What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
Feb 9th 2011, 5:49 am
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
Don't get me started. I bought an Australian Intellectual Property law textbook from the Book Depository. The book had been printed and published in Australia, flown to the UK, stocked by the Book Depository, then flown back to Australia for me.
Still AU$25 cheaper than buying it at the bookshop at the Uni.
Utterly ridiculous.
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Feb 9th 2011, 8:28 am
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
Don't get me started. I bought an Australian Intellectual Property law textbook from the Book Depository. The book had been printed and published in Australia, flown to the UK, stocked by the Book Depository, then flown back to Australia for me.
Still AU$25 cheaper than buying it at the bookshop at the Uni.
Utterly ridiculous.
S
Still AU$25 cheaper than buying it at the bookshop at the Uni.
Utterly ridiculous.
S
Meanwhile, with it's ridiculous pricing Australian business is causing serious damage to itself.
Feb 9th 2011, 8:37 am
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
I always take mine on the plane with me and give the excess away. I've never fancied the risk of shampoo running all over my furniture or though tutus and leather jackets and things. But just checked Allied's website and it looks as though you can.
Here's what they say you can't pack:
Nail polish remover
Paints and paint thinners
Lighter fluid
Gasoline
Fireworks
Oxygen bottles
Propane cylinders
Automotive repair and maintenance chemicals
Radio-pharmaceuticals
Matches
Other items not recommended for transport on the van include:
Firearms
Food in glass jars and perishable foods
Prescription drugs needed for immediate use
Here's what they say you can't pack:
Nail polish remover
Paints and paint thinners
Lighter fluid
Gasoline
Fireworks
Oxygen bottles
Propane cylinders
Automotive repair and maintenance chemicals
Radio-pharmaceuticals
Matches
Other items not recommended for transport on the van include:
Firearms
Food in glass jars and perishable foods
Prescription drugs needed for immediate use
Feb 9th 2011, 11:34 am
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
Cool should be able to take them because I use them to colour the icing on top of the celebration cakes I make so I wil buy new ones then and pack them along with shower gel and washing powder cool so this will help us save a bit of money when we first land in april
Feb 9th 2011, 11:36 am
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
Feb 9th 2011, 11:41 am
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Quite a few of our boxes and packages were checked but other than the tape/plastic wrapping being cut and then re-sealed there wasn't much evidence of any other activity. In fact I got the impression that they didn't examine very closely.
Feb 9th 2011, 11:46 am
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Well customs were pretty rough with our stuff. We saw how it was packed into the container and how it was brought off and they customs even bothered to tape up boxes they'd cut or close the trunk they'd opened. I think it's the luck of the draw and not worth the risk.
Feb 9th 2011, 12:07 pm
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On unpacking there were quite a few minor-ish breakages but I put that down to the overall journey that the stuff had to travel. But I agree, with customs it's probably the luck of the draw.
Feb 9th 2011, 7:06 pm
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
They are one of my former employers. 
Not many in the industry will treat your goods with kid gloves like you would treat your own stuff.
I only had a part load when I came back last year and it wasn't inspected at all.
Not many in the industry will treat your goods with kid gloves like you would treat your own stuff.
I only had a part load when I came back last year and it wasn't inspected at all.
Last edited by Beedubya; Feb 9th 2011 at 7:10 pm.
Feb 10th 2011, 11:02 pm
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Feb 10th 2011, 11:06 pm
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Re: What UK Items should we buy before we LEAVE !
When I arrived here, in 2006, LUSH were still importing from the UK. It seemed odd buying soap stamped with a label claiming to be made in Dorset!
Seems it's all made locally now though...
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Feb 10th 2011, 11:10 pm
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For a company that sells itself as being eco friendly and bangs on about its carbon foot print it disgusts me that they do this.
Feb 11th 2011, 12:34 am
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Dont get me started on LUSH... I simply wont buy it now... Only a very few items are actually manufactured in australia... Tokenism in the extreme.... They are still i ported from the uk and other countries...
For a company that sells itself as being eco friendly and bangs on about its carbon foot print it disgusts me that they do this.
For a company that sells itself as being eco friendly and bangs on about its carbon foot print it disgusts me that they do this.
Ah, ok. I assumed that since the Made in Dorset stickers had gone, they were producing them locally.
Interesting.
S
