Is Screwfix OK to order from now? 

A few months I remember discussions as to whether they were about to
go under.

sponix

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:38:29 +0100, --s-p-o-n-i-x-- 
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>Is Screwfix OK to order from now? 

Yes.


>
>A few months I remember discussions as to whether they were about to
>go under.
>
>sponix



This was conjecture and the problem was simply that they had moved
their warehouse and underestimated the difficulty of recruiting
sentient staff at their new location.

They took their web site off line until they were in a position to
provide proper customer service.

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:38:29 +0100, --s-p-o-n-i-x-- 
wrote:


>Is Screwfix OK to order from now? 
>
>A few months I remember discussions as to whether they were about to
>go under.
>
>sponix


Screwfix are fine, their carriers are crap. My latest saga is
parcelforce refusing to deliver to my house. cause they can't turn
their van and have to reverse 1/2 mile back up the driveway.

Rick

--s-p-o-n-i-x-- wrote:

> Is Screwfix OK to order from now?
>
> A few months I remember discussions as to whether they were about to
> go under.
>
> sponix


Yup

Seems a long way to go to trade though. :-)

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
--s-p-o-n-i-x--   wrote:


> Is Screwfix OK to order from now?
>
> A few months I remember discussions as to whether they were about to
> go under.
>
> sponix


I've placed several orders in recent months - and they seem ok. The only
trouble I've had was that one consignment was a day late arriving because
the ParcelFarce idiot claimed he couldn't find the house in which I've lived
for nearly 30 years!
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:32:27 GMT, Bob Martin 
wrote:


>in 448056 20050916 103725 "Christian McArdle"  wrote:
>>> Or as the English find in Wales, all roads lead to "Llwybr Cyhoeddus"
>>> but somehow you never get there.
>>
>>Yes, but then crossing from Austria into Germany on the autobahn, it took me
>>about 10 junctions to realise that Ausfahrt (sp?) wasn't the biggest city in
>>Europe that I'd never heard of.
>>
>>Christian.
>
>When my in-laws came to visit us in Germany I told them to take the Ausfahrt exit
>from the motorway and look for Einbahnstrasse.



That's cruel.   I have heard Americans ask a taxi driver to take them
to the same place....


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Rick wrote:


>  My latest saga is
> parcelforce refusing to deliver to my house. cause they can't turn
> their van and have to reverse 1/2 mile back up the driveway.


Oooh there's posh, a  mile drive
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--s-p-o-n-i-x-- wrote:

> Is Screwfix OK to order from now?


brilliant, as ever

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Andy Hall <andyh@hall.nospam>  wrote:


>
>
> In Norway they have Fartrestriktors, aka sleeping policemen.



Sounds painful - I prefer to use a cork! <g>

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"Rick"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:38:29 +0100, --s-p-o-n-i-x-- 
> wrote:
>
> >Is Screwfix OK to order from now?
> >
> >A few months I remember discussions as to whether they were about to
> >go under.
> >
> >sponix
>
> Screwfix are fine, their carriers are crap. My latest saga is
> parcelforce refusing to deliver to my house. cause they can't turn
> their van and have to reverse 1/2 mile back up the driveway.


LOL!

They cant drive anyway, the last parcel firm to call with me's van looked
like it had come to me via an angry car crusher than had done half a job
before the van escaped..!!

Tim..