A few minutes ago I was casually looking at some electric fires in B&Q and noticed a sticker nearby giving the approximate running costs - based on electricity at 0.07p/kWh. I wonder where they get their power from!
Cheap electricity?
Oct 09, 2006
13 Replies
about 1995 !!!
Perhaps 7p then, but surely not 0.07p !
It wasn't that cheap even back then. Read it again, carefully.
prolly meant =A30.07
The message from "Staffbull" contains these words:
It was about 100 times that in 1995.
Using their new wind generator thingy?
David
When challenged they'll brush it off. When finally challenged hard enough they'll say oops, little mistake, we'll put it right now. Meanwhile many an unaware buyer's been sold goods on false pretences. Same old game.
NT
I was thinking about mentioning it to them, but they've recently done away with the customer service desk - even the returns desk is now part of the checkout "suite". It would be a waste of time talking to an orange-aproned droid, I suppose.
It's only 0.55p (no typo) more than that now.
Was the actual calculated useage also a factor of 100 out?
I didn't bother to read much more after such a c*ck-up!
I think it did imply a cost of 7p per unit however, but "we" still haven't really got the hang of decimal currency, when "we" talk about "one pence" for example.
Bring back real British currency! Most of us could cope with long multiplication and division of real money for our 11+ exam...
No, bring back 11+ exams...
Owain
Or move here, where we still have them...!
Your point being that it's "one penny"??
Decimal system makes sense to me, except for distance for which inches, feet and yards seem to be more intuitive but don't ask me how many yards there are in a mile.
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