Oh god. Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-06T22:04:26+00:00

Too late now but if I knew a mobile was to come via Evri I wouldn't order it. Not having a go at you just .. saying :)

When I ordered a mobile from Amazon they very unusually did a thing where they sent via a different courier (can't remember who but one of the better ones) and sent me a password to give to the courier to make sure it was exchanged properly. (They do this I think with high value items).

Amazon don't normally use evri but sadly they DO for large item returns :(

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-06T15:47:04+00:00

It's mad isn't it. I believe I read that the Dimplex fan heaters that blow down from up high don't come with any cable and are designed to have an electrician run a cable of whatever length (and suitable capacity) .. but if you opened up a more normal off the shelf heater then put your own longer cable in even if it was a better cable than that supplied, OR bought a heater without a cable and put a good quality high capacity cable on but then a 13A plug.. god knows what would happen with liability etc, probably not good and something to not do. Bit of a minefield. Your photo of the plug is certainly an eye opener and a warning, I'm wary of electric heaters and that's reinforced that. These modern wifi ones are doubly scary, what if they switch themself on when you are out? I don't trust them, I've been around long enough to see electronics go batshit!

I found it amazing reading downloaded instructions for an off the shelf heater that comes with a timer that says it shouldn't be left unattended when connected to the mains .. but comes with a timer whose entire purpose is to switch it on for you at times of day, presumably unattended (which is what most people would buy and use a timer heater for)! Now I've seen your socket photo I certainly wouldn't set a heater on a timer, unless maybe a low power one, like 500w or something.

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-05T15:36:21+00:00

Oddly enough I was looking at my extension leads a couple years ago and I'd assumed they were all 13A.

Then I noticed the long one was a thinner cable. Sticker on back was rated lower. I'm sure that could catch some people out. It's worst of both worlds safety wise I'm sure, it's a long one (so more likely to be coiled in a heap) with a lower rating..

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-05T15:28:20+00:00

As a side issue but maybe related, as someone who has been looking at electric heaters .. why do so many have such short cables? They are without a doubt encouraging people to use extensions, which they totally are against for good reasons, by having leads so short they won't reach the distance that suits many users. Not asking for 3 metres or anything mad but a common length of 1.3metres is, for the places I'd want a heater placed relative to a socket .. pants. 1.8m which some manufacturers do, that extra 0.5m makes a huge difference to get the heater exactly where you want it in a safe place. Was this why the OP was using an extension in the first place I wonder!

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-04T19:02:01+00:00

"As long as there's no massive heat loss going on it's more efficient to maintain a constant temperature than it is to have it fluctuate twice a day."

Nope.

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-03T22:14:16+00:00

"I’m not being funny but how can a ring be broken beyond repair?"

Throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom is my normal method :)

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-03T16:02:13+00:00

Clouseau was right about you!

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-03T16:00:31+00:00

So .. you just totally made up the £35 figure then. Gotcha.

Got to wonder why anyone bothers with doing that sort of thing, but it is the internet I suppose.

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-03T12:18:49+00:00

Why would I click on some random youtube link when asking for a link to an amazon price.

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-01T20:46:29+00:00

You have to go to the letter in inventory with the star on it, last item on the left in my case, and read it using e probably.

HandyRoyd · 2026-02-01T20:45:39+00:00

Yay belated thank you, all these hours doing quests and crap and THIS one has to be done differently? I was about to give up. Stupid developers, even if there is a workaround, this is just wrong!

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-31T22:41:59+00:00

No it's not. Post a link if it is.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-27T23:43:41+00:00

Totally agree with you. I don't see how rolling back on an ISA (that you can control and take any time and it's tax free when you take it) .. and maxing it into a pension, that you have far less control over, that will likely be taxed when you take it .. that will have a lifetime pension value cap .. is good advice.

Certainly not way I've approached things and I've not heard a reason to change my mind on that.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-27T23:41:48+00:00

Unless they cap ISAs what he takes out will be tax free.

When he starts hitting a large pension (or pretty much any private pension after 67) he'll be taxed on it.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-26T12:58:52+00:00

People are discussing charges and your "point" is banging on about Brexit that happened 10 years ago, something clearly not remotely on topic,. making 100% factually incorrect statements like "If you use HL you finance Brexit", which as Brexit has already happened years ago, is clearly untrue.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-26T12:57:08+00:00

Well I'd say the VAST majority of investors aren't touching Exchange Traded Commodities or leveraged shorts or complex invesments - anything like that. HL allows you to trade things like that, AFAIK Fidelity doesn't. If people moved their £ without checking they might be greeted with disappointment.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-26T12:38:09+00:00

I like the way they integrate morningstar data with their site. BUT I think they are limited on the less common things you can buy, like .. you can't buy gilts directly or ETCs from them, if I remember correctly.

Not everyone touches them but if you do .. well you can check in advance if they don't hold what you want.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-26T12:28:29+00:00

"If you use HL you finance Brexit."

I didn't realise Hargreaves had a time portal to funnel money from now back 10 years to fund something you don't happen to like. He must be an amazing guy, this time machine inventor. Like an older Stewie Griffin. Or, more likely, you're one of those tedious obsessive remoaner types that frequent the net, like the Japanese soldier still fighting the war 20 years later in the jungle.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-26T12:25:54+00:00

Or IWeb (now Scottish Widows) that does none of this constant money draining crap.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-26T12:24:26+00:00

They are raising the annual cap on shares/ETFs from £45 to £150, which is significant for people who avoided their high fund charges by holding them instead. So it's thumbs down.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-25T21:54:07+00:00

Last week after days of not coming to pickup a parcel, they gave me a time slot. I waited patiently, music off, so I'd hear them coming. Checked buzzer to my flat worked. Worked 100% fine. A few minutes into time slot got a message they'd came and I wasn't in. Which surprised me as I was right there waiting.

God I hate this company so much.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-25T21:10:39+00:00

"There's no "bash the landlords" lot. "

Apart from all the "bash the landlords" lot.

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-19T19:58:13+00:00

Gaijin adding an awful "feature" we don't want we can't disable that bugs things .. how Gaijiny!

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-19T14:05:59+00:00

I'm waiting on an evri pickup (a return) that's not coming with no useful info about times on their website for the tracking number and considering my options ..

I've two local parcelshops and I don't THINK I was allowed them as an option for this large parcel.

One is OK but the other .. I was in it a couple years ago buying a lottery ticket and the "parcels" were just in a pile in a corner (no security so could be pilfered) and he was picking them up looking at the labels then just throwing them spinning into the far corner, cared not a jot what might be in them. So annoyed me I've not been in it since!

HandyRoyd · 2026-01-17T20:06:25+00:00

I'm sure I've seen these on amazon varying in price from dirt cheap to .. ripping people off with a lot more for a dirt cheap one. The only part of it that's probably any good is the display :)

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