keitha
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Post by keitha on Dec 29, 2019 10:57:25 GMT
2 recent stories I've read
1) "it's unfair my car insurance won't pay out, I ordered £2000 of clothes, after modelling them for my Instagram I repacked them to send back and put them in my car overnight, My car was broken into and the clothes stolen, and the insurance company say not covered and I can't afford to pay for them"
2) my suitcase got wrecked on flight home from holiday and ruined a dress I hadn't worn that I was going to return, but they won't accept it covered in sun cream, and my travel insurance won't cover the full cost
- MY view is I hope the companies involved spot this and refuse to take further orders, these entitled idiots don't seen to realise that constant buying and returning contributes to excess CO2 production, and raises costs for real customers, I understand Amazon are now tracking serial returners.
ON a personal note I had to laugh out loud yesterday, I sell stuff on Ebay and actually had a customer buy 2 "Buy it Now" items late on 23rd December, he emailed yesterday morning saying he'd like a partial refund on P&P as it had taken 5 days to arrive, personally I think 5 days second class is good as in reality day 1 24th hit PO system, days 2-3 Bank holidays so nothing moved, day 4 in system, day 5 delivered.
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Post by moonraker on Dec 29, 2019 16:21:06 GMT
I lose a bit of sense of time at this period in the year and was wondering what had happened to a purchase posted first-class from 35 miles away on the 20th, with eBay anticipating delivery on the 21st or 23rd, which seems to be the estimate at other times of the year. No sign of it yet, but I'm prepared to allow another couple of days.
A couple of months ago, I ordered some eye ointment from a reputable on-line pharmacy and checked its Feedback. Quite a few people blaming the company for delayed delivery, with it responding by saying that the order had been dispatched promptly on a specific date. Some were even alleging they hadn't received their order, with the company then pointing out that Royal Mail had tried to deliver it, but no-one was in, so it was awaiting collection at the sorting office. Or even that someone had signed for the item on delivery - and sometimes the signature matched the name of the person complaining ...
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Post by Greenwood2 on Dec 29, 2019 20:29:07 GMT
Just got an Amazon returned to sender 'damaged'. not exactly something that could be easily damaged, but I guess the packaging could fail such that the content is lost. bit annoying to just get this now, out for delivery since early this morning.
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Post by benaj on Dec 29, 2019 21:06:18 GMT
You are a winner!I didn't expect this selling on Amazon. 6 winning lottery scratch cards for £14.95, delivered by tomorrow.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Jan 5, 2020 10:15:56 GMT
constant buying and returning contributes to excess CO2 production, and raises costs for real customers, I understand Amazon are now tracking serial returners. CO2 production is frankly the tip of the iceberg my friend. Reverse logistics, to give it the correct title, is a serious ($100+ billion) problem for the retail industry. But much like there is no such thing when the tree-huggers claim simple answers to solving global warming, there is no simple answer to the reverse logistics problem. Part of the problem, for example, is with (relatively) recent legislation in the EU to increase consumers rights to return goods. Sounds great you might say, no more protracted battles with phone calls "Customer Service", hoorah ! Well, now we are seeing the other side of that coin. I'm sure it will only be a matter of time until the same lawmakers who made that law start being all high and mighty and complaining how we need to save the planet from the reverse logistics problem. I have no doubt in your claim that Amazon are tracking repeat offenders. Personally I have no doubt the Tree Huggers and Luvvies are amongst the worst for polluting the planet ( Emma Thompson is a prime example flew over from USA in a private jet to take part in Extinction Rebellion protests in London ). I was also told by a friend the state they left sites in after the protests was a disgrace with discarded Coffee Cups and Plastic bags dumped all over.
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Post by adrianc on Jan 6, 2020 12:18:09 GMT
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Post by captainconfident on Jan 6, 2020 19:10:48 GMT
I was also told by a friend the state they left sites in after the protests was a disgrace with discarded Coffee Cups and Plastic bags dumped all over. "...told by a friend..." continues to be the prefix of choice for urban myths, I see. www.snopes.com/fact-check/protesters-hyde-park-rubbish/Donald Trump also passes on lies as truth with the preamble "People are saying that.....". Seems to be catching on. I've more or less given up on the chat forum here since this tit hoved over the horizon and started plastering each thread with this kind of tosh.
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Post by keitha on Jan 6, 2020 22:56:04 GMT
IN this instance, the mess was shown on the news, and my friend saw it, I saw the protest in Cardiff Costa did a roaring trade in takeaway coffee, one thing I can't understand is why the Police etc were so slow to take action, If I were to stop with a car with a boat on a trailer it would get shifted PDQ.
I agree with going greener, but transmission of electricity of distance is very inefficient so we need more generation in and around London and other cities, and as to running your house entirely on Solar, I got just over 300 watts today from my system not enough to even make a cup of tea, on average this time of year I get about 1KW, again not enough to run the basics.
