a good way for the estate agents to make money but, as you've discovered, it doesn't appear to guarantee anything to the seller other than extra costs.

The Estate Agent makes the same either way except that the buyer pays the fee. This offsets the extra solicitor's fee and some. Nothing is guarantee d, but if the buyer is having to pay a non-refundable deposit up front, ther e 's far less chance that they 'll pull out.

 

[tarric]

We're still without internet..today is a week. I have to sit with my iPad and mobile to get a signal . I don't know why I get a signal but my wife went into my iPad setting. I will haave to call Nat West to pay my credit card bill. I usually do it online. The iPad is limited compared my iMac so it's a real bind. There are actions here on TP that I can't carry out on my iPad. A pain. Several houses locally have been affected and it needs a specialist engineer to sort it...say BT this morning. The customer care chap thinks it should be sorted by 6.00pm today. We're up to about £70 plus in automatic compensation.

The TV runs on the internet,too so no TV for a week.If Putin decided to cobble our internet it would do a darned sight more 'damage' than missiles.

If you have a mobile phone you should be able to use it as a hotspot and tether your other devices to it, it's what I do while I'm traveling.

 

[gman]

If you have a mobile phone you should be able to use it as a hotspot and tether your other devices to it, it's what I do while I'm traveling.

Same here, been doing that for a long time. I also upgraded to an unlimted data contract with EE (obviously with fair use) because things like NetFlix would suffer from device perception and as EE would generally not throttle it my data allowance would get obliterated.

 

[tarric]

Same here, been doing that for a long time. I also upgraded to an unlimted data contract with EE (obviously with fair use) because things like NetFlix would suffer from device perception and as EE would generally not throttle it my data allowance would get obliterated.

I took out a Tesco mobile unlimited, as I travel a lot both in the UK and Europe and they are one of the few who allow you to use your full contract abroad unlike many others that limit it's use.

 

[Marc]

Same here, been doing that for a long time. I also upgraded to an unlimted data contract with EE (obviously with fair use) because things like NetFlix would suffer from device perception and as EE would generally not throttle it my data allowance would get obliterated.

I do it whenever we go away. Fortunately, I rarely use my phone without wifi, so my data rolls over. I currently have 200gb in the piggy bank.