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Paid £8 earlier for a roll of gaffer tape in an emergency from an actual shop. I can't remember how much it was last time as it was so long ago. I've still not recovered. Eight. Bloody. Quid... For tape ❗ I'm never leaving the internet again.
The real world is wildly overrated
I think I paid a quid in a Pound Shop last time I bought some...
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I think I paid a quid in a Pound Shop last time I bought some...
Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP.
Our local hardware store is cheaper than anyone for anything....and you can buy one bolt if you want.
I love rummaging through all the bits and bobs.
Supply and demand, innit.
Personally, I still mourn the passing of the "hey, do you want to listen to a tape?" gag.
you [i]think[/i] you paid a quid in a pound shop?
The rolls at the poundshop from "the Tommy Walsh range" are a little on the small side. The £8 roll must have loads more on it.
Yeah, it's 50m of GENUINE Duck tape. Not no poundshop ghetto-tape.
Eight quid apparently. Mug!
Doesnit actualy stick though.
My experiance of cheap copies of duck tape is variable.....if i have the choice ill stick with duck brand if i can.
One things for sure , cheap or not it sticks to its self better than what you want to stick it too 🙂
Yeah, it's 50m of GENUINE Duck tape. Not no poundshop ghetto-tape.
Ah, the 4th stage of being mugged off. Telling everyone it's reassuringly expensive 😛
it's 50m of GENUINE Duck tape.
I think that's just inhumane and cruel.
Hey I'm trying to make myself feel better here.
I think that's just inhumane and cruel
Comes with a free box of foie gras. £8 is still quackers, tho.
Last stuff i bought was from clas olson, cant remeber how much but was significantly cheaper than b&q at approx £1 or £2 and when i tried to renew it it pulled off the powder coating from the rim!
Yeah, 50 ducks in every single roll.
Yeah, 50 ducks in every single roll.
And a big bill, too.
BOOM
well, yeah, *[s]but he's just had a huge bill[/s] it's 'canard to see how people justify that sort of thing - especially when he could've used the webI think that's just inhumane and cruel.
*aaaargggghhhhh FLASHY !!!! 🙁
Not as bad as the cat treats (Thrive or something similar) that I saw in Sainsbury's earlier - £3 for 15grams, so that works out as £200 a kilo! 😆 they saw somebody coming with that mark-up!
On my second consumer advice post of the year, DO NOT buy selco 50m x 50mm carpet/duct/duck etc tape. It's pathetic. Mind blowingly pathetic. You'd be better of using the spit from a dehydrated squirrel and bog roll.
DO however get the equivalent own-brand from Selco. Very good in comparison and works in wet.
Yours, Esther Rantzen.
*aaaargggghhhhh FLASHY !!!!
Calm [i]down[/i] dear!
I'm OK flash, it just ruffled my - nah, forget it
Yeah, I know. My heart's not really in it eider.
DO however get the equivalent own-brand from Selco. Very good in comparison and works in wet.
Handy advice, I wouldn't have known how to choose between eider one.
Potential mallardy avoided.
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Backing up to bearnecessities' post there,...
Selco branded stuff is shit but the stuff made by selco for other people is great ? 😯
What other brand - I'll have a gander
... and may I remind everyone that the correct term for this item is hostage tape
Would also remove some of the risk of withering* punnage
*(ahem)
I was just doing the washing up and thought "Did I say Selco twice?"
Clearly, I did. Nob.
Recommendation was for Screwfix's own brand tape, although I fear damage is done 🙂
Edit: Some good punning up there though!
This looks like good value 🙂
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Only if it's got bits of real Zebra in it.
No worries, you came good in the end - that's a plum source !Recommendation was for Screwfix's own brand tape, although I fear damage is done
Do try and keep up, Cougar! 🙂
No worries, you came good in the end - that's a plum source !
Nice work!
For tape I'm never leaving the internet again.
So today you could have lost the rest of your day, walked back to the car or paid more than £8 for a taxi. The hidden cost of using the internet is that there won't be any shops left to help you out there and then.
Op - paying that much you must have felt you were being goosed. These shops are just daffy with their pricing, eh?
We have 'gaffa' tape at work that's over £50/roll.
People use it to tape up parcels 🙄
So today you could have lost the rest of your day, walked back to the car or paid more than £8 for a taxi. The hidden cost of using the internet is that there won't be any shops left to help you out there and then.
Well aren't you the life and soul 😆
http://www.flints.co.uk/acatalog/Matt_Gaffer_Tape_50mm_wide.html
6.80 at Flints for their standard stuff which is similar to the posh stuff.
Cheap gaffer should be banned.
I paid £10 for a roll of gorilla tape at the weekend as I wanted something decent to tubeless my wheels. I did pick up one of the smaller £2.70 rolls but then realised I needed wider and opted for the wide 32m roll for £10 over the 11m roll at £6 as it seemed silly no to for 3x more tape.
In then remembered I had 2 new rolls of 3m stuff I bought for £5 a roll in lidl a while back in my tape box (yes I have a tape box as I have a stock of tapes used for composite manufacturing and testing).
But I have to say this gorilla stuff does seem very good and is supposed to be UV stable so I have just the job for it where other tapes have failed.
Oh and yes in the past I had tried some cheap toolstation stuff and it was gash. Dad used to get good stuff from RS when I was a kid and the cheap stuff just didn't compare.
Why do we need tape for ducks and gorillas?? I can kind of understand tape for gaffers...