[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2781054 20-Sep-2021 12:16

My trusty coffee machine dying on the weekend. It's lasted a good few years, so I can't be too hard on the old gal. Not economic to fix, so will replace.

That's $700 I didn't plan on spending.

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#2781055 20-Sep-2021 12:18

Handsomedan:

My trusty coffee machine dying on the weekend. It's lasted a good few years, so I can't be too hard on the old gal. Not economic to fix, so will replace.

That's $700 I didn't plan on spending.

Yes, I have a seven year old Nespresso that I can see failing at some point - although nothing wrong with it so far...

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#2781434 21-Sep-2021 08:06

Hundreds of our staff and customers were targeted by a copycat Facebook page phishing for logins. Facebook declined every one of our complaint reports.

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#2781444 21-Sep-2021 08:52

Repco and Auckland Camera have had the same happen in the last few days. Annoys me also that the platforms aren't more proactive in squashing this practice. It surely wouldn't be too difficult to flag new accounts with very similar names to existing accounts?

ETA: I've included the names of the victim companies, just in case anyone else reading this gets pinged by the dodgy cloned accounts.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#2781521 21-Sep-2021 09:47

When people who are selling something advertise it as a 'reluctant sale'.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2781528 21-Sep-2021 09:57

That two days after saying to my SO that if our Smeg dishwasher breaks down again, I'll replace it. It spewed water all over the floor yesterday from the main pump area, so I have to go shopping. This less than a week after I had to replace our HWC.

It had a 10 year history of constant repairs that commenced as soon as the warranty ran out. Most of them due to use of inadequate materials / design of components, some of those, the replacement parts had been modified to address the deficient original design. We were beta testers. If I wasn't a DIYer - it would have been dumped years ago. I'll never buy any product with that brand on it again.

Next annoyance is that every single premium brand of dishwasher & model has some seriously negative reviews on the interweb, mainly about reliability, but often about horrific customer service, unavailability of spare parts etc. Not just one random one star review, but multiple reports of similar issues on different sites. I wish I'd never looked.

Then as they're often AU/NZ models, along with other whiteware, searching those model numbers reveals considerable "NZ Tax" worse when Aus is hardly low cost for appliances.

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#2781543 21-Sep-2021 10:26

Fred99:
Next annoyance is that every single premium brand of dishwasher & model has some seriously negative reviews on the interweb, mainly about reliability, but often about horrific customer service, unavailability of spare parts etc. Not just one random one star review, but multiple reports of similar issues on different sites. I wish I'd never looked.

When my nephew was at uni he confessed to getting paid for posting fake good reviews online. If people get paid for good reviews there must be the likelihood that some bad reviews are also faked. I'd cast around for an appliance repairer's comments. On the TM forum there's a poster with handle something like Pamo69 who might help. I don't know if any Geekzoners are repairers.

I'm wary of any older dishwasher. We had one where the flex coupling from pump to the wash pipe had been scoured out until it was as thin as kitchen gloves. When it gave way it pumped the hot water onto the kitchen floor. Of course F&P techs had never heard of that happening before.

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#2781584 21-Sep-2021 11:26

Not something that really annoys me - more something that makes me a bit sad:

Went for a long walk with Mrs Code this morning - included Pupuke Golf Course (Auckland North Shore) then down into the bush on tracks in the adjoining Centennial Park. Walked through an area in the bush where as kids my brother and I and friends would play. We would disappear for hours, with no adult supervision - only going home at mealtimes. This was in the 1960's. We did the same thing as smaller kids when I was at primary school in the 1950's - we used to disappear into the bush at the back of our home in Karehana Bay, near Plimmerton.

It's sad to think that very few kids get to do this these days.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2781589 21-Sep-2021 11:45

Fred99:

That two days after saying to my SO that if our Smeg dishwasher breaks down again, I'll replace it. It spewed water all over the floor yesterday from the main pump area, so I have to go shopping. This less than a week after I had to replace our HWC.

It had a 10 year history of constant repairs that commenced as soon as the warranty ran out. Most of them due to use of inadequate materials / design of components, some of those, the replacement parts had been modified to address the deficient original design. We were beta testers. If I wasn't a DIYer - it would have been dumped years ago. I'll never buy any product with that brand on it again.

Next annoyance is that every single premium brand of dishwasher & model has some seriously negative reviews on the interweb, mainly about reliability, but often about horrific customer service, unavailability of spare parts etc. Not just one random one star review, but multiple reports of similar issues on different sites. I wish I'd never looked.

Then as they're often AU/NZ models, along with other whiteware, searching those model numbers reveals considerable "NZ Tax" worse when Aus is hardly low cost for appliances.

Why didn't you claim under the CGA? I'd expect premium brands whiteware to last 7-10 years, and I've successfully claimed from various brands a number of times in the last 5 years.

In my experience, Bosch and Smeg are pretty average brands for reliability.

