Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the week' a
couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have got to
add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local Aldi this
afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander aimlessly
about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked beans, and found
four of the compressors on display. They looked perfectly fine - certainly
no worse than those I've seen offered for £120+ at B&Q - and were suitably
heavy, so I dragged one down to the front, and stood in line at a till for
about 10 minutes, whilst more zombies tried to empty and repack their
trollies. I finally got to the halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box,
and announced "£79.99 please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited.
Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We
don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit
cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out, leaving
the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car park, my
daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one of her debit
cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty stupid going back in
:-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one up,
bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that said, I
bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for the cheapest
one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the same capacity as all
the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor, and it works just fine,
and will be perfectly adequate for the limited service that I need it for.
I'm hoping the same will be true of the compressor, unless anyone knows
different ... ?

Arfa

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:13:29 -0000, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the week' a
couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have got to
add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local Aldi this
afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander aimlessly
about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked beans, and found
four of the compressors on display. They looked perfectly fine - certainly
no worse than those I've seen offered for £120+ at B&Q - and were suitably
heavy, so I dragged one down to the front, and stood in line at a till for
about 10 minutes, whilst more zombies tried to empty and repack their
trollies. I finally got to the halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box,
and announced "£79.99 please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited.
Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We
don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit
cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out, leaving
the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car park, my
daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one of her debit
cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty stupid going back in
:-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one up,
bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that said, I
bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for the cheapest
one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the same capacity as all
the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor, and it works just fine,
and will be perfectly adequate for the limited service that I need it for.
I'm hoping the same will be true of the compressor, unless anyone knows
different ... ?

Arfa
I always found Aldi stuff o/k [With the exception of any processed
foods].

The electronics and tools I have had from them have been excellent
value for money.


German stores never were too keen on credit cards. I expect Aldi will
come round soon though as they have recently started offering cashback
with debit cards, so I am sure they are going to adjust to The
British never never approach reasonably well.


HN

On 26/03/2011 01:56, H. Neary wrote:
I expect Aldi will
come round soon though as they have recently started offering cashback
with debit cards, so I am sure they are going to adjust to The
British never never approach reasonably well.


Strangely, they do accept credit cards in Scotland ...

--
Adrian C

In message , Arfa Daily
wrote


zombies that wander aimlessly about the place with their trollies full
of no-name baked beans,

So no different from many of the other supermarkets where possibly the
majority of the beans sold are "quality own brand" where the supplier is
chosen on price and changes on a regular basis.

and stood in line at a till for about 10 minutes, whilst more zombies
tried to empty and repack their trollies.

In my experience the checkout line in an Aldi store is around 4 times
faster than that of a typical Tesco/Sainsbury. Everything goes back in
the trolley for the customer to pack or bag up elsewhere (at the shelves
provided or in the boot of the car).


I finally got to the halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box, and
announced "£79.99 please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited.
Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I
"We don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take
credit cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

The business model is not British and possibly the reliance on credit
cards (rather than debit) for a weekly shop is not the same in some
parts of Europe.



--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

In message , H. Neary
wrote

German stores never were too keen on credit cards. I expect Aldi will
come round soon though as they have recently started offering cashback
with debit cards,

They did that a couple of years ago but they stopped it for a while when
they got some new (unreliable) card readers/system and I suspect that
when the till indicated to sign when the pin wasn't accepted the
transaction wasn't guaranteed by the bank.


--
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news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the week'
a couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have
got to add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local Aldi
this afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander
aimlessly about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked
beans, and found four of the compressors on display. They looked
perfectly fine - certainly no worse than those I've seen offered for
£120+ at B&Q - and were suitably heavy, so I dragged one down to the
front, and stood in line at a till for about 10 minutes, whilst more
zombies tried to empty and repack their trollies. I finally got to the
halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box, and announced "£79.99
please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited. Then he says "Oh -
we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We don't..." "Yes,
yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit cards ?" "Well, we
don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out,
leaving the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car
park, my daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one
of her debit cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty
stupid going back in :-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one
up, bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that
said, I bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for
the cheapest one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the
same capacity as all the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor,
and it works just fine, and will be perfectly adequate for the limited
service that I need it for. I'm hoping the same will be true of the
compressor, unless anyone knows different ... ?

