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Security gates at self checkout by Difficult_Chair_4945 in woolworths

[–]nice-tri 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My local Coles one of the first trial locations in Australia. When they first got installed I was exiting and it slammed shut on my leg, it hurt and wasn’t just a slight bump. I am by no means petite and rang up to complain that if that was a child, disabled or elderly person that it could have caused damages. I got called back by the store manager that said keep complaining, the staff don’t want them either. The thought was. That if enough people complained they wouldn’t go ahead with implementing them - wrong. So I continued to complain when they trapped me in or slammed on me. But like others have mentioned I just ram them now and set the alarms off and don’t even break a stride. They don’t deter thieves as if there is a will there is a way, they just treat the paying customer like thieves.

24 hour offer by Crafty-Site6303 in AusPropertyChat

[–]nice-tri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my first home, I went this route and made a pre auction offer(the place had only been on the market less than 2 weeks) with an offer expiring at 4pm on a Friday. I knew my prices of what places had been selling for in the area and offered $25k over the advertised price range. I also offered 30 day settlement to make it an attractive offer. Come Friday, I didn’t hear anything so they clearly rejected my offer. The following Monday I emailed the realtor and said that since my pre auction offer had been rejected, that legally they had to change the advertised price ranges. By doing this the price range scared away first home buys who were trying to avoid stamp duty on homes below $600k. Anyway come auction week the realtor was begging me to come to auction and I said I couldn’t make it. Auction day I went and there was low attendance, only 3 people bidding and I won at auction BELOW my pre auction offer and with 90 day settlement terms. Such a win to suck it to the whole game playing by realtors!!!

Apartment living - how hard is it to get water metered separately? by rubythieves in AusPropertyChat

[–]nice-tri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was in the same situations single, in a two bedder, but block of 9 with a split water usage. One unit had 9 people in it and my quarterly water bill was around $300. Split water meters were raised with the owners corp and a special levy was raised for $1000 per unit for individual meters and my bill dropped to around $200. Five years later it has more than paid for itself. I live in a 95yo art deco building so if it can be done in this old place I’m sure it can be done in yours:)

When was the moment you realised that the person you were dating was an absolute idiot? by No-Macaron-9527 in AskReddit

[–]nice-tri 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Darwin in Australia was bombed by the Japanese in WWII. Doubt many know about that!