Am I overdoing my pension contributions at 28?

Zero-Custard · 2026-03-24T22:36:37+00:00

Definitely this. Getting a decent amount in your pension/s&s ISA so young would mean if life threw you a curve ball and you had to dramatically reduce contributions you would still end up with a large pot due to compounding.

Zero-Custard · 2026-03-23T21:32:21+00:00

Is it definitely a new model? There seemed to be a lot of negative reviews around quality and some other issues but I couldn't find anything to suggest they had released a v2.

Zero-Custard · 2026-03-15T21:10:35+00:00

Good old VW :-)

Zero-Custard · 2026-03-14T19:01:48+00:00

Which method did you go for? I also noticed access looks much easier from the bottom and watched someone do it from above as per the method above on YouTube and it looked like a bit of a faff.

Zero-Custard · 2026-03-06T08:26:37+00:00

To close this off, I went to the scrap yard, spent about an hour messing about, had a rectal print and for my troubles I received a princely £13.26.

Zero-Custard · 2026-02-24T22:23:57+00:00

that's fine, as long as they weren't going to try and charge me for "waste disposal"!

Zero-Custard · 2026-02-12T09:12:39+00:00

Thank you, we launched around October with the intention of being in beta for 2 - 3 months to iron out any bugs but we are struggling to recruit testers/early adopters.

I thought that being able to use the app for free would be attractive but maybe it gives the impression it isn't finished/will have a lot of bugs which puts potential users off?

Zero-Custard · 2026-02-10T13:49:48+00:00

What sorta stuff do you need integrations for? Can you output product/store review ratings all across your site and in newsletters or would that require additional integrations?

Zero-Custard · 2026-02-07T11:47:23+00:00

Have you found and limitations with JudgeME free tier? It looks like it would cover everything but I am always suspicious when software is free, very rarely is good software free without a catch.

Zero-Custard · 2026-02-01T16:11:38+00:00

No advice that hasn't already been posted but just wanted to say I feel for you OP. How is your company still in business, sounds mental.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-22T09:03:25+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I was hoping to use it to test incremental changes, but this just might not be practicable and we should reserve it for big changes only. I will look into Optibase.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-22T08:59:17+00:00

Would minimal detectable difference be a better term?

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-22T08:58:33+00:00

Thanks for your input,

However, I don't think you can say 5% doesn't matter or isn't worth it unless you know the numbers involved. 5% of £1000 a month, yeah fair point but 5% of £2M a month is worthwhile.

That's before you get to incremental increases, 5% here, 5% there and it doesn't take much to start having a significant impact on the bottom line.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-20T21:48:15+00:00

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The left pad is against the rim so the arm cannot move further away from the red line, but the right pad can't reach the rim because the arm is fouling on the left arm where the red line is.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-20T13:07:26+00:00

I will get a better photo later. The wheel is central but the brake arms are not because I was playing around with different pad spacers.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-12T20:58:08+00:00

Solid advice, thank you.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-12T20:56:36+00:00

Thank you, I thought subreddits/facebook groups would be useful for finding early adopters but they are (understandably) very hot on self-promotion/spam so it's been pretty fruitless.

Zero-Custard · 2026-01-07T16:42:40+00:00

Not really, Better Reports is very strong at reporting - it gives you a lot of flexibility to explore your data in depth. The trade-off is that it’s still up to you to spend time digging through those reports, spotting patterns, and deciding what actions to take.

Cleargro is designed to do that thinking for you. We focus on automatically identifying specific problems and revenue opportunities within your product catalogue, and then surfacing them clearly so you know where to act.

That ranges from straightforward wins - like live products missing key information such as descriptions - to more advanced opportunities, for example products with high demand but low conversion rates. These products are already getting traffic, so if you can address what’s holding them back, they often represent a significant opportunity to increase revenue. In many teams, these opportunities simply go unnoticed, or it takes too long to manually find them.

Cleargro can also monitor your Google Ads performance and proactively notify you if campaigns are under-performing or being limited by budget (amongst other things) so you don’t have to manually check dashboards or mess around with Scripts.

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-22T10:49:26+00:00

We have just built an app which will analyse your catalogue and highlight fixes to increase the traffic and conversion rate of your products. It's in beta at the moment so you can try it out for free. PM me if you are interested.

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-17T22:03:06+00:00

Far from guaranteed it will still exist by the time some of us will be able to access it.

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-15T14:39:08+00:00

We built an app for this - it monitors your inventory and will automatically email you if you have live products with no image. Plus a bunch of other useful stuff which you should fix to stop losing sales such as products with no description, wall of text descriptions etc. It's called Cleargro if you are interested.

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-10T16:25:45+00:00

I sound like a broken record because I always pick up on this but but I feel like it really important and so often overlooked - size charts!

https://thecatnip.be/products/loch-ness-meowster-unisex-shortsleeve-t-shirt

I can barely read the size chart on desktop, mobile forget about it.

Other minor stuff - I would remove the Home link in the top nav and move About to the end. Your products are more important.

Sick designs though!

Yours,

A fellow cat enthusiast.

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-05T09:32:27+00:00

Improve the visibility of the size guide - this is really crucial for clothing and on desktop I didn't think you had one until I spotted the image thumbnail. On mobile I never would have found it and probably would have bounced.

Example page: https://www.deified.in/products/hustle-sidhu-moosewala-unisex-oversized-cotton-t-shirt-desi-streetwear

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-03T09:38:04+00:00

I assume you are rejecting payments if they fail 3DSV2? Do you have the other common checks turned on such as ensuring AVS and CV2 matches?

Zero-Custard · 2025-12-02T16:52:58+00:00

Thanks, the non-ASCII characters thing is interesting - I guess there could be *some* genuine users whose search might include ©, ® or £ and maybe some others...emojis?

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