You know you're in Halfords when....
shouldbeinbed
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You ask the spotty child who is manning the bike hut counter for a 170mm left hand pedal crank for a square bottom bracket lug and he brings you a chain whip.
(it was for the eldests bso work hack bike, I'm not recommending the H place for best bike parts)
(it was for the eldests bso work hack bike, I'm not recommending the H place for best bike parts)
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you should see what you get when you are for some corking :shock:0
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All the signage around you and the staff uniforms say 'Halfords'???0
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When you walk in a shop with a bright orange frontage with HALFORDS in black letters written on it.Tail end Charlie
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You see Shouldbeinbed with a chainwhip in his hand?0
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when your lass is in New Look0
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.... the sub woofer car stereo system on managers special suddenly pumps out some drum and bass at 120dbA
.... you ask for the cabinet containing the decent tools to be opened and it takes 45 minutes for the spotty oik with the keys to turn up
.... you want to buy the Thule roof rack and ask to have the empty cardboard box on display filled with the actual goods and they say that they can't find them.0 -
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When all the bike parts are 20% more than everywhere else.
When the counter staff are 12 and have acne and dodgy haircuts
When the counter staff have no idea what a "SOCKET for a Hollowtech II BB" is....Nor a spanner for same application for that matter.
When they charge people £20 to change an inner tube on a LOOSE WHEEL (the tyre was flat and this poor woman came in with it and it took the lad no more than 2 minutes including blowing it up. I wouldnt have charged her at the motorbike shop I work at)
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steelie600 wrote:When all the bike parts are 20% more than everywhere else.
When the counter staff are 12 and have acne and dodgy haircuts
When the counter staff have no idea what a "SOCKET for a Hollowtech II BB" is....Nor a spanner for same application for that matter.
When they charge people £20 to change an inner tube on a LOOSE WHEEL (the tyre was flat and this poor woman came in with it and it took the lad no more than 2 minutes including blowing it up. I wouldnt have charged her at the motorbike shop I work at)
Theres more shall I go on
Thing is, they have to work on the amount of hours most of their staff would take to do the same job - sounds like the lad in question was too good to be working there!
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Said spotty oik gives you the catalogue to find your own price for a wheel, and the misogynist scumbag in the queue in front of you insists on being over friendly and swearing loudly (small child with him, and a faint whiff of "all afternoon in the pub"). Last Friday, Bletchley. Nice.Triban 3 - very red
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If it's that bad, why the +*(% did you go in there?
I do wonder sometimes, why do people insist going into Halfords if all they are going to complain about the experiance?0 -
I asked where the copper grease was and the assistant gave me a blank look and said they didn't sell that. He showed me to the shelf containing all the greases. There in front of us was Anti Seize Grease. :roll: Must check for alternative names for stuff before I go there again.0
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southdownswolf wrote:If it's that bad, why the +*(% did you go in there?
I do wonder sometimes, why do people insist going into Halfords if all they are going to complain about the experiance?
People watch TV, then complain
People watch football, then complain
People go to fast food places, then complain
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read posts on bikeradar, then complainteam47b wrote:southdownswolf wrote:If it's that bad, why the +*(% did you go in there?
I do wonder sometimes, why do people insist going into Halfords if all they are going to complain about the experiance?
People watch TV, then complain
People watch football, then complain
People go to fast food places, then complain
People...0 -
southdownswolf wrote:If it's that bad, why the +*(% did you go in there?
I do wonder sometimes, why do people insist going into Halfords if all they are going to complain about the experiance?
Jeez. A) I'm not psychic as to the competence of the people there at the time, it wasn't my immediate local one.
I've stood up for Halfords on here before, but mainly
C) It was Sunday afternoon LBS is shut & I'm on the retail park for something else already & needing a cheap part for a cr@p hack bike that son needed working for getting to his shift that evening. My 1st post is word for word what I asked in the bike specific area of the store. Not a difficult item and not unreasonable to be somewhat taken aback to be presented with something so completely randomly wrong.
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shouldbeinbed wrote:You ask the spotty child who is manning the bike hut counter for a 170mm left hand pedal crank for a square bottom bracket lug
LOL
Pedals dont have cranks. Bottom brackets dont have lugs.
so what you should have asked for was a "square fit LH 170mm crank" and you would have had a 50-50 chance of getting the right thing. but then there are the different tapers and the different orientation of the "hole" so i dont think he did so bad."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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nicklouse wrote:shouldbeinbed wrote:You ask the spotty child who is manning the bike hut counter for a 170mm left hand pedal crank for a square bottom bracket lug
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Pedals dont have cranks. Bottom brackets dont have lugs.
so what you should have asked for was a "square fit LH 170mm crank" and you would have had a 50-50 chance of getting the right thing. but then there are the different tapers and the different orientation of the "hole" so i dont think he did so bad. I'd got the orientation and width of the hole ready to check against the chain whip 0 -
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steelie600 wrote:When all the bike parts are 20% more than everywhere else.
When the counter staff are 12 and have acne and dodgy haircuts
When the counter staff have no idea what a "SOCKET for a Hollowtech II BB" is....Nor a spanner for same application for that matter.
When they charge people £20 to change an inner tube on a LOOSE WHEEL (the tyre was flat and this poor woman came in with it and it took the lad no more than 2 minutes including blowing it up. I wouldnt have charged her at the motorbike shop I work at)
Theres more shall I go on
What is the socket for a Hollowtech 2 BB? I don't know, all I know is, the crankset, the BB cups, the preload cap, the little hook thing to stock over tightening I presume?, the bolts, that's it, and the special tool to tighten the cups to the frame.0 -
willhub wrote:steelie600 wrote:When all the bike parts are 20% more than everywhere else.
When the counter staff are 12 and have acne and dodgy haircuts
When the counter staff have no idea what a "SOCKET for a Hollowtech II BB" is....Nor a spanner for same application for that matter.
When they charge people £20 to change an inner tube on a LOOSE WHEEL (the tyre was flat and this poor woman came in with it and it took the lad no more than 2 minutes including blowing it up. I wouldnt have charged her at the motorbike shop I work at)
Theres more shall I go on
What is the socket for a Hollowtech 2 BB? I don't know, all I know is, the crankset, the BB cups, the preload cap, the little hook thing to stock over tightening I presume?, the bolts, that's it, and the special tool to tighten the cups to the frame.
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Giraffoto wrote:Hmm wrote:. . .the misogynist scumbag in the queue in front of you insists on being over friendly and swearing loudly . . .
How did he combine those two? "How the &*%$ are you?" at the top of his voice? Details!
By being stupidly matey with the "boy assistant", and then proceeding to recount a conversation with his 'craic hoare' girlfriend involving something along the lines of her asking if her derriere looked "big in this", and him then issuing forth a furious tirade of profanity in response. She was with him, carrying (I presume their) child while she laughed nervously. 8 Ace, of Viz fame, methinks.Triban 3 - very red
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