Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

I was on Pipex 1Mbit (fixed) paying £23.44 - moved to Sky (potentially
up to 16Mbit, but in reality due to line length / noise i'm getting only
4x the speed of my old line, but at only £10 per month instead.

It doesn't beat it in direct terms, but the £/speed ratio is about the
same :-}

declared for all the world to hear...
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

PC World charging £17.99 for 1 ADSL microfilter. I got 3 from ebuyer at
£1.01 each plus a quid for post.
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Regards
Jon

In article ,
Jon wrote:
PC World charging £17.99 for 1 ADSL microfilter. I got 3 from ebuyer at
£1.01 each plus a quid for post.

The performance of ASDL filters varies enormously. That's not to say the
cheap one is worst, though.

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*Who is this General Failure chap anyway - and why is he reading my HD? *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

On 4 Apr 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "
wrote:

On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

Nah, a give-away.

Try HDMI cables. )

On Apr 4, 3:38 pm, EricP wrote:
On 4 Apr 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "

wrote:
On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

Nah, a give-away.

Try HDMI cables. )

How about anything from http://www.cleareraudio.com/?

MBQ

On 2007-04-04 16:29:35 +0100, "
said:

On Apr 4, 3:38 pm, EricP wrote:
On 4 Apr 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "

wrote:
On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (con
sisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. T
hey
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

Nah, a give-away.

Try HDMI cables. )

How about anything from http://www.cleareraudio.com/?

MBQ

yes, they're right up there, aren't they....

However, part of this is probably use of unnecessary materials as well
as margin.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:11:41 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-04-04 16:29:35 +0100, "
said:

How about anything from http://www.cleareraudio.com/?

MBQ

yes, they're right up there, aren't they....

I'm surprised at you slumming it in such a cheap emporium :-)

http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?src=google&lookup=1&region=UK&currency =GBP&pf_id=1549&customer_id=PAA0456042107447SBRLKH IINVGFJKNU

2m IEC kettle lead for only £3,065. It does have 24 Hyper Pure
VariStrand silver conductors insulated with Teflon for very low
resistance though.

For markup though it must be

http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?src=google&lookup=1&region=UK&currency =GBP&pf_id=4227&customer_id=PAA0456042107447SBRLKH IINVGFJKNU

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

On 4 Apr 2007 08:29:35 -0700, "
wrote:

On Apr 4, 3:38 pm, EricP wrote:
On 4 Apr 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "

wrote:
On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

Nah, a give-away.

Try HDMI cables. )

How about anything from http://www.cleareraudio.com/?

MBQ

Jesus!
Speechless

"EricP" wrote in message
...

How about anything from http://www.cleareraudio.com/?

MBQ

Jesus!
Speechless


But they are selling a warm fuzzy feeling to the stupid.
There are plenty of them about too.
As long as they don't start claiming that their warm fuzzy feeling digital
(like HDMI) cables actually produce better sound or vision than the £5 ALDI
ones they are not doing anything wrong.

On 2007-04-04 17:18:38 +0100, EricP said:

On 4 Apr 2007 08:29:35 -0700, "
wrote:

On Apr 4, 3:38 pm, EricP wrote:
On 4 Apr 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "

wrote:
On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

Nah, a give-away.

Try HDMI cables. )

How about anything from http://www.cleareraudio.com/?

MBQ

Jesus!
Speechless


It's not Sunday yet.

"EricP" wrote in message
...
On 4 Apr 2007 06:36:35 -0700, "
wrote:

On Apr 4, 1:10 pm, "Pecanfan" wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit
(consisting
of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They
sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?

Andy

The price of USB cables in high street shops.

MBQ

Nah, a give-away.

Try HDMI cables. )


£4.99 expensive then?

Pecanfan wrote:
Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit
(consisting of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell
for £3.17. They sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top
that?
Andy

A small bottle of water at Gatwick Airport (after Security!) is £1.80

--
LSR

LSR wrote:


A small bottle of water at Gatwick Airport (after Security!) is £1.80


The buggars at Gatwick confiscated my 12.5p lighter (one of eight from
Poundland)... "because it might be a bomb Sir" Once airside I found that
they had inferior non-refillable lighters on sale for £1.25.

I feel a much, much safer citizen now that pseudo-science profiteering
has now got to make its mark on national security and Government thinking.

Steve

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:00:54 GMT, Steve
wrote:


The buggars at Gatwick confiscated my 12.5p lighter (one of eight from
Poundland)... "because it might be a bomb Sir" Once airside I found that
they had inferior non-refillable lighters on sale for £1.25.

I feel a much, much safer citizen now that pseudo-science profiteering
has now got to make its mark on national security and Government thinking.


You would think that being knowledgable would bring power.

In politics it doesn't, the opposite is the case.

Those who have power but not knowledge jealously guard their powers,
whilst ensuring anyone knowledgeable is kept well down the pecking
order as a potential threat.

DG

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:00:54 UTC, Steve wrote:

LSR wrote:

A small bottle of water at Gatwick Airport (after Security!) is £1.80

The buggars at Gatwick confiscated my 12.5p lighter (one of eight from
Poundland)... "because it might be a bomb Sir" Once airside I found that
they had inferior non-refillable lighters on sale for £1.25.

I feel a much, much safer citizen now that pseudo-science profiteering
has now got to make its mark on national security and Government thinking.

Indeed. The most lucrative example so far is, of course, 'global
warming'.

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