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I am with you, its fucking bullshit, look how much 1 small mistake has cost you, and they couldnt give a fuck.
Nah man, it's the governments fault that he got those points and now is seen as a higher risk. This is unjust and the insurance companies should compensate us all in some way.
Theres always one person on their high horse.
True Aussie fashion, claim the moral high ground, do nothing about nothing and then when parking fines are $500, insurances are up, unfair fees etc, just bitch and moan about inflation and blame it all on high profits of the banks and supermarkets.
People make mistakes, doesnt mean the punishment should be unjust.
I lost 3 points because a 23 yr old in the back seat had the window down and her arm resting on it, the whole system is wildly unfair and designed as a revenue stream from all road users no matter how law abiding you think you are. Drive often enough and your chances of being fined for something is almost 100%
Not really, I only do 1000km in my personal vehicle, the other kms are in my work truck, so its not a win.
Which is a $300 fine, and an extra $400 for insurance for the next 3 years.
Considering how many cameras there are around, its a ridiculous punishment
What he means is, the insurers have done the calculations on correlating demerit points with payouts, and this is how the money pans out on average. It’s not personal but it’s not random either, this is why they’re allowed to ask and use such factors.
>And this has nothing to do with how much I drive, if you have 1 point on your license your greenslip goes up by near 50%
If it didnt make a difference, then why would all the insurance companies ask for that detail? they could attract people with demerit points and get a bigger market share
My prediction is you'll find a link betweeen demerit points and accidents, which correlates with personal injury.
Prolly. Hittin us where it hurts. Can’t wait to renew in November 🥲
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Lol, well, can't say no to my mum just yet...
Have the upvote coz I got a good laugh from your comment, cheers
I mean, yeah i should have checked, but I didn't know it expired. If notification was sent out, it was sent to my deceased dad's email, which I don't have access to. No letter was received.
End of the day, yeah it is my fault for not knowing and checking, but it's a costly error, and that hurts.
My mistake, there is always 2 people on their high horse...
The punishment isn’t unjust though
Wow careful, logic doesnt sit well around here.
But yep I agree with you..
I’m thinking the correlation between ute driver and points on licence is a red flag but what would I know, I only get tailgated and dangerously overtaken by them every week
$831 with 0 demerits, $979 with 1 demerit, $1126 with 3 demerits.
So better than QBE which was 1126 with 1 point.
good on ya! thanks for the rant. Mine is up soon, so I might be back to add my own
I fucking lol'ed at this one
Wake up Jeff
Well I’m fucked, I think I have 6 demerits at the moment
Your disability parking permit? Shit, don't let it expire!
I wrote in my appeal that "I didn't know my mum was part axolotyl and her limbs would grow back"
Perhaps that's why it got rejected. Twice.
Had a look at your profile too. I think we live about 20 minutes apart
Wake up sheeple, it’s a conspiracy.
no, just the CTP. But I like the sarky answer! hahaha axolotl made me laugh again
ohai neighbour! come join the 3 of us in /r/Kiama
Won a couple of lots in an auction recently and alot of it is used stage equipment, such as electric chain hoists/controllers/kinesys equipment etc. which is pretty useless to me but would be quite beneficial to company's that set up stages/performances. Where would be best I try and sell stuff like this?
Reckon you could DM a list of things you won?
There's a Facebook group for this called Production Equipment Exchange Australia https://www.facebook.com/groups/240795629414598/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT
How would police even start on a case like this?
Hi all,
Has anyone had an experience where you backed out/broke a new tenancy agreement? (Fixed term - 12 months; haven't moved our things in yet)