Arfa

I got mine when they were about £50 a few years back.
It is very noisy but typical of the breed. The pressure difference
between cut off and cut back in is too great for my nail gun so as the
pressure drops the nails don't fire all the way in.
I have a round-2-it action to try and adjust this.
One of the quick release connectors has just developed a leak in the
last week or so. The body and seat is plated steel, so the water vapour
has started to rust. Easily replaced by a brass one.

Still good value for the money though.

Most people who have a compressor are likely to be handy types who can
live with these little issues.

Bob

Alan wrote:

So no different from many of the other supermarkets where possibly the
majority of the beans sold are "quality own brand" where the supplier is
chosen on price and changes on a regular basis.

Do you have shares in Aldi?

I really do wonder at the way the zombies leap to the defence of this
grunge supermarket chain.

On Mar 26, 10:04 am, (Steve Firth) wrote:
Alan wrote:
So no different from many of the other supermarkets where possibly the
majority of the beans sold are "quality own brand" where the supplier is
chosen on price and changes on a regular basis.

Do you have shares in Aldi?

I really do wonder at the way the zombies leap to the defence of this
grunge supermarket chain.

it usually oil boils down to snobbery....

Jim K

Jim K wrote:

it usually oil boils down to snobbery....

Inverse snobbery, yes, I agree. There seems to be a meme in the UK that
you musn't "get above yourself" and that you must eat the same **** as
your pikey neighbours.

On Mar 26, 9:55*am, Bob Minchin
wrote:

One of the quick release connectors has just developed a leak in the
last week or so. The body and seat is plated steel, so the water vapour
has started to rust. Easily replaced by a brass one.

Why do you have water in the air lines?

I don't have an Aldi compressor, but I do have half a dozen of their
drier / filter units. They''re cheap enough you can dot them around
the walls of the workshop. You can also afford to dry the air both
before the pipework, and afterwards. Seems well made and the price is
certainly good.

I note that their hose reel units are also cheaper now (40 instead of
45) than they were two years ago. I bought one then, knowing I'd want
one for the new workshop and "they'd only go up", but still haven't
taken it out of the box.

"Alan" wrote in message
...
In message , Arfa Daily
wrote


zombies that wander aimlessly about the place with their trollies full of
no-name baked beans,

So no different from many of the other supermarkets where possibly the
majority of the beans sold are "quality own brand" where the supplier is
chosen on price and changes on a regular basis.


Certainly no worse than my local Tesco, which is also infested with zombies.
Sainsbury's is a little better along with Asda, and Morrisons is pretty
good. However, my stores of choice, for food at least, are Waitrose and M&S,
neither of which allow zombies in ... :-)



and stood in line at a till for about 10 minutes, whilst more zombies
tried to empty and repack their trollies.

In my experience the checkout line in an Aldi store is around 4 times
faster than that of a typical Tesco/Sainsbury. Everything goes back in the
trolley for the customer to pack or bag up elsewhere (at the shelves
provided or in the boot of the car).



Not at this one. It was as bad as any place I've ever been in, and there was
certainly no 're-packing' area


I finally got to the halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box, and
announced "£79.99 please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited.
Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We
don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit
cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

The business model is not British and possibly the reliance on credit
cards (rather than debit) for a weekly shop is not the same in some parts
of Europe.


For 'weekly shop' I can agree with you, perhaps, but when you are selling
single item tools for eighty quid, I think it's a bit 'head-in-the-sand'.
Had I have bought a few accessories to go with the compressor at the same
time, it could easily have been £150 or more. Still, I'll know if I ever
brave the place again ...

Arfa


--
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On Mar 26, 10:04*am, (Steve Firth) wrote:

I really do wonder at the way the zombies leap to the defence of this
grunge supermarket chain.

