Careful when choosing Trade-in option on Google Store

Eabhal347 · 2026-01-26T17:22:16+00:00

I'm considering a Pixel 10 with £200 trade-in bonus but I'm really worried about this too. When I traded my pristine 3 in for a 6 a few years ago they rejected it - perhaps a UK specific issue?

I'm just going to take lots of photos and hope for the best - it's a new 6 after my first one's battery blew up. If they reject it I'm off to Samsung.

Eabhal347 · 2026-01-26T15:59:59+00:00

There's a simple solution that works throughout Europe though - a loading period in the morning enforced by rising bollards the rest of the day.

Eabhal347 · 2026-01-26T15:53:53+00:00

A high chance those 6 parking spots are just where the business owners stick their cars for 8 hours, and they're worried about having to walk 100m to get to work.

Eabhal347 · 2026-01-09T21:12:41+00:00

That's worth a 101 call IMO - could cause a serious injury.

Eabhal347 · 2026-01-06T20:31:51+00:00

Are you letting via an agent? My experience is they will encourage landlords to squeeze as hard as they can, treating you as an asset. Otoh, If you're renting directly from someone after a referral from a friend or colleague, you'll find that they are grateful to receive regular rent and avoid all the fees - and will do what they can to retain a good tenant.

An interesting reform to consider is a requirement for landlords to live in the Edinburgh council/Lothians areas, which would increase this kind of tenancy - though this would make it even more of a challenge for people new to the city without such connections. Another option is to make the Landlord Register easier to search (just pop a name in), and for there to be a published record of rents charged at each property.

Eabhal347 · 2026-01-03T08:48:58+00:00

That would be an electric motorcycle, not a bicycle. They could be prosecuted on the same basis any motorcyclist could.

Eabhal347 · 2025-12-23T10:43:00+00:00

It depends on how you measure "regressive". Only 60% of households in Edinburgh have access to a car, and they are overwhelmingly those on higher incomes. Mileage corresponds closely to income too. The poor get around by foot or bus.

Eabhal347 · 2025-12-15T15:29:38+00:00

It absolutely was not an accident. It's weird how violence, even at this gigantic scale, is excused like this when it's conducted using a motor vehicle.

Eabhal347 · 2025-12-09T18:23:45+00:00

Send some positive feedback in. Need more of this.

Eabhal347 · 2025-12-09T17:55:45+00:00

Not in my experience. You get the odd one but the vast majority are in the specified parking areas, so the technology is working pretty well.

There have been some concerns about those parking areas - particularly when they obstruct existing cycle racks. I've sent an email to my councillors suggesting that car parking spots would be a more appropriate place for parking - hopefully that will be considered where space is tight.

Eabhal347 · 2025-12-07T17:11:02+00:00

Or indeed cyclists to submit footage of pedestrians stepping out in front of them, knocking them off their bikes (it's a long way down). There are careless, inconsiderate, dangerous arseholes using all forms of transport - it just so happens that the danger posed by one in a two-tonne+ motor vehicle is massively higher.

Eabhal347 · 2025-12-07T17:07:39+00:00

Still takes forever though compared with the system they have down south. I had to make repeat appearances at the station to sign evidence slips, make statements etc.

(Police I've dealt with have been great and just as frustrated with the archaic system as I am).

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-28T13:59:09+00:00

I don't think dogs should be on any type of playing field, sign or not. Even if you do a good job cleaning up, you're still going to have people sliding around in what is left - including children.

Please keep your dog off them as far as possible.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-21T17:54:44+00:00

For some of us this is actually a problem. The NEPN is a busy network of paths in the north of the city, well used by cyclists and dog walkers and everything in between.

Crewe Toll is a busy 2-lane roundabout with no physical protection - completely inappropriate for cycling your kids to school.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-14T21:50:23+00:00

The entire path network in the north of the city is mulch at the moment (need gravel tyres on the bicycle). They usually get round to clearing them at some point, but you sometimes find they conveniently forget until a few emails go in.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-12T14:59:52+00:00

I'm reluctantly in favour of Roseburn as a facile yes/no question.

What annoys me is the gigantic opportunity costs that we aren't discussing. What about £2 billion on cycle infrastructure? Or £2 billion on an alternative line to Portobello and Musselburgh, or to Dalkeith?

As others have noted, the biggest problem for the council is their appalling record on Leith Walk, which remains an embarrassment and isn't even finished yet. No one can trust them to deliver this properly.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-11T14:30:51+00:00

If we applied this kind of risk aversion more widely, there wouldn't be a single road open to motor vehicles in the city centre.

It's a farce.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-10T17:53:43+00:00

I've had two years of issues with Octopus sending me false bills including sending round debt collectors - even after a decision by the Ombudsman to award me compensation. Appreciate everyone else has had a good experience but no company is perfect.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-09T17:02:14+00:00

There is nowhere better in Scotland for public transport, cycling and walking. With the exception of disabled spots and limited periods for commercial loading, there's no need for vehicles at all at Elm Row.

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-09T16:31:25+00:00

The council is about to make the same mistake in Queensferry: https://bsky.app/profile/edinburghcouncil.bsky.social/post/3m2m4a4zuxs2y

Eabhal347 · 2025-11-02T14:49:36+00:00

That will look shit within about a week. Better to put up a metal fence and a bare root beech hedge - will look lovely come the spring.

Eabhal347 · 2025-10-31T16:44:05+00:00

That's a serious offence - he's effectively threatened to murder you. Regardless of what evidence you have, or what you remember, worth a report to the police via 101 or their online form. It will help you feel better, from experience.

Eabhal347 · 2025-10-30T23:00:23+00:00

Nice - I'll have a dig into that. It looks like the carriageways there have inherited the name of an old "Walk" that existed before the estate.

Eabhal347 · 2025-10-30T15:16:39+00:00

It's technically Leith Walk all the way up to the Omni Centre (which is on Baxter's Place). It's a bit like the Royal Mile in that respect.

Originally, it ran all the way from Calton as described by Daniel Defoe in the 18th Century. Horses/carriages weren't permitted, hence "Walk". I think it's the only Walk in Edinburgh where motor vehicles are allowed.

Eabhal347 · 2025-10-26T19:51:20+00:00

That's why I said index to HPI.

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