[Closed] RON SPENCER CYCLES WARRINGTON!

but you couldn't do it yourself... £5 misc labour seems fair enough.

Would you like me to pop round and show you where the caps lock key is ? I'll do it for a quid.

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i'm a locksmith and if you lock yourself out and it takes me three seconds to gain entry to your house i'm still charging you an hours rate of £46, so i'd say a fiver was great value for somebody to do something you cant.

What did you expect him to pay you.

He provided the shop,
the heating ,
the tools,
the knowledge,of how to do the job,
His own wages,
and he probably said helo as well.

bearing in mind you couldn't do it and tools, overheads of the shop £5 seems a bargain to me

I would have charged you an extra fiver for not knowing where your capslock key is.

See, my £1 was a bargain !

Minimum labour charge. Add insurnace to that list from Project.

Bike shops are not charities - pay up of shut up.

SSP

if i was him i'd have charged you an extra fiver for not getting the biscuits in which i expect you didn't as your so tight with your money.

Can't complain in my opinion, you couldn't do it so took it to a specialist to do it.

If a dentist had to remove a tooth and the flat rate was £100, if it took an hour and you paid £100 - not bad. If it took 5 minutes and you paid £100 would you complain that he was too quick? Doubt it

£5 is a bargain, if you couldn't do it what were your other options?

For someone who spends most of his time abusing the spirit of the classifieds (I don't believe that is all your old kit you are flogging) to make some cash, bitching about someone who is openly running a trade making a fiver for doing you a job you were unable to do seems a bit rich.

And don't shout so much.

edit-I also doubt it took 3 seconds from you opening your mouth to ask about it, to you getting your change/letting them get on with earning some money.

Minimum labour charge a fiver? Bargain I reckon, stop complaining.

I had a rounded bolt in a brake lever clamp. Went to the bike chain in Edinburgh, they told me that they charge around £30/h labour and will try to get the bolt out for 30min max. Was apparently an easy job as took them couple of minutes. I paid only £5 for something I wouldn't be able to do, didn't have tools to do it and didn't really know how and I was able to swap the brakes over to my new frame and didn`t have to cut the brake clamp and than try to get a new part for Grimeca System 8 brakes (probably difficult in the UK). So for me £5 for the amount of hassle it saved me and that it was done on the spot was a bargain, and I had a new bolt included :-). That's for the non economic side, You also need to take into account that shop has overheads. £5 doesn't seem that bad.

Some people haven't got a effing clue what it takes to run a business and the overheads involved!

If i was him i would have charged you a tenner for being a donut. Now go back to trading in the classifieds.

What sort of toilet can't remove a rounded bolt? Not exactly rocket science especially when it couldn't have been that bad if it only took 3 secs to remove. A fair price for getting an incompitent out of the preverbial. Learn to use tools properly and stop moaning.

If you had the correct tools you would not have rounded it in the first place!

Ron will sell you a complete set 💡

RETARD sorry retard.

He posted an identical post on Bike Radar. :/

£5???????????

That's daylight robbery. I'm taking note of that shop's name and making sure never to buy anything from there ever ever ever again. I mean, FFS, charging £5 to take out a bloody rounded bolt. That's just disgusting - it's no wonder the country's going down the drain. And people are complaining about BA cabin crew??? That bike shop could damn well ruin someone's Christmas charging exorbitant fees like that.

I guess that's the end of the fiver you were going to donate for using the classifieds. Never mind, I'm sure STW won't mind - bloody bike shops. All the bloody same. 😉

I trust that for £5 he returned the whole cycle cleaned serviced and lubricated?

T-R-O-L-L

DID YOU ASK FOR THE BOLT BACK SO YOU COULD USE IT AGAIN?

Is this where somebody blames Thatcher and demands that someone wields a set of Boxxers?

i blame THATCHER you need to get round there tonight and put a pair of BOXXERS through his window.

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Funny how the first thing we all did was to look at the posting history! Just a classifieds abusing freeloader, so not really worth worrying about.

*adds manwell to the list of people I will never buy from*

my old bike shop would have done it for free, cos I spent a lot of money there. Since I moved away, I rarely use an LBS for parts any more, so seems fair to pay a little extra for labour - I expect this is (generally) where LBS are making more and more of their money, and completely fair of them to do that

I was hoping by now the new forum would have a feature where people could mark someone as a cock, and the more marks they got the bigger the image of a throbbing bellend next to their name would be 🙂

thats funny. 😮

I like the cock idea.

The cock idea would be abused.

what about the the ladies, would they be cockettes or fannies?

Fanny abuse would be rife

So, in summary...........
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Manwells posting history is interesting - trade by any chance?

Not a great trader judging by the amount of times the same ads appear.

From the stolen bike thread -

manwells - Member
YOU SHOULD HAVE INVESTED IN A GOOD LOCK YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME!

Yep prize winning cock jockey.

If not trade, where does he get all his kit? **** it, someones just nicked my bike.............. 😆

Get lost manwell.
Bike theif anyone!???

also £5 is a bargain, respect to the LBS'

I'm guessing that if it only took 3 secs to get it out then it wasnt rounded....

Just had a look at Ron's site, wish there was a shop like that near me!

http://www.ronspencercycles.co.uk

Would have been cheaper at an internet shop!. I mean how much did you want to give the guy?

