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  • I'm looking to buy a rowing machine and they're very expensive!

    are you training for the next olympics gold medal?
  • I like to splurge on nice things every now and then, and nice exercise equipment is good to use - if only they made you fit more easily!
  • misfire
    misfire Posts: 507 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    I have bought 2 refurbished electrical items - a mp3 from currys (17 pound instead of 40) and a digital camera from kodak (25 instead of 60) both products were brilliant still going strong after years - the kodak i dropped on concerete and althought the battery door is now dodgy it still works!

    Both items came with a year guarantee - and for the price paid for the items i had i thought it was worth it. Both were well known companies - dont think i would do it with an online retailer i didnt know.

    glad you got your bargain!
    Debt free May 2016 (without the support of MSE forum users that would never have been possible - thank you all)
  • poppyolivia
    poppyolivia Posts: 2,976 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I bought 2 tvs from a website and the first one stopped working so they sent me another in its place, well chuffed as they were really cheap, this was a year or 2 ago and they are still going strong in the kids bedrooms.
    You may walk and you may run
    You leave your footprints all around the sun
    And every time the storm and the soul wars come
    You just keep on walking
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