Could be interesting to bag a surprise bundle for fun. Not sure about France though. I used to buy the odd locked suitcase at auctions for £1 lost property and had some amazing contents along with the old clothes.
I once bought a container load of stock that had fallen off a ship in Dublin Bay. I gave £500 for it and got a full load of undamaged stock worth perhaps 50 times what I paid for it.
Sounds to me a bit like that spiv bloke you used to get down the market with the neck microphone. Flogs summat really good in a mystery box to one of his spiv mates in the crowd and everyone goes "oooooooh!" and then brings out more mystery boxes and the crowd throw tenners at him only to find its a cheap bit of pottery from China, probably a mouse or a horses head, worth about 25p.
Appalling and actually it's obscene.
No doubt there are some who will say it's all about freedom,market forces etc etc...................he owns that stuff so is entitled to do whatever he wants with it.
Yes Sandra. I did see the TV program where it showed lorries of goods being taken to land fill. I also read the answer by Amazon declaring none of their goods would end up in landfill.
Who do we believe and what should we as 'consumers' do about it. It's too easy to buy. Too easy to reject and the item gets sent back. We read on here about the ping pong of spur of the moment purchases being returned.
The problem is us.!!! The throw away consumer society who must have everything now or feel hard done by. What a world we have created and so called 'fashion' should bear some of the responsibility and cost of tidying up the planet.
I agree, Ray. On a Self Build Forum that I belong to people are buying cheap kitchens from B&Q so that they can move in to their new house with the intention of trashing them in a few years when they have saved up for a "new" one. The new kitchen is often in the region of £40K!
And that is after they have paid a couple of grand for the "old" one! Only German kitchens will do, apparently. I beggars belief. When you get to the bottom of it most of them are just building a show home for entertaining, and impressing, friends.
The quality of their stuff is really good, loads of choice and if you can be bothered to travel an excellent showroom, very knowledgable staff who are happy to help you go through everything and free tea and coffee and cakes, Delivery is I think £75 regardless of where in the UK.
I have seen them recommended before. Very tempted but it is just the worry that you get the wrong size of something and then all the faff of changing it.
All through this build we have tried to source from local suppliers and trades. It does give me a sense of wellbeing and pride in our little project that we are contributing to the local economy. Our carpenter has worked in Buckingham Palace on a cabinet for the Queen. Hoping he will fit our kitchen so must ask him where to source good cabinetry. Not once have we felt we have been given poor advice or steered towards a pig in a poke. They all, of course, have to live and work around here.
I choose high gloss black , and stainless steel ,and mentioned we could change all the drawer fronts ( 23) and floor to ceiling doors (6) to a different colour
HE was not impressed
So high gloss black and stainless steel it will remain:grin2:
Sandra
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