Lakeland E-Z kleen'r blocks

Peter Parry wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Gawd, they want 66pee; Lakeland charge just shy of 3 squid!

What a cracking site, but I'm not sure I dare try it.

Still, at least I know what it is now, and might be able to track some down, but I bet not at Robert Dyas.

Thanks for the info; it's a mighty long time since I've been impressed with something, especially a cleaning product.

mike r

Peter Parry wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

What a wonderful site! Could spend hours going 'WTF is that?'. Has anyone actually ordered from them for UK delivery?

Come on - for 66p it must be worth a try!!

Urmmmm But they want £12.50 to ship the B****y thing

Hi Mike I've bought them in Chemists shops, where they are advertised for grinding bits of your feet away, like a pumice stone. I didn't know they were made of 'melamine foam', that's useful info, thanks.

Believe it or not I was buying them for 'hifi tweaking' use - they were recommended as an ultra-stiff material for use as a support for various bits of hifi. Sounds wierd but you may know how bonkers the hifi tweaking fraternity is ...

Regards Jon N

Eh? 20 packets at economy rate is only £2 postage. 10 of the large ones only comes to GBP10.67 in total. They don't weigh much. Its when you start adding tins the postage goes astronomic.

snipped-for-privacy@nicorp.f.co.uk (Jon Nicoll) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

I don't think that's the same thing, John, I got a load of hits on melamine foam for stiffening, soundproofing etc, (but missed the foot scraping application).

But a search on Melamine sponge brings up the sort of stuff I'm talking about.

(Thanks to Peter for coming up with the magic Melamine word)

I remember Melamine as cups and saucers in the Sixties. We could have used the sponge back then, they stained like b****s

mike r

Peter Parry wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Yup, Peter.

If I order 5 of these it costs 5 euros, plus 1 euro 50 for shipping.

Had anyone heard of SAL before? ...it's a different world, which is why I'm nervous.

It's not losing me money that worries me, it's like maybe answering an email from the Nigerian Princess Royal!

However, Japs 6 euros 50 for five (£4.34)

Lakeland £2.95 _each_ plus £3.50 p&p, ie £18.25 for 5.

Ripoff Britain is alive and well.

What makes it all so unreal is that they make these things in Germany, ship them off to Japan, where what appears to be an upmarket internet version of Poundstretcher, which prices in Euros, sells them for about a fifth the price of a n English mailorder outfit, and sendss them back to Europe using the the airmail equivalent of standby fares.

This is either an amazing discovery or a monster waiting to empty my bank account at the sniff of a credit card.

Who wants to go first?

Mike r