The obvious solution here is to go to a local tag sale or estate sale and buy a set of kitchen knives. How do the people in the news everyday get them ?? 
I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.
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That mall is always open and stocked !
Everything you didn't know you needed until it was on sale !
As I suspected, as I've never applied for credit I have no credit rating on Experian but for the life of me I cannot see the connection because I only spend what I have, therefore don't need credit, that somehow bars me from buying kitchen knives. Utter madness.
I've just been reading how all the major supermarkets here in Blighted Blighty stopped selling kitchen knives some while ago.
Jay.
Why Don't I Have a Credit Score? - Experian
"You have never used traditional credit accounts. Your credit history will begin only when a creditor—such as a credit card issuer or lender—reports a record of....".I've just been reading how all the major supermarkets here in Blighted Blighty stopped selling kitchen knives some while ago.
Jay.
I'm 71 years old. I have a white beard. There is NO mistaking be for a 20 year old man.
I went into a store to get a bottle of rum the cashier that asked for my ID. Another cashier was watching this and rolled his eyes.
After looking at the cashier like she is really stupid, I pulled out my retired military ID just to screw with her mind.
She looked at it and asked if I had any other ID. This was in December so I happened to have my Santa's Sleigh Drivers License (Yes, it's a thing and it comes with a gold tone badge.) I showed that to her. The other cashier lost it and burst out laughing.
He explained to her that she only needed to ask for ID if the purchaser looked under 30 years old.
Ignorance is correctable. Stupidity is Terminal.
That is, when they're not getting hacked and leaking all that information they've been gathering on us.
It's kind of sad that kitchen knives are getting hard to find there. What happens when the psychos start using pointy sticks to kill people? I think of Monty Pythons, how to defend yourself against fresh fruit skit.
It is amazing that you have gone this long without ever having had any credit.
Kitchen knives!! Bayonets! Dishwashers! Bloody crazy rules/procedures in today's world. I can sorta get my head around the Amazon/Experian situation (Sorry, Jay) but giving cash to an obvious n'er do well such as cosmic, in lieu of him taking the effin dishwasher takes the cake.
Meanwhile, in NYC, it's a long process to find 12 men good and true out of a pool of 500 (initially!) Not to mention critical situations here and there in the world. Please no one mention those!
Meanwhile, in NYC, it's a long process to find 12 men good and true out of a pool of 500 (initially!) Not to mention critical situations here and there in the world. Please no one mention those!
I’m fuzzy on this. If credit history is the issue it should affect your ability to buy anything, not just knives. But if you’re using debit cards with a positive balance on Amazon why should creditworthiness matter? Are kitchen knives a controlled product in the UK? Are these particular knives four feet long?
Is the issue ability to pay or what you’re trying to buy?
Is the issue ability to pay or what you’re trying to buy?
It's what you get when people design systems to protect themselves from people who would steal from them. There's always a solid customer who simply will not base their arbitrary tests and so won't get what he wants. Then when that person calls about it they get some person who doesn't understand or can't communicate back to the customer. Maddening. Businesses who have international call are just screwing themselves when they are doing this.
Pretty sure the issue was that his age could not be verified by their system which queries Experian's data base, where Jay is not entered.
Why kitchen knives? I've seen too many BritMysts to comment.
I only spend money that I actually have, simple as that.
I did have a Barclays credit card thrust upon me by my bank but I never used it.
Jay.
Same. Never had a loan or payments.
For me at least, credit cards provide a great convenience, and I also don't spend what I don't have- [business and house mortgage excepted in the past. Debt free entirely now.]
I think that NOT being in the UK where they are regulated made it easier for you to buy.
There are businesses who function strictly by the book and others who don't. Things have become much worse since Internet access went public. Online scams grow exponentially daily both in numbers and in sophistication. Companies are in a constant scramble to understand and combat it, affecting everything we do, unless we're never on line, never sick, never have a bank account, and never do a bunch of other things that most people do, you're not off the grid, no matter how much you delude yourself that you are. Add to that that billions of life records have been hacked, vast breaches of data bases you never asked to keep track of you are now spread all over the dark web, for profit. Nobody on this forum hasn't had their credit or banking information stolen. So we're all open to being scammed constantly, and it's forcing a number of companies to adapt much more stringent ID requirements, with attendant confusion and fuck ups, to protect their own asses.
Making your ID difficult to prove won't help you in this environment. Get a proper up to date ID and you won't have this bullshit with Amazon. Personally I say fuck Amazon and do your trade with someone local if you can, or go the the maker of the knives, most have their own websites where you can purchase the merchandise, often cheaper than Amazon.
As if I needed another reason to never use Amazon again.
As for the restrictions on buying kitchen knives, just another of the countless signs of how the western world has gone totally batshit crazy in recent years. And that's the good news. The bad news is all indications are it's going to get much, much worse.
As for the restrictions on buying kitchen knives, just another of the countless signs of how the western world has gone totally batshit crazy in recent years. And that's the good news. The bad news is all indications are it's going to get much, much worse.