Dan Robinson

London is a doddle to drive around as long as you're aware of the cameras designed to rinse the unaware of cash by going down randomly restricted roads. Cambridge is like a game of Frogger. Cyclists, students and those stupid scooters buzzing around with no thought to the rules of the road. At least London hipsters have a passing sense of self preservation when they cross the road. 🤣.... oh and in London you might get the pleasure of camping that that Cycling Mikey. Yep that's the entrance. First floor layout make sense, so as long as those choke points are dealt with it looks promising.

A £700 HiCapa? What lunacy is this of which you speak?

We get allsorts flying over us as we are close to where a lot of air show flights practice. Plenty of SPitfires and whatnot flying around. Had one of those AC130's buzz the roof tops a few years ago. I certainly wouldn't want to be on the sharp end of one of those. Having just done an emergency trip to Japan and flying China Eastern - it was a bit of a shock to be going over Russia again after all the other airlines going underneath, or the other way round. Looking at Flight radar is interesting viewing nowadays - especially when you think back to before this 3 day war.

Looking at the building from street view - there is much more going upstairs - where I presume the safe zone is and possibly more game area? Are there any other drawings? Wonder what happened to Hughes Electrical? Vaguely remember getting some of our kitchen appliances from them when we first did our house up. *edit - I see they've just given up on the Cambridge area - can't say I blame them. Too many cretins on push bikes.

DOH!

That's what I was thinking. I see they've positioned themselves carefully RE manufacturing defect, but seeing as the pew doesn't have a mark on it, they will be hard pushed to explain how it can be otherwise - which is also part of the CRA. Up to 6 months they have to prove it wasn't a factory defect. Thankfully over 20 years of running a business and having to deal with wankers in all walks of life, I have had to verse myself in several bits of law... I still keep the court documents where I publicly called a company out for being Snake Oil Salesmen - told them to F Off (literally) in reply to their Cease and Desist letter - then got the case thrown out of court without even getting a hearing. I can write a good passive aggressive missive when I need to. 😎 SWMBO wasn't so impressed at the time though. Genuinely I do hope they get themselves sorted because as I said in the opening post - the place is looking promising in terms of shop, range, tech facilities.

I've been drinking cheap London Gin* from my local One Stop for years - is there really that much difference? *Yes I know it's filth, but I get through far too much to justify spending the cash on decent stuff.

😁 Well that had the desired effect: Don't know if they reading this thread; but I find it somewhat ironic that if you google "airsoft and consumer rights uk" their website comes top of the listings.

Aldi and Lidl often surprise you with their interpretations.... Shows you how we get fleeced in this country by many big brands. I remember queing up with a load of farmers years ago because our local Aldi/Lidl (can never distinguish between them) were doing an air compressor and tool set for buttons. This was nearly 15 years ago and most of it is still going. Back then I serviced my own cars... Now I have a glorified Milk Float, I donated this all to my brother who uses it to look after his beloved E-Type.

Am I getting confused with the Rum thread?

Might be an interesting site, although I await to see the internal layout... With the exception of the Barton site's rather precarious locating of the chrono area alongside the A600 I agree.

I've pretty much covered that in my very brief initial reply... "Hi there, I would be interested to know which part of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 allows you to only offer a 30 day warranty? From my understanding I have 30 days in which I am entitled to a full refund. Up to 6 months you have a single opportunity to repair or replace it before I can request a refund. I have been very patient with this process as I accepted the delay due to your relocation; but more than enough time has elapsed for this to be resolved. At no time up to this point has the warranty been denied, nor was the repair deemed as chargeable when I left it at your premises – with the paperwork on the 12th March. Please repair the item and let me know when I can collect it." Will see what this does....

Well it's not looking good now..... Sooo timeline as it stands: Pew bought last September - never worked properly. Emailed in November requesting a repair. Email not replied to. Emailed again in January asking for a follow up. Email not replied to. Went in to store with pew in late February/Early March - was told they are closed for the relocation and to come back to the new place when open. Went to the new place with pew, original paperwork and copies of emails. Was told it would take a few weeks and shouldn't be a problem. 48 Days later.... and you have my post above. Now I have just had an email saying - pew is older than 30 days, was older than 30 days when i first emailed in November and that I now have to pay for the repair which "will be done but as of yet we cannot give an accurate estimate of when." hhhmmm.... I think we spoke about these warranties before with the shop in Stevenage, but I can't find anywhere in the Consumer RIghts Act that says retailers can place arbitrary limits of warranty - except batteries and perishables anyway. Either way - certainly not impressed; and considering my response.... 😈

I do the same as @The_Lord_Poncho although I do worry that will inadvertently damage the hop.

To be fair half my Airsoft trinkets are part of assorted Team Building Exercises. I might start photoshopping the faces of my underlings onto various game day pictures as well 🙈

Damnit - My Amazon account is a business one - I can't buy certain things... Turns out booze is one of them.

I do recall it being rather easily consumed. He had some other bottles there which i can't remember the name of - Kraken may have been one. Next time I go there I'll pay better attention. I think it's become "our drink" LOL. The joys of being friends with someone for 30+ years.

It was something a friend of mine introduced to me just before Christmas - never really had it before (well in working sober memory anway). Turns out I rather like it. Last time we met up the two of us evaporated a bottle of Diplomatico Reserva at his son's 18th after-party - where we discovered that us Gen X'ers can still out do the Gen Alpha and Zoomers by quite some margin. Although to be fair - the hangovers are worse. Prefer to drink it neat or with a single Ice cube - it is nice to have a spirit I can enjoy other than Gin. Whiskey is 100% guaranteed to turn me into a nasty drunk so I avoid it at all costs.

@ak2m4 might have them in his store?

I may or may not be taking my outfits with me - although i might only take the lightweight rig as its hot and humid AF over there. The pews will be lovingly stored with a parent - probably the old man as he has real steel to look after so he knows how its done. No point taking them to the land of little people as they'll all need downgrading. The thought of me rocking up to a field there dressed in full Osprey kit and juggernauting my way around the game zone squishing all and sundry is rather amusing. The MK4 is size 190/120 and i have brassards and a full collar for it somewhere. Made that mistake last week trying to buy shirts at a retail park in Chiba (not China).... Japanese 3xl is an L there too. So me trying to get into a shirt with 3xl on the hanger was.... an exercise in itself.

I have an Osprey plate carrier that is pretty chonks... I keep planning to put it on ebay with some pouches - but then I'm a lazy fecker.

Minor update - They've had 48 days and still haven't started looking at my gun. Sent them an email today and got a reply "being a private repair, we have not had the chance to get to it yet as we are still going through the backlog of warranty repairs from our move. We will have a look at it when we can but it may not be for a while" Well Bespoke - it isn't a private repair - it's a warranty repair. Let's hope it doesn't go any further south and is simply a mistake. Makes you wonder how many warranty repairs they get as I can't see how the relocation could have had that much of a delay unless their tech was having to do the move all by himself.

LOL, that gave me serious Desertphile vibes there.....

There is no definitive answer. You are better off asking how long is a piece of string. Welcome by the way. 😁