Because they don't do much, but what they do do is mostly good. Better
than Lidl, on nearly everything. Lidl is pretty grungey these days
(cheapest place for Kraftburys chocolate, and that's aboout it).

I wouldn't want to shop there entirely (unlike Waitrose), but there
are things that I do buy every week. Catfood and bottled beer are the
usuals - real English breweries, for peanuts.

In article ,
Arfa Daily wrote:
Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I
"We don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take
credit cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

I'm amazed you find this surprising. If a store is aiming for the very
best prices, they're giving *you* the amount that would normally go to the
CC company. Which is several quid in this case.

I'm surprised you don't also have a debit card. You get things like car
VED cheaper with one too.

BTW, you've just described any supermarket on a busy day. And Friday
afternoon is busy at most. You should have asked the wife about the best
time to shop - Monday morning is a good bet.

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"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
...
Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the week'
a couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have
got to add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local Aldi
this afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander
aimlessly about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked
beans, and found four of the compressors on display. They looked
perfectly fine - certainly no worse than those I've seen offered for
£120+ at B&Q - and were suitably heavy, so I dragged one down to the
front, and stood in line at a till for about 10 minutes, whilst more
zombies tried to empty and repack their trollies. I finally got to the
halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box, and announced "£79.99
please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited. Then he says "Oh -
we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We don't..." "Yes,
yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit cards ?" "Well, we
don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out,
leaving the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car
park, my daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one
of her debit cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty
stupid going back in :-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one
up, bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that
said, I bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for
the cheapest one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the
same capacity as all the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor,
and it works just fine, and will be perfectly adequate for the limited
service that I need it for. I'm hoping the same will be true of the
compressor, unless anyone knows different ... ?

Arfa

I got mine when they were about £50 a few years back.
It is very noisy but typical of the breed. The pressure difference between
cut off and cut back in is too great for my nail gun so as the pressure
drops the nails don't fire all the way in.
I have a round-2-it action to try and adjust this.
One of the quick release connectors has just developed a leak in the last
week or so. The body and seat is plated steel, so the water vapour has
started to rust. Easily replaced by a brass one.

Still good value for the money though.

Most people who have a compressor are likely to be handy types who can
live with these little issues.

Bob

Yeah, thanks Bob. That pretty much confirms what I felt was going to be the
case. Nail gun is something I have in mind for the future, as well as spray,
but duty will be light in any of those fields. The current need I have is
for a short blast of compressed air to blow crud out of some items that are
impractically difficult to strip for this, whilst being serviced. Other than
that, it's one of those 'nice to have' items to put in the garage, for that
sort of money. As you say, I'm a practical person both professionally and
'handy-wise', so I can indeed live with any minor shortcomings. Come to
think of it, I actually have a mate in the air business - although he
specialises in producing a lack of it, rather than an excess (!) but even
so, I guess he will know where to get replacement / better fittings, if it
should ultimately need any.

Arfa

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
So no different from many of the other supermarkets where possibly the
majority of the beans sold are "quality own brand" where the supplier
is chosen on price and changes on a regular basis.

Do you have shares in Aldi?

I really do wonder at the way the zombies leap to the defence of this
grunge supermarket chain.

You seem to have the same issues with Lidl. No one is forcing you to use
them. But you can save a great deal of money on the average household shop
by using Lidl for lots of things. But it sounds like you don't do the
shopping anyway.

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In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Inverse snobbery, yes, I agree. There seems to be a meme in the UK that
you musn't "get above yourself" and that you must eat the same **** as
your pikey neighbours.

Tell us which *one* store you buy all your food at so we can have a good
laugh too.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Andy Dingley wrote:

Catfood

The cat won't touch catfood from Lidl or Aldi.

and bottled beer are the usuals -

I'll hake an exception for the Schöfferhofer's Hefe Weissenbier, or I
did until Tesco/Asda started selling it cheaper.

real English breweries, for peanuts.

I've not seen any beer bargains there.

I'll continue to buy (some) tools from them, but a policy of "don't put
it in your mouth" still applies to the majority of stuff that they sell.

