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andym
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Do I want to sell the GPz? Reply with quote

Very briefly, as some of you might know I repaired some kids scooter, I bought a 80cc bore kit that he wanted, bought the gasket set, bought a flywheel removal tool and spent quite a lot of hours stripping and rebuilding the damn thing to get it back on the road.

On day the little shit puts a status on facebook something along the lines of 'Almost have the money for my bike test, only £35 short'

I post he needs to get his priorities straight as he still owes me £50 for parts, £30 for tools (bought a compression tester too), and £25 for computer parts.... he gets all shitty and ends up at my door more or less demanding that I take the parts off and sell them, I tell him I can't sell them, they are used etc.

He then threatens to take them off and put them through my windows, I tell him that would then be a police matter.... he gets really shitty at that point and I end up closing the door on him.

Last week he posts on facebook that his scooter is in bits again (sad face), couple of days later he posts 'I can't wait to get my bike sorted'... so I post 'that karma fairy is a bitch ain't it'

Eventually he tells me I'm not getting my money (which he had told me when he came and had a go about me posting on his facebook).

So I put on there about how he ripped me off, burnt a hole in my living room carpet, stole a memory card and card reader from my flat and threatened to smash my windows because he owed me money.
He deleted the status..... SOOOO I decided to post the same message on his status.... he deleted his account Twisted Evil

Anyway this is a long winded explanation of him phoning me tonight to ask if I want to sell the GPz as his dad wanted it. I've sent him a text explaining that I've warned the police about his behaviour recently and if anything happens to the flat or the bike he'll be the first door that gets knocked on... but I'm still a little bit worried about waking up 1 morning to find a GPz shaped gap on the driveway.

I don't have a garage or anything to lock the bike up in, I have a chain on it, but doesn't mean it can't be lifted away.

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: 19:59 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shit mate, you really need to start picking the people you hang around with/marry a lot more carefully Confused
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PostPosted: 20:08 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strange thing... they never start out that way... it's true... I must be a total cunt.

I might just dump it in the back garden, doesn't stop it getting stolen, but it's pitch black round there so I could just make sure it's noisy if it's moved Thinking
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PostPosted: 20:15 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's the thing, I don't want to sell it... I just got a few more bits to throw on it today.... but at the same time.. I don't want it to go missing either
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sink a ground anchor into your drive/garden - that way if they want the bike they've at least got to crop the chain. Don't be bullied into selling it if you don't want to. Let's be honest, you'll never see any money for it anyway.
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PostPosted: 20:50 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

to be honest... even though it would mean me losing more money, I'm thinking of paying a kid about the same age (or just to make it even worse someone much younger), to beat the shit out of him.

angryjonny, I wouldn't be bullied into selling it anyway
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

No wonder he's got you fixing his ped for him (Direct bikes). Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:02 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

andym wrote:
Strange thing... they never start out that way... it's true... I must be a total cunt.


I posted on this in another thread a week or so back but I guess I'll repeat it.

Nine times out of ten, someone who wants you to lend them money or 'pay you in a month' is going to fuck you around at some point.

Reason?

If someone needs to borrow piddly sums like £100, they're poor.
Poor people are almost by definition bad at managing their finances.

It really is that simple. If you choose to lend money to someone who has displayed a distinct lack of financial aptitude, you should think of it as a gift, because the odds are against you, especially if they're not that close.

The fact he's trying to get out of paying you back is less because he's a prick and more because he just can't afford it. Really. The description you've given makes it fairly obvious that he spends his money as soon as he gets it on random tat.
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PostPosted: 23:39 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derivative wrote:
Reason?

If someone needs to borrow piddly sums like £100, they're poor.
Poor people are almost by definition bad at managing their finances.


what about those on unemployment (genuine unemployment)

they're poor but very few people actually suck that bad at management lol

anyway, put it in your back yard, run a little fishing line from your bike up to a drain pipe on the wall and back down, tie a metal dustbin lid to the other end and let it hang against the wall, so if it DOES go missing, its going to make one hell of a noise first
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PostPosted: 23:53 - 01 Jun 2012    Post subject: Re: Do I want to sell the GPz? Reply with quote

If your money is gone anyway, I'd have considering takeing the parts off and left him with a pile of bike bits (could always take a few more bits for your troubles.)

Better 'revenge'. Oh and if getting someone to beat him up, just add that 'cost' to the requested amount - or suggest they acquire that at the same time Razz.
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PostPosted: 00:04 - 02 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mk1GSF wrote:
Derivative wrote:

Poor people are almost by definition bad at managing their finances.


Could you have been any more stereotypical Tory if you had tried? You sound like one who was born into wealth, what what. Rolling Eyes


Sure, I was born into wealth, just as everyone here - the UK is a wealthy country, the vast majority of us have no unfulfilled needs, only wants.
Though I suspect the kind of wealth you're thinking of may be entirely different. Nope, council estate here.

There are people who are poor due to no fault of their own. Long term unemployment and disability to give a few examples. Youths that haven't yet managed to secure a job and so have no possibility of procuring any savings.

This guy doesn't fall under that banner. He's 'saving up' to do his bike test, yet seemingly spent every last penny on a 'big bore kit' to make his underpowered scooter marginally faster and less reliable. Using someone else's money, so essentially getting himself into debt simply to be able to move slightly faster.

I would call that bad financial planning, feel free to disagree.
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PostPosted: 00:33 - 02 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mk1GSF wrote:
One swallow doesn't make a summer.

Look at what you said - "Poor people are almost by definition bad at managing their finances"

Which, sort of looks like you suggest that anyone living on the breadline are shit at managing money.


I think people who have little enough to their name that they end up having to borrow are bad at managing money.

It is not that difficult, in a country where state benefits are available to all, to maintain a positive bank balance. There are a few loopholes as I outlined above, but on the whole it's not that hard to spend less than you earn.

You just have to adjust your lifestyle to suit.

I'm not really sure what the contentious point is here - a poor person is less likely to be able to repay a debt, that's why interest rates are high on sub-prime credit cards and why mortgages attract the lowest rates.

If you think otherwise, I'd suggest you start a loan company and undercut the banks - you'd make a killing, until the defaults started rolling in.
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PostPosted: 00:41 - 02 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who is this kid and why are you fixing his bike?
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PostPosted: 01:34 - 02 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

DonnyBrago wrote:
Who is this kid and why are you fixing his bike?


Not fixing.... fixed a couple of months ago and he's somehow broke it again (might be something to do with him drifting it in fields etc)
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PostPosted: 11:30 - 02 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

hahadumball wrote:
have about £300 in the bank doing fuck all.


Hence, you wouldn't have to borrow money to buy a few spanners. You're not poor.
It is a mindset, spending all of your money as soon as it comes in.
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PostPosted: 12:22 - 02 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry mk but I disagree with you, who needs to borrow money to live? People borrow to buy a holiday, fancy clothes and a nice new car.

They can afford the payments then, but then lower income they don't have enough to live, this is bad money management, people borrow to buy wants not needs.

Please give an example of somebody needing to borrow for a life necessity.
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