New LCD television how reliable

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:41:02 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

the nearest to me is 35 miles away as the crow files (1h15m by car) and
56 miles by dual cariageway/motorway (59 minutes). That's a lot of fuel
to go shopping.

It's about that for us as well. Used to go once a month but now it's
when we need to, about every 2 1/2 months and combine it with the
weekly shop. I reckon we do just about save when you take into
account the membership fee and the 50 extra round trip miles to get
there and back. Bottled beer used to be about £1.50/bottle, two cases
would save enough over Tesco prices to pay the diesel... It really
does depend on what you buy, we tend to go for long life bulk stuff
and shorter life stuff that is needed at the time of the visit.

Are they actually any better on price/service than the likes of
Makro/Bookers?

Makro is further away than Costco. Bookers is better, they have a
branch in Carlisle, but have yet to convince them that I should be
allowed to "join", not that I've tried very hard. Makro have a much
bigger range of goods but prices are not quite as good as CostCo.

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Mark Carver burst on the scene, and said:
Frederick Williams wrote:
john hamilton wrote:
I'm just about to buy a Sony television for about £500 from
ebuyer.

Why would one pay even one penny to acquire a device that will
subject
you to a never-ending stream of vulgarity and stupidity?

Oh, does it have a Usenet client installed as well then ?

Freebuse?

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Mark Carver burst on the scene, and said:
Frederick Williams wrote:
john hamilton wrote:
I'm just about to buy a Sony television for about £500 from
ebuyer.

Why would one pay even one penny to acquire a device that will
subject
you to a never-ending stream of vulgarity and stupidity?

Oh, does it have a Usenet client installed as well then ?

Freebuse?

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www.flickr.com/photos/mikenagel

Self-catering, holiday accommodation in the Scottish Highlands - for
disabled people:
www.woodhead-cottage.co.uk

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:40:55 +0100, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:41:02 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

the nearest to me is 35 miles away as the crow files (1h15m by car) and
56 miles by dual cariageway/motorway (59 minutes). That's a lot of fuel
to go shopping.

Agreed. It's about 45 miles for us, but I tend to go every 3 months and
fill the car (on an early visit, we bought steel shelving to store it
all!). I calculated that the saving on cat food alone paid for the fuel.

Bottled beer used to be about £1.50/bottle, two cases would save enough
over Tesco prices to pay the diesel... It really does depend on what you
buy, we tend to go for long life bulk stuff and shorter life stuff that
is needed at the time of the visit.

Exactly. My wife drives past half a dozen times a year (in a Ford Fusion)
so she picks up some extra shorter life stuff with no real overhead. I
pretty well fill the S-Max when I go, but it's less than 10 litres of
diesel.

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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:19:51 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

There is a photograph on mine! I suppose they don't see it until I get
to the checkout.

Isn't there a person on the door checking cards as you go in? There
is at Gateshead, mind you my photo is so worn that it's almost
impossible to tell it's supposed to be me. Seems to be more of a
trade/individual check than anything else.

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Cheers
Dave.

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:47:51 +0100, Albert Ross wrote:

Interest??? More like disinterest nowadays

You can get 2 to 3% on cash if you look not that hard. Be prepared to
tie the money up and you might get 4 or 5% but fixed. Dable in the
safe end of the markets and you could do better than that.

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Cheers
Dave.

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:47:51 +0100, Albert Ross wrote:

Interest??? More like disinterest nowadays

You can get 2 to 3% on cash if you look not that hard. Be prepared to
tie the money up and you might get 4 or 5% but fixed. Dable in the
safe end of the markets and you could do better than that.

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Cheers
Dave.

Peter Duncanson wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:01:08 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

in the middle of the night to be told the machine mashine has finished.

"mashine"? How did that get there?

Are you a big fan of Charlie Sheen?

In message , Steve Firth
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Peter Duncanson wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:01:08 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

in the middle of the night to be told the machine mashine has finished.

"mashine"? How did that get there?

Are you a big fan of Charlie Sheen?

Or his mother


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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:10:37 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:

Well I doubt if any the major retail chains ever buy from Costco so they
won't have much in the way of clout.

No but they have clout with the makers or distributors further up the
chain.

Tescburys buys 100,000 widgets year, CostCo 1,000. Tescburys says to
distrubutor "Sell widgets to CostCo and we won't buy widgets from you
any longer". What does the distributor do?

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