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New build developer completion hampers

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  • DaftyDuck
    DaftyDuck Posts: 4,609 Forumite
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    Out of interest, who leaves a - pleasant - surprise for the purchasers of an old-build house when completed?

    Card, wine, bread, milk, butter, soap, coffee?

    I have never met it when buying.....
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    DaftyDuck wrote: »
    Out of interest, who leaves a - pleasant - surprise for the purchasers of an old-build house when completed?

    Card, wine, bread, milk, butter, soap, coffee?

    I have never met it when buying.....
    Always.

    But not very imaginative - they get th same bottle of wine as tenants at christmas.
  • cjmillsnun
    cjmillsnun Posts: 615 Forumite
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    Not a new build but did get a nice hamper from Halifax with Tea, Coffee and shortbread when I completed.
    2.88 kWp System, SE Facing, 30 Degree Pitch, 12 x 240W Conergy Panels, Samil Solar River Inverter, Havant, Hampshire. Installed July 2012, acquired by me on purchase of house in August 2017
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    DaftyDuck wrote: »
    Out of interest, who leaves a - pleasant - surprise for the purchasers of an old-build house when completed?

    Card, wine, bread, milk, butter, soap, coffee?

    I have never met it when buying.....

    Me, sir!

    Bunch of flowers.
    7 x A4 pages about the house and its foibles.
    All the keys


    ...and a photocopy of the original ad for the last two on the development.....at a price 130 times less than they paid us. :D
  • Dolly123
    Dolly123 Posts: 189 Forumite
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    hammy1988 wrote: »
    We received a new home card personally signed by the site manager and sales rep, and a bottle of Champagne along with personalised key rings. Only a little touch but a nice touch.

    On the day we moved in, both visited and the site manager arranged for someone to come the next day and fit all our curtain poles! This to me was amazing enough as I was dreading drilling into the new plaster and walls!

    This was with Linden Homes in the South West.

    Which Linden site was this?
  • dh058977
    dh058977 Posts: 18 Forumite
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    Dolly123 wrote: »
    Which developer is this?

    Taylor Wimpey
  • Slithery
    Slithery Posts: 6,046 Forumite
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    Most developers get their hampers from here...

    https://www.homemovebox.com/
  • stokesley
    stokesley Posts: 219 Forumite
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    DaftyDuck wrote: »
    Out of interest, who leaves a - pleasant - surprise for the purchasers of an old-build house when completed?

    Card, wine, bread, milk, butter, soap, coffee?

    I have never met it when buying.....

    Well, we got a hamper from our vendor's estate agent. Unfortunately, it came via the Post Office and we were out when they tried to deliver it, so came home to the usual "you were out" card.

    This was the point at which we discovered that our local post office was an eight mile drive away, and the hamper was worth about a quarter of the travel cost.:rotfl:
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,357 Forumite
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    DaftyDuck wrote: »
    Out of interest, who leaves a - pleasant - surprise for the purchasers of an old-build house when completed?

    I would have, if they'd paid full asking price.

    As they were getting it for £25k below I thought they could sort out their own coffee and wine.

    I did leave them the lightbulbs and some loo roll though. And a free lockable filing box with all the house paperwork in.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • tim9966
    tim9966 Posts: 494 Forumite
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    No hamper.


    Although they had turfed the rear lawn which they weren't meant to do, so that was helpful, and they did leave half a tin of paint in case of touch ups.
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