Grumpy Old Nasho Posted February 14 Posted February 14 41 minutes ago, red750 said: They'd have a tough time trying to satisfy you. Yes they would. Consumer rights are too few and been neglected for too long. More power to the consumer I say. And no more fake investors taking your money only to buy a mansion and Ferrari then sticking their finger up at the suckers.
old man emu Posted February 14 Posted February 14 All I can add to this current chat is caveat emptor 1
Popular Post Marty_d Posted February 14 Popular Post Posted February 14 10 hours ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said: And no more fake investors taking your money only to buy a mansion and Ferrari then sticking their finger up at the suckers. You literally just described Trump. 1 4 1
facthunter Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Trump is ALL about .................................. ....................................... ...................................................................................TRUMP.. 1
Grumpy Old Nasho Posted February 15 Posted February 15 5 hours ago, Marty_d said: You literally just described Trump. I said I differ with Trump about consumer affairs. I would bring in the biggest most beautiful consumer affairs bureau Australia has ever seen. It would almost replace the Federal Govt, that's how big and beautiful it would be. No consumer would ever get ripped off. Just with a click of a mouse button, a refund would be given no matter the product, and the retailer severely warned. The consumers would have all the power, and the Bureau given the power to stop "dumping" and to thoroughly test products, sending them back to countries of origin if faulty, only high standards would suffice. 1
Marty_d Posted February 15 Posted February 15 2 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said: I said I differ with Trump about consumer affairs. I would bring in the biggest most beautiful consumer affairs bureau Australia has ever seen. It would almost replace the Federal Govt, that's how big and beautiful it would be. No consumer would ever get ripped off. Just with a click of a mouse button, a refund would be given no matter the product, and the retailer severely warned. The consumers would have all the power, and the Bureau given the power to stop "dumping" and to thoroughly test products, sending them back to countries of origin if faulty, only high standards would suffice. You are starting to talk like him. Are you actually a very intelligent lefty who is playing a long ironic joke? 2 1
Grumpy Old Nasho Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Nope, I mean every word. It's what we need, consumers lose billion$ because they have no power. Time to turn that around. 1
rgmwa Posted February 15 Posted February 15 14 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said: ... consumers lose billion$ because they have no power. That's simply not true. https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-services/consumer-rights-and-guarantees 1
octave Posted February 15 Posted February 15 The Trump administration is composed of mostly billionaires. They do not represent the average person. The wealthy are less likely to need the services of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The likes of Musk do not need this service, they can afford to sue. However, it does suit Musk to take power away from ordinary people. This is especially wrong because Musk seeks to provide financial transactions on Twitter. Musk has everything to gain from getting rid of consumer protection and the ordinary people have a lot to lose. Trump's talent is convincing ordinary people that he has their interests at heart. 1 1
onetrack Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Never forget that Musk was a founding member of PayPal, and he merged his previous online banking operation, X.com, with another online banking startup, Confinity, to form PayPal. But Musk got kicked out of PayPal when he refused to address the level of fraud being conducted via PayPal. As always, Musk cares little about fraud or criminality, as long as he's making huge profits. The other techheads on the PayPal board could see that increasing fraud on PayPal would eventually destroy, so they successfully reduced the fraud levels to a minimal amount, and PayPal thrived. But Musk is a typical banking greed merchant, PayPal charges were excessive, and still are, and now Musk is now intent on getting back into banking transactional business again (along with crytpo), because he knows exactly how much money can be made from these systems. 1
red750 Posted February 15 Posted February 15 And the suckers will swallow it hook line and sinker. However, things are tanking a bit for him. Lots of Tesla orders cancelled and Tesla shares nosediving. A question was asked on Facebook, what would you like to get rid of to help the economy? Every second comment was Tesla cars. Trump also rated highly. Soon he won't be able to give them away. A German car hire firm has dumped all EV's and gone back to ICE. 1
old man emu Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Bloody Trump and Musk are infiltrating every thread on this forum. 1 1
facthunter Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Seeing They are bringing about the end of the world. That's reasonable. Non? 1
spacesailor Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Add another one degree or two to the temperature. we will have two crops of ' sitrus ' fruit every year . My tree blossomed twice but they are falling off. . now the temperature has dropped a couple of degrees. spacesailor
facthunter Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Citrus. You are CONFUSING weather with climate. IF the average temp goes up by that amount we ARE all IN DEEP TROUBLE. Nev
old man emu Posted February 15 Posted February 15 40 minutes ago, spacesailor said: My tree blossomed twice but they are falling off. . now the temperature has dropped a couple of degrees. Has the cold weather stopped you from peeing on your citrus trees?
Marty_d Posted February 15 Posted February 15 6 hours ago, old man emu said: Has the cold weather stopped you from peeing on your citrus trees? Careful, if the weather's too cold his plums might drop off too.
pmccarthy Posted February 15 Posted February 15 We just had a miserably cold night, still in bed and my feet are freezing. Will have to get a second blanket out of the cupboard. 1
nomadpete Posted February 15 Posted February 15 Bring on this global warming..... It's five degrees here. I think summer was last wednesday - we had a 31 degree 'severe heat wave' then. 1
Marty_d Posted February 15 Posted February 15 I'm finding the cool spell refreshing. However my wife still wants us to go snorkeling this morning so I'm not particularly looking forward to that...
red750 Posted February 15 Posted February 15 This up and down weather is playing havoc with my sinuses. 37 one day, 18 two days later. My nose is dripping like a tap. I've reacted this way for over 40 years. My father suffered greatly with bronchitis, which was the reason we moved to Deniliquin in 1956. Atmosphere much drier there. 1 1
onetrack Posted February 16 Posted February 16 (edited) Yeah, we froze last night, too - it went down to 17.7°! 😄 In fact, the temps went down to 14° for two days this last week, I had to go find a shirt to put on! Our maximums are currently a very pleasant, low to mid 30's, I find 18° to 28° is my ideal temperature range. When I lived in the South Eastern Wheatbelt, I thought 11° to 22° was a nice temperature range - but out there, we often got multiple frosts every July and August. I've seen -7°C in the wheatbelt in the early 1970's, it was a bitterly cold morning. Now, I wouldn't know what a frost looks like. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW6111.latest.shtml Edited February 16 by onetrack
facthunter Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Frosts clean out a lot of insects and a few nuisance grasses. Late frosts do the damage. Nev 1
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