B & Q Prices
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gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
Its often the small items they make huge profit on...
I wanted some blue carpet tacks a while ago. DIY shops were about £1 for a pack of 20 tacks
.
But having dealt with trade counters for years, i just went to the local hardware outlet (trade really, but they'll often sell to the public), and got a box of 200 for less than £1.50
That same 200 from B&Q etc would have cost £20 Now thats profiteering.
I wanted some blue carpet tacks a while ago. DIY shops were about £1 for a pack of 20 tacks
. But having dealt with trade counters for years, i just went to the local hardware outlet (trade really, but they'll often sell to the public), and got a box of 200 for less than £1.50
That same 200 from B&Q etc would have cost £20
Now thats profiteering.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Kestevan said:
Stubbs here in York used to be like that, fantastic place. Then they moved to an industrial estate and went all trade counter, and the old building (still with big painted Stubbs advert on the brick gable) is a Loch Fyne restaurant.
Pextons on Bishophorpe Road is pretty good, just not as big. Stubbs was three floors!
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
I work in the timber industry and it pains me if I ever have to buy timber from B and Q or the like on the weekend.
I rec the mark-up on their wood, and it's crap quality too, is about 4 - 500%.
It ain't FSC or PEFC either the twisting beggers!
I rec the mark-up on their wood, and it's crap quality too, is about 4 - 500%.
It ain't FSC or PEFC either the twisting beggers!
