A little while ago i had some problems with an X9 shifter, i replaced the cabe and it decided never to work again. After following many threads on the internet on repairing it, i admitted defeat and gave up.
So i offered it for sale, spares or repair, along with some other bits and bobs out of my box.
A very charitable sounding STW member replied to my post and said if i posted to him, he would fix it and send it back to me. He claimed to have mucho experience in these matters, and even said the return postage would be FOC through his work.
A couple of emails and a couple of quid later it was with him.
A couple of other emails down the line and guess what ? .............
thats right you guessed it ......... nothing !
Anyway, i havent lost anything really, only a knackered shifter.
He is an active member, (as little as a few hours ago), he just doesn want to reply to me.
Im not angry, just dissapointed.
If you want to know who it is then just look at my profile and activity. Just in case he decides that hes an expert on fixing Crank Bros wheels or something like that ! 
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If it sounds to good to be true ............... it usually is !
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Tsk Junkyard...
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-a-few-odds-ends-sposts-grips-sclamps-flats-20mm-adapt
I'm sure he'll have a decent explanation. Either that or I smell a lynching
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I say we burn him now and ask questions later.
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*reserves a couple of front row seats for mates*
**wonders if has time to nip out for biscuits**
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***would be pretty surpised if JY turned out to be norty***
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wonders if has time to nip out for biscuits
If you do can I have a Custard Cream please?
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clubber - you can have one of my chairs f you bring peanuts
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it doesnt really matter, it was no use to me anyway. i thought it would promote a bit of debate tho
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And ....... "J" has just emailed me. Funny that. seems he is not "Ricky Bobby" on the spanners after all.
no harm done.Posted 1 year ago # -
Oooh a lunching thread, haven't had one of them for, err minutes. Thought JY was a good 'un, so will see what he has to say.
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Oooh a lunching thread
We're all ladies that lunch on here....
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who's got the bickies ?..........
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Don't agree with JY on most things but never had him down as a tea leaf.
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pinkyponk - Member
And ....... "J" has just emailed me. Funny that. seems he is not "Ricky Bobby" on the spanners after all.
no harm done.so it wasn't him or what? We need to know the whole story
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teej, I assumed that means JY had a go, can't fix & has given up
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i reckon he cant fix it but too ashamed to admit it
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Are you for real..... it was only a week ago
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does it take a week to answer an email ? are you for real ?
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Junkyard has emailed me to say he cant fix it. Thats no prob because i couldnt either. he has also apologised for no getting back to me, and offered to return it.
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and just for the record, its been 2 weeks.
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so we're not burning anyone...damn it.
I'd made banners and everything.
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I wonder why it says 1 week on the history then - guess it could be 1 wk and 6 days.... So he would have got it a day or 2 later after you posted it - so just over a week in his hands....
tbh, having a little dig where the person who can be easily identified and is a "local" and could be embarrassed after such a short period of time when they were trying to do you a favour is bad form.
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i sense a troublemaker in this plinkyponk... if thats you're real name?!
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Pinkyponk, I like disappointment - although you could have gone for the
You've let me down.......
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You've let the STW massive down......
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You've let your family, relatives, wife & children down.....
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You've let the whole of the MTB community down.....but.....worst of all...
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You have simply let yourself down
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Maybe fixing your shifter for free wasn't on the top of his 'to do' list and was a little busy, fair enough if he was charging but what are gonna sell a knacked x9 shifter for? Nowt
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lucien - love it
philconsequence - quality
convert - you have missed the point of the whole thing all together
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Err, Junkie's response to your original post was only a week ago. Allowing for you posting the kit to him then we're only talking about a few days. Give the fella a break, he seems a decent chap (politics aside
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It could have been a child's face you know
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spock - well wide
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just checked the origional email - 7th april
eh ?
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and even said the return postage would be FOC through his work.
Hang on a minute, isn't he a civil servant?
That's my money he's giving away there, even depriving the little crippled orphans of an ice cream when they go to the seaside for their only day out of the year
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[before anyone takes it seriously]
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If you think you and your noodly little tupance hapenny shifter are SO important that someone with a job, a life and their own fun to be had should jump to your tune and respond tout suite to your email and when he dosn't it's time to have a online strop, I'd imagine making frineds in the real world is not one of your strengths. A couple of months down the line if I hadn't heard anything I'd have sent a "Dude, what's up with the shifter? Any chance of an update?" email - not made an arse of myself on a internet forum.
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Are you allowed to call people crippled these days?
Or spastics?
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hahaha - i know whos just made an arse of themselves "dude" !
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