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Just a bog standard UPVC back door key.
Admittedly I have not had a key cut in a while, but is this the usual cost? Ouch.
Just a bog standard UPVC back door key.
Might be a bit bendy......Should've paid extra for a metal one.
Back door, eh?
Buys a complex shaped piece of metal for house. Pays £6. Is horrified at expense.
Buys a complex shaped piece of metal for bike. Pays £50. Bargain.
you could buy a blank key and cut it by hand with a file?!
Doesn't seem that expensive to me and normally most things do!
Is it a numbered key? You can often buy them online for less then the price of cutting. That said the price of keys is a bit messed up. £5 to get one cut, £3 to buy one online, £4 to buy a new lock with 3 keys
They've got you over a barrel.
RM.
Do you have the facility and time to cut it yourself? If not, its a bargain.
ISWYDT, RM.
ISWYDT, RM.
Yeah. I latched on to it too. 😉
I'd pay 6 quid for a spare key for my van.....
What's the cost of not getting a key cut?!
lol @ rogermoore
sounds fair to me, and i live in Yorkshire.
Buys a complex shaped piece of metal for bike. Pays £50. Bargain.
Pfft. Like I ride a bike.
Seems reasonable to me? Price of blank key, machine to cut key, man to operate machine, VAT/rates/rent other shop costs.
Admittedly I have not had a key cut in a while, but is this the usual cost?
I'd say it's actually pretty cheap. Last year the ones I got done were a tenner each.
How much were you expecting it to be?
I've just got back from having some keys cut £5 each for front door but the window key is a special at £12.50!
It's not exactly something you need to but every day so even if they were £20 each is hardly the end of the world
I bought some last year which were about £2/£2.50 apart from one special one that only special old cobbler's had blanks for which was £4. So yeah. Sick squid sounds a bit much. Did you opt for a special colour with a rubber thing on it?
Ignore the hand-wringers asking "how much is your house worth to you without a key?". That's just ridiculous 🙂
Ignore the hand-wringers (etc)
I think in this case, the "hand wringers" are the ones moaning about the price of key 😆
🙂
If the OP lives in a one-horse town fair enough. But I live in a city and you can't open a cupboard without a locksmith falling out. Why pay £6 at the chain place when you can cross the roads and get 3 for a fiver? And maybe admire some awesome shoes while you're there.
Spot on avoid the chains. My local inde is 3e, mr minute in local shopping centre more than double.
Timpson is an interesting company, I like em.
£6 is bargain.
Timpsons sense of responsibility is incredible. 10% of staff are ex convicts...
I think the key for my old and unglamorous car was something around £160. Yes it has electronics in it but that doesn't really change pain
Timpson are bloody ace. Great company.
Everyone has their birthday off. Company holiday homes available, free of charge. Etc.
Not all corporations are evil!
I can't find it in myself to see this as unreasonable.
I can't find it in myself to see this as unreasonable.
If you really try hard, I'm sure you could 😉
Is it, maybe, racist? ... or something. 😆
Come on.... it must be [i]something!![/i]
I know there are quite a few West Yorkshire folk on here, but next time you need a key cutting go to B&S Locksmiths in Huddersfield. While they are cutting your key take a look around - an absolutely amazing place, and well worth £6 for the visit alone!
I like Timpsons...not all chains are evil.
If you really try hard, I'm sure you couldIs it, maybe, racist? ... or something.
Come on.... it must be something!!
I've had a word with myself, and the best I can do is if they don't accept contactless for the £6 they deserve to go out of business like the lazy, grasping shysters they are.
That's better.
10% of staff are ex convicts...
And you want to get your keys cut there? Are you ****ing mad? 🙂
Wait until you need to get a key cut for a Fiat car. I had to get one last year, a regular key cutter couldn't do it as it has to be programmed to the car. One specialist later I was the owner of a £100 car ignition key. 🙁
buggered if I knowis this the usual cost?
£6 sound like its probably about right, it's £6 more than I pay though as one of my mates works for various landlords/letting agents in the Leeds area and has all the kit to cut his own keys.
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Timpson are bloody ace. Great company.Everyone has their birthday off. Company holiday homes available, free of charge. Etc.
