You're not going to believe this...but

[Andy Hall]

Did you not connect this with not getting the service you were hoping for?

How much time did you spend doing all this? What did that cost?

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

[Andy Hall]

A day !!!!!! ???

Good grief. That represents more than the difference in cost between an entry level jig at about £45 and a Leigh D4 at £350

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[Andy Hall]

What on earth is a cash converters shop? Sounds like a pawnbrokers or something.....

[Bob Eager]

That's pretty well what it is. We don't have one round here, but there's one (or used to be) at the dodgy end of Chatham!

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

You know the price of everything and the value of nothing. You deserve the way you were treated. That is also evident by your choice of ISP.

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Do you not understand trimming to context?

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Oh yes. A few minutes looking at the clientel (sp?) is very entertaining.

[Bob Mannix]

Well, one has to ask - how do you know what the prices are if you've never stepped foot in one? It's just a shop, not the spawn of the devil - some stuff's good value in there, some isn't.

[Bob Mannix]

Only if you are very unromantic - have you never heard of foreplay?

[Jerry]

converters

He probably bought back the same one he used to own!

[Brian Sharrock]

'Kash Konverters' (or somesuch title) is a 'walk in off the street- offer something and we'll give you cash' deal. The shops also sell items to punters off the street from their rather eclectic stock. My granddaughters (allegedly) call the local branch 'Burglars'R'Us" ... but what do they know?

[Owain]

A rather downmarket pawnbrokers. The booths in the traditional ones aren't big enough to accommodate Wayne, Senga, six kiddies, Senga's Nan and the baby buggy.

Really Andy, you should get out more!

Owain

(whose former next-door-but-five neighbour is featured in "Scotland's Hardest Crims" available from your local Publishers Rejects bookshop)

[Owain]

Is that available on Freeview?

Owain

[Guy King]

The message from "Bob Mannix" contains these words:

Is that the slop you get when the frotting pencil is proud but not embarassed?

[Andy Hall]

I was half joking. So it really is a pawnbrokers/fencing operation in the form of a shop?

Jeez......

[Andy Hall]

Ever thought of taking business studies?

While most aspects are pretty much common sense, a useful aspect is to be able to gain an appreciation of the difference between price and value.

[Mathew Newton]

That reminds me of the time in Halfords when I asked for a tube of Autosol... (for buffing metal, not piles..)

[Dave Fawthrop]

|On 2006-08-25 11:17:47 +0100, Owain said: | |> Andy Hall wrote: |>>> Forgot to say I managed to find one for twenty quid in a cash converters |>>> shop. |>> What on earth is a cash converters shop? Sounds like a pawnbrokers or |>> something..... |> |> A rather downmarket pawnbrokers. The booths in the traditional ones |> aren't big enough to accommodate Wayne, Senga, six kiddies, Senga's Nan |> and the baby buggy. |> |> Really Andy, you should get out more! |> |> Owain |> |> (whose former next-door-but-five neighbour is featured in "Scotland's |> Hardest Crims" available from your local Publishers Rejects bookshop) | |I was half joking. So it really is a pawnbrokers/fencing operation in |the form of a shop?

You got it at last.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:

Only with permission - many prefer the fronting bottlet, but I suspect the 3rd Earl may have learned his trade(s) in a more masculine environment.