It began when the real estate agent called with an offer for a place - It was early Monday morning, and I was just about to enter a very scary, anxiety-inducing 1-1 online meeting with my boss, so I was already tired and stressed. They only give you 1hr to say yes to secure and pay the holding deposit ($2600 in this case); I had my partner calling me from his work office trying to get an answer ASAP as to whether it was going to be a yes or no to the offer. He was leaning on the yes side, only because he just wanted the rental hunt to send, and so we had somewhere that we knew accepted our cat, but I was unsure and had so many questions that the agent couldn't or chose not to answer. We inspected the property on Saturday, but it was the first of six places we inspected, and they were all quite similar and in the same area. Hence, my ADHD brain forgot a lot and mushed memories of places together, so I had forgotten the real negatives of this place. I looked at the online listing again to remind myself for reference. Still, I only just realised in the fine print that not only was it the photoshopped furniture in the images (I knew that part and was okay with that), but the photos weren’t of the actual apartment; they were from another “similar” apartment in the building! It's still a one-bedroom but much bigger with a better kitchen. (FYI, when we inspected, it was so busy and rushed and empty, so hard to gauge size compared to our current place). There has never been a photo of the bedroom at all on the listing, but it’s half the size we thought it was and has no closet storage space. I asked the realtor before I said yes if they could supply a photo, a floor plan, or just some basic measurements (this would have swayed my decision) - and he said he couldn’t provide any of that. We can’t fit our queen-sized mattress in there, let alone anything else. I thought the place we were in now was small… but in comparison, oh boy, this place is a $650 p/w shoebox with no car park in the ugliest concrete jungle in the suburb - St Leonard’s, in NSW.
With my partner, everything has to be done at an unnecessarily fast pace so the bond and the 4 weeks' rent they require in advance… so over 5k has been paid. I have no savings and have $20 to my name. After this payment, he also has very little money, so we can’t afford to lose that entire $5,420, but I can’t live there. My mental well-being is already fragile; our relationship is strained, and living in this place will only make everything worse. Worse for our cat, too all of this became a devastating reality when we went to look at the empty place alone last night for the first time since the inspection. Shock started to set in as we both instantly realised how badly we had messed up with this decision.
We are both originally from NZ, and I don’t know all the laws if there are loopholes or anything. I did look at the NSW Fair Trading website for info last night, but I was so emotionally drained that I couldn’t understand it. I still feel like I'm reading a foreign language.
Moving into this place, because there is almost no general storage besides a tiny bedroom closet and linen cupboard, we will have to purchase drawers, other forms of storage and possibly even a new bed (change from queen to double). So once again, more money is spent, but because we will shop cheap or second-hand, it wouldn’t come close to that $5,420 we have paid. Neither of us has friends or family we can loan money from to somehow get ourselves out of this situation. I’m just so lost, and we both can’t stop crying.
I know this post may sound like it’s coming from a place of privilege. I’m aware (especially with insane rental costs in Sydney) that we are lucky to have a roof over our heads, which, sadly, not everyone can access. So please keep any mean words to yourself because, believe me, I already feel like the most stupid and pathetic person ever right now.
If you have read this far, thank you, you deserve a medal, lol
I'm sorry if this is too much or sent in vain; we are just feeling hopeless, and I figured maybe someone here might know something that we don’t or have experienced something similar. I'm just so lost and feel sick with anxiety. 🥺
If you have been through something similar or have any advice you're willing to share, please let me know. We’d genuinely appreciate anything.
Thank you in advance, and my apologies for the essay.
In lieu of someone giving specific advice, the law in relation to this is contained in the NSW residential tenancies act, which you can get online. Find the appropriate sections and read them.
Stolen from r/melbourne
Kempsey
Walgett. Every window barred, cameras everywhere. The second you land you can feel eyes on you. I had to go there once for work. Went to pick up food at the only open place - the Chinese takeaway. Guy behind the counter told me I “shouldn’t have walked from the motel alone.” Sure enough, soon as I leave the shop, there’s a carload of guys idling nearby who slowwwwwly follow me the whole way back to the motel. Had the cold sweats and a sick feeling. Blocked the door with furniture as well as locking it that night.
