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post #24706 of 33246
1/20/13 at 9:35pm
Man you guys are total creeps...lol @ lennier.
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post #24707 of 33246
1/20/13 at 9:40pm
A-Grade creep work going on here.

In other news, I'm heading to MJ Bale all of a sudden.. LOL
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post #24708 of 33246
1/20/13 at 9:40pm
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Originally Posted by California Dreamer View Post

A bitter life lesson last weekend.
A while ago I bought a pair of black C&J handgrades on eBay. They have been uncomfortable, so I put in a new insole, thinking the old one was worn out.
That made them easier to walk in, but my heel was lifted too high now. I took them to my cobbler. He gave me the bad news: the shoes had been water-damaged to the extent that the layer between the insole and the sole had been warped. The person who had replaced the sole had butchered it, and they are now non-repairable. He said the vendor must have known this, but it's too late to do anything about it.
His advice was never buy a second-hand goodyear welted shoe if it's been resoled. Lesson learned, although I perhaps should have already known that.
BTW, Frank is a very good guy - the best cobbler I've come across. He is in the Mt Waverley village, and really enjoys working with high end shoes. (He's a Church's fan). From my layman's perspective, he seems to really know his stuff, and his prices are good.
PS. Does anyone know if the cost of getting C&J to recondition these would be worth it? Given shipping, I suspect not.

If you ask hoo-man nicely when he pops in, I'm sure he can tell you better than anyone what can be fixed or can't be fixed and why it cant be fixed.
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post #24709 of 33246
1/20/13 at 9:49pm
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Originally Posted by thebrownman View Post

A-Grade creep work going on here.

In other news, I'm heading to MJ Bale all of a sudden.. LOL


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Originally Posted by lennier View Post

She's a young uni student on work experience, tall and blonde (and seems like a lovely country girl). .


lol. Any chance of any pics gents ? will save me a trip to melb.....
Or maybe just Google search names for face book images (;
Now that’s creepy….
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post #24710 of 33246
1/20/13 at 9:59pm
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

 

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Originally Posted by lennier View Post


grabbed a couple of their classic suits on sale to replace a couple of other OTR suits that don't really fit me, plus a very nice wool/silk/linen light blue unstructured jacket.

 

 

 

Nice, I had a look at that one - light blue in herringbone pattern? Good thing the block fits you - damn my short torso and long arms. 

 

btw, re: sales rep, one favourite radiohead song comes to mind, and I'm listening to it right now.

Well done to all of us, and special mention to lennier (*edit and the sydney award unquestionably goes to md2010), lol.

TBM gets two thumbs up for effort. Hope this doesn't put said sales rep off menswear for life...

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post #24711 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:17pm
Anyone taking advantage of the current spate of OS winer sales OL?
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post #24712 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:18pm
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Originally Posted by Selvaggio View Post

I have decided that Hainan chicken rice makes for a perfect luncheon.

agreed - thigh of course - best on i've had was baba's under the grace hotel.
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post #24713 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:20pm

Man Australia Post is the pits, it really is.

 

Delivery from HerringShoes via DHL Express (usually outstanding service), however this time they outsource to AusPost for the last leg of delivery for some reason. Anyway, driver comes at 11.47am whilst I was home waiting 3 meters from the door but just drops card in mailbox and drives off. Card turns out to be most illegible, confusing 'left card' ever, with two different post offices written on it from which to collect the parcel from. 

 

I go to both, wasting 2 hours of my time, only to be told that the driver is running an hour late (thereby invalidating the pick up time written on the card). Eventually I call DHL, they inform me parcel has arrived at the last post office I visited 2 minutes after I left. I'm instructed to ask for an 'eParcel' and not DHL (which is written in the 'barcode' section of the 'left card'). 

 

To be honest, this would have all been perfectly fine, but the attitude and abysmal customer service from the AusPost employees just put the icing on the nightmarish cake.  I think I'll be writing to the regional manager for AP, it was *seriously* appalling. 

 

Edit: Anyone know how to deal with tremendous rudeness from customer reps? I'm a bit scared of saying anything because my post might get mysteriously 'lost'.

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post #24714 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:35pm
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Originally Posted by strumpey View Post

agreed - thigh of course - best on i've had was baba's under the grace hotel.
Best Hinan chicken I had at Jimmy's. If you are in SYD CBD try them .
Jimmy's Recipe Malaysia Address
The Galeries Victoria
Ground Floor, Shop RC16, 500 George St
Sydney NSW 2000
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post #24715 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:36pm
I've had those cards left three days after the Aus Post tracking says delivery was attempted... Of course it never was; most likely scenario was that the posty couldn't be arsed driving out to my delivery address on a Friday afternoon (POETS Society Member), but told HQ that he's left a card so that's what it says on the tracking... then he actually does leave a card on the following Monday after leaving the actual parcel at the third or fourth closest post office to me.

This is not to mention the countless times I've picked up parcels for the neighbours that have just been dumped on the street or on top of their letterbox... Sadly the neighbour is into ordering quad bike parts O/L not English shoes, otherwise he might be making a few calls to Aus Post himself ;-)
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post #24716 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:41pm
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Originally Posted by strumpey View Post


agreed - thigh of course - best on i've had was baba's under the grace hotel.

 

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Originally Posted by md2010 View Post


Best Hinan chicken I had at Jimmy's. If you are in SYD CBD try them .
Jimmy's Recipe Malaysia Address
The Galeries Victoria
Ground Floor, Shop RC16, 500 George St
Sydney NSW 2000

 

 

Ive had both and Ginger and Spice is better but obviously its a restaurant rather than a food court

 

Another good place for sing/malay food is Malacca Straits near broadway 

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post #24717 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:49pm
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Originally Posted by Nicholas D C View Post

Edit: Anyone know how to deal with tremendous rudeness from customer reps? I'm a bit scared of saying anything because my post might get mysteriously 'lost'.

Aust Post has customer reps? I always thought that hotline was just a sick joke, and the chance of a person actually answering your call was about as likely as seeing the Tooth Fairy flying down Pitt Street.

Everyone knows he hangs around Oxford St.
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post #24718 of 33246
1/20/13 at 10:56pm
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Ive had both and Ginger and Spice is better but obviously its a restaurant rather than a food court

Another good place for sing/malay food is Malacca Straits near broadway 

Just remembered: Singapore Shiok in Chinatown serves very good roasted chicken rice.
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post #24719 of 33246
1/20/13 at 11:06pm
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Originally Posted by ColdEyedPugilist View Post


I'm from Singapore.

My vote: Ginger and Spice on Military Road, Neutral Bay; Tetsuya himself is a regular customer.

 

Well hello, Sir.

 

And I'm noting that Chicken Rice place down, to heart.

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post #24720 of 33246
1/20/13 at 11:21pm

Where is the $1200 price for EGs coming from? Seems that you can get them from Edwards in the UK for about $900.

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