Not all corporations are evil!
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+1 there's a bottom line edition with the chief exec on which is well worth a listen.
Wow, never knew that about Timpson. I hereby eat my words.
One specialist later I was the owner of a £100 car ignition key
Vauxhall insignia = £145.
Yay! I win!
Oh, hang on...
£6 at Timpsons? Criminal
Timpsons sense of responsibility is incredible. 10% of staff are ex convicts...
That'll explain why I felt robbed 😀
The bottom line podcast is a classic btw.
Its not just about employing ex offenders although that always gets the headlines. Really its about how the owner has decentralised the business, the sales data isnt linked, what happens in a store is left to the manager of that store.
Unheard of from a big chain when normally everything is analysed to the last customer cough.
At the time of the podcast it seemed to be working, hope it still is.
Try getting a barrel-type key for a bike lock cut for six quid! I just had a nice brass back-up front door key cut to keep in my wallet at Timpson's, and it was £6, IIRC. Seems reasonable to me.
If you've got a bog-standard Eurocylinder lock then replace it with something secure. A burglar will break the Eurocylinder and be in your house in under a minute, happened to me.
Eurocylinder snappage
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sounds fair to me, and i live in Yorkshire.
Incomer eh?
🙂
Sounds a bit pricey to me and I'm from Lancashire.
Three for a tenner in Asda.
Three for a tenner at Homebase too, using an automated machine. It takes a picture of the key, tells the operator what blank to load and away it goes.
For a bog standard yale type key, the shop in my local town charges £4. Got one done in the city where I work and it was £6.
Key cutting it seems, is like the price of a pint of beer, depends where you go! 😆
Timpsons normally do 3 for a tenner too.
Only £2.50 here, from a bloke in a blue overall who will happily sell you fork handles and various sorts of plugs.
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I agree with £6 seeming expensive.
I was given this quote for a similar Yale type key, so went to the local hardware shop who charged £2 for the same product. No issues with it not fitting the tumblers either - they put it onto a polishing wheel to remove any sharp edges.
Quality service still exists
No wonder half the country's broke and just voted to leave EU in protest! FFS... £6! Or do we not care about people struggling by on low incomes so long as we're ok...
Thank goodness there's businesses run like Timpsons - proving capitalism can be a force for social good at the same time as providing decently-paid jobs and creating wealth for the owners and shareholders.
The confounding thing about Timpsons is that the Chief Exec's brother is a Tory Minister - so luckily for us not all Tories are of the May and Osborne variety... just rather a lot of them, sadly
No wonder half the country's broke and just voted to leave EU in protest! FFS
Can I see your working?
Can I see your working?
Well, if I was stupid enough to have voted out then I'd think that 52% of 70% was 'all the people' but as I'm not that stupid I accept your correction... 🙂 though of course the point still stands... the less we're willing to pay for UK-produced goods and services the faster the economy will go down the pan as the jobs go abroad and remaining workers get testy... as we're currently finding out...
There used to be an old boy operating out of the back of an old HiAce on the road into Torquay.
Only used to to operate in the summer. £1 a key. And they were good too, not like the sh1te I had cut at Trago for £4 that wouldn't open the door. Haven't seen him since they opened the bypass
[quote="ampthill"]I think the key for my old and unglamorous car was something around £160. Yes it has electronics in it but that doesn't really change pain
Have you seen the key for the current 7-Series ? It has a touch screen. I dread to think what a replacement costs.
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Have you seen the key for the current 7-Series ? It has a touch screen.
What the actual...?
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Have you seen the key for the current 7-Series ? It has a touch screen. I dread to think what a replacement costs.
You can have lube as an optional extra when ordering....
Best £10 you'll ever spend!
I was surprised this morning.
2 iveco key blanks cut from a pattern - i supplied both as iveco blanks like rocking horse poo
2 quid in the charity box. I gave 5.
Top service from timpson
I'm sure you can find someone who will do a key cut for free if you let them know where you live 😉
I've just paid £4 and that's surrey prices.
I paid £9the other day for an identical pair of padlock keys, wouldn't have minded, but neither worked when I got home....
£6 key? Lift up handle? Anyone with a drill could be through that in seconds, better off using duct tape and sticks