What have you bought today?

[Mottie]

I fancy having a crack at it on my bike, lowest seat ever.

Go for it. Another one we did was the Grossglockner but it was thick fog when we did it! That was nice!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yeah, I saw plenty of those before I did it. We went up the bendy bit and down the other side into Bormio where we stayed for the night. That’s a fast ride down through some sweeping bends. Thing is, you have to keep moving round those hairpin bends. There’s such a camber on them that if you stop, your foot doesn’t reach the ground on the side that you need to put your foot down which is why many people fall over.

I driven and biked, the both Wrynose and Hardknott passes numerous times, not sure which of the two, but one of them has a very steep downhill, with a hairpin in the middle, and a camber which makes it impossible to stop and get a foot down, once you start the descent, with a ravine, either side. Last time, I thought to try it on the Viffer, and just couldn't get as much lock as I wanted. I almost came off.

 

[Highway Man]

Never heard of this before.. Bought two air lifting bags off ebay to lift my engine in the frame whilst I install some accessories. Over a week to receive them, delivered 10 mins ago by an amazon prime van. The seller off ebay must be selling gear off amazon and adding his bit on top. Might as well have bought them off Amazon and had them on next day delivery. Furious!!!!!

 

[Mottie]

Never heard of this before.. Bought two air lifting bags off ebay to lift my engine in the frame whilst I install some accessories. Over a week to receive them, delivered 10 mins ago by an amazon prime van. The seller off ebay must be selling gear off amazon and adding his bit on top. Might as well have bought them off Amazon and had them on next day delivery. Furious!!!!!

Drop shopping. My next door neighbours daughter does it. He tells me she can sometimes earn up to £800 a day doing it. Holds no stock whatsoever. Lots of people do it.

My mate got caught out a few weeks ago but he's had a win only today. Bought some knives off of a supposed retiring knife maker in Sheffield. When they arrived, they had come from China! He complained to his card company, got a full refund and still has the knives.

 

[Highway Man]

Drop shopping. My next door neighbours daughter does it. He tells me she can sometimes earn up to £800 a day doing it. Holds no stock whatsoever. Lots of people do it.

My mate got caught out a few weeks ago but he's had a win only today. Bought some knives off of a supposed retiring knife maker in Sheffield. When they arrived, they had come from China! He complainedto his card company, got a full refund and still has the knives.

Never heard of it before. Took a week to arrive when I could have just ordered it from Amazon direct and got it the next day. Seems crazy but I fell for it so it must obviously work.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I looked into doing drop-shipping years back but couldn't be ar5ed. Hence why I'll never be a millionaire

 

[Mottie]

Did a usual food shop at Sainsbury’s today, scan and go and the computer selected me for a spot check. Usually it’s about a dozen random items. First thing they checked, a chicken, I hadn’t scanned so they had to check the whole lot. I felt like a thief. Only has a full scan once before and I got £4 back as I hadn’t scanned one item but had scanned another one twice!

Was doing a bit of patching up on the lawn this afternoon, needed a couple of turfs from B&Q, got there just in time!

 

[Mottie]

Bought a mini bread maker to have a go making some gluten free bread for Mrs Mottie. She won’t use the regular one as it has been contaminated with gluten from previous loaves. Ditto breadboard. Ditto toaster. Ditto oven…..

Makes small loaves (even shop bought G/F loaves are tiny). Trouble with any freshly baked G/F anything is that it’s nice when first made but bloody dry and crumbly the following day so needs to be made fresh, daily.

 

[Scof]

Sold my collection of bikes when the missus died & left me. Probably a mistake so went out & collected this today . . .

 

[Highway Man]

Sold my collection of bikes when the missus died & left me. Probably a mistake so went out & collected this today . . .

Fat bob?

 

[Mottie]

Sold my collection of bikes when the missus died & left me. Probably a mistake so went out & collected this today . . .

Nice. Get some insurance, mot and tax it and you’ll be able to ride it on the road…

 

[Mottie]

A new shower screen. Going to tart the bathroom up a bit - new shower screen, new bath panel and another go at masticking. Mrs Mottie says my last effort looked like I’ve squeezed a tube of toothpaste around the edge of the bath. Blooming cheek, that was a rustic finish!

3 pairs of stretch denim jeans from Marks'. Bought a pair white I was over their picking up some bedding and they came up as on a promotion, half price, so went and bought another couple of pairs. They are my fave everyday jeans and they’re only £35 a pair anyway so £17.50 for a pair of jeans is dirt cheap. Apparently all the 'authentic' jeans are 50% off at the moment. You heard it here first……

 

[Mottie]

1.2kg of coffee beans from Lidl. £10.99. I like these ones best but they only get them in occasionally.

People buy them then put them on eBay. No better than ticket touts!

 

[Mottie]

A portable mini barbecue. I made the mistake of buying Weber BBQ that was big enough for a family of about 24 and it needed a ton of coal to fire it up so unless we have family round, it never gets used. Just bought this mini one so when I pick it up, it’ll be just the right size for me and Mrs Mottie to cook a couple of sausages and a burger or two on. £13.50 at Argos.

 

[Justin Passing]

I was suckered in to one of those ads you get on Youtube.
It's a tiny air cooler unit

£69.95
Paid through paypal
It may be crap but if it works at all I can make use of it.
The website it took me to was https://buyairabreeze.com/article/u...X0J3RQ..*_gcl_au*MjA0OTc3NTM5Ny4xNzc5ODI2OTc3

I was watching a video by a guy worth 400bn saying the stock market is about to collapse.

Scam? Maybe, but I made a multiple of that today so I don't really care.

I got a text purporting to be from my bank saying fraud alert.
Called the number on the SMS - not a real number.

Called the bank
Yes there was a fraud alert - but he couldn't verify the SMS....
Instead of one transaction of 69.95
there were three in quick succession of £84.86

So card is cancelled, one payment allowed through, so we'll see what if anything arrives.
Probably a fan and a holder for ice cubes... though the pics show frosty tubes inside working like a fridge.

Lesson learned, don't do it!