In article ,
Arfa Daily wrote:
So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that
said, I bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for
the cheapest one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the
same capacity as all the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor,
and it works just fine, and will be perfectly adequate for the limited
service that I need it for. I'm hoping the same will be true of the
compressor, unless anyone knows different ... ?

I don't have an Aldi close, but reckon they're fairly similar to Lidl with
respect to power tools etc. And Lidl stuff is in a different league to B&Q
own brand. Better quality at lower prices.

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"Alan" wrote in message
...
In message , Arfa Daily
wrote



I have owned one for about 4 years. Its been fine apart from the connector
on the end of the air line leaking shortly after I bought it. That turned
out to be a bonus as I complained and they sent me a new air line without
asking for the leaky one back. I periodically use the old line as an
extension as the leak is not that bad. I actually bought it to power the
nail gun they were selling at the same time to build my shed workshop which
has held together.
http://share.ovi.com/media/Muddymike...e.10446?sort=3
I also find the tyre inflator that was in the box very handy, but it is not
really powerful enough for heavy use.

Mike

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Inverse snobbery, yes, I agree. There seems to be a meme in the UK that
you musn't "get above yourself" and that you must eat the same **** as
your pikey neighbours.

Tell us which *one* store you buy all your food at so we can have a good
laugh too.


I don't get this. I suppose if you live in a big city you have a choice of
supermarkets. We don't, we have a small co-op and a very upmarket food shop
that sells more varieties of chutney than bread close by. We the have a six
mile drive to Catterick garrison for a Tesco, Aldi, and Lidl So whilst there
bulk shopping at Tesco we often use the adjacent Aldi or Lidl. Certain foods
are better then Tesco at Aldi others at Lidl. The clientele at all three is
the same, mostly army families, plus a lot of Dales farmers. Whilst there I
always look at their special offers on tools and hardware. Their screws are
crap so I will never buy them again. Aldi £9.99 white men's shirts are
brilliant and I have some that I have worn regularly for work for over 5
years and they still wash and iron far better than the last M&S shirt I
bought.

Get over the snobbery and actually try shopping there.

Mike

In article ,
MuddyMike wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Inverse snobbery, yes, I agree. There seems to be a meme in the UK
that you musn't "get above yourself" and that you must eat the same
**** as your pikey neighbours.

Tell us which *one* store you buy all your food at so we can have a
good laugh too.


I don't get this. I suppose if you live in a big city you have a choice
of supermarkets. We don't, we have a small co-op and a very upmarket
food shop that sells more varieties of chutney than bread close by. We
the have a six mile drive to Catterick garrison for a Tesco, Aldi, and
Lidl So whilst there bulk shopping at Tesco we often use the adjacent
Aldi or Lidl. Certain foods are better then Tesco at Aldi others at
Lidl. The clientele at all three is the same, mostly army families,
plus a lot of Dales farmers. Whilst there I always look at their
special offers on tools and hardware. Their screws are crap so I will
never buy them again. Aldi £9.99 white men's shirts are brilliant and I
have some that I have worn regularly for work for over 5 years and they
still wash and iron far better than the last M&S shirt I bought.

Get over the snobbery and actually try shopping there.

Absolutely. I'm in London, and have a Waitrose, Sainsbury and Lidl all
within walking distance. Have to go a bit further for larger versions of
those and a Tesco or Morrison. Also have some very good delicatessens,
bakers and a market which is better for fresh vegetables. Non of which are
full of 'pikeys' since it's not a pikey area.

I'm surprised Mr Firth lives so close to a pikey supermarket.

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:17:23 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!"
said I
"We don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't
take
credit cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

I'm amazed you find this surprising. If a store is aiming for the very
best prices, they're giving *you* the amount that would normally go to
the CC company. Which is several quid in this case.

As with CostCo.

I'm surprised you don't also have a debit card. You get things like car
VED cheaper with one too.