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#2781590 21-Sep-2021 11:46

Bung:
Fred99:

Next annoyance is that every single premium brand of dishwasher & model has some seriously negative reviews on the interweb, mainly about reliability, but often about horrific customer service, unavailability of spare parts etc. Not just one random one star review, but multiple reports of similar issues on different sites. I wish I'd never looked.

When my nephew was at uni he confessed to getting paid for posting fake good reviews online. If people get paid for good reviews there must be the likelihood that some bad reviews are also faked. I'd cast around for an appliance repairer's comments. On the TM forum there's a poster with handle something like Pamo69 who might help. I don't know if any Geekzoners are repairers.

Dishwasher design just seems to be crap, AFAICT. Our current Haier one is an example... Cutlery basket bottom is so thin that it's broken. The basket handle clips onto the basket and sometimes comes unclipped. The bottom tray wheels don't stay in their tracks when its loaded. Previous F&P one, the top tray would come out of the end of its tracks. None of this is rocket science industrial design.

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#2781594 21-Sep-2021 11:52

Speaking to an Ex Bosch Engineer who was involved in the design and development of whiteware products said that the biggest issue with Whiteware today is the insistence that they use less and less water (primarily) and are required to use less power. He left the industry because the failure rates since being expected to meet those design targets made it nearly impossible to create good product that would last and perform well.

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#2781624 21-Sep-2021 12:41

networkn:

Why didn't you claim under the CGA? I'd expect premium brands whiteware to last 7-10 years, and I've successfully claimed from various brands a number of times in the last 5 years.

In my experience, Bosch and Smeg are pretty average brands for reliability.

The Smeg was just over 10 years old. To be fair, when it did work it worked well and I never had an issue with the main components, pumps or the circuit boards. Was other stuff - small but constant niggles, rotor arm fell off because they used crappy materials that wore out, a new rotor (designed better) cost $30 or whatever (sent from the UK), wheels on baskets disintegrating, pipe on the top basket falling apart, latch on door breaking, etc etc. Getting the thing apart to work on it, fasteners etc and studs where the panels were fastened - they'd break no matter how much care you'd take. It was stainless finish with a plastic coating, the plastic coating started peeling and looked unsightly, disappointing because it's best feature was that it looked nice for the first 5 or so years.

In hindsight maybe I should have claimed under CGA on each and every fault, regardless of how small the claim was.

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#2781631 21-Sep-2021 13:06

networkn:

Why didn't you claim under the CGA? I'd expect premium brands whiteware to last 7-10 years, and I've successfully claimed from various brands a number of times in the last 5 years.

In my experience, Bosch and Smeg are pretty average brands for reliability.

We have Bosch washing machine, clothes dryer and dishwasher that are 15.5 years old They have not missed a beat in those years. They replaced what I consider the worst whiteware maker Fisher and Paykel (Haier) which we had no end of issues with.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2781679 21-Sep-2021 14:08

Done. Went in to HN, Smiths City, and was about to go elsewhere to look, told HN guy, he dropped the price, so I did the deal, dropped in to distribution centre and they threw it on the back of my ute, extracted old dishwasher which unfortunately means removing a shelf under which the waste and water pipe run, brought in new machine, unpacked, installed, quick read of the installation manual just in case I missed something that wasn't blindingly obvious, loaded it up with this morning's mess and turned it on, checked water and waste connections for leaks, seems to work so far - I just heard the tablet drop. Will wait for it to run through a full cycle before I slide it into it's slot and replace the shelf. The old one is on the back of the ute, so a quick trip to the dump, then I'm done for the day, apart from putting the dishes away.

Ended up buying a Bosch - with "German Made" stamped proudly on the front. They label them like German cars which as we all know are built to last and never cause problems, This a 6 series, neither the poverty pack 4 series made in Turkey, nor the Grande Marque 8 series for which the main difference seems to be it's 2dBA quieter for an extra $800 - the price of two new dishwashers at Save Barn. Who knows - I give up.

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#2781694 21-Sep-2021 14:26

Fred99:

Done. Went in to HN, Smiths City, and was about to go elsewhere to look, told HN guy, he dropped the price, so I did the deal, dropped in to distribution centre and they threw it on the back of my ute, extracted old dishwasher which unfortunately means removing a shelf under which the waste and water pipe run, brought in new machine, unpacked, installed, quick read of the installation manual just in case I missed something that wasn't blindingly obvious, loaded it up with this morning's mess and turned it on, checked water and waste connections for leaks, seems to work so far - I just heard the tablet drop. Will wait for it to run through a full cycle before I slide it into it's slot and replace the shelf. The old one is on the back of the ute, so a quick trip to the dump, then I'm done for the day, apart from putting the dishes away.

Ended up buying a Bosch - with "German Made" stamped proudly on the front. They label them like German cars which as we all know are built to last and never cause problems, This a 6 series, neither the poverty pack 4 series made in Turkey, nor the Grande Marque 8 series for which the main difference seems to be it's 2dBA quieter for an extra $800 - the price of two new dishwashers at Save Barn. Who knows - I give up.

I honestly didn't know that Smeg was even a brand. I thought you were making some kind of humorous reference to Red Dwarf.

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