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raden wrote:
The longest time I've had an item on back order with CPC was 9 months -
by which time, I'd forgotten all about it

I bought a soldering iron element from CPC which arrived smashed to bits.
It must have left them like that as the outer box was fine. They refunded
the money and promised a replacement. Nothing happened so I bought one off
the makers. About 3 months later they phoned me to say they had one in
stock...

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