Hardly fitfully Ged, and sorry you find it a pain to go and look.
FYI, and in case you can't be arsed to pop over and check, the stoves are being processed by Customs as of the 22nd.
You even grumbled in your PM to me that you weren't receiving email notifications like it was my problem, ...
I tried to reply to your PM on BB but it logged me off half way through. Yes, I'm taking two of the Emberlit stoves but I think that's clear now anyway.
Thanks for the update. I've already said thanks for your time doing the GB, but I'll say it again now. Thank you for your time. I know what doing a group buy is like but I stand by my 'fitfully'. Please don't take it personally, it's no reflection on you if somebody says "yes" and then drops out. People have done the same to me, it's no big deal. Yes, I grumbled about the BB site in my PM to you but I don't see how that could even remotely be construed as pushing the problem towards you. I just wanted you to know that I was having trouble with the site and that that might explain some of the issues. I was asking questions that you'd already answered because I hadn't seen some of your messages yet, and that sort of thing, that's all it was. It's not so much that I can't be bothered to pop over and check, as that the BB site is so unreliable. For example sometimes it won't let me log on, and sometimes it logs me off for no apparent reason. It did that just this morning when I was trying to PM you. I know I'm not the only one who has had problems with it. Maybe it's just my bad luck but it seems like the site is down half the times I try to log on. There's a message of apology for it on the site at the moment:
Sorry about the downtime folks. Unfortunately the database crashed out and it's not something I can fix remotely. My host has no idea why it happened, just one of those things I guess. My apologies and rest assured, normal service has resumed. Regards, Martyn.
Maybe I'm not very patient when technology is badly implemented. Life is short and probably I can't be ar$ed to fight the things that are supposed to be helping. Sorry if it shows.
and were the only person cheeky enough to send your address as a link to your company, forcing me to visit the website to find your address when I asked for it as a plain and simple PM that I could copy/paste into a list.
Sorry if you think I've been cheeky, that's not my intention at all. In the past I've cursed myself for letting forum software (which I loathe, if only for its inefficiency, but you don't want to know about that) trip me up when I've tried to send the information that people asked for. So I've done it the best and safest way I know how. What I sent you WAS a plain and simple PM, and you CAN copy and paste the address link that I sent into your list, very easily. One reason for sending you a link to my address online is so that you can check if you wish that it's not something that might be going to disappear any time soon. I've thought people will appreciate that, I know it's something I often think about because so many criminals try to steal from me all the time. That address has been my business address for the past quarter of a century, and that's where I ask everyone to send all my purchases/swaps/correspondence/whatever. I don't like my private addresses being on random computers all over the planet and it helps if I know where everything supposed to be in case some of it isn't where it's supposed to be; that happens all the time too.
Ouch, that hurt! If you knew how much time I spend fighting off criminals of all persuasions in my business life, you'd never accuse me of doing something like that. My business customers are themselves businesses, and there's no mileage for the business in your having its details. We don't have planning permission to sell goods to the general public. You'll never see a link to my business Website in a signature. There's nowhere on the Website that asks for credit card details. I really don't imagine that you're going to want me to deliver half a tonne of copier bond to your front door, but if you're desperate to place an order we'll see what we can do about the delivery charges... You'll never see me trying to sell stuff to people here other than in a group buy. Those that I've done so far have left me out of pocket by several hundred pounds but I'm not complaining about that either.
Take it easy mate.
Cheers,
Ged.
