You shop
Aug 5th 2013, 12:38 am
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Aug 5th 2013, 1:05 am
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Re: You shop
Cool - posted on here about USA, but didn't know they had a UK one too! 
Aug 5th 2013, 1:42 am
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Aug 5th 2013, 2:23 am
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Re: You shop
Do you find the postage costs reasonable?
Aug 5th 2013, 3:14 am
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Re: You shop
Bit on the steep side so you have to be buying for a big reduction. If the postage is going to be set by the UK mail then we will be in trouble, I find their costs over the top. Hope NZ post can do cheaper....
Aug 5th 2013, 3:42 am
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Re: You shop
Stormer, you probably already know about this place...Hubby tried to keep it secret from me but I am usually the one at home when the parcels arrive 
Means I don't feel quite so bad when my parcels from M&S get here 
http://www.britishspares.com/1.php
They are based right out in the middle of the Tasman countryside.
Means I don't feel quite so bad when my parcels from M&S get here http://www.britishspares.com/1.php
They are based right out in the middle of the Tasman countryside.
Aug 5th 2013, 3:55 am
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Re: You shop
Just a quick comparison.
30CMX30X20 and 4kg comes up at £57.94 with my usual UK courier
You shop comes up at NZD$56.50
Is this too good to be true? Hopefully not
30CMX30X20 and 4kg comes up at £57.94 with my usual UK courier
You shop comes up at NZD$56.50
Is this too good to be true? Hopefully not
Aug 5th 2013, 4:23 am
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Re: You shop
Aug 5th 2013, 7:11 am
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Re: You shop
Stormer, you probably already know about this place...Hubby tried to keep it secret from me but I am usually the one at home when the parcels arrive Means I don't feel quite so bad when my parcels from M&S get here
http://www.britishspares.com/1.php
They are based right out in the middle of the Tasman countryside.
Means I don't feel quite so bad when my parcels from M&S get here http://www.britishspares.com/1.php
They are based right out in the middle of the Tasman countryside.
.....M&S all made in PRC now...come to think of it every country in the World all have one supplier....we are nearer but fewer...so bulk UK supplies are cheaper....sad really...
Aug 6th 2013, 8:02 am
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Re: You shop
Great! Glad to be of service. Always nice to enable someone to shop. Even if it is for Triumph spares...
We haven't had a parcel for at least...errrmmm...24 hours. We even went out there once to drop a petrol tank off for painting. And then drove out there again to collect newly-painted petrol tank...I nearly knocked it off the stand and had kittens thinking about 'what if?'...getting newly-painted tank painted again (the cost...didn't even bother to ask OH how much!) Went on honeymoon on 'our' Triumph (what's his is mine etc.) and it's a very special bike to me! Aahhhh, fond memories
Aug 6th 2013, 10:50 am
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Re: You shop
looks good unless someone decides to lower the duty/GST free threshold (apologies if this has been posted before):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...counter-attack
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...counter-attack
Aug 6th 2013, 11:05 pm
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Re: You shop
looks good unless someone decides to lower the duty/GST free threshold
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...counter-attack
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...counter-attack
. Im a petite size. Buying clothes that fit off the rack has been a problem all my life in NZ . Imagine my surprise and joy when I lived overseas and discovered shops that actually catered for shrimps. On returning to NZ I have grown steadily resentful towards clothing retailers here. They seem to assume all NZ women are built like buses, or if you are small, you must be aged 90 plus and will look really swish dressed like your granny.I'm no seamstress and having to pay someone to shorten, and pretty much reshape clothes is hugely expensive.
"Adding GST will stop me shopping online. Yeah right."
