So the last few months have gone by, I've bought a house, gone through settlement and the last few weeks have been busy preparing everything to move. I've been sleeping there 4 days now and thought I'd note some thoughts I've been having lately. (so hopefully I can look back and go wtf?)
Has it all been happy happy joy joy? Not really. It doesn't feel like home just yet, and I feel quite lonely at times. When busy at work or back at Mum and Dad's it's all OK but trying to get asleep, the mind starts running and I question if it was the right thing to do. All part of the process I guess, and things will get easier as time goes by (eating at Mum and Dad's for dinner this week probably is not helping).
Government spend spend spend!
So the Federal Government has decided to spend an additional $300 billion on Defence, which includes 12 new submarines.
woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot..
woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot.. woot..
Stupid Currency
I was looking through my old orders on Play-Asia and came across the following:
Apr 23, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV (US, No Region Protection) 1 US$ 64.90 (~69.47 AUD)
Mar 30, 2009
Rock Band 2 (US, No Region Protection) 1 US$ 64.90 (~93.56 AUD)
Nearly one year later, it costs approx $24.09 to buy a game of the same international price... *cries*
Apr 23, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV (US, No Region Protection) 1 US$ 64.90 (~69.47 AUD)
Mar 30, 2009
Rock Band 2 (US, No Region Protection) 1 US$ 64.90 (~93.56 AUD)
Nearly one year later, it costs approx $24.09 to buy a game of the same international price... *cries*
Exemplary Customer Service
Examples of exemplary customer service as of late:
- Being told a credit card reissue (through no fault of my own) will take 3 business days, and will be 5 business days and still no card.
- Several sales staff from a Harvey Norman store not getting back to my enquiries and require chasing up on my behalf.
- Asking a personal banker a question multiple times and not receiving any answer, but the subject on the email reply suggests the question has been read.
- Placing an order on HP's online store and receiving an email asking me to call them (I received no phone call). Called and got voicemail. Replied to email and have heard nothing (5 days ago).
- Real Estate Agents .. enough said.
Note to anybody in the Retail/Customer Service World. You are *PAID* to make customers happy. So do your job, answer my questions, call back when you first advised etc. It is not my job to chase you up, nor should I have to.
- Being told a credit card reissue (through no fault of my own) will take 3 business days, and will be 5 business days and still no card.
- Several sales staff from a Harvey Norman store not getting back to my enquiries and require chasing up on my behalf.
- Asking a personal banker a question multiple times and not receiving any answer, but the subject on the email reply suggests the question has been read.
- Placing an order on HP's online store and receiving an email asking me to call them (I received no phone call). Called and got voicemail. Replied to email and have heard nothing (5 days ago).
- Real Estate Agents .. enough said.
Note to anybody in the Retail/Customer Service World. You are *PAID* to make customers happy. So do your job, answer my questions, call back when you first advised etc. It is not my job to chase you up, nor should I have to.
Holidays 2009
Whilst I would of loved to go to Hong Kong this year, it looks like it's Singapore again, for a family wedding (again?). Not that I'm complaining... I look though my 2006 and 2008 blogs and my mouth is salivating. I can almost taste the stingray, chicken rice, hor fun, char kway teow, Old Chang Kee curry puff, Beard Papas, Starbucks, MOS Burger, McSpicy, Popeyes .... you get my drift.
I don't know who I hate more....
Car Salesmen or Real Estate Agents.... Actually fuck them all.
I really feel like calling the vendors personally and telling them that their agent is a fucktard. Or in one particular instance, uncontactable. I mean, don't they want to sell the property? For fuck sake, they should at least earn their commission by fucking answering the phone, responding to email and relaying to the vendor that people actually want to visit the fucking property.
Gone are the boom times when houses practically sold themselves. Agents might actually have to do some work and sell the fucking homes. For starters, they should evaluate the properties properly, instead of blowing smoke up the vendor's arses and keeping the property on the market for months on end.
I have seen some fairly prices property, and they have both been snatched before or within 1 home open. But there is a lot of overpriced properties, and a whole lot more WTF did they do properties. No wonder why people build...
I really feel like calling the vendors personally and telling them that their agent is a fucktard. Or in one particular instance, uncontactable. I mean, don't they want to sell the property? For fuck sake, they should at least earn their commission by fucking answering the phone, responding to email and relaying to the vendor that people actually want to visit the fucking property.
Gone are the boom times when houses practically sold themselves. Agents might actually have to do some work and sell the fucking homes. For starters, they should evaluate the properties properly, instead of blowing smoke up the vendor's arses and keeping the property on the market for months on end.
I have seen some fairly prices property, and they have both been snatched before or within 1 home open. But there is a lot of overpriced properties, and a whole lot more WTF did they do properties. No wonder why people build...
Overpriced real estate
I've been looking at a few home opens lately, and either my perception of real estate is wrong, or there is a lot of overpriced crap out there.
No wonder why people are saying to bid 15%-30% off the asking price. Agents must be talking up the values of properties to get signed up.
No wonder why people are saying to bid 15%-30% off the asking price. Agents must be talking up the values of properties to get signed up.
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