I didn't know that. I normally go to the local PO with a cheque in
some vain attempt to keep their turn over up and thus minutely reduce
the risk of closure (thoiugh as it's also the local delivery office
that isn't likely).

BTW, you've just described any supermarket on a busy day. And Friday
afternoon is busy at most.

Is Friday still "Pension Day", always avoid supermarkets on Pension
Day as all the old biddies get their pension then combine with
shopping.

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Cheers
Dave.

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:08:22 -0000, Arfa Daily wrote:

Certainly no worse than my local Tesco, which is also infested with
zombies. Sainsbury's is a little better along with Asda, and Morrisons
is pretty good.

Different up he

Tesco - OK but can be bad when the big monthly livestock and farm
plant auction is on just across the road.

Sainsbury's - Where are they?

Asda - Chavs ville.

Morrisons - old biddies chatting in the middle of the dimly lit
narrow isles. I wonder of they have finished rebuilding it after a
major fire?

--
Cheers
Dave.

After serious thinking MuddyMike wrote :
Get over the snobbery and actually try shopping there.

I concur!

We buy what is good from the stores accessible to us, nothing at all
wrong with what is sold by or pikey about either our local Lidl or
Aldi.

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It happens that Arfa Daily formulated :
For 'weekly shop' I can agree with you, perhaps, but when you are selling
single item tools for eighty quid, I think it's a bit 'head-in-the-sand'. Had
I have bought a few accessories to go with the compressor at the same time,
it could easily have been £150 or more. Still, I'll know if I ever brave the
place again ...

So you will happily pay £150 for the compressor alone, just for the
privilege of using your credit card?

Those who go in regularly know they do not accept CC, but do accept
DC's and their is usually a clear notice up to that effect.

--
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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Arfa Daily formulated on Saturday :
As you say, I'm a practical person both professionally and 'handy-wise', so I
can indeed live with any minor shortcomings. Come to think of it, I actually
have a mate in the air business - although he specialises in producing a lack
of it, rather than an excess (!) but even so, I guess he will know where to
get replacement / better fittings, if it should ultimately need any.

The fitting on mine have been fine, despite it connecting to supply air
around my workshop and garage and a few floods. I did have a tiny leak
from a fitting that had rusted up, but a bit of lubrication sorted it.
My system holds full air pressure for many weeks at a time. My only
complaint is that the safety valve lifts before the pressure switch
shuts off - the valve just needs adjusting. I have mine fed via a timer
circuit, so that the compressor can only run 10 minutes each time it is
turned on - so it doesn't get forgotten. Enough to blow tyres up etc..

--
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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I'm surprised Mr Firth lives so close to a pikey supermarket.

What makes you think I live close to a pikey supermarket? I don't live
close to any supermarket.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Inverse snobbery, yes, I agree. There seems to be a meme in the UK that
you musn't "get above yourself" and that you must eat the same **** as
your pikey neighbours.

Tell us which *one* store you buy all your food at so we can have a good
laugh too.

Err I don't buy all my food at *one* store, or even one store. Fruit and
veg come from the farm shop on my way back from work, mostly, but not
exclusively. Other foods come from either where it's cheap for branded,
packaged foods or from places like the butchers (remember them) some
from a local farm where the quality is excellent - I walk over the hill
to the farm to get eggs and most of my meat. Some comes from the lady
who has a stall by the watercress beds, and fish tends to come from the
Camber in Portsmouth which is a fair drive away.

FWIW I didn't shop at Lidl or Aldi for food when I lived in Germany -
their reputation was "Wo die Arme Leute kaufen". They've not done much
to dispel that label over here.

On my way home from my current place of work I pass an Aldi and a Lidl
on the trading estate opposite a place I used to work. Is that what's
confused you, Dave? I'll stop if they have some tools that I'm
interested in, especially the air tools which, as I have said here and
elsewere are good VFM since they are either the same as the
"professional" tools sold by the likes of Sealey or they are such good
copies that the differences are irrelevant.

I still don't understand why you and others start to bitch about my
dislike of cheap food as if I had claimed that your momma's a ho' and
so's yo sistah and they the same person.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You seem to have the same issues with Lidl. No one is forcing you to use
them.

