{"id":11840,"date":"2016-12-27T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11840"},"modified":"2016-12-27T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:06:46","slug":"cant-get-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11840","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Get Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Firewood\"
Firewood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since it was installed (early summer), the log burner has become an integral member of the family.<\/p>\n

Whenever the temperature has been forecast to drop a little, we’ve looked for every fire-lighting opportunity, and indulged ourselves often.<\/p>\n

Thanks to sound advice from a colleague, I switched from buying seasoned softwood to seasoned hardwood some time ago.<\/p>\n

In a more recent discussion about fuel with the aforementioned colleague, it was suggested I buy in bulk, instead of buying small bags from B&Q.<\/p>\n

Other outlets of small-bagged firewood are available.<\/p>\n

I searched extensively (on Google and eBay), and eventually found a supplier\u00a0local who could delivery 1m3 of seasoned hardwood for a reasonable price, and deliver it for nothing.<\/p>\n

Yay!<\/p>\n

I did the eBay ‘buy it now’ thing and sat back and waited.<\/p>\n

And waited.<\/p>\n

And waited some more.<\/p>\n

Eventually, bored of waiting,\u00a0I dropped the vendor an email.<\/p>\n

After four days of stony silence being delivered to my inbox, common sense told me I was barking up the wrong tree.<\/p>\n

I called the mobile number listed on the vendor’s website and eBay shop.<\/p>\n

Voicemail greeted me, so I left a cheery message.<\/p>\n

Two days further down the line my voicemail remained, sadly, unanswered.<\/p>\n

So I contacted eBay and explained.<\/p>\n

A few days later eBay acknowledged the lack of comms with the vendor, and refunded the purchase price.<\/p>\n

This means my search for a supplier of bulk seasoned hardwood logs in the Nottingham area must continue.<\/p>\n

The trouble is, that same vendor is still all over eBay and most of the rest of the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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