[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 27 May 2026 - 03:50 PM, said:

after months of fucking about with a disputed boundary on the house we were buying, everything was agreed a week ago, all sorted, final paperwork being drafted up, ready to sign over and out of nowhere last night the woman rings her agent and says she's not selling.

Thanks for wasting 6 months of our fucking life and thousands of pounds you twat

what the heck? How is she allowed to even do this? I would wager the Real estate board would frown on this hardcore and she'd have trouble listing it again, should she ever choose to.

In Canada, she would get dinged for not just her own fees, but any you incurred as well.

What a pain to deal with.

[Tiste Simeon]

 Macros, on 27 May 2026 - 03:50 PM, said:

after months of fucking about with a disputed boundary on the house we were buying, everything was agreed a week ago, all sorted, final paperwork being drafted up, ready to sign over and out of nowhere last night the woman rings her agent and says she's not selling.

Thanks for wasting 6 months of our fucking life and thousands of pounds you twat

Man that sucks. Is there any legal recourse you can take to recover some costs? I work in law but NI conveyancing and property legislation is not my area of expertise haha

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 27 May 2026 - 04:44 PM, said:

Macros, on 27 May 2026 - 03:50 PM, said:

after months of fucking about with a disputed boundary on the house we were buying, everything was agreed a week ago, all sorted, final paperwork being drafted up, ready to sign over and out of nowhere last night the woman rings her agent and says she's not selling.

Thanks for wasting 6 months of our fucking life and thousands of pounds you twat

what the heck? How is she allowed to even do this? I would wager the Real estate board would frown on this hardcore and she'd have trouble listing it again, should she ever choose to.

In Canada, she would get dinged for not just her own fees, but any you incurred as well.

What a pain to deal with.

This^

Any sense of whether it's a tactic as opposed to a decision? You could fire back a slightly increased offer w an extremely tight refusal timeline, or, if you want to be nasty about it, revoke the original offer and send a reduced one to reflect time expended.

[Slow Ben]

 Abyss, on 27 May 2026 - 05:56 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 27 May 2026 - 04:44 PM, said:

 Macros, on 27 May 2026 - 03:50 PM, said:

after months of fucking about with a disputed boundary on the house we were buying, everything was agreed a week ago, all sorted, final paperwork being drafted up, ready to sign over and out of nowhere last night the woman rings her agent and says she's not selling.

Thanks for wasting 6 months of our fucking life and thousands of pounds you twat

what the heck? How is she allowed to even do this? I would wager the Real estate board would frown on this hardcore and she'd have trouble listing it again, should she ever choose to.

In Canada, she would get dinged for not just her own fees, but any you incurred as well.

What a pain to deal with.

This^

Any sense of whether it's a tactic as opposed to a decision? You could fire back a slightly increased offer w an extremely tight refusal timeline, or, if you want to be nasty about it, revoke the original offer and send a reduced one to reflect time expended.

I’d bet this is it. People suck.

In the states you could sue for “Failure to Perform”, but it’s a pain.

Worst case scenario you should get the money back you have in.

[Macros]

final bit of paper wasn't signed, nothing we can do. its a trust system until the dotted line it signed which is fucking mental but here we are

[Slow Ben]

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Cause]

I don’t know why it’s bothering me so much but today I tried to buy a packet of crisps at a convenience store. $2.69. I have made this purchase several times. Today there was a new employee and she told me there was a $3.00 minimum and I’d have to buy something else. She was floored when I said I’d just leave it then and headed for the door.

Nothing costs 31 cents and I don’t want to buy something I don’t want. I don’t know why but her reaction to me choosing to leave the transaction has been on my mind ever since. Like I did something wrong.

[amphibian]

 Tiste Simeon, on 26 May 2026 - 06:24 PM, said:

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 26 May 2026 - 09:36 AM, said:

Sorry to read that Tiste. I'm glad the parents reacted in the right way and made them clean it up - but it seems a weird amount of effort to do to anyone, let alone people who've been kind to them.

Thank you yes it's weird and I doubt the kids even knew what they were thinking. Oh well! Life goes on!

There's some element of punishing you for not being there going on in that. I would bet some doughnuts that they were jealous about not being included - this isn't rational, but it sounds like their actual home isn't a place they want to be all that much, so you get some complicated feelings coming over your way.

There were two kids who lived on the floor below my family for a year and were essentially abandoned by their mother when they weren't in school. At 7 and 5, they would go through the neighborhood as basically feral children looking for attention, good or bad, because they couldn't get anything at home. They meant well, but didn't have much in the way of manners so they ended up getting on the nerves of most people around.

[amphibian]

 Cause, on 28 May 2026 - 05:42 AM, said:

I don’t know why it’s bothering me so much but today I tried to buy a packet of crisps at a convenience store. $2.69. I have made this purchase several times. Today there was a new employee and she told me there was a $3.00 minimum and I’d have to buy something else. She was floored when I said I’d just leave it then and headed for the door.

Nothing costs 31 cents and I don’t want to buy something I don’t want. I don’t know why but her reaction to me choosing to leave the transaction has been on my mind ever since. Like I did something wrong.

If you were paying by credit card, there's a processing fee that basically means the merchant pays more on fee than they made off what you bought if it's below a certain amount. Many stores have a 5 or 10 minimum for credit cards. 3 is actually low.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

amphibian, on 28 May 2026 - 11:25 AM, said:

Cause, on 28 May 2026 - 05:42 AM, said:

I don't know why it's bothering me so much but today I tried to buy a packet of crisps at a convenience store. $2.69. I have made this purchase several times. Today there was a new employee and she told me there was a $3.00 minimum and I'd have to buy something else. She was floored when I said I'd just leave it then and headed for the door.

Nothing costs 31 cents and I don't want to buy something I don't want. I don't know why but her reaction to me choosing to leave the transaction has been on my mind ever since. Like I did something wrong.

If you were paying by credit card, there's a processing fee that basically means the merchant pays more on fee than they made off what you bought if it's below a certain amount. Many stores have a 5 or 10 minimum for credit cards. 3 is actually low.

Yes, but then why didn't they ask if he had cash, or explain the credit card minimum? One might expect that instructions to do that would be relatively fresh in a new employee's mind.

Also, while he doesn't state it explicitly, by "I have made this purchase several times. Today there was a new employee" he seems to be implying there was a new employee at a particular store location at which he had made "this purchase"---which he probably intended to mean this exact purchase of $2.69 crisps and nothing else---several times. And if it was in fact an official policy change it seems like an odd coincidence that it would happen when they got a new employee, unless they replaced more of the staff, possibly including the manager, or had a new owner.