Then there is the VAT the shop owner will be paying, so that's £4.35 profit. And he also has the cost in admin to log the transaction and to bank the money.

SEEMS FAIR TO ME! SHOULD HAVE INVESTED IN PROPER TOOLS YOU HAVE ONLY YOURSELF TO BLAME!

Or some such nonsense. yeah, he could have done it for free, but then he wouldn't make any money, then when you get a bolt stuck and it needs removing where will you go?

I see you're selling a stumpjumper? Are you a recognised specialized dealer selling that many stumpjumper comps in 17in?

Tight arsed git-oh sorry useless git, £5 if you are a mechanical halfwit is worth every penny. People like that really p133 me off. Rant over.

I think we have a contender for Cockend of the Week here.

From Ron Spencer's workshop page :

[i]"We also have the ability and technique to adapt normal bikes for customers with special needs and disabilities"[/i]

http://www.ronspencercycles.co.uk/workshop.html

A fiver doesn't sound a lot to help out a customer with special needs and disabilities remove a bolt.

Probably used one of those quality A/K sets given away with a certain mag!
£5...bargain...£10 minimum charge in my workshop.

Thread hasn't quite gone as you expected Manwells, has it?

lol @ ernie.

This isn't turning out how he envisaged is it?

STW can be a cruel playground sometimes.

dear god I hope he's not ginger..........

WELL CHAPS I SUPPOSE MY POST KEPT YOU ALL ENTERTAINED FOR THE EVENING! WHAT A PITIFUL EMPTY LIFE YOU MUST LEAD TO SPEND ALL EVENING ON THIS FORUM SLAGGING FOLK OFF ALL THE TIME! DO YOU NOT HAVE A TELLY IN YOUR HOUSES! JUDGING BY THE AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT ON HERE I BET YOU NEVER FIND TIME TO RIDE A BIKE! GREAT PUBLICITY FOR RON SPENCER CYCLES THOUGH! I BET HE WILL ONLY CHARGE ME 50 PENCE NEXT TIME! NIGHT NIGHT SLEEP TIGHT MIND THOSE BED BUGS DONT BITE! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

umm, you started the slagging...

anyways, merry xmas n stuff.

manwells - Member
I BET YOU NEVER FIND TIME TO RIDE A BIKE!

Neither do you clearly if you're selling three of them.

I doubt he'll let you darken his door again.

ON THIS FORUM SLAGGING FOLK OFF

you're the expert, or is your memory as bad as your IQ?

WHAT A PITIFUL EMPTY LIFE YOU MUST LEAD TO SPEND ALL EVENING ON THIS FORUM SLAGGING FOLK OFF ALL THE TIME! DO YOU NOT HAVE A TELLY IN YOUR HOUSES!

Now I'm jealous ........... the thought of you and your telly having a full and fulfilling life,
leaving no time to slag anyone off 😐

DID HE SAY £5 NO OFFERS?

Our official minimum labour charge is £12.50, if someone is a cock then it will get charged, if someone is nice then it'll probably get reduced or waived entirely, Manwells fee would more than likely be upwards of £25 if we use a similar scale.

WHAT A PITIFUL EMPTY LIFE YOU MUST LEAD TO SPEND ALL EVENING ON THIS FORUM SLAGGING FOLK OFF ALL THE TIME! DO YOU NOT HAVE A TELLY IN YOUR HOUSES!

- and who started with slagging folk off..?! Muppet.

I love the fact that watching TV is somehow above browsing the Internet on Manwells' path to enlightenment!

Between this thread and iDave's, I've concluded that you sir are a tit!

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In manwells defense he is clearly not a trader as thats the same 4 items just reposted, and acusing him of being a theif is a tad harsh.

Didn't a famous portrait artist once say, "You're not paying me for the time it takes to sit here and paint you, you're paying me for all the years of experience it's taking me to get to this point." (or words to that effect)?

Lmao yeah mate bet he'll charge you 50p next time mate. Is that 1p for every person that thinks your a cok?

Now that is a big cock

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😆 at this thread, FFS 🙄

is manwell planning to hack the site like the children did last year, do you think?

"is manwell planning to hack the site"

well let's hope he's written his hack in a case sensitive language then...

is he from Barcelona?

I've never met Ron Spencer but I already like him 🙂

WHAT A BELL END.

Ooh that came across all a bit Dick Emery 😕

manwells,

Hope Santa brings you a new keyboard and a decent set of Allen keys.

Who needs TV when the Muppet show is on here?

Switches heating off and warms hands on the well-flamed Manwells.

Does posting overpriced rocky mountain bikes on bikemagic count as a full life? If so,you are living the dream!

Are you Kaesae in disguise? 😉

I think that a picture of this dickhead should be posted in every LBS in the country and that there should be 'severe on the spot fines' for any LBS staff who offer to help him in any way shape or form.....ever.

THIS MIGHT BE HIM, ALTHOUGH OTHER MICHAEL HEATONS ARE AVAILABLE..... CLEARLY IF THIS ISN'T HIM, I'M AWFULLY SORRY

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I went in to Hayles Cycles in Cornwall whilst on holiday because I'd idiotically put the left pedal on the right arm and foobarred the thread. They re-threaded it good and proper and didn't want anything! They also took a good deal of time recommending local bike routes. I felt cheap only giving them a fiver for a beer for their time and help.

Thanks to Manwell I don't feel cheap anymore!