Teetering on the brink

SuzeQStan

We paid £140 for our Eufy robo hoover from C@stco.  But I’ve never got on with it despite having all hard floors downstairs - maybe it’s just not a very good one I don’t know.

EatingBeans

joedenise said:

I'm with you about the robot hoover.  I've only had mine a few months and there's only 2 of us here and no pets but I still like to send it round every other day to keep on top of the bits on the carpet and to wash the hard floors!  We only have carpet in the living room and bedrooms so most of the bungalow is hard floors and it's so much easier than washing them with a mop, although that happens from time to time!  I'd definitely be replacing mine when it needs it.  

Can I ask what make you have as I definitely paid more than £200!

Hi @joedenise     

I am glad I am not the only one who loves these little machines! My current robot is an Ultenic D10 and it was a replacement for the very hard working, love of my life, Ultenic which lasted me years until the battery would no longer hold charge. Technically, the D10 is a better spec but 
I’d say it isn’t quite as good as the old one. It still does the job though. Sadly they don’t make the old one anymore. 

I’ve just looked on Amazon and it looks like the D10 is currently on offer for £152.99. 

Very tempted to just buy one at that price and then argue for my money back on the old one. Only problem is I only have £100 sitting in the replacement pot at the moment. On 1st March that was due to become £150 but the extra couple of pounds I could take from spending money. Now, my new ultra good budgeting head on me says I haven’t got it in the pot yet so I should wait the extra week. But then I look at the deal and think I don’t know how long the deal will last and that’s really a good price for the benefit I get out of it. Is this a slippery slope though? Help?! What do you all think? Should I buy it now and dip back into the overdraft for a week or wait? 🤯

joedenise

Do you have any any money in another pot that you could use and replace on payday even though you don't currently have it in your replacement pot?  I often move money around in my pots but always replace anything taken out from one pot once I have more money coming in.  It probably helps and DH and I both have our pensions weekly plus I have a work pension and a very small AVC so we get 10 or 11 paydays a month!  I certainly wouldn't go into an overdraft to buy it.

MFWannabe

I would just fight it out for a replacement, a few days/ week will be manageable 

ellenvan

Awaiting the replacement would be the sensible thing to do in my opinion.

Cherryfudge

Have you checked the Ts & Cs on your original purchase? You may find it's covered for 12 months anyway.

EatingBeans

Ah, thanks all. I think that was just a moment of weakness talking. The lure of the discount can be strong at times! I am really grateful to have everyone supporting me on my journey as I am 100% sure that back in the spendy days I would have just bought it, no doubt about it. 

Now though, I recognised I was both tired and hungry, so I wanted to be sure I was thinking clearly rather than just hit the ‘Buy Now’ button, I went for a nap and then made the chilli. Having felt a bit more refreshed and a bit more back in the DFW mindset (having frozen the remaining chilli and rice portions so I have something ready to curb expensive office lunches and takeaway temptations), I felt a bit more able to resist. I also poured myself a glass of wine to finish the bottle off and promised myself not to make any purchasing decisions whilst under the influence. If I choose to buy something sober that is one thing, but I don’t trust decisions after even a glass of wine so I avoid making any. (I was basically using any delaying tactic I could to steer myself away from the Amazon button!)

Then I came back on here and your responses all helped me realise how much I really don’t want to ‘Buy it Now’. The thought of going backwards on the overdraft did not make me feel good. Yes, technically, I do have space on my main current account to be able to buy it and pay it back next week but that is my core bills account and whilst I have always been fond of juggling, using that account has always been a red line. I suppose I treat that extra cash like my emergency fund. As in, yes, the money is there if I absolutely need it but that would be for actual real emergencies. A broken vacuum, for all the inconvenience it will bring, does not count as a genuine emergency. And you are all right. I should just wait until I have jumped through the hoops necessary to claim a refund before considering buying another. I can live without, no matter how much I don’t want to. 

I just have to remember the tumble drier. For two decades I couldn’t imagine life without one (I loved it just as much as the robot). Then one day it broke. I promised myself I would just try one day without it in a bid to save energy, then two, then a whole week, then “well it is summer anyway so I will buy one once the weather makes it impossible to live without”. Now though, over a year later, and I am officially someone who does not own a tumble drier and has no plans to buy one either. Where the drier used to live I now have a dehumidifier (which I already owned) and a rack that goes over it. So maybe, just maybe, I could live without a robot vacuum for just one day…

ellen_vannin

And that shows your new determined mindset.
Well done on a very sensible decision!

themadvix

They are likely to send a replacement rather than a refund, and you don’t want to end up with two and no cash in the pot, so definitely worth waiting. Well done for resisting - can you see how Amazon is trying to manipulate you? 

joedenise

Well done on deciding to wait and not going into your overdraft.  I'm sure Amazon will send you a replacement.  I've always found them very good when something goes wrong.