I don't recall stating that anyone was. I commented on the way that
individuals leap to the defence of such shops. I can only conclude that
the need to defend them comes from trying to preserve a feeling of self
worth - the individuals concerned are trying to say they're not forced
into buying cheap knock-offs of branded goods, they are making a
lifestyle choice.

But you can save a great deal of money on the average household shop
by using Lidl for lots of things.

Well no, you're not really "saving" are you? You're just buying cheaper
things and you're happy to eat a cheap substitute.

But it sounds like you don't do the shopping anyway.

Guess what? You're wrong. Not only that, but what you say is a
non-sequitur.

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
I'm surprised you don't also have a debit card. You get things like car
VED cheaper with one too.

I didn't know that. I normally go to the local PO with a cheque in
some vain attempt to keep their turn over up and thus minutely reduce
the risk of closure (thoiugh as it's also the local delivery office
that isn't likely).

You can pay at your PO using a debit card with no extra charge. Use a
credit card and it will cost extra. Think this may well apply to some
other PO services too - although I generally use cash when sending
parcels, etc.

Can't remember when I last used a cheque. ;-)

BTW, you've just described any supermarket on a busy day. And Friday
afternoon is busy at most.

Is Friday still "Pension Day", always avoid supermarkets on Pension
Day as all the old biddies get their pension then combine with
shopping.

More ordinary people shopping for the weekend, I'd guess.

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In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
I'm surprised Mr Firth lives so close to a pikey supermarket.

What makes you think I live close to a pikey supermarket? I don't live
close to any supermarket.

So you trawl the country visiting every Aldi and Lidl, then, to be so
certain they are pikey stores?

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In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
I still don't understand why you and others start to bitch about my
dislike of cheap food as if I had claimed that your momma's a ho' and
so's yo sistah and they the same person.

As usual, you miss the point. What you pay for food is no guarantee of
quality. If it were, you'd buy everything at a village shop or garage
store, etc.

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In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You seem to have the same issues with Lidl. No one is forcing you to
use them.

I don't recall stating that anyone was. I commented on the way that
individuals leap to the defence of such shops. I can only conclude that
the need to defend them comes from trying to preserve a feeling of self
worth - the individuals concerned are trying to say they're not forced
into buying cheap knock-offs of branded goods, they are making a
lifestyle choice.

Ah. Now we have it. You're influenced by advertising to the point where
you *know* that only a well known brand is any good.

But you can save a great deal of money on the average household shop
by using Lidl for lots of things.

Well no, you're not really "saving" are you? You're just buying cheaper
things and you're happy to eat a cheap substitute.

Supermarkets sell rather more things than food.

Oh - the vast majority of my food budget goes on things with no brands
whatsoever. Like vegetables, fruit, meat, bakery etc. Not Findus and Heinz.
;-)

But it sounds like you don't do the shopping anyway.

Guess what? You're wrong. Not only that, but what you say is a
non-sequitur.

********. You have to actually do the shopping on a regular basis to
experience the things you're on about.

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:27:40 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You can pay at your PO using a debit card with no extra charge. Use a
credit card and it will cost extra.

I shall bear that in mind when the VED becomes due.

Can't remember when I last used a cheque. ;-)

One of my clients pays by cheque, right PITA it is too. Not only do
they post the cheque right on the 30 day credit peiod there is then 4
days for the cheque to clear after I can get it to the bank. I
sometimes wonder if they have done the maths on the cost of cheques v
interest on money in their account... Over a crew of 25+ you are
looking at around £10,000 for each day they do, over say three or
four units. That's a significant cash flow.

Late last year I've paid the scaffolder, the chap who serviced the
oil boiler and the stone masons for the four large stone cills by
cheque. All small/self employed business's. When cheques are phased
out in a few years time how do I pay them? Actually for me it'll be
internet banking but how about old Mrs Miggens who doesn't have
internet banking or the internet or telephone banking and doesn't
want them?

