Your frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...

[Gretchen]

Has PHer Maff's frivolous purchase been mentioned? I wasn't aware until yesterday he was a member here as I've been following this elsewhere

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2690412/...

[Du1point8]

doogz said:

Justayellowbadge said:

A pair of these:



At £300, they were decidedly questionable.

At £40 they are rather nice.

First for me, buying audio equipment in TK Maxx.

What are they? Link please.

more than likely thats in store as they don't get stuff like that in very often in electrical section.

No electrical section on the website.

[soad]

Gretchen said:

Has PHer Maff's frivolous purchase been mentioned? I wasn't aware until yesterday he was a member here as I've been following this elsewhere

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2690412/...

Wow, a dream garage too!

[AstonZagato]

Du1point8 said:

doogz said:

Justayellowbadge said:

A pair of these:



At £300, they were decidedly questionable.

At £40 they are rather nice.

First for me, buying audio equipment in TK Maxx.

What are they? Link please.

more than likely thats in store as they don't get stuff like that in very often in electrical section.

No electrical section on the website.

Tried getting one of my juniors to call around. Nothing in three stores he tried.

[okgo]

I don't buy for a minute some of the RRP's you see on st in there.

I buy bedsheets in there, as apparently the ones I get for £20 used to be £100 + etc. Utter nonsense.

[BigBen]

okgo said:

I don't buy for a minute some of the RRP's you see on st in there.

I buy bedsheets in there, as apparently the ones I get for £20 used to be £100 + etc. Utter nonsense.

I watched a programme about this and in summary you are right to be sceptical. A lot of the time they own the brands and simply make up high RRP's to give the impression of a bargain.

[toon10]

Du1point8 said:

doogz said:

Justayellowbadge said:

A pair of these:



At £300, they were decidedly questionable.

At £40 they are rather nice.

First for me, buying audio equipment in TK Maxx.

What are they? Link please.

more than likely thats in store as they don't get stuff like that in very often in electrical section.

No electrical section on the website.

Yeah I've just checked their webiste too. I'm off to the USA on Monday so a decent sounding set of noise cancelling headphones would have been great at that price. It's a 16 mile round trip through busy traffic at rush hour if I want to chance my nearest store. I doubt very much that they'll have any left.

[okgo]

BigBen said:

I watched a programme about this and in summary you are right to be sceptical. A lot of the time they own the brands and simply make up high RRP's to give the impression of a bargain.

I think case in point would be some crap headphones covered in ferrari branding eh?

Not like they're Bose reduced by 90%...

[Justayellowbadge]

okgo said:

I think case in point would be some crap headphones covered in ferrari branding eh?

Not like they're Bose reduced by 90%...

Plenty of people were selling them for £300, including Harrods and Selfridges. The Ferrari store was asking £360!

Often sceptical of RRP quoted in there, but in this case it was legit.

Doesn't mean they weren't overpriced to begin with, of course.

[okgo]

Yeh. Hopefully underneath all that they were a decent bit of kit rather than a branding exercise I guess.

Speaking of frivolous things I don't need - we got a cleaner the other week, couple of hours a week. Best way to spend £20 I've come across since they put the prices of dances up at the Gryphon!

[AstonZagato]

Justayellowbadge said:

okgo said:

I think case in point would be some crap headphones covered in ferrari branding eh?

Not like they're Bose reduced by 90%...

Plenty of people were selling them for £300, including Harrods and Selfridges. The Ferrari store was asking £360!

Often sceptical of RRP quoted in there, but in this case it was legit.

Doesn't mean they weren't overpriced to begin with, of course.

They are £251.50 in the Ferrari Store:
http://store.ferrari.com/gb_en/home-office/high-te...

£140 on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cavallino-Collection-T350-...

£80 on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cavallino-Collection-T35...

Other sellers available.

Deffo worth £40. Probably worth £80. Not worth £140. £250 is havin' a larf.

