Bastarding B&Q - thieving scumbags.
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The wife's just come back from B&Q having purchased:
Two 750mm tins of exterior gloss.
Two small door knockers (we've had both old wooden doors replaced with new ones)
Two black anodised house numbers.
78 b
ding quid. FFS!!
The last two are, of course, the cheapest, nastiest, lowest quality rubbish to come out of China and I wouldn't give you £5 for all of it combined. It's utter st. She hasn't learned - the B&Q garden furniture bought last year is rusting like an Alfasud in a salt mine. Utter fking rubbish.
Now, like many, I have kicked the major supermarkets into touch and now shop at Lidl and Aldi. This is after years of brand snobbery, and finally realising that shopping anywhere else is just pissing money away.
Is it not about time an Aldi style DIY chain came to the UK and put these fkers out of business? I've half a mind to take this st back to the shop, get a refund and just find a decent ironmongers but I don't have time to fart at the moment.
Two 750mm tins of exterior gloss.
Two small door knockers (we've had both old wooden doors replaced with new ones)
Two black anodised house numbers.
78 b
ding quid. FFS!!The last two are, of course, the cheapest, nastiest, lowest quality rubbish to come out of China and I wouldn't give you £5 for all of it combined. It's utter s
t. She hasn't learned - the B&Q garden furniture bought last year is rusting like an Alfasud in a salt mine. Utter fking rubbish.Now, like many, I have kicked the major supermarkets into touch and now shop at Lidl and Aldi. This is after years of brand snobbery, and finally realising that shopping anywhere else is just pissing money away.
Is it not about time an Aldi style DIY chain came to the UK and put these f
kers out of business? I've half a mind to take this st back to the shop, get a refund and just find a decent ironmongers but I don't have time to fart at the moment.Edited by iSore on Wednesday 22 July 19:55
iSore said:
The wife's just come back from B&Q having purchased:
Two 750mm tins of exterior gloss.
Two small door knockers (we've had both old wooden doors replaced with new ones)
Two black anodised house numbers.
Exterior gloss is £7 a tin, sounds about normalTwo 750mm tins of exterior gloss.
Two small door knockers (we've had both old wooden doors replaced with new ones)
Two black anodised house numbers.
£12 each for door numbers is a bit steep
I think your wife's knockers were overpriced at £15 each but I'd need to see a photo of them
iSore said:
I've half a mind to take this st back to the shop, get a refund and just find a decent ironmongers
Go on then.t back to the shop, get a refund and just find a decent ironmongersiSore said:
but I don't have time to fart at the moment.
Oh.It's hardly B&Q's fault that you can't communicate to the missus that there are 'better' places to go shopping. ETA smiley face, you should see some of the s
t mine comes back with 
-Pete- said:
Exterior gloss is £7 a tin, sounds about normal
£12 each for door numbers is a bit steep
I think your wife's knockers were overpriced at £15 each but I'd need to see a photo of them
Phwoooaaar! Eh? Eh? :-)£12 each for door numbers is a bit steep
I think your wife's knockers were overpriced at £15 each but I'd need to see a photo of them
Paint was 34 quid. Yes, really.
Knockers were 32 quid.
Numbers were 12 quid.
Absolutely shocking.
MarshPhantom said:
I was looking for some shelving brackets recently, £4.50 each from BandQ, 10 for £12 at Screwfix.
It's comparable to car parts really. Go to BMW/Merc/whoever for the comedy price as a benchmark and then buy the same thing in the Bosch/Ate/Pagid box for a quarter of the price from ECP etc.You could say that the likes of B&Q have big overheads to pay. That's b
ks - the likes of Tescos etc say the same but the German duo can still come along and royally shaft them on price whilst providing better quality goods.But seriously - there is an outlet in the UK for a foreign firm to come along and screw over B&Q, Homebase (equally bad) and restore some sort of sensible pricing to what are very ordinary goods.
Agreed?
That is very amusing. jas xjr said:
The customer service is really poor too. I asked if anybody could give some information I required. No was the answer. I sat in my car in thevcar park and bought online
Customer service was Very poor today!Popped in for a bag of postcrete.
No manned checkouts open so had to use the self serve.
Scanned placed on scales, machine goes mad..
Women staff (who was busy chatting) then shouts, "THATS TOO HEAVY FOR THE SCALES, PUT IT ON THE FLOOR"
She then gets into a right huff when I choose to pay with a trade point card which required a signature.
Ahh in a few years she will be getting £9/hour to do this!!
I would always choose wickes instead.
This afternoon I called in for some 4" screws. Picked up a 50 pack of these
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Twin-Thread-Screws-...
Then noticed the 10 packs worked out at almost half price if I bought 5 packs.
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Twin-Thread-Screws-...
This afternoon I called in for some 4" screws. Picked up a 50 pack of these
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Twin-Thread-Screws-...
Then noticed the 10 packs worked out at almost half price if I bought 5 packs.
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Twin-Thread-Screws-...
jmorgan said:
We have an excellent local family run DIY. Good advice and a lot cheaper or similar depending. Try to find one if possible.
Yes, all things being equal I'd rather support my local ironmonger too. Screws are 2p each as opposed to B&Q's pack of ten for £2.99. Failing that, The Range can be good.
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