Screwfix Love it or hate it

[Duck_Tape]

Screwfix I love you in this order

The returns policy
local stores
On line purchases
The vast range of products
Printed Catalogue

Screwfix I hate you in this order
A lot of what you sell is absolute crap
Defective right out the box
Poor quality
Badly manufactured

My first point on why I buy from you
helps off-set the bad

Anyone else want to chip in and add an opinion


James

[Duck_Tape]

I should add
When I say they sell a lot of poor quality products
I am not meaning the well known brands of power tools
or the like
Or even the No Nonsense range
More the generic ironmonger fittings
and power tool accessories

James

[steviejoiner74]

Oh we dont have that in stock just now........we can get it tommorow!! See ya later.....i have to be desperate to go their tbh. The merchants are nearly always cheaper as well.

[philprime]

They used to be cheaper for a lot of things but prices have been creeping up slowly

Now days only buy my screws from them

[kellys_eye]

Screwfix are the Asda of the tool/hardware market. 'Apparently' cheap but items are often found elesewhere at much lower prices. You can see the trend - make yourself the 'one stop shop' for all DIY/Pro needs then, when you've caught a significant proportion of the market, jack your prices up and gouge the public.

Once to be admired, now to be bodyswerved (if you can).

[blackvenom]

If I need it there and then and there isn't a local DIY/Merchant en route for me to try first then I'll go there. Otherwise it's a local merchant or for power tools I've used FFX recently for three items and very impressed with the service and price


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[BillyGoat]

I hate their badly maintained links, which seem to happen so frequently!

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Add it to the basket - full price.

[wine~o]

Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......

[royaloakcarpentry]

I don't do those sort of establishments or DIY sheds unless I have no alternative choice.

However, prior planning prevents pi55 poor retail outlets! 99.9 times out of 100. For that .1 of a time I relish being stuck in a queue of foreigners.

[transitboy]

Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......

Own by the same people mate

[steviejoiner74]

Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......

Own by the same people mate

Wine-o being sarcastic again........

[transitboy]

Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......

Own by the same people mate

Wine-o being sarcastic again........

In my defence I was tired

[wine~o]

Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......

Own by the same people mate

Wine-o being sarcastic again........

Errrrrrr.......No, I know they are both part of the same company... I prefer the service in S/fix to the Tradepoint counter..

[steviejoiner74]

Liberate yourself wine-o and try to use neither!! Go to the merchants instead

[wine~o]

Liberate yourself wine-o and try to use neither!! Go to the merchants instead

I have a builders merchant locally...prices/discount seem to vary depending on who serves you/whether they are in a good mood/what they had for breakfast......

At least I know what I'm paying at Sfix/B&Q..