[Justayellowbadge]

AstonZagato said:

Deffo worth £40. Probably worth £80.

They are. I'm no expert, but whatever a pair of those godawful Beats things are worth, these must be double that.

[MP85]

Kaelic said:

MP85 said:

I just bought a B7 RS4. I think there's a serious want and need question there, but I'm glissing over that for the now......





............... cue me needing new front discs!!!

not frivolous at all these are needed at least once in your life!

Welcome to the club mate and get some photos up

very late, and very bad photos, but you'll understand that taking photos of it is the bottom of my list of priorities atm!

[Chunkymonkey71]

LordGrover said:

Chunkymonkey71 said:

Haven't done it yet, but I've put the money away to fly to Poland, buy one of these and drive it home.

Well documented, photo heavy blog please.

Silverbullet767 said:

http://www.dula.tv/watch.php?file=homer-buys-car-f...

Definitely. Was hoping to buy around November but might not be until early next year now. Finding it difficult to get time off work.

[Lotus Notes]

OpulentBob said:

Ooh I want one of those. Can you get smaller diameter tubes for camelpaks, and do they make it easier to get the liquid through? I find I suck for ages (oo-er) before I get anything in my mouth (oo-er). Would a smaller diameter pipe make it easier? It'd make the drink last longer at least.

A larger diameter would help the flow and so would a shorter length of pipe (the pressure drop in small bore pipework is huge).
After drinking blow some air back in the bag, this increases the pressure/flow and more importantly prevents freezing when high in the mountains.

I bought it from Go Outdoors for £12.

[illmonkey]

Lotus Notes said:

OpulentBob said:

Ooh I want one of those. Can you get smaller diameter tubes for camelpaks, and do they make it easier to get the liquid through? I find I suck for ages (oo-er) before I get anything in my mouth (oo-er). Would a smaller diameter pipe make it easier? It'd make the drink last longer at least.

A larger diameter would help the flow and so would a shorter length of pipe (the pressure drop in small bore pipework is huge).
After drinking blow some air back in the bag, this increases the pressure/flow and more importantly prevents freezing when high in the mountains.

I bought it from Go Outdoors for £12.

I have one for walking, and always blow back, only to stop the water in the pipe from getting hot in the sun. I don't clean it, only run some hot water through it and have never experienced horrible water etc.

Are you putting something else in it to cause it to be rank or am I just magical?

[Gretchen]

soad said:

Gretchen said:

Has PHer Maff's frivolous purchase been mentioned? I wasn't aware until yesterday he was a member here as I've been following this elsewhere

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2690412/...

Wow, a dream garage too!

Saw an interview on Canadian news with him earlier. Seems like a great down to earth guy too. Lucky bd

[Lotus Notes]

illmonkey said:

I have one for walking, and always blow back, only to stop the water in the pipe from getting hot in the sun. I don't clean it, only run some hot water through it and have never experienced horrible water etc.

Are you putting something else in it to cause it to be rank or am I just magical?

Algae can grow over a period of time, but I put it in the freezer to prevent this when I remember..
All sorts of plant life can grow if you use an isotonic drink!

[anonymous-user]

Lotus Notes said:

illmonkey said:

I have one for walking, and always blow back, only to stop the water in the pipe from getting hot in the sun. I don't clean it, only run some hot water through it and have never experienced horrible water etc.

Are you putting something else in it to cause it to be rank or am I just magical?

Algae can grow over a period of time, but I put it in the freezer to prevent this when I remember..
All sorts of plant life can grow if you use an isotonic drink!

That's where I'm going wrong. I use the pack for electrolyte drinks when on a long MTB or kayak run. Looks like I need a fatter pipe, bigger mouthpiece, and a cleaning kit. Not frivolous but very handy...

(I've got some Milton tablets for baby stuff/algae on the roof of the car, that will work ok won't it?)

[Voldemort]

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