u/123onetowthree

Ik heb een ontstoppingsveer gebruikt maar dit heeft geen oplossing geboden. Het is er alleen maar slechter van geworden, er is nu helemaal geen afvoer meer. Ik heb geen idee wat ik nu het beste kan doen. Ik heb echt helemaal klaar met deze kutzooi.

Ik weet ook niet of de verstopping in mijn appartement is of verder in de gemeenschappelijke pijpen of die van de (onder)buren. De 2 meter lijding in mijn appartement heb ik volledig de ontstoppingsveer door gehaald. Wie is dan verantwoordelijk voor de rest?

The worst experience ive had by far on vinted have been with professional sellers/people who use vinted as a business (a lot of people using vinted as a business are also not marked as pro sellers). Stuff is almost always in worse condition than descbried or labeled wrong etc. And they never even want to cover the return costs if something did go wrong. After another bad recent experience im completely done with them. Never going to buy anything anymore if i get the idea that this person is doing it as a business.

Dealing with private sellers, people who are just selling their old chlothes/clearing up are much better to deal with.

10-20 seconden met de klopboor op full blast en ben ik 1mm verder. Wat gaat hier mis? Is dit normaal? Het is een betonnen muur.

Wondering for a possible build.

More and more often i get this message. No message on the page itself. But gives an error only after i try to bid.

And its often not even true. Theres nothing in the description about it. With other proxy services i could bid on those items.

There seems to be some mystery reason why fromjapan is refusing me to bid on these items.

When the demise and financial woes of many swiss manufacturers by the early and mid 70s cannot be accredited to cheap (asian) quartz watches.

As many will know the first quartz was released by Seiko on christmas day in december 1969. But this was a solid gold piece made in very limited numbers. Exact numbers arent known but its estimated around 1000-2000 total were made. It wasnt until mid/late 1971 that Seiko released its second quartz movement made in less limited numbers. These watches were still for the Japanese market and also very expensive, 2-3-4-5 times more expensive than a mechanical Grand Seiko was. The first models for the international market were released in 73-74. Quartz becoming more mainstream and a bit more affordable (still more expensive than cheap mechanical watches) started happening towards the end of the 70s.

So in what way did those expensive and limited number of watches, mainly for its domestic Japanese market contribute towards a "Quartz Crisis" that allegedly started in the early 70s? They did not. Many of these companies who gone bankrupt by the mid 70s did not go bankrupt because of a few quartz pieces that did not even compete with their own customer base and market. A financially healthy company would not have gone bankrupt from that in 1,2 or 3 years.

There are several other factors that lead to the demise of many Swiss manufacturers. Firstly its outdated manufacturing processes. Many small seperate manufacturers assembling their watches by hand. There were thousands of small scale manufacturers when post WW2 there was an increasing push for economies of scale and manual labour being replaced by machines. A lot of manufacturing also went to lower wage countries. Time simply caught up to the way the Swiss made their watches. A lot of the smaller manufacturers were bound to go out of business in favor of economies of scale and mechanised production, quartz watches or not.

What put further stress on the Swiss watch industry were cheap mechanical watches. Watches kept improving and in the 60's cheap watches became decent quality and fairly reliable. You also see a further increase in cheap pin lever movements during that period. Many of those also not being Swiss made anymore like Timex or Rulah.

And yes the Japanese watches did play a role in that too. By the end of the 60's and early 70s Seiko entered the international market. Before that their watches were mostly just JDM. As many made in Japan things during that period Seiko's werent super cheap but quality and price wise outpreformed many european and american products. I'd argue that the mechanical Japanese watches like Seiko 5's contributed a lot more towards the demise of many swiss brands in the early and mid 70's than their quartz watches did.

So several processes were happening at the same time during the 60s and 70s. For the Swiss it was in hind sight easy to blame it all on quartz. And further romantising Swiss watches as a luxury product fighting against the horde of cheap Asian mass produced electronic watches.