Expecting a delivery of 6 tonnes of decorative chippings tomorrow.
Today spent some time at the customers address, doing some prep and parked a vehicle (eventually) outside so the bags could be craned into the garden. Blagged a lift home....

Called B+Q to see if they could give me n idea of delivery time, so if needed I could get there early.

Bloke tells me it isn't booked for delivery. "WHAAAAAT" I have an email confirming delivery for tomorrow.
But Sir, the delivery postcode doesn't have a gap in it....
WHAAAAT yu delivered to that address no problem 18 months ago when I ordered a kitchen from you? And used the stored address from the order page.
Hmm, supervisor apologetic, and has agreed to send an email explaining why the delivery isn't being made. No doubt blaming me. But I am fuming.... I have the job booked, good customers and a labourer coming. The customer will be shown the email, but it doesn't exactly help.

But a system that doesn't cope with a postcode without a gap? but did previously? And zero contact from B+Q..... Somebody needs a serious kick up the a$$

Tread carefully

Absolutely mad. Why they can't manage to design computer systems correctly, I don't know.

Why does it matter whether there is a space or not? If it needs one, simply make sure one is present from the start. Why prevent entry of telephone numbers with parentheses, spaces or hyphens? If they don't want them, just strip them out automatically.

One that gets me regularly is entering a password wrongly because caps-lock is on … either turn it off automatically for password entry or accept passwords where every letter is the reverse case of that expected!



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'Computer says no' - how frustrating.

Any local independent suppliers left worth switching to in future?

It is the combination of service and price - good value - that is often tricky to get.

Cheers
Mike

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I can recommend the Stone Warehouse as an alternative if the situation gets worse with the orange boutique.
No, I have no connection with either.
They delivered 4T of Staffordshire Pink, on time, no grief. I had no labourers, just me, a wheelbarrow, shovel and a rake so not quite the collateral grief that B+Q have invoked in your case.

A postcode with no gap...................................?????????

That's a pathetic excuse, particularly if they've delivered there before.

Online systems I've used can manage whether you enter the postcode with or without a gap. In fact I've used one that only allows you to enter a UK postcode without the gap - it simply doesn't allow you to enter spaces in the postcode field.

I'd be hammering into B&Q like crazy for this and expecting the goods for free or at a huge discount.

Hope your day/week improves.

No wonder they are struggling with their sales figures!

They claim "out of pocket" expenses are not covered. And despite the supervisor trying to appease me with a shoulder to cry on, no more was likely to be forthcoming.
Problem is the customer wanted this stuff as a decorative gravel, and it is way cheaper (about £300) than anybody else. Customer is OK with me, not impressed with B+Q but wants to re-arrange.
I have spent the day painting and working out a way to re-wire a poorly place consumer unit that feeds 4 submains.... Head has been scratched and I think I have it sussed. Same customer in another part of the building..... The bill for all the bits will be about £400. Turns out 25mm SWA cable is quite expensive

B&Q are no doubt fobbing you off...

They wont have an in house built IT system, it’ll be a commercially available customised product, I’d lay odds on it working fine postcode gap or not. They’ll have f***ed up and using it as an excuse.

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B&Q are no doubt fobbing you off...

They wont have an in house built IT system, it’ll be a commercially available customised product, I’d lay odds on it working fine postcode gap or not. They’ll have f***ed up and using it as an excuse.

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They did develop much of their software in-house or use direct contractors to do I have been told by a friend who worked at Kingfisher group as an IT project manager. The IT dept is the biggest dept of the headquarter with over 300 direct employees! Mind you this could be the problem as the everyone was given impossible deadlines to achieve with limited resources and were continually off with sickness due to stress. My friend had to quit and take 6 months off to to avoid having a breakdown ;-(

25mm cable expensive 🤔🤔, compared to 1.0mm twin and earth maybe. Try it against pricing 70mm 3 core SWA. . . . . . . . . .

I am currently second fixing a £million+ house, has over a mile of twin&earth in it + alarms + cctv cables.

Next house is 500m away, Power Grid have today refused to connect it up as cable has been wrongly species. It is buried under a VERY nice block paved drive. Shame it's not in a duct to facilitate pulling in the correct cable.

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Had to chase B+Q today as they have not contacted me as promised.
Poor girl I spoke too sounded terrified when I asked he to check the notes once I had cleared "data protection"

Anyway, "JIm" the manager has now sent me an email to show my customer saying no space in postcode was the problem! And despite a promise they would call to confirm the new delivery date, that never happened, but it has appeared on the email. So 5th December is the date.

Time will tell if they can get it right this time.

Now, my Ford C max has developed a rumbly wheel bearing at 20 months old and 11K (odd) but the dealer collected it today 4 weeks after being booked in. George the service desk "oik" has displeased me by trying to fob me off and twice not calling me. Word has got round, as the chappie who picked the car up was very apologetic, and called me later to confirm my diagnosis was correct and it should be returned tomorrow once fixed.

Who is going to upset me next?

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Who is going to upset me next?

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Hope your internet connection and broadband is holding up!

Cheers
MIke

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Hope your internet connection and broadband is holding up!

Cheers
MIke

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