Is Friday still "Pension Day", always avoid supermarkets on
Pension
Day as all the old biddies get their pension then combine with
shopping.

More ordinary people shopping for the weekend, I'd guess.

Well maybe but during the working day?

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"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
. uk...
It happens that Arfa Daily formulated :
For 'weekly shop' I can agree with you, perhaps, but when you are selling
single item tools for eighty quid, I think it's a bit 'head-in-the-sand'.
Had I have bought a few accessories to go with the compressor at the same
time, it could easily have been £150 or more. Still, I'll know if I ever
brave the place again ...

So you will happily pay £150 for the compressor alone, just for the
privilege of using your credit card?

Well, I thought I was pretty good at understanding English language, Harry,
but I'll be buggered if I can pick the bones out of exactly what you're
trying to say there ...

I personally don't use debit cards. I have enough trouble trying to remember
my professional trade account PINs let alone a multitude of money card ones.
Apart from that, I have a real 'thing' about people buying a bottle of
ginger beer and a packet of fag papers for about £1.50 the lot, and then
standing at the till ****ing about with a debit card that they don't even
get out of their purse / wallet until they've put their sad little purchases
into a carrier bag. OTOH, I have a credit card which is used for all my
business and on-line transactions, and it was this that I wanted to use in
zombieland to buy the eighty quid compressor with.



Those who go in regularly know they do not accept CC, but do accept DC's
and their is usually a clear notice up to that effect.


But that's the thing, Harry. I *don't* go in there regularly, so didn't
know. And I certainly didn't see any prominently displayed signs to the
effect that they didn't take credit cards. Had I have done, I wouldn't have
wasted my time battling zombies and queuing to pay, would I now ? There were
plenty of items for sale in the tool bit that were expensive, and because of
this, I never for a moment dreamt that an outfit their size, would not take
credit cards. Hell, my local burger joint even takes them !

73 .... Arfa


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"MuddyMike" wrote in message
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"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Arfa Daily
wrote



I have owned one for about 4 years. Its been fine apart from the connector
on the end of the air line leaking shortly after I bought it. That turned
out to be a bonus as I complained and they sent me a new air line without
asking for the leaky one back. I periodically use the old line as an
extension as the leak is not that bad. I actually bought it to power the
nail gun they were selling at the same time to build my shed workshop
which has held together.
http://share.ovi.com/media/Muddymike...e.10446?sort=3
I also find the tyre inflator that was in the box very handy, but it is
not really powerful enough for heavy use.

Mike


Thanks for that, Mike

Arfa

"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:


"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
...
Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the
week'
a couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have
got to add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local
Aldi
this afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander
aimlessly about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked
beans, and found four of the compressors on display. They looked
perfectly fine - certainly no worse than those I've seen offered for
£120+ at B&Q - and were suitably heavy, so I dragged one down to the
front, and stood in line at a till for about 10 minutes, whilst more
zombies tried to empty and repack their trollies. I finally got to the
halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box, and announced "£79.99
please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited. Then he says
"Oh -
we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We don't..." "Yes,
yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit cards ?" "Well,
we
don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out,
leaving the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car
park, my daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one
of her debit cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty
stupid going back in :-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband
had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one
up, bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I
suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that
said, I bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for
the cheapest one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the
same capacity as all the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor,
and it works just fine, and will be perfectly adequate for the limited
service that I need it for. I'm hoping the same will be true of the
compressor, unless anyone knows different ... ?

Arfa

I got mine when they were about £50 a few years back.
It is very noisy but typical of the breed. The pressure difference
between cut off and cut back in is too great for my nail gun so as the
pressure drops the nails don't fire all the way in.
I have a round-2-it action to try and adjust this.
One of the quick release connectors has just developed a leak in the
last week or so. The body and seat is plated steel, so the water
vapour has started to rust. Easily replaced by a brass one.

Still good value for the money though.

Most people who have a compressor are likely to be handy types who can
live with these little issues.