St Albans. Used to stop there quite a bit while bike riding around the Hawkesbury region. There's a moment when you approach St Albans that feels like you've entered the Upside Down. I can't quite put my finger on it but it always gave me the creeps
The places that are decaying.
Like Marulan, in freefall since the Hume Highway bypass 30 or more years ago.
Some small central west towns, like Mandurama, Kandos, Dunedoo.
There's a town in the upper Hunter, Cassilis, that once obviously once an important small town, with substantial colonial-era police station, court house large shops and the Royal Hotel. All closed except the pub, which clings on.
Aberdeen
Torrington in Northern NSW
My brother went there to check out some rock climbing sites and saw some very suss activity out in the bush. Also just saw a donkey walking down the street on its own.
Nowendoc, if you could call it a town. Every time I stop there on Thunderbolts way I feel like I'm being watched.
Bowraville
Captains flat. Went there once and it felt like the whole neighbourhood were peaking through their blinds at me. Also witnessed a drug deal. 2/10.
As it's been called one of "Australia's most haunted places" does anyone find Piction spooky or creepy at all?
Wilcannia, 10000000%
Brewarrina. Like the other comment for Walgett, same vibe. Stopped for a bathroom break and wished I'd just got out of town and gone on the side of the road. Felt watched and uncomfortable the entire time I was there and the only interaction with another human was when a fella on a bike rode up to me and asked why I had so much stuff in my car (I was moving states).
medelow bath. right in front of the hydro majestic hotel i used to work nights there it's actually haunted by goasts
Blainey ( reminds of the movie deliverance )
Newell highway heading into Narrabri. The Pilliga is scary af.
Honourable mention to a little place near nymboida called dalmorton. You wanna have a yowie experience, camp there for a night.
Just search for current open permanent job applications for primary teachers. It usually is only the most undesirable suburbs of NSW with nice 20k incentives to go rural. But there’s a reason for that 🫠
Lithgow
Mumbil.
The kind of place that looks entirely inhabited by murderers.
West Wyalong. The town is so quiet at 7pm I could hear my footsteps echoing off the old gold-rush era buildings. It obviously used to be an important town in its heyday but it is now mostly populated by miners who get bussed daily to the nearby gold mine.
Trundle. It’s fucking creepy AF.
wellington
Went through Sofala when it was freezing cold. Ghost town. 2 streets. Did not see a single person.
In this thread, poor people are scary.
Ever since I was little I used to get really uneasy on the drive between Pokolbin and Singleton, then again between Singo and Muswellbrook. Those areas creep me out.
Lismore from dusk in the winter months creeps me right out. It’s amplified on a Sunday too.
Riverina here. Loving that your all going north, Hunter and west for your choices. We've got it pretty good on the low creepiness levels :)
Armidale. Bunch of weirdos the lot of them (from an ex-Armidale inhabitant)
I always drive through little towns for a peek when I have time during work related trips. The only place that’s ever given me the real creeps for no discernible reason was Monteagle near Young. Koorawatha comes close too but that was my fault for wandering around its cemetery at dusk. My imagination and senses kicked into heightened overdrive!
This thread is a hilarious example of city folk being terrified of country folk. The one where they were using large machinery in the bush at night and that was somehow sinister made me laugh in particular.
The scariest place in NSW is Sydney.
but were better than Melbourne so we can steal (only applies to us)
Dorrigo is fuckin weird.
Drake.
Wauchope has this weird secret vibe. I spent many weeks there as a child and it has a feeling of otherworldlyness... The drive between Wauchope and the old highway you use to head to Taree. That road is creepy AF. I used to hear stories from my Grandfather who was part of emergency services in that area about stuff happening on that road. Strange things. Things that shouldn't be possible.
Grenfell! Hills have eyes
Nimbin.
Here’s a story I’ve posted about a creepy “lawn sale” in Marulan (heading south on the Hume highway) 2014. Anyone ever go here?
Marulan, NSW - weird/creepy Garage/Lawn sale 2014
Hi there
Did anyone ever go to a lawn/garage sale off the Hume highway around 2014 in Marulan, NSW?

