On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:27:56 GMT, T i m wrote:

I took Mum into Homebase today

They have a range of thermostatic shower mixers, some with really
modern controls. others more traditional. With the discounts we are
talking about £250.

In my experience (having taken the family round all the shops, then
going back to get the one SWBMO liked) Homebase will have a big pile of
cards all saying "available from stock" but when you've queued up for
half an hour behind people taking things back they'll tell you that they
don't have any, they can be ordered, and it won't take more than a few
weeks. They may well then tell you about another HB that the computer
says have some in stock. You can then repeat the queueing and offer to
order process.

That was Sunday morning. Sunday PM was web search for same model, and
delivery from TLC was Tueday. And it was more than 10% cheaper.
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