the trivial complaints thread

[SXIPro]

So now Harbor freight is offering credit and financing, who ever thought you would have to finance cheap Chinese junk ?

People have been financing Tao, Kayo, and Kymco quads for quite some time now......

 

[WFO Speedracer]

People have been financing Tao, Kayo, and Kymco quads for quite some time now......

I won't work on those Chinese junk ATV's , hell you re doing good to get me to work on a Polaris or Artyic Cat

 

[Quinc]

I won't work on those Chinese junk ATV's

100$ an hour to work on one, vs spending 200-300$ to buy a new engine.

 

[E350]

So now Harbor freight is offering credit and financing, who ever thought you would have to finance cheap Chinese junk ?

What does it say about our economy?

Steve Cortez, an economist on BannonsWarRoom on Rumble.com put up charts showing that 45% of restaurants failed to pay their rent in July.
And 35% of small businesses failed to pay their July rent.

Next they will be unable to pay their employees.

The inflation rate on the "must" have items of gasoline, groceries and housing is 29%
while the overall inflation rate is 8.1%

Not quite a trivial complaint, but it explains why, to make sales to stay in business, Harbor Freight is now offering financing.

Their books will look good until the consumer bankruptcies start.

Get ready for a buying opportunity when jet ski, boat, rv and second home prices fall starting now and continuing through the Fall.

Very few boats and jet skis are seen at Clarksburg Boat Launch this season, reportedly because of the price of gas.

Compare that to the Covid stimulus check not working crowds of boats and newly purchased used and new jet skis last Summer and the Summer before.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Subway keeps sending me food coupons in the mail but if you go by any Subway here they have signs posted that they are not taking coupons, does this make any sense to anyone else, it looks a lot like false advertising to me., possibly mail fraud.
Also the Subway we went to the other day was not taking credit or debit cards, no problem it's inside Walmart we will just go to the ATM and get a few bucks out right, wrong that wasn't working either so we went somewhere else that actually wanted and needed my business.

 

[Quinc]

Subway keeps sending me food coupons in the mail but if you go by any Subway here they have signs posted that they are not taking coupons, does this make any sense to anyone else, it looks a lot like false advertising to me., possibly mail fraud.
Also the Subway we went to the other day was not taking credit or debit cards, no problem it's inside Walmart we will just go to the ATM and get a few bucks out right, wrong that wasn't working either so we went somewhere else that actually wanted and needed my business.

 

[Sparkplug]

Subway is the harbor freight of sandwich shops.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Regrettably I live in a little pissant town that has very few fast food options, Subway has zero competition here, if there was some place like Firehouse subs they would be out of business here.

 

[SXIPro]

Subway is the harbor freight of sandwich shops.

I'd rather eat the stuff that Harbor Freight sells, than eat at Subway.

 

[Sparkplug]

Regrettably I live in a little pissant town that has very few fast food options, Subway has zero competition here, if there was some place like Firehouse subs they would be out of business here.

There aren't any grocery stores in your town? Guys without wives to make their sammiches know that grocery store delis make the best ones out there. Usually cheaper than subway also

 

[E350]

The fastest food we have in town is Chuey's Taco truck just South of the Courtland (i.e., Paintersville) Bridge on Hwy 160 (river levee road).

Best food in the Delta !!!

Try his Carnitas/Adobada burrito.

 

[Sparkplug]

Cali makes you pay tax on jet skis. Luxury tax. They have been charging me about 200 a yr for my xfr. For 3 years now. Because apparently they looked up some ski on Google and went off that value.

I got a letter for a lien being placed on my ski. So I go in. And they tell me the value is 25k. Ask how they came up with that. They tell me Google. I tell them I bought a used hull and slapped a 1980s waverunner engine into it and they need to figure it out. About 2 months later. And I get a letter saying they messed up and the value is now 6500.

I go in to try and get the lien removed. And pay the taxes that should be much less. Guess what? They don't care they have been over charging me. And they are not willing to remove the lien.

So I get to pay 400 dollars to the state. Just because I own a jet ski.

 

[Quinc]

Cali makes you pay tax on jet skis. Luxury tax. They have been charging me about 200 a yr for my xfr. For 3 years now. Because apparently they looked up some ski on Google and went off that value.

I got a letter for a lien being placed on my ski. So I go in. And they tell me the value is 25k. Ask how they came up with that. They tell me Google. I tell them I bought a used hull and slapped a 1980s waverunner engine into it and they need to figure it out. About 2 months later. And I get a letter saying they messed up and the value is now 6500.

I go in to try and get the lien removed. And pay the taxes that should be much less. Guess what? They don't care they have been over charging me. And they are not willing to remove the lien.

So I get to pay 400 dollars to the state. Just because I own a jet ski.

Send them a pic of a wrecked ski and say the engine blew up too. Once the value is below 2k you no longer get taxed.

 

[E350]

Our 1997 Ski Nautique went UP in value by $3,000 this year.

Inflation equals higher prices which equals higher taxes.

Only the Government can create inflation, because only the Government can print more money. More money chasing the same or fewer items equals "price inflation." (Note the value of the item has not increased, rather the value of the dollar by which it is priced has decreased, requiring more dollars to equal the same value.)

Gavin Newsom will be the next Democrat (i.e., Communist) President.

He wants to repeal Prop. 13 which limits the increase of assessed value on houses to 1% plus "fees" per year.

Bend over America. Gavin Newsom quote: "It's wide open now!"

 

[WFO Speedracer]

There aren't any grocery stores in your town? Guys without wives to make their sammiches know that grocery store delis make the best ones out there. Usually cheaper than subway also

Yes but none of them do subs, I don't eat there often for obvious reasons, I do a lot of cooking and grilling, I remember when I was going to American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona I lived off of Grocery store subs from the small grocery across the street, I became friends with the guy that worked there nights and he would load my sub up with double the regular amount of meat but he said make sure only him rang it up, nice to have friends in low places lol.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

I bought a bag of flour the other day , printed on the bag was this warning : Flour is raw please cook fully before enjoying.

Is this really what America has come to and who the hell is eating raw flour ?

 

[WFO Speedracer]

These damn Seadoo customers will just run stuff till it drops I guess, 1997 GTI in for repair, broken off bolt in the exhaust manifold, other three bolts are missing in action, wear ring in the jet pump completely white, ( that means its long gone) not a trace of the black plastic left, spark plugs fouled out from running it with an exhaust leak, if you ever let the exhaust bolts get loose and still run the ski they act like a file and now your 8mm bolt holes will swallow a 10 mm bolt, no fixing these just replace worn parts with good parts , go again and hope they have better sense next time, here is a clue they won't and they don't !

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Working on a 1100 Waveventure , really clean ski that barely runs on the trailer , the customer said it needed a fuel pump I told him if it did it would be the first one I have ever replaced, listening to it spit and sputter I told him the reeds were probably bad, thats when he started telling me how many times the PO had the carbs off and that he couldn't fix it. Yep the carbs are the first thing I will check then, followed by the reeds.

It took about two minutes yesterday morning to snatch off the flame arrestor cover, fire it up and what do you know massive pressure coming back up through the carbs, I tear it doWn today and we have metal gaskets, definatly not stock and what YEP junky Boyeson reeds, well there you go, sometimes it sucks to constantly be right.

 

[Quinc]

YEP junky Boyeson reeds, well there you go

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Yeah I said it , I will also say that 99% of the time aftermarket reeds don't do poop , good reeds won't make your ski any faster but bad reeds will keep you from riding.