I am with you, its fucking bullshit, look how much 1 small mistake has cost you, and they couldnt give a fuck.

Nah man, it's the governments fault that he got those points and now is seen as a higher risk. This is unjust and the insurance companies should compensate us all in some way.

Theres always one person on their high horse.

True Aussie fashion, claim the moral high ground, do nothing about nothing and then when parking fines are $500, insurances are up, unfair fees etc, just bitch and moan about inflation and blame it all on high profits of the banks and supermarkets.

People make mistakes, doesnt mean the punishment should be unjust.

I lost 3 points because a 23 yr old in the back seat had the window down and her arm resting on it, the whole system is wildly unfair and designed as a revenue stream from all road users no matter how law abiding you think you are. Drive often enough and your chances of being fined for something is almost 100%

Not really, I only do 1000km in my personal vehicle, the other kms are in my work truck, so its not a win.

Which is a $300 fine, and an extra $400 for insurance for the next 3 years.

Considering how many cameras there are around, its a ridiculous punishment

What he means is, the insurers have done the calculations on correlating demerit points with payouts, and this is how the money pans out on average. It’s not personal but it’s not random either, this is why they’re allowed to ask and use such factors.

>And this has nothing to do with how much I drive, if you have 1 point on your license your greenslip goes up by near 50%

If it didnt make a difference, then why would all the insurance companies ask for that detail? they could attract people with demerit points and get a bigger market share

My prediction is you'll find a link betweeen demerit points and accidents, which correlates with personal injury.

Prolly. Hittin us where it hurts. Can’t wait to renew in November 🥲

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Lol, well, can't say no to my mum just yet...

Have the upvote coz I got a good laugh from your comment, cheers

I mean, yeah i should have checked, but I didn't know it expired. If notification was sent out, it was sent to my deceased dad's email, which I don't have access to. No letter was received.

End of the day, yeah it is my fault for not knowing and checking, but it's a costly error, and that hurts.

My mistake, there is always 2 people on their high horse...

The punishment isn’t unjust though

Wow careful, logic doesnt sit well around here.

But yep I agree with you..

I’m thinking the correlation between ute driver and points on licence is a red flag but what would I know, I only get tailgated and dangerously overtaken by them every week

$831 with 0 demerits, $979 with 1 demerit, $1126 with 3 demerits.

So better than QBE which was 1126 with 1 point.

good on ya! thanks for the rant. Mine is up soon, so I might be back to add my own

I fucking lol'ed at this one

Wake up Jeff

Well I’m fucked, I think I have 6 demerits at the moment

Your disability parking permit? Shit, don't let it expire!

I wrote in my appeal that "I didn't know my mum was part axolotyl and her limbs would grow back"

Perhaps that's why it got rejected. Twice.

Had a look at your profile too. I think we live about 20 minutes apart

*Wake up sheeple, it’s a conspiracy.*

no, just the CTP. But I like the sarky answer! hahaha axolotl made me laugh again

ohai neighbour! come join the 3 of us in /r/Kiama

Won a couple of lots in an auction recently and alot of it is used stage equipment, such as electric chain hoists/controllers/kinesys equipment etc. which is pretty useless to me but would be quite beneficial to company's that set up stages/performances. Where would be best I try and sell stuff like this?

Reckon you could DM a list of things you won?

There's a Facebook group for this called Production Equipment Exchange Australia https://www.facebook.com/groups/240795629414598/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT

How would police even start on a case like this?

