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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25697 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 1:46 pm Post subject: |
 
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Behemoth wrote: |
Didn't have them in Halifax and not likely to be arriving now.
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Did they say why not? |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 19023 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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No. She had never heard of them, they weren't in the catalogue and they weren't on the truck. She suggested I buy it on the internet, which for me involves a long drive to a god forsaken distribution centre on a distant trading estate where I can be ignored by youths in Leeds United shirts. |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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Behemoth wrote: |
No. She had never heard of them, they weren't in the catalogue and they weren't on the truck. She suggested I buy it on the internet, which for me involves a long drive to a god forsaken distribution centre on a distant trading estate where I can be ignored by youths in Leeds United shirts. |
Mine was left with a neighbour a couple of doors down; wasn't a royal mail delivery, it was another firm. If you have neighbours in during the day, maybe it'll be worth a punt? |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 19023 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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But looking at the website it does say
"Exclusive offer for home shoppers".
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 19023 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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cab wrote: |
Mine was left with a neighbour a couple of doors down; wasn't a royal mail delivery, it was another firm. If you have neighbours in during the day, maybe it'll be worth a punt? |
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Blue Peter
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 2400 Location: Milton Keynes
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Can't you have it delivered to your work address?
Peter. |
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Behemoth
Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 19023 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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It's banned, we've got nearly 1000 people on site here and the poor receptionist was getting snowed under. |
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nora
Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 1539 Location: West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Behemoth wrote: |
The very helpful lady mentuioned that someone else had called about it this morning, was that you Nora?
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Yes,it was me  |
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nora
Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 1539 Location: West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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When I phoned up last week, it was another lady I spoke to and she said yes she knew what they were and they'd be in on Wednesday (yesterday). I had also e-mailed the internet site and they told me it would be in store and gave me the phone number of the shop so I could check. Never mind, I havn't really got space for one anyway so I think i'll survive being dehydratorless for now  |
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dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 7184 Location: South Kent
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 06 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Slightly off topic, but on the same Tchibo page, there's a £35 slicer.
Has anyone any knowledge/experience of it? |
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nora
Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 1539 Location: West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 06 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Do they send things out Royal Mail or is it courier? |
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HeThinks
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 2 Location: N Ireland
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 06 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Tchibo use a courier firm ParcelNet for delivery in Britain, as far as I know.
Maybe everybody knows this already, but if you're a new customer there are various discount voucher codes available to use (free delivery/£3.95, another is £5 off a £20 first spend). A google search will throw up something or search the forums at moneysavingexpert.com .
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/index.html
I couldn't sign up at their website to order, so had to order by telephone. Haven't seen the card charge yet, so can't say for certain my discount code worked. |
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nora
Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 1539 Location: West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 06 9:03 am Post subject: |
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Thanks HeThinks, thats useful to know. |
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ken69
Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 316 Location: Norfolk
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 06 9:11 am Post subject: de hydrator |
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Naomi wrote: |
Last year I managed to pick up a food dehydrator very similar to the one in the link .
I paid £2 for it from a bootfair. I think it has a few more trays than the one shown and a couple of silicon type liners that you can add to the trays for drying out fruit leathers etc .It also had a mandolin type cutter to slice food really thinly in with it.So it was a good bargain!
I can't see a makers name on it anywhere ?But it works fine and I use it mainly in late summer to dry tomatoes and other fruits and veggies etc .
In the winter I tend to use my Rayburn's cool oven ,as that is running anyway and it seems silly not to use it.
Here it is.
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Some bargain , that, Naomi.....I wonder if could use a steamer, perhaps works on the same principle. |
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 26626 Location: escaped from Swindon
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 17 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Blast from the past, my tchibo is still going and these days is hardly ever back in a cupboard it gets used that much. |
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