Went into the local Focus the other day and the lady sussed that I was new to the area (strange southern accent?). She offered me a Homemover Advantage Card. Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.
MM
Would you have bought it all if you hadn't had the card? Have you *really* saved money?
Given that the web suppliers are frequently multiple 10's of percent cheaper than the sheds, even 10% isn't really worth having unless you absolutely *must* go there (it's Sunday afternoon, you've run out of {stuff} and you must have some now.)
b and q used to have a discount card and I used to buy lots of stuff, after they stopped it I scarcely bought anything, very short sighted of them, I think.
mrcheerful
I would have bought it from somewhere.
Yep. 10%.
MM
I rarely use them myself, but don't they still have an "Over 60" 10% discount card on Wednesdays? I was always amused by watching all the blokes going round on Wednesdays with trolleys full of diy hardware, pushing Granny along in her wheelchair to validate the 10% card at the checkout!
David
If you buy enough stuff, B&Q will haggle a bit on price, especially if you have an add of it being a bit cheeper somewhere else.....
This is how I got my 6 lorries full of bricks cheep, I got a quote from elsewhere, and asked B&Q to beet it......
Rick
I'm not surprised, knowing what they charge for their goods. We have a builders yard quite close by to our local buy and spew and it is up to 150% cheaper.
Dave
I found B&Q cheepest place arround for cement/blocks & especially sand in 1 tonne bags. Sand was competative with loose lorry loads.
But then I was filling the delivery lorry every time, and my place is at least 15 miles from anywhere ......
Rick
So if the B&Q price is a tenner the BM will pay you a fiver to take it away?
The problem is that much of what focus sells is twice the price of B&Q and
10 times that of toolstation. (I'm thinking specifically of a washing machine valve here, as an example). 10% off would have made it only 9 times as expensive.Christian.
"Christian McArdle" wrote in news:41ebb5a3$0$19165$ snipped-for-privacy@reading.news.pipex.net:
Very often, more expensive than Wickes. Hmmm.
A new Wickes branch opened here recently, unfortunately focus is significantly closer than any other shed.
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