Hi all,

Has anyone had an experience where you backed out/broke a new tenancy agreement? (Fixed term - 12 months; haven't moved our things in yet)

It began when the real estate agent called with an offer for a place - It was early Monday morning, and I was just about to enter a very scary, anxiety-inducing 1-1 online meeting with my boss, so I was already tired and stressed. They only give you 1hr to say yes to secure and pay the holding deposit ($2600 in this case); I had my partner calling me from his work office trying to get an answer ASAP as to whether it was going to be a yes or no to the offer. He was leaning on the yes side, only because he just wanted the rental hunt to send, and so we had somewhere that we knew accepted our cat, but I was unsure and had so many questions that the agent couldn't or chose not to answer. We inspected the property on Saturday, but it was the first of six places we inspected, and they were all quite similar and in the same area. Hence, my ADHD brain forgot a lot and mushed memories of places together, so I had forgotten the real negatives of this place. I looked at the online listing again to remind myself for reference. Still, I only just realised in the fine print that not only was it the photoshopped furniture in the images (I knew that part and was okay with that), but the photos weren’t of the actual apartment; they were from another “similar” apartment in the building! It's still a one-bedroom but much bigger with a better kitchen. (FYI, when we inspected, it was so busy and rushed and empty, so hard to gauge size compared to our current place). There has never been a photo of the bedroom at all on the listing, but it’s half the size we thought it was and has no closet storage space. I asked the realtor before I said yes if they could supply a photo, a floor plan, or just some basic measurements (this would have swayed my decision) - and he said he couldn’t provide any of that. We can’t fit our queen-sized mattress in there, let alone anything else. I thought the place we were in now was small… but in comparison, oh boy, this place is a $650 p/w shoebox with no car park in the ugliest concrete jungle in the suburb - St Leonard’s, in NSW.

With my partner, everything has to be done at an unnecessarily fast pace so the bond and the 4 weeks' rent they require in advance… so over 5k has been paid. I have no savings and have $20 to my name. After this payment, he also has very little money, so we can’t afford to lose that entire $5,420, but I can’t live there. My mental well-being is already fragile; our relationship is strained, and living in this place will only make everything worse. Worse for our cat, too all of this became a devastating reality when we went to look at the empty place alone last night for the first time since the inspection. Shock started to set in as we both instantly realised how badly we had messed up with this decision.

We are both originally from NZ, and I don’t know all the laws if there are loopholes or anything. I did look at the NSW Fair Trading website for info last night, but I was so emotionally drained that I couldn’t understand it. I still feel like I'm reading a foreign language.

Moving into this place, because there is almost no general storage besides a tiny bedroom closet and linen cupboard, we will have to purchase drawers, other forms of storage and possibly even a new bed (change from queen to double). So once again, more money is spent, but because we will shop cheap or second-hand, it wouldn’t come close to that $5,420 we have paid. Neither of us has friends or family we can loan money from to somehow get ourselves out of this situation. I’m just so lost, and we both can’t stop crying.

I know this post may sound like it’s coming from a place of privilege. I’m aware (especially with insane rental costs in Sydney) that we are lucky to have a roof over our heads, which, sadly, not everyone can access. So please keep any mean words to yourself because, believe me, I already feel like the most stupid and pathetic person ever right now.

If you have read this far, thank you, you deserve a medal, lol

I'm sorry if this is too much or sent in vain; we are just feeling hopeless, and I figured maybe someone here might know something that we don’t or have experienced something similar. I'm just so lost and feel sick with anxiety. 🥺

If you have been through something similar or have any advice you're willing to share, please let me know. We’d genuinely appreciate anything.

Thank you in advance, and my apologies for the essay.

In lieu of someone giving specific advice, the law in relation to this is contained in the NSW residential tenancies act, which you can get online. Find the appropriate sections and read them.

Stolen from r/melbourne

Kempsey

Walgett. Every window barred, cameras everywhere. The second you land you can feel eyes on you. I had to go there once for work. Went to pick up food at the only open place - the Chinese takeaway. Guy behind the counter told me I “shouldn’t have walked from the motel alone.” Sure enough, soon as I leave the shop, there’s a carload of guys idling nearby who slowwwwwly follow me the whole way back to the motel. Had the cold sweats and a sick feeling. Blocked the door with furniture as well as locking it that night.

St Albans. Used to stop there quite a bit while bike riding around the Hawkesbury region. There's a moment when you approach St Albans that feels like you've entered the Upside Down. I can't quite put my finger on it but it always gave me the creeps

The places that are decaying.

