Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

They also sell colour-matched cable lifters. And quite a bit cheaper than Future Shop :) At the risk of blinding folk with science I will say these ones are designed to offer a choice of seven different floor proximities.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kSEAA...1/s-l1600.webp

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I'm sure treading cable through the holes would a bit of a PITA! ;)

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Originally Posted by Barry

I'm sure treading cable through the holes would a bit of a PITA! ;)

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Nothing worthwhile is ever easy ;)

Billy bargain! Bit of Pledge, they'll be good as new :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387593624...Bk9SR6z6kOXiZA

Apparently they were designed with a rectangular shape and made of wood material, giving them a unique brown colour.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Billy bargain! Bit of Pledge, they'll be good as new :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387593624...Bk9SR6z6kOXiZA

Apparently they were designed with a rectangular shape and made of wood material, giving them a unique brown colour.

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And wired connectivity too! I've always said you can't go wrong with that.

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Originally Posted by Macca

Last time I was in B&Q there were no staff anywhere. Not even on the tills. People were either abandoning their purchases or walking out with them without paying. One bloke had one of those flat bed trolley things full of stuff, just walked out with it.

I wasn't going to do that and I couldn't be arsed to go elsewhere so I hung about and after ten minutes or so some girl did turn up and, acting like it was some huge imposition, started scanning stuff through at breakneck pace.

I thought my bill was a bit light, when I got back and looked at the receipt there was a couple of things that weren't on there.

She must have run them across so fast they didn't register.

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I tried to purchase something on the self-service tills. When things went t*ts up I asked a roving member of staff for help. His reply, and I kid you not, was that he couldn't help me as he "hadn't been trained on the self sevice tills"!

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Originally Posted by majex45

I tried to purchase something on the self-service tills. When things went t*ts up I asked a roving member of staff for help. His reply, and I kid you not, was that he couldn't help me as he "hadn't been trained on the self service tills"!

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When I had that experience it was before they had self service. It was when I had an allotment so would be about 2007 or 2008.

One job I'd hate is being the bloke who has to stand around the self service tills and sort out the problems and clear the baskets away. The time must really drag.

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Originally Posted by Macca

When I had that experience it was before they had self service. It was when I had an allotment so would be about 2007 or 2008.

One job I'd hate is being the bloke who has to stand around the self service tills and sort out the problems and clear the baskets away. The time must really drag.

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What did you grow on your allotment, and why did you give it up?

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

What did you grow on your allotment, and why did you give it up?

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strawberries, and tomatoes in the greenhouse.

Was derelict when I got it, spent weeks clearing it, repainted and repaired the greenhouse.

End of the second year the 'committee' said I was 'under utilising' it as I had half of it still fallow. Said they'd kick me off it so I told them where to stick it.

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Originally Posted by Macca

strawberries, and tomatoes in the greenhouse.

Was derelict when I got it, spent weeks clearing it, repainted and repaired the greenhouse.

End of the second year the 'committee' said I was 'under utilising' it as I had half of it still fallow. Said they'd kick me off it so I told them where to stick it.

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That's the trouble with committees - as individuals they can hide behind their collective decisions. Also they only need to employ one brain cell each in order to form one barely functioning organism.

Is your space at the back of your house not big enough to use? Smallish greenhouses aren't super-expensive, and I'd come over to help you chuck one up.

https://imsvintagephotos.com/cdn/sho...g?v=1630127089

No no no, committee says you can't grow that here