andyball
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Dave...why will it change?
There's still plenty of "blister pack" car accessory shops selling bulbs, screws,spark plugs etc at higher prices than I'd like.
B & Q have pushed up their fastener prices over the years,'cos they can, corner shops (bless 'em) & beachside kiosks wanting 60p+ for a warm can of no-name pop, coffee for over £2 & shove off inside 10mins?.....I won't go on.
It's not just a marine chandlery thing- think the same complaints can be made about most types of business.
An argument could be made that by avoiding the expensive local guy for larger items ,he's forced to go for larger margins on the stuff you really need on a sunday morning; but it's often not worth the drive to save a quid or two, or is it?.
Which is not to say I don't think that sharing news of cheaper deals isn't a very good thing indeed : buy your halogen bulbs by the box at an auto-electrics place (Furneaux riddall in Portsmouth for example), don't assume that the advertisers in mags will be cheap (there's some huge prices for rope out there at the moment) + some super "deals" on 2001 & earlier electronics that are hardly less than the latest stuff.
mentioned b4, but <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.beal.org.uk/>beals</A> are very cheap for anything that might be considered consumable in a workshop,there's a list on their website ;actually,that's all there is apart from an address/tel.no, but they have a decent catalogue : highly recommended by me,at least, esp. for proper glue-filled heatshrink.
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There's still plenty of "blister pack" car accessory shops selling bulbs, screws,spark plugs etc at higher prices than I'd like.
B & Q have pushed up their fastener prices over the years,'cos they can, corner shops (bless 'em) & beachside kiosks wanting 60p+ for a warm can of no-name pop, coffee for over £2 & shove off inside 10mins?.....I won't go on.
It's not just a marine chandlery thing- think the same complaints can be made about most types of business.
An argument could be made that by avoiding the expensive local guy for larger items ,he's forced to go for larger margins on the stuff you really need on a sunday morning; but it's often not worth the drive to save a quid or two, or is it?.
Which is not to say I don't think that sharing news of cheaper deals isn't a very good thing indeed : buy your halogen bulbs by the box at an auto-electrics place (Furneaux riddall in Portsmouth for example), don't assume that the advertisers in mags will be cheap (there's some huge prices for rope out there at the moment) + some super "deals" on 2001 & earlier electronics that are hardly less than the latest stuff.
mentioned b4, but <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.beal.org.uk/>beals</A> are very cheap for anything that might be considered consumable in a workshop,there's a list on their website ;actually,that's all there is apart from an address/tel.no, but they have a decent catalogue : highly recommended by me,at least, esp. for proper glue-filled heatshrink.
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