Like Marulan, in freefall since the Hume Highway bypass 30 or more years ago.

Some small central west towns, like Mandurama, Kandos, Dunedoo.

There's a town in the upper Hunter, Cassilis, that once obviously once an important small town, with substantial colonial-era police station, court house large shops and the Royal Hotel. All closed except the pub, which clings on.

Aberdeen

Torrington in Northern NSW

My brother went there to check out some rock climbing sites and saw some very suss activity out in the bush. Also just saw a donkey walking down the street on its own.

Nowendoc, if you could call it a town. Every time I stop there on Thunderbolts way I feel like I'm being watched.

Bowraville

Captains flat. Went there once and it felt like the whole neighbourhood were peaking through their blinds at me. Also witnessed a drug deal. 2/10.

As it's been called one of "Australia's most haunted places" does anyone find Piction spooky or creepy at all?

Wilcannia, 10000000%

Brewarrina. Like the other comment for Walgett, same vibe. Stopped for a bathroom break and wished I'd just got out of town and gone on the side of the road. Felt watched and uncomfortable the entire time I was there and the only interaction with another human was when a fella on a bike rode up to me and asked why I had so much stuff in my car (I was moving states).

medelow bath. right in front of the hydro majestic hotel i used to work nights there it's actually haunted by goasts

Blainey ( reminds of the movie deliverance )

Newell highway heading into Narrabri. The Pilliga is scary af.

Honourable mention to a little place near nymboida called dalmorton. You wanna have a yowie experience, camp there for a night.

Just search for current open permanent job applications for primary teachers. It usually is only the most undesirable suburbs of NSW with nice 20k incentives to go rural. But there’s a reason for that 🫠

Lithgow

Mumbil.

The kind of place that looks entirely inhabited by murderers.

West Wyalong. The town is so quiet at 7pm I could hear my footsteps echoing off the old gold-rush era buildings. It obviously used to be an important town in its heyday but it is now mostly populated by miners who get bussed daily to the nearby gold mine.

Trundle. It’s fucking creepy AF.

wellington

Went through Sofala when it was freezing cold. Ghost town. 2 streets. Did not see a single person.

In this thread, poor people are scary.

Ever since I was little I used to get really uneasy on the drive between Pokolbin and Singleton, then again between Singo and Muswellbrook. Those areas creep me out.

Lismore from dusk in the winter months creeps me right out. It’s amplified on a Sunday too.

Riverina here. Loving that your all going north, Hunter and west for your choices. We've got it pretty good on the low creepiness levels :)

Armidale. Bunch of weirdos the lot of them (from an ex-Armidale inhabitant)

I always drive through little towns for a peek when I have time during work related trips. The only place that’s ever given me the real creeps for no discernible reason was Monteagle near Young. Koorawatha comes close too but that was my fault for wandering around its cemetery at dusk. My imagination and senses kicked into heightened overdrive!

This thread is a hilarious example of city folk being terrified of country folk. The one where they were using large machinery in the bush at night and that was somehow sinister made me laugh in particular.

The scariest place in NSW is Sydney.

but were better than Melbourne so we can steal (only applies to us)

Dorrigo is fuckin weird.

Drake.

Wauchope has this weird secret vibe. I spent many weeks there as a child and it has a feeling of otherworldlyness... The drive between Wauchope and the old highway you use to head to Taree. That road is creepy AF. I used to hear stories from my Grandfather who was part of emergency services in that area about stuff happening on that road. Strange things. Things that shouldn't be possible.

Grenfell! Hills have eyes

Nimbin.

Here’s a story I’ve posted about a creepy “lawn sale” in Marulan (heading south on the Hume highway) 2014. Anyone ever go here?

Marulan, NSW - weird/creepy Garage/Lawn sale 2014

Hi there

Did anyone ever go to a lawn/garage sale off the Hume highway around 2014 in Marulan, NSW?