Great 'What NOT to buy in Pound Shops' Hunt

ed123_2

.....Kwiwi shoe polish x 2 in Poundland.....£1.50 for one in Sainsburys...I think "branded" stuff usually ok.......175g of Brazil nuts....£3 odd in main supermarkets....batteries/light bulbs rubbish......most tools rubbish.....cd's rubbish etc etc

richj

Check the batteries as we had some cheap 9V that didn't seem to last very long

garrarda

I always get the milk from poundland, 4 pints for a quid for semi or full fat, cant go wrong.

As per other posts, avoid the batteries, bought 12 kodak AA batteries, used them in a digital camera, I was lucky to get 3 pictures out of them before the camera was complaining, so I stuck in two other Kodak batteries same sort which I had bought from toysrus, just keeps on going.

I know they dont have any at the moment, but when they had Woolite Dark absolute bargain, its £3.95 in Tesco/Sainsburys etc.

I also tried there own razors, lets just say it is in the bin and I am back to Gillettes now, was worth a go though.

There £1 mini umbrellas are good, who cares if the wind breaks it, no different if you bought it for £4.99 elsewhere.

Also there gap fillers and Sealants are very good, given even own brand B&Q etc are at least £2.95 these do just as good a job.

Arblaster

I'm amazed at the tenacity of people being able to run around town with their notebooks comparing prices so as they can save tuppence or so.
I find these pound shops very useful if I am working in an unknown town; they are always handy for buying all the things I have forgotten to bring. It saves trying to find the out-of-town supermarket, where I might save a copper or two; but obviously I've got to visit all ring-road mega-stores to save the big money (5p).
It's a pound-shop, it's convenient. Some of what is offered is rubbish. Would I expect a one-pound electric toothbrush to last a week? I'd be impressed if it does!
Cheap batteries, wherever you buy them are going to be dodgy, as are cheap pencils.
The poundland wopping great tubes of Uhu glue are perfect, though.

Volvic

I buy all my batteries from Poundland, mostly Sony AA's. No probs!

jenniewb

Arblaster wrote: »

I'm amazed at the tenacity of people being able to run around town with their notebooks comparing prices so as they can save tuppence or so.
I find these pound shops very useful if I am working in an unknown town; they are always handy for buying all the things I have forgotten to bring. It saves trying to find the out-of-town supermarket, where I might save a copper or two; but obviously I've got to visit all ring-road mega-stores to save the big money (5p).
It's a pound-shop, it's convenient. Some of what is offered is rubbish. Would I expect a one-pound electric toothbrush to last a week? I'd be impressed if it does!
Cheap batteries, wherever you buy them are going to be dodgy, as are cheap pencils.
The poundland wopping great tubes of Uhu glue are perfect, though.

I don't think anyone here runs around with a notebook to compare prices:rotfl: I don't have a very good memory but I do remember prices when I buy things and just like most other people, will always look on the shelf to see how much I am paying for something before I chose to out it in my basket. If something costs you money, you remember- its a responsibility that if you do not take, will wind you up with bills higher then they need to be!:o

Just because its a pound stoire, doesn't mean everything in it is either all bad or all good. The fact is though that some companies will sell off old stock and companies such as pound stores will buy up what they sell and sell to us for a fraction of the cost. Sometimes these products are great, sometimes they are rubbish. There is a difference. Hence the thread- trying to weed out the bad from the good!

ferdyb

Funny, I heard a while ago that they have 'Dollar' shops in the U.S.
And I've assumed ever since then we are being ripped off - at that time it was two dollars to the pound.
Also, when the VAT went down last year, the pound shops didn't reduce their prices, did they? The only group in the country where tax went down and profit went up

27col

Wasn't there a £ shop closed recently after a 99p shop opened nearby. There was an interesting program on Radio4 earlier this year about £ shops. Apparently they have to buy the stock in China for no more than about 35p or even less. Then shipping and everything else is added and the final price comes out at 99p or a pound. There are many companies in China that specialise in this market.

Vedder2008

Funny, I heard a while ago that they have 'Dollar' shops in the U.S.
And I've assumed ever since then we are being ripped off - at that time it was two dollars to the pound.
Also, when the VAT went down last year, the pound shops didn't reduce their prices, did they? The only group in the country where tax went down and profit went up

Yes they do have $1 shops in America, it was $2 to the pound so you got twice as much and a lot of the stuff was really good quality.

interesting_person

Don't buy the earpiece with microphone. It does not work - I returned it for a full refund.