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 bding 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.

Edited by iSore on Wednesday 22 July 19:55

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-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? :-)

Paint was 34 quid. Yes, really.
Knockers were 32 quid.
Numbers were 12 quid.

Absolutely shocking.

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bigandclever said:

Oh.

It's hardly B&Q's fault that you can't communicate to the missus that there are 'better' places to go shopping.

Aaaand the resident smartarse has arrived. Welcome Son, come on in.

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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 bks - 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?

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In contrast, I find my local Halfords to be excellent- I have a trade card but the stuff they sell is always good. My local Kwik Fit is also superb - MOT's, air con regasses, tyre swaps etc. They always fit me in and charge me less than retail. Always a good job as well.

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Roo said:

What was she doing out of the kitchen?

The chain broke.

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I forgot to update this: I did go back a couple of days later and got refunded on some of it. Whilst we were there, the Mrs and I had a mosey around the garden centre bit, against my better judgement. I had to laugh at £4.50 for some cheap and nasty yellow 'duck' watering can that probably cost about 12p to make. The plants were half dead and the cost of those long plastic troughs - £9 each? fk off!

A proper garden centre such as Wentworths up near Doncaster has always been the best place for that stuff. You don't mind paying as you as you feel you aren't being so obviously ripped off for sub standard junk.

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blueg33 said:

Not sure thst the title of this thread is fair. After all they are not thriving, the prices are marked, the decision to part with money is with the customer.

You could say the same about Tescos, and they are inexorably being flushed down the toilet by Lidl and Aldi. It's because it's now clear they've been robbing the customer for decades and the truth is slowly dawning.

The reason they can get away with blatant robbery is because there is no real competition. All it takes is for some serious opposition to show what thieving bds B&Q are, and to put them out of business. Alas, not for a while I fear.