Fate telling me not to do something

Fate telling me not to do something

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17 August 2017 at 18:11 #25449
David Cambridge
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Fate telling me not to do something
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17 August 2017 at 18:11 #312555
David Cambridge
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Right, now I’m getting aggravated

Three weeks back I spend £55 on a TR10x2 lead screw, and TR10x2 tap. It turns out the company I ordered them from are scammers. They have an internet yesterday going back maybe a decade of unhappy people never receiving their goods. It was my own stupid fault for paying someone who was bank transfer only. You live and learn.

Luckily, I also ordered a Tr10X2 tap from an ebay Chinese retailer. Much to my amazement it only took three weeks to get here. Sadly I was out, the post office left a calling card, and now the post office have lost the parcel.

After the failure of my first lead screw purchase I ordered one from someone else. It arrived today – bent like a banana!

Do you ever get the feeling fate is telling you not to do something ?

Grrrrrrrr
17 August 2017 at 18:33 #312559
Mikelkie
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It's called "buyers remorse" David i suffer it too now and then
17 August 2017 at 19:21 #312567
larry Phelan
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You need a post service like we have here. Great ! never lose anything,and will hold my stuff for a week if I,m not around. ! And I LIVE IN THE STICKS !!!
17 August 2017 at 19:40 #312571
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It’s strange, in the past I’ve bought all sorts of stuff from all over the world from all sorts of dodgy looking suppliers and nothing has ever gone wrong. But this project just seems cursed!
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