Screwfix Search Box

Maybe they don;t sell them. other options Maplin

Have you thought about buying a 3D printer ;-)

Anything in local skips that can be scavenged.

I think it's because they don't sell them that you can't find them not that the search engine is at fault!

A lot of shopping sites have rather facile searches that find anything containing *any* of the key words. So you get further by using single keywords and choosing them carefully than by using longer search terms.

Having said that, I think Screwfix probably don't sell any. I'd try Maplin if you really want a real life shop.

Try seat buffers.

These might be suitable, they are not rubber, nor are they feet.

Reminds me of the bloke that wanted to buy some condoms and the pharmacist said they were out of stock and suggested he try boots!

Seriously, what are seat buffers, and where might they be purchased?

I ordered some Amazonian ones. Life's too short to trek around local emporia for this stuff (though I am pretty sure Robert Dyas would sell these).

They were originally the rubber buffers you'd find on a wood toilet seat. Held on by screws.

Ideal as feet for many small things too. And a name which seems to be applied to other such things.

Which is why I search it with Google.

I found this:

(All one line)

HTH

Stick on feet? Brian

It is utterly craptastic. But searching for "foot" or "feet" alone produces only a few results, none of them what you're looking for. Likewise searching for "pad" which might have produced something like adhesive felt pads. Wickes is better, but has the annoying feature of clearing the search box with each search, so if you only need to modify your search terms slightly you still need to type the whole lot again. But search Wickes for "pad" and select "ironmongery" to find adhesive felt pads. Wilko's search is similar; basically dumb but it lets you narrow the results from sensible categories, so searching rubber and selecting DIY results in a listing for "rubber buffers" which are nearly the sort of thing you're looking for. Wilko calls a felt pad a "felt floor protector". I often resort to eBay rather than spend ages trying to find stuff locally.

Many firms with an online presence would still much rather you trekked around their stores as in that way they can more easily tempt you into buying things other than what you were originally looking for.

Quite possibly the same applies with their search engines if they're forever throwing up irrelevant "suggestions" for stuff you'd never think of buying otherwise.

As a retailer, I'd guess the worst kind of customer is the one who walks into your store, or visits your website, knows exactly what he or she wants, and either buys it or rejects any suggested alternatives, and walks/clicks out straightway afterwards.

michael adams

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consider also

Often seen cheaper in pound shops.

The stick-on ones are easy to obtain. The screw on a bit more difficult: the phrase "seat buffer" seems to be the magic password.

But Screwfix and Toolstation don't have stores you can "trek around"!

Indeed not. They have websites using inefficient search engines which entice customers to trek around those websites instead. Basically the same priciple which applies to physical stores, may equally well apply to websites which are designed to be deliberately opaque so as to stretch out each visit for as long as possible.

This point was fully covered in my next paragraph which you appear to have ovelooked for some reason -

" Quite possibly the same applies with their search engines if they're forever throwing up irrelevant "suggestions" for stuff you'd never think of buying otherwise."

michael adams

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But I didn't have to leave my chair to visit the online store, nor do I have to leave my chair in order to flounce out of it empty-handed.

But your comment about trekking around stores was offered as an alternative to using an online search engine, so the two paragraphs were mutually exclusive.

In fact, the paragraph I overlooked was merely re-hashing what had been said before.