yes noni,well said.same to me ,when ,i bought my stuff 8 years ago,they were cheaper,but quality wise was nil,at that time had no choices,because wasn´t many furniture shops around who sells good quality furniture,if i remember,they were only 2,well known in north goa ,but now,i´m happy for people who seems to know how to shop around.it was late for me ,when i discovered rajasthan.well done guys.pass it around.

White goods - Menzies's in Panjim. Two shops in Calengute - have quotes from all and play one off against the other. Another way we got good prices was to buy white goods with friends, so the order was so much bigger, and so were the discounts.

Hi as anyone got any reasonable contacts for A/C we did everything to the house last year but put in A/C.We did get some ridiculous quotes but decided to have a shop around this season as we ran out of time
cheers

Goa Crazy, the place in Margao is called Telalekaur, they've got 2 shops - one on the outskirts & one in the town centre - competitive on price & do what they say they will, when they say they will.

Regards

Hemingway.

Hi Thanks did you get any prices on A/C
cheers

From memory, I think our friends paid somewhere in the region of £350 to £400 per room fitted - they just did two upstairs bedrooms. For downstairs they paid about £350 I think for mozzie screens over front & back doors + some windows so they could leave them open & get a nice breeze blowing through. . . . . . . . . . .

Hemingway

Our mossie screens are fitted to all windows so that the windows can remain open the whole time we are in Goa letting a breeze blow through. (Of course we have fancy security screens as well)

We used Acme AC in Panjim, a very easy to deal with owner, strangely called Shannan (or at least, that's how you pronounce it). He's a world travelled very Anglo Indian, and is available to come to site for to assess your needs prior to purchase any in the event of any snagging problems in the fit. Last mobile number I had for him in Goa was 9823174922

It was no more than a total of 40,000R/- fully fitted, 3 free services and guarantees, for 2 x 1Ton LG units, including 2 wide range invertors. Very little discount for cash, so chose to pay by cheque, and he was very trusting on the payment, and reliable as things go. That was around about February 2006.

He's in a small showroom at the crossroad junction not far from Don Bosco,(quite tricky to find) but is in the phone book and in Homes & Estates magazine, though that's not why we used him. He was recommended by fellow expats.

We have meant to fit another 2 x 1.5 Ton units, but have held back, as on many other expenditures in Goa - same as most FN's; why potentially waste more money if they can't even reassure you that you own your place?

Amongst other things being held back on are a big screen plasma TV, 3 other TV's, some partial rewiring (3 phase), 11 replacement windows in teak (24 already done in 2005), 3 replacement doors, more furniture and a host of incidentals and small labouring jobs.

Their loss!

Hi Babu thanks for the information I will give this guy a call and get a quote off him when I get to Goa
I might do it in small stages but I have got to have at least one in our bedroom.
Many thanks

THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION.

IS IT WORTH LARGE TV. THE STATIONS ARE CRAP.

AFAIK, you can get some BBC content on TataSky dish packages, not only sport, but news and some regular programmes. Also, we enjoy Bollywood movies. BBC World News and CNN keep you in touch a bit, even if they are annoyingly repetitive.

Apart from that, there's always DVD's, and the 5 movies on one DVD are great value if you haggle enough. They were going at 90R/- at Mapusa market during monsoon (less foreigners around, so I suppose that's near what the locals pay), but they'll try 250/200R/- during season.

Anyway, as I said, not getting a plasma, or much else more because of the property situation; only more stuff to have to try and sell, or pass on when making an exit.

I agree with old man about the programmes BUT having just had Goan visitors to stay who kept saying OH! we have that in Goa!!!! I said NO.
But then I realised that just like at home HIMSELF is in charge of the remote controller :curse: I KNOW LADIES A MAN THING. I just read.

I see in the goanvoice to-day that Argos is opening in Mumbai. Wonder what the delivery would be like from there for bedroom furniture and all accessories! should be interesting.

I hope they have better stock availability than the one in Birmingham

Don't be silly! Wonder if they will send us their catalogue

Just looked at their website http://www.hypercityargos.com
like going back to the 70's