I know somebody was looking for a Sumeet blender/grinder in the UK a 
while back, can't remember who.

Apparantly available online:

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Kitchen-and-Tableware-Items-51-60.html

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"Elaine Jones"  wrote in message 
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>I know somebody was looking for a Sumeet blender/grinder in the UK a
> while back, can't remember who.
>
> Apparantly available online:
>
> http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Kitchen-and-Tableware-Items-51-60.html

It was me.

It's actually cheaper to get someone to go down the shops in Bombay and then 
courier it to the UK  than pay that much.


-- 
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

The message from "William Black"  contains
these words:
> "Elaine Jones"  wrote:

> >I know somebody was looking for a Sumeet blender/grinder in the UK a
> > while back, can't remember who.
> >
> > Apparantly available online:
> >
> > http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Kitchen-and-Tableware-Items-51-60.html

> It was me.

> It's actually cheaper to get someone to go down the shops in Bombay
> and then 
> courier it to the UK  than pay that much.

I'll ask my son the find out how much they cost.  I _think_ he's still
in India.  He went there for Christmas - last year...!!   

-- 
AnneJ

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home 
when trouble arrives, you can only win. 
~Shelley Long

In article <fbhi9h$8pf$6@registered.motzarella.org>, William Black 
 writes

>It's actually cheaper to get someone to go down the shops in Bombay and then
>courier it to the UK  than pay that much.

A friend works in Bombay - if you like I could ask him to find one and 
bring it with him next time he comes home. Would you have to pay import 
duty on this?
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"congokid"  wrote in message 
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> In article <fbhi9h$8pf$6@registered.motzarella.org>, William Black 
>  writes
>
>>It's actually cheaper to get someone to go down the shops in Bombay and 
>>then
>>courier it to the UK  than pay that much.
>
> A friend works in Bombay - if you like I could ask him to find one and 
> bring it with him next time he comes home. Would you have to pay import 
> duty on this?

I live in Bombay for part of the year.

Our old grinder died and we needed a new one in the spring of this year.

We got a friend to buy one and send it here to the UK,  plus we also bought 
a Kenwood food processor to see if that would do the job.

The Summet cost about £30 plus £25 courier fees.  We didn't get a bill for 
duty or VAT but if we had done I imagine it would have been about 25% of the 
purchase cost.

The Kenwood is a huge complicated 900 watt thing that came with dozens of 
parts.

So far it has done all we've asked of it...

But we haven't used it for wet grinding yet...

-- 
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

Quoting from message <fbjcl2$7fh$1@registered.motzarella.org>
 posted on 4 Sep 2007 by William Black
 I would like to add:

> The Summet cost about £30 plus £25 courier fees.  We didn't get a bill
> for duty or VAT but if we had done I imagine it would have been about
> 25% of the purchase cost.

Much less than the price of the website one I agree.

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"Elaine Jones"  wrote in message 
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> Quoting from message <fbjcl2$7fh$1@registered.motzarella.org>
> posted on 4 Sep 2007 by William Black
> I would like to add:
>
>> The Summet cost about £30 plus £25 courier fees.  We didn't get a bill
>> for duty or VAT but if we had done I imagine it would have been about
>> 25% of the purchase cost.
>
> Much less than the price of the website one I agree.
>

It's possibly not quite as simple as that.

I'm an electrical engineer.

On looking inside the old grinder that had gone wrong I was reasonably 
dismayed to see that the internal construction does not meet UK electrical 
safety standards by a very long way indeed.

You can't sell an electrical appliance in the EC without some sort of 
conformance certificate,  and getting a Sumeet grinder up to that level 
would probably entail  a couple of hours work by an electrical  fitter and a 
reasonably large handful of bits,  assuming you were set up to do such work.

It's not a product I'd care to import in any quantity,  and Indian 
manufacturers don't seem inclined to do special production runs of small 
electrical appliances for EC consumption,  as I found out after a similar 
experience with an electric tandor oven...

-- 
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

On 4 Sep, 18:30, "William Black"  wrote:
> "Elaine Jones"  wrote in message
>
> news:14cc1f1d4f.E@cae-coed.zetnet.co.uk...
>
> > Quoting from message <fbjcl2$7f...@registered.motzarella.org>
> > posted on 4 Sep 2007 by William Black
> > I would like to add:
>
> >> The Summet cost about £30 plus £25 courier fees.  We didn't get a bill
> >> for duty or VAT but if we had done I imagine it would have been about
> >> 25% of the purchase cost.
>
> > Much less than the price of the website one I agree.
>
> It's possibly not quite as simple as that.
>
> I'm an electrical engineer.
>
> On looking inside the old grinder that had gone wrong I was reasonably
> dismayed to see that the internal construction does not meet UK electrical
> safety standards by a very long way indeed.
>
> You can't sell an electrical appliance in the EC without some sort of
> conformance certificate,  and getting a Sumeet grinder up to that level
> would probably entail  a couple of hours work by an electrical  fitter and a
> reasonably large handful of bits,  assuming you were set up to do such work.
>
> It's not a product I'd care to import in any quantity,  and Indian
> manufacturers don't seem inclined to do special production runs of small
> electrical appliances for EC consumption,  as I found out after a similar
> experience with an electric tandor oven...
>
> --
> William Black
>
> I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
> Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
> I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
> All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
> Time for tea.

and I believe they (Sumeet) have a poor name in after sales service,
especially outside of India, if things go wrong (and they do if you
google), maybe the cheap and nasty works out to be just nasty.
Wazza