I've just paid £30.00, less the old git's Wednesday 10% discount, at B&Q, so a nett £27.00, for a DIY shelving set for the shed. Promoted as "was £49,99 so you save £19,99".
I was looking on-line for the supplier's website and following a link to Amazon, lo and behold, the self same item, including Prime free next day delivery, is on sale at £21.80. .
Funnily enough the item did not appear on my previous Amazon search, yesterday, when I was sourcing shelving.
So - should I make the ten minute journey to B & Q for a refund and then order the shelves from Amazon, thus saving £5.20 or swallow my ire at paying more than I absolutely have to?
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Gees, and I thought I was tight!!
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>> So - should I make the ten minute journey to B & Q for a
>> refund and then order the shelves from Amazon, thus saving £5.20 or swallow my ire
>> at paying more than I absolutely have to?
Its amazons great pricing algorithm at work, as soon as you take yours back to BnQ the amazon price will go up.
You think I am joking?
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"...as soon as you take yours back to BnQ the amazon price will go up."
Tut-tut. Order it from Amazon now, and assuming the price has not changed since you looked, have your lunch and then go back to B & Q.
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Use man maths -
you can never have too much storage, buy one from Amazon as a second unit. You have then saved money and the average cost of each unit has decreased.
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OTH, I'm not twitching too much at the thought of buying three new frying pans, non-stick, suitable for our induction hob, so stainless steel, at £83 from Pro-Cook.
I also recently spent a fair wedge on four Global® knives, a veggie peeler + a three stone wet sharpener. I DID get a deal on part of the purchases, though!
It's just not getting the best price which grates!
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You are worrying about the cash equivalent of a cup of coffee and a cake?
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Yes. I do. A fiver is always worth saving. (I would not dream of buying a coffee & cake.!)
.......but .....................in the interests of full disclosure and fair play ..............I have to grovel to B & Q.
On closer inspection, I ahem, clears throat, grovels and blushes :-0 - the B & Q shelves are 10cm wider front to back, so I was wrong in my haste in castigating them.
DID NOT READ THE F***** MANUAL.
My bad.
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>>A fiver is always worth saving. (I would not dream of buying a coffee & cake.!)
I'm with ^this Geyser.
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If you live near a Waitrose, you only have to buy the cake.
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>> If you live near a Waitrose, you only have to buy the cake.
If I ever though Roger shopped in Waitrose, I would rip my waitrose card up and send it back in disgust.
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>> >> If you live near a Waitrose, you only have to buy the cake.
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>> If I ever though Roger shopped in Waitrose, I would rip my waitrose card up
>> and send it back in disgust.
If I thought Zero was shopping in a Waitrose I was considering entering....................... :-)
Our nearest Waitrose is in a very inconvenient location in Sheffield, so little chance of my shopping there!
OTH, our nearest LIDL is in a very convenient location in Sheffield so we always visit it if we are in the City.
I DID shop at OCADO once - just for the initial ordering discount. IIRC, I bought some really nice beer from St Peter's Brewery.
Luvverly stuff.
Quote from their website:-
Ruby Red Ale
ABV: 4.3%
A tawny red ale with subtle malt undertones and a distinctive spiciness from the Rye malt. Silver medal winner in the 2010 International Beer Challenge, Silver at the SIBA National Beer Competition 2010 and Bronze in the SIBA Beer competition 2009, Bronze at the International Beer Challenge 2015! Serve lightly chilled or at room temperature.
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The B & Q shelves are 10cm wider [deeper?] front to back...
Don't we have another thread about the value of a few extra centimetres?
Last edited by: WillDeBeest on Wed 27 Jan 16 at 16:40
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"I would not dream of buying a coffee & cake.!"
That reminds me of a couple we ran into staying in a hotel in Greece. Made the mistake of speaking to them when checking in and and after that couldn't shake them off. One morning we were sitting on the terrace of e a cafe drinking coffee and eating baclava when who should spot us.
They drew up a chair at our table and then proceeded to get out a flask and a plastic box of sandwiches and advised us they "weren't paying fancy cafe prices"
Wasn't you was it Roger?
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>>They drew up a chair at our table and then proceeded to get out a flask and a plastic box of sandwiches and advised us they "weren't paying fancy cafe prices"
Woss wrong with that then? .. We'll be doing that in Gorran Haven this week at low tide - look out! (literally) for 3 mad dogs on tha beach!!
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"We'll be doing that."
Cornish cafe owners are tolerant like that are they?
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I wouldn't be tolerant if I was a café owner.
It's acceptable if you really can't afford to buy a coffee and a cake out, but in that case you go and sit on a park bench or perch on the prom to eat it.
Pat
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Exactly. The cafe owner wan't impressed and neither was I.
A coffee is sitting on a park bench in the summer is one of the pleasures of life (the park in Bury St Edmunds is particularly nice). Almost as good as eating fish and chips on Cromer Pier!
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Fish and chips sitting on any sea wall is heaven!
Pat
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>> Exactly. The cafe owner wan't impressed and neither was I.
I'm surprised he wasn't asked to leave.
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The Greeks are a polite lot.
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>> The Greeks are a polite lot.
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Still i would have thought they would have been asked. Never been to greece, mind you if they are anything like the greek/cypriots they aren't normally backwards coming forward.
Mind you I've never actually seen anyone bring their own food to a restaurant or cafe.
