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Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:23 am
by 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
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:32 am
by 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
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:29 am
by 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.
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:47 am
by 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
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:46 am
by 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).
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:32 am
by 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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Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:01 am
by BillyGoat
I hate their badly maintained links, which seem to happen so frequently!
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Add it to the basket - full price.
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:37 pm
by wine~o
Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:38 pm
by 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.
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:57 pm
by transitboy
wine~o wrote:Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......
Own by the same people mate
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:01 pm
by steviejoiner74
transitboy wrote:wine~o wrote:Bastards... I'd still rather use them than B&Q though......
Own by the same people mate
Wine-o being sarcastic again........
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:39 am
by transitboy
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:47 pm
by wine~o
steviejoiner74 wrote:transitboy wrote:wine~o wrote: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..
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:18 pm
by steviejoiner74
Liberate yourself wine-o and try to use neither!! Go to the merchants instead
Re: Screwfix Love it or hate it
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:39 pm
by wine~o
steviejoiner74 wrote: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..
