Guilible older people

[Pete999]

You must have seen the case of a piece of filth who charged some poor OAP out of £74K for replacing a damaged tile on the roof of his/her house, a complete scrote and nonperson imo.
In my recent capacity of a Charity Handy person, I was aske to help an old infirm Lady to repair a damage curtain track, one visit confirmed that She needed a replacement.
Now the Charity I volunteer for have rules that I have to react to, one of which it is down to the person in question to locate and purchase a replacement item, I went out of my way to find out where to get this part, but could not, for whatever reason, actually buy it for Her, it was a well known home store, and some (her words not mine) spotty 14 year old lookalike sold her a totaly inappropriate replacement, why is it I ask myself, that some retail establishments employ cretins allowed to advise the vunerable, is it a case of screw what you can out of these poor people, or a case of very poor judgement, sorry for the rant, but this volunteering jod has certainly opened my eyes to the way we treat older people, and I'm 72 nearly.

 

[FatAlan]

Billions have been stripped from the elderly via boiler room investment scams. Must admit this taken along with so called legitimate financial products makes me very sceptical about finance and top level business. Very fine lines between sharp business and fraud. Look at the scumbag company directors that plunder their employee pension funds!

 

[Squid]

I hate and detest people like this my Mum years back had £400 and her passport stolen by some Nigerian pick pocket who down neat to her on a park bench when she stopped for a rest, absolute scum bags.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I have lost count of the amount of faults fixed and accessories I have changed for the elderly for free over the years. Maybe I'm just soft but I think it's worth it.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Hat's off to you @Pete999 for the voluntary work

 

[PEG]

Our doctrine is far reaching.

Our Doris,has done a few miles,too...

 

[Pete999]

I had a job with a well known trade outlet, that has one area for Mr Average and one area frortwo types of trades people, i would guess that 99.99% of the Staff knew where every thing was, had the layout of the Wharehouse down to a fine art, but when Joe public walked in and asked a question, they never had a clue, I lasted about 5 weeks, pity really I enjoyed the company, and one particular young lady who was a complete help to me "anything you are not sure of Pete just ask, just goes to show, not all youngsters are Cretins, if she ever gets to read this forum (which I doubt) thanks for your help young lady.

 

[Pete999]

Hat's off to you @Pete999 for the voluntary work

Thanks, not only volunteering, it gets me out the way of Her in doors for a while, so it's benificialto the elderly who need help, and the elderly who want to get out from under their other halve's feet.

 

[gnuuser]

I have lost count of the amount of faults fixed and accessories I have changed for the elderly for free over the years. Maybe I'm just soft but I think it's worth it.

same here but it has its perks, quite often they make biscuits, tea, cake and pies
and many times lots of good stories and jokes.

heck one grand old lady gave me her (deceased) husbands wood working tools as she knew i would use and take care of them

 

[Percyprod]

My wife and I went into Comets several years ago to buy anew telly. Settled on a nice big screen job, about £600 worth. Spotty youth checked they had one in stock, which they had, then made a serious mistake.
"Do you want to buy a soundbar to go with it?"
Wife said "what's one of them?"
"Well the speakers on the TV sound a bit tinny, the soundbar improves the sound quality".
"I'm not buying it if it's got tinny sound".
We walked out, spotty youth nil, wife one!

 

[littlespark]

My father in law used to own a car garage. Car sales, petrol pumps workshop, the lot.
He gave it up mid 90's, and rented the workshop out to a national by the name of Kwakfat.
He took my wife's first car there for its MOT. 16 y.o with 'brake specialist' on the back of his boiler suit tried to tell him it needed brakepipes.

Suffice to say he had a quiet word with the manager, who was thoroughly embarrassed.

 

[Squid]

thanks for your help young lady.

 

[EalingBadger]

My wife and I went into Comets several years ago to buy anew telly. Settled on a nice big screen job, about £600 worth. Spotty youth checked they had one in stock, which they had, then made a serious mistake.
"Do you want to buy a soundbar to go with it?"
Wife said "what's one of them?"
"Well the speakers on the TV sound a bit tinny, the soundbar improves the sound quality".
"I'm not buying it if it's got tinny sound".
We walked out, spotty youth nil, wife one!

ROFL!

The trouble is that they pretty well all have tinny sound.

I got a free TV from my sister-in-law a couple of years back having had to replace the perfectly good but now sadly no longer up to snuff technology-wise 25+ year old model (no HDMI connector) and the sound quality was truly appalling. As a sometime sound engineer myself it was simply intolerable from the get go, so off I went to Richer Sounds and, after spending some time checked out the sound on all the TVs that they had on display, proceeded with a heavy heart to spend almost as much as I would have done on a new telly for a 'sound bar' just to improve the sound.

The old telly, being the last gasp of widescreen CRT tech was the size and weight of a small car. Nearly gave myself a hernia carting it to the dump. It broke my heart to chuck away a perfectly good working telly even if it was lacking in the HDMI department, but I just couldn't give it away. Nobody wanted it - not charity shops, nobody.