Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

curl_girl

bubbs wrote: »

Hello curly :wave:

Hi bubbs.
Do you feel better for your extra sleep this morning.?

curl_girl

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Looking at buying a phone off Ebay, Xiaomi phones are not generally available in the UK, and a lot of Ebay sellers seem to be trustworthy on this phone, but getting annoyed with some of them, auctions running on phones supposedly available in the UK, but the business seller's address is in China! Really do not want to risk being saddled with large import taxes etc, and have heard this can happen in that sort of set up.

Have to admit, it seems the only thing against these phones is the embedded battery, but OH has pointed out that there has not been too many battery problems lately, there was that Samsung one a while back but that is it. He is encouraging me to go for it with the spec that it has.

Be careful, my sis ordered a phone case from America and it cost over £50 in import fees which were a total shock to her! :eek:

bubbs

curl_girl wrote: »

Hi bubbs.
Do you feel better for your extra sleep this morning.?

No:rotfl::rotfl: i have not slept all night for weeks:o as i have a bad leg and the pain wakes me:( i was awake at 1.20 and then that was it:eek:

Enterprise_1701C

curl_girl wrote: »

Be careful, my sis ordered a phone case from America and it cost over £50 in import fees which were a total shock to her! :eek:

Believe me, I am all over it!

There is one seller that seems to be genuinely in the UK, and does click and collect from Argos, hoping that means that there would be no extra fees!

Pretty sure it would cost me import fees if I ordered it from GearBest as think they are in Hong Kong. The business address on Ebay of this seller is UK as well as location of the goods. Just waiting for a reply from him as to whether it has access to Google Play, ones direct from China do not as China and Google have fallen out.

You do hear some horror stories about unexpected import taxes etc.

gocat

Tried using the cushelle vouchers in A this morning and they kept coming up as expired even tho the expiry date isnt till 5th April. SA said she couldnt put it through manually due to it saying expired :mad:

curl_girl

Pepsi Max Ginger think they were 600ml bottles as definitely bigger than the small bottles 25p each in Poundland.

michaels

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Looking at buying a phone off Ebay, Xiaomi phones are not generally available in the UK, and a lot of Ebay sellers seem to be trustworthy on this phone, but getting annoyed with some of them, auctions running on phones supposedly available in the UK, but the business seller's address is in China! Really do not want to risk being saddled with large import taxes etc, and have heard this can happen in that sort of set up.

Have to admit, it seems the only thing against these phones is the embedded battery, but OH has pointed out that there has not been too many battery problems lately, there was that Samsung one a while back but that is it. He is encouraging me to go for it with the spec that it has.

Have ordered several from China (bang good etc) and never had any problems or been charged import fees- hasn't stopped the kids from dropping and breaking them tho. Some of the China companies also have a European warehouse which means no danger of import fees. Finally sometimes an Amazon seller will do one for a good price - bought DW an Oukitel 4gb/64gb, dual sim, 5.5 fhd,droid 7.1 for 77 recently (normal price 159), it is a brick but then we choose it for the double size battery.

Don't forget almost all these Chinese phones do not have NFC.

Enterprise_1701C

michaels wrote: »

Have ordered several from China (bang good etc) and never had any problems or been charged import fees- hasn't stopped the kids from dropping and breaking them tho. Some of the China companies also have a European warehouse which means no danger of import fees. Finally sometimes an Amazon seller will do one for a good price - bought DW an Oukitel 4gb/64gb, dual sim, 5.5 fhd,droid 7.1 for 77 recently (normal price 159), it is a brick but then we choose it for the double size battery.

Don't forget almost all these Chinese phones do not have NFC.

Thank you for that.

Have to say I am a dinosaur, I have no intention of using NFC, cannot stand the idea of having all my payment details accessible on a phone! I don't even use the tap and pay on my debit card apart from on the underground!

mhoc

braveheart60uk wrote: »

Used the last of my £20 restuarant at Bella, + 40% code, steak + peppercorn sauce and a chargrilled chicken, net cost 38p, then away for 2 sit down cughees and then 2 take-away own mugs, free + 6 stamps. then MS foe one meal deal and 2 bags of sweets (2 for £2) cost £5.50, used Droid MS £5, my 10% has expired, so a net 50p. So a good day for 88p, of course I did tip at Bella and Nerd.

Did I miss anything exciting frim wuntuu or 00002 over the last few weeks? I glimpsed the Bella Italia £3 breakfasts - they woukd have been good if we'd be in the uk that weekend.

WE got free wuntoo costas on the morning we sailed and the hotol choc bunnies from Westquay Southampton. From Greggs using android pay £3s x 2 for juice, bacon baps, porridge and cheese bacon wraps. Also got our Greggs freebie lucozades and OH got his birthday cake

It was a Tuesday afternoon when we arrived the night before and OH was very keen to go in search of the ooo2 hot chocolates - amazingly we found that Southampton has a brand new Neros

Snap-ant

I'm like a PA to Fourp, his friends, one phone call after another & sometimes at same time on landline & mobile :eek:

:o:o Nice to know he is liked

But also at the same time Fourp is texting me ...

#runragged

:rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway today's update is - heart attack ruled out :T
Heart scan done.
2 hourly monitor of his 160 heart rate
Blood thinning drugs given
Another scan tomorrow
Hopefully a diagnosis