Bob

Yeah, thanks Bob. That pretty much confirms what I felt was going to be
the case. Nail gun is something I have in mind for the future, as well
as spray, but duty will be light in any of those fields. The current
need I have is for a short blast of compressed air to blow crud out of
some items that are impractically difficult to strip for this, whilst
being serviced. Other than that, it's one of those 'nice to have' items
to put in the garage, for that sort of money. As you say, I'm a
practical person both professionally and 'handy-wise', so I can indeed
live with any minor shortcomings. Come to think of it, I actually have a
mate in the air business - although he specialises in producing a lack
of it, rather than an excess (!) but even so, I guess he will know where
to get replacement / better fittings, if it should ultimately need any.

Arfa
I think you will have to add water and oil removal traps before using this
for paint spraying and the compressor capacity might be a bit low for
painting any significant area with out breaks.
Fitting a second receiver (big calor gas bottle?) will give you more
spray/nailing time before it needs to pump up again but that will take
longer.
As a blow gun and general purpose source of air it is fine but you might
be better off with a bigger compressor (second hand perhaps) for serious
use.

Bob

I was thinking about water and oil removal, but the only sort of spraying
that I was considering at this point in time, was a rather large fence that
runs down either side of my back garden, and I'm not going to get too
bothered about a bit of oil getting into Wickes' sprayable garden fence
preserver ... :-)

Arfa

In article ,
Arfa Daily wrote:
I personally don't use debit cards. I have enough trouble trying to
remember my professional trade account PINs let alone a multitude of
money card ones.

Err, you can change the PIN to whatever you want.

Apart from that, I have a real 'thing' about people
buying a bottle of ginger beer and a packet of fag papers for about
£1.50 the lot, and then standing at the till ****ing about with a debit
card that they don't even get out of their purse / wallet until they've
put their sad little purchases into a carrier bag.

And a credit card is faster just how?

OTOH, I have a
credit card which is used for all my business and on-line transactions,
and it was this that I wanted to use in zombieland to buy the eighty
quid compressor with.

And you held up all the other customers while you ****ed about with your
credit card. ;-)

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In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:27:40 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You can pay at your PO using a debit card with no extra charge. Use a
credit card and it will cost extra.

I shall bear that in mind when the VED becomes due.

Can't remember when I last used a cheque. ;-)

One of my clients pays by cheque, right PITA it is too. Not only do
they post the cheque right on the 30 day credit peiod there is then 4
days for the cheque to clear after I can get it to the bank. I
sometimes wonder if they have done the maths on the cost of cheques v
interest on money in their account... Over a crew of 25+ you are
looking at around £10,000 for each day they do, over say three or
four units. That's a significant cash flow.

Indeed. I had one or two small clients who took for ever to pay. Made the
good hourly rate they were offering rather less attractive in the end. But
most of my regulars were good payers.

Late last year I've paid the scaffolder, the chap who serviced the
oil boiler and the stone masons for the four large stone cills by
cheque. All small/self employed business's. When cheques are phased
out in a few years time how do I pay them? Actually for me it'll be
internet banking but how about old Mrs Miggens who doesn't have
internet banking or the internet or telephone banking and doesn't
want them?

I dunno what it would cost for a small business to get the equipment
needed for a debit card? But then there's always cash. Or electronic
transfer, which I think you can do to anyone that could take a cheque. I
do realise you are likely miles from a cash machine. ;-)

Is Friday still "Pension Day", always avoid supermarkets on
Pension
Day as all the old biddies get their pension then combine with
shopping.

More ordinary people shopping for the weekend, I'd guess.

Well maybe but during the working day?

Well, not all wives work. And may do shifts if they do, or part time. And
just like to go on a Friday like their mother and grandmother did? Can't
think of any other reason.

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On 26/03/2011 11:02, Steve Firth wrote:
Jim wrote:

it usually oil boils down to snobbery....

Inverse snobbery, yes, I agree. There seems to be a meme in the UK that
you musn't "get above yourself" and that you must eat the same **** as
your pikey neighbours.

Your opinion wouldn't be affected because they sell olive oil cheaper
that you do would it?


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