UK appliances
Mar 14th 2011, 12:50 pm
#16
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Location: Oakland County, Michigan
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Re: UK appliances
Bin everything and buy new - just not worth the cost of buying transformers to run everything. We brought a few bits over (games consoles, monitors, GHD straighteners). The games consoles I guess were worth bringing as we had so many UK region games that we would have only sold for pennies. Unfortunately we would need to buy a US version of the consoles if we wanted to buy any new games for any of them. The GHDs are dual voltage but take forever to heat up and don't seem to run at the temperature they did in the UK, I wish I'd sold them. The monitors work fine.
Check out Walmart, Biglots, ACO Hardware, ABC Warehouse for cheap appliances, or sign up to your local freecycle and see what they're giving away.
Check out Walmart, Biglots, ACO Hardware, ABC Warehouse for cheap appliances, or sign up to your local freecycle and see what they're giving away.
Mar 14th 2011, 4:45 pm
#17
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Location: Los Angeles, California
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Re: UK appliances
Even if you have a high end TV don't bother bringing it over - I gave up my Pioneer LX5090 (still hasn't been bettered even by the latest generation Panasonics) as it was going to be such a pain the the backside with step up power inverters, NTSC / PAL issues etc. I did bring my Xbox as I had quite a big games library, and its easy to order titles from the UK.
Junk or sell everything else.
Junk or sell everything else.
Mar 17th 2011, 10:05 am
#18
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Joined: Mar 2011
Location: Delaware
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Re: UK appliances
Bin everything and buy new - just not worth the cost of buying transformers to run everything. We brought a few bits over (games consoles, monitors, GHD straighteners). The games consoles I guess were worth bringing as we had so many UK region games that we would have only sold for pennies. Unfortunately we would need to buy a US version of the consoles if we wanted to buy any new games for any of them. The GHDs are dual voltage but take forever to heat up and don't seem to run at the temperature they did in the UK, I wish I'd sold them. The monitors work fine.
Check out Walmart, Biglots, ACO Hardware, ABC Warehouse for cheap appliances, or sign up to your local freecycle and see what they're giving away.
Check out Walmart, Biglots, ACO Hardware, ABC Warehouse for cheap appliances, or sign up to your local freecycle and see what they're giving away.
Mar 17th 2011, 1:30 pm
#19
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Re: UK appliances
Before i Moved here back in 2007, i came on a visit for 6 weeks and brought my brand new GHD's, they didnt heat up hardly and then when i got them back to the uk and used them the 2nd time they went bang...i was gutted to say the least so be careful if you are going to try any item thats worth any money.
Mar 18th 2011, 11:04 am
#20
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Location: Michigan
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Re: UK appliances
It's kind of like bringing a car over. You can do it, and you can generally make it work, but its a hassle and you'll end up getting a US one eventually anyway.
