Went into the local Focus the other day and the lady sussed that I was
new to the area (strange southern accent?). She offered me a Homemover
Advantage Card. Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing
for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.

MM

"MM" wrote in message
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Went into the local Focus the other day and the lady sussed that I was
new to the area (strange southern accent?). She offered me a Homemover
Advantage Card. Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing
for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.

Would you have bought it all if you hadn't had the card?
Have you *really* saved money?

"MM" wrote in message
...
Went into the local Focus the other day and the lady sussed that I was
new to the area (strange southern accent?). She offered me a Homemover
Advantage Card. Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing
for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.

MM

b and q used to have a discount card and I used to buy lots of stuff, after
they stopped it I scarcely bought anything, very short sighted of them, I
think.

mrcheerful

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:19:55 GMT, "David Illingworth-Young"
wrote:


"MM" wrote in message
.. .
Went into the local Focus the other day and the lady sussed that I was
new to the area (strange southern accent?). She offered me a Homemover
Advantage Card. Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing
for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.

Would you have bought it all if you hadn't had the card?

I would have bought it from somewhere.

Have you *really* saved money?

Yep. 10%.

MM

mrcheerful . wrote:

b and q used to have a discount card and I used to buy lots of stuff, after
they stopped it I scarcely bought anything, very short sighted of them, I
think.

I rarely use them myself, but don't they still have an "Over 60" 10%
discount card on Wednesdays? I was always amused by watching all the
blokes going round on Wednesdays with trolleys full of diy hardware,
pushing Granny along in her wheelchair to validate the 10% card at the
checkout!

David

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:52:48 GMT, "mrcheerful
.." wrote:


"MM" wrote in message
.. .
Went into the local Focus the other day and the lady sussed that I was
new to the area (strange southern accent?). She offered me a Homemover
Advantage Card. Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing
for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.

MM

b and q used to have a discount card and I used to buy lots of stuff, after
they stopped it I scarcely bought anything, very short sighted of them, I
think.

mrcheerful


If you buy enough stuff, B&Q will haggle a bit on price, especially if
you have an add of it being a bit cheeper somewhere else.....

This is how I got my 6 lorries full of bricks cheep, I got a quote
from elsewhere, and asked B&Q to beet it......

Rick

"Rick" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:52:48 GMT, "mrcheerful


If you buy enough stuff, B&Q will haggle a bit on price, especially if
you have an add of it being a bit cheeper somewhere else.....

I'm not surprised, knowing what they charge for their goods. We have a
builders yard quite close by to our local buy and spew and it is up to 150%
cheaper.

Dave

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:44:27 +0000 (UTC), "Dave"
wrote:


"Rick" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:52:48 GMT, "mrcheerful


If you buy enough stuff, B&Q will haggle a bit on price, especially if
you have an add of it being a bit cheeper somewhere else.....

I'm not surprised, knowing what they charge for their goods. We have a
builders yard quite close by to our local buy and spew and it is up to 150%
cheaper.

Dave


I found B&Q cheepest place arround for cement/blocks & especially sand
in 1 tonne bags. Sand was competative with loose lorry loads.

But then I was filling the delivery lorry every time, and my place is
at least 15 miles from anywhere ......

Rick

In article , "Dave"
says...

"Rick" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:52:48 GMT, "mrcheerful


If you buy enough stuff, B&Q will haggle a bit on price, especially if
you have an add of it being a bit cheeper somewhere else.....

I'm not surprised, knowing what they charge for their goods. We have a
builders yard quite close by to our local buy and spew and it is up to 150%
cheaper.

So if the B&Q price is a tenner the BM will pay you a fiver to take
it away?

Apply for one of these and you get 10% off EVERYthing
for SIX months! Can't be bad. I've already bought loads of stuff.

The problem is that much of what focus sells is twice the price of B&Q and
10 times that of toolstation. (I'm thinking specifically of a washing
machine valve here, as an example).

10% off would have made it only 9 times as expensive.

Christian.

"Christian McArdle" wrote in
. net:

The problem is that much of what focus sells is twice the price of B&Q
and 10 times that of toolstation. (I'm thinking specifically of a
washing machine valve here, as an example).

Very often, more expensive than Wickes. Hmmm.

A new Wickes branch opened here recently, unfortunately focus is
significantly closer than any other shed.

--
Rod

www.annalaurie.co.uk