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>> The Greeks are a polite lot.
Their soldiers wear skirts!
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"Almost as good as eating fish and chips on Cromer Pier!"
Whilst there's no fish & chips, my favourite spot (I think) on the N Norfolk coast is the creek at the end of Staithe Lane, Thornham. We sometimes pick samphire, and last time we were there, saw a spoonbill.
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>> They drew up a chair at our table and then proceeded to get out a
>> flask and a plastic box of sandwiches and advised us they "weren't paying fancy cafe
>> prices"
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>> Wasn't you was it Roger?
Nearest I've been to Greece was Cyprus chasing Col. Grivas & EOKA.
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>>(the park in Bury St Edmunds is particularly nice).
If you're referring to the park opposite the Angel Hotel, I would certainly agree with that.
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"If you're referring to the park opposite the Angel Hotel, I would certainly agree with that."
And it's all free of charge - including the award-winning toilets. Bury St Edmunds is a glorious place to live and wild horses could not drag me back to the grimy Midlands.
I came here in 1975, and it's amazing how much has changed since this programme was made in 1984 - it's part of the Alec Clifton-Taylor series. Fortunately the Abbey Gardens remain as impressive as ever.
youtu.be/72Vl7HbJxeE
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>>If you're referring to the park opposite the Angel Hotel, I would certainly agree with that.
Me too, but isn't there a jewel of a cathedral just there as well?
Incidentally, I believe Charles Dickens once stayed at the Angel.
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>> isn't there a jewel of a cathedral just there as well?
Ah yes. Viewed from the front of the Angel, it is to the right of the park, IIRC.
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"isn't there a jewel of a cathedral just there as well?"
There is - the cathedral is adjacent to the Abbey Gardens. The tower, a Millennium Project, was completed in 2005 and officially opened by Prince Charles. As an atheist, I should say that I am a great admirer of the cathedral, but not a worshipper. I should also admit that, as a (at heart) socialist, I thought the money could have been put to better use by building/extending the hospital etc - but I now appreciate the magnificence of the completed cathedral.
BTW The old Abbey, the ruins of which are in Abbey Gardens, was bigger than Ely Cathedral - until it was demolished, ISIL style, by Henry V111.
Of course, with its cathedral, Bury should be the county town of Suffolk - rather than the dump that is Ipswich. And, naturally, St Edmund should be restored as England's patron saint.
"I believe Charles Dickens once stayed at the Angel."
Yep - but that was before my time! I remember Arthur Lowe staying there when he was appearing at the Theatre Royal; my colleague was here for a meeting and bumped into him in one of the corridors - he reported that he was just as in Dad's Army.
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>> "I would not dream of buying a coffee & cake.!"
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>> That reminds me of a couple we ran into staying in a hotel in Greece.
>> Made the mistake of speaking to them when checking in and and after that couldn't
>> shake them off. One morning we were sitting on the terrace of e a cafe
>> drinking coffee and eating baclava when who should spot us.
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>> They drew up a chair at our table and then proceeded to get out a
>> flask and a plastic box of sandwiches and advised us they "weren't paying fancy cafe
>> prices"
My response would have been "Excuse me, I have paid for the exclusive use use of this table, you can stay if you wish, but I will have to charge you"
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Well - I tried - here is the text of an email to the makers, cc to B & Q. !
Here is the text of an email I have written to AVASCO, Belgium, the suppliers of STRONG 175 shelf unit, which I bought yesterday, 27/01/2016.
Hello,
Yesterday I bought a set of your new range of STRONG shelves from B & Q in Worksop, England.
These shelves are very poor.
1) It is very, very, difficult to put both tabs of the fixing bars into the slots.
2) If at last the shelves are put together, the slightest movement will pull the fixing bars out of the slots.
3) The corner fixings to used to stack a built upper half onto a built lower half will not stay in place even when properly clipped in.
4) After nearly three hours I managed to assemble the whole unit, when VERY CAREFULLY and with help, I moved the assembled unit out to the shed where it was to go, the whole lot just fell apart.
I really do not know what I can do with the parts of these shelves - for now, I have undone the lot and stacked in the shed.
I would like to hear your thoughts.
Roger ******
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Now I'm knackered with the effort, my back is killing me - thank you Tramadol - just kicking in !
Last edited by: Roger. on Thu 28 Jan 16 at 18:47
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Forget the makers unless you are just amusing yourself. Get the brass back from B&Q. Nobody higher up will take a blind bit of notice.
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get all the bits together, make a list of the problems, take it back to BnQ and ask for your money back because the product is unfit for purpose
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I have bought three of these in the last three months, and they suit me.
It sounds as though they fit together like yours, but they do grip, and don't fall apart when you are building them. They are very sturdy.
Neil
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I bought the Machine Mart ones a coupla years ago. Easy to clip together and very sturdy. Somewhere in the £30 quidish price range, IIRC. I might get another set soon.
I wouldn't trust them with my stock of bottled beers if I wasn't confident about them !
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>> I have bought three of these in the last three months, and they suit me.
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>> It sounds as though they fit together like yours, but they do grip, and don't
>> fall apart when you are building them. They are very sturdy.
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>> Neil
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AArgh!
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0053X9JQU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00
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Amazon pricing algorithm will do you up like a kipper every time.
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Mortification! - VxFan