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Post by brianac on Jan 15, 2020 17:54:00 GMT
I agree with going greener, but transmission of electricity of distance is very inefficient so we need more generation in and around London and other cities, and as to running your house entirely on Solar, I got just over 300 watts today from my system not enough to even make a cup of tea, on average this time of year I get about 1KW, again not enough to run the basics. Transmission of Electricity over distance is pretty efficient, that's why we do it, certainly more efficient than having lots of smaller local power stations. (solar panels excepted of course)
You say you "only" got 300 watts today, but for how long? if you got that for a couple of hours that would make several cups of tea, assuming you have some way to store it, or alternatively use it for other uses and use the saved electricity to boil your kettle. how long did you get those 300 watts for? 3 or 4 hours would give you around 1 kWh
Brian
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Post by Ace on Jan 15, 2020 22:13:30 GMT
I agree with going greener, but transmission of electricity of distance is very inefficient so we need more generation in and around London and other cities, and as to running your house entirely on Solar, I got just over 300 watts today from my system not enough to even make a cup of tea, on average this time of year I get about 1KW, again not enough to run the basics. Transmission of Electricity over distance is pretty efficient, that's why we do it, certainly more efficient than having lots of smaller local power stations. (solar panels excepted of course)
You say you "only" got 300 watts today, but for how long? if you got that for a couple of hours that would make several cups of tea, assuming you have some way to store it, or alternatively use it for other uses and use the saved electricity to boil your kettle. how long did you get those 300 watts for? 3 or 4 hours would give you around 1 kWh
Brian
I think you may have misunderstood brianac. It sounds like keitha's system is very similar to mine. On that day my system generated 306 watts during the whole day, i.e. enough to power a 3kW kettle for about 6 minutes (assuming it can be stored and used without any power loss, which it obviously can't). More than enough for a cup of tea, but nowhere near enough for my total daily power usage. 306 watts is not typical for an average day here in Worcestershire. My average generation per day for January last year was just under 2kW.
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Post by Ace on Jan 15, 2020 23:53:09 GMT
I think you may have misunderstood brianac . It sounds like keitha 's system is very similar to mine. On that day my system generated 306 watts during the whole day, i.e. enough to power a 3kW kettle for about 6 minutes (assuming it can be stored and used without any power loss, which it obviously can't). More than enough for a cup of tea, but nowhere near enough for my total daily power usage. 306 watts is not typical for an average day here in Worcestershire. My average generation per day for January last year was just under 2kW. How much is the average per day over the whole year? It obviously varies from year to year, but my average over the last 8 years is 8.3kW per day. I have a 3.68kW system, but my roof doesn't have the optimal direction or angle. It generates approximately £1600 per year in FIT payments, plus I get to use the energy for free. It was a far too generous an offer to resist at the time. Though the reductions in FIT payments for new systems since have essentially killed the industry.
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Post by brianac on Jan 16, 2020 8:11:37 GMT
Transmission of Electricity over distance is pretty efficient, that's why we do it, certainly more efficient than having lots of smaller local power stations. (solar panels excepted of course)
You say you "only" got 300 watts today, but for how long? if you got that for a couple of hours that would make several cups of tea, assuming you have some way to store it, or alternatively use it for other uses and use the saved electricity to boil your kettle. how long did you get those 300 watts for? 3 or 4 hours would give you around 1 kWh
Brian
I think you may have misunderstood brianac . It sounds like keitha 's system is very similar to mine. On that day my system generated 306 watts during the whole day, i.e. enough to power a 3kW kettle for about 6 minutes (assuming it can be stored and used without any power loss, which it obviously can't). More than enough for a cup of tea, but nowhere near enough for my total daily power usage. 306 watts is not typical for an average day here in Worcestershire. My average generation per day for January last year was just under 2kW. So he generated 300 Wh (Watt hours) then, not 306 Watts, and yours is 2 kWh, not 2 kW.
no wonder I got confused Brian
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Post by mikeh on Jan 16, 2020 9:21:57 GMT
So he generated 300 Wh (Watt hours) then, not 306 Watts, and yours is 2 kWh, not 2 kW.
no wonder I got confused Brian
No, sorry, but you're still confused. As I stated, the units generated are measured in Watts not Watt hours. Sorry Ace I think you're the one confused here. Energy (electrical units) is measured in kWh. Watts are a measure of power at a point of time. To run a kettle for 6 mins uses 3000 Watts x 0.1 hours = 300 Wh = 0.3 kWh. A Watt is never a measure of electricity used or generated over a time period.
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Post by Ace on Jan 16, 2020 9:44:28 GMT
No, sorry, but you're still confused. As I stated, the units generated are measured in Watts not Watt hours. Sorry Ace I think you're the one confused here. Energy (electrical units) is measured in kWh. Watts are a measure of power at a point of time. To run a kettle for 6 mins uses 3000 Watts x 0.1 hours = 300 Wh = 0.3 kWh. A Watt is never a measure of electricity used or generated over a time period. Makes sense. I'll get my coat😞
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Post by keitha on Jan 16, 2020 14:09:26 GMT
No, sorry, but you're still confused. As I stated, the units generated are measured in Watts not Watt hours. Sorry Ace I think you're the one confused here. Energy (electrical units) is measured in kWh. Watts are a measure of power at a point of time. To run a kettle for 6 mins uses 3000 Watts x 0.1 hours = 300 Wh = 0.3 kWh. A Watt is never a measure of electricity used or generated over a time period. Odd because my App tells me that I am generating 27Watts at the moment, a huge total of 0.1KWH today ( it is pretty gloomy ) My System is far from optimally aligned as would to be honest about 50% of properties are, I have a battery so can charge that overnight on cheap electricity at this time of year ( I use Octopus Agile Tariff ). To be fair in September from when panels installed I exported 69KWh and paid for 1 KWH. 14 September to end of December I generated 360 KWH so 2/3 of my usage I've only generated 20kw so far in January, but weather has been awful.
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