Rip offs

[Swedish Dave]

not at all ,you wear and use gear that you can afford at that time to use as a comparison i as a POORER guy drive a vauxhall vectra thats 9 years old but i have the right to own a bmw M5 but i cant afford it ,so wot do i do complane to BMW and tell them they are rip offs because their cars are 50k more expensive than mine and i cant afford one. unfortunatly we just have to get on and deal with it ride the storm and hope prices come down.

[Swedish Dave]

Also you say we need top quality products at a cheap price so when a pair of trousers or a rope is made do the manufacters just throw a few strands or a bit of protective material together and hey presto product finished?

no we demand very high standards like CE EN etc......... they have to pay for that then maybe ansi for the us o then send them out to test etc...

dont want keep going on but we need quality prods at exceptional standards if the standards were very poor you would b moaning about cheap shite

end of for me im just going to GROW A PAIR.........

[kipperfeet]

£235 for boots that are comfortable when wearing them 5 days a week for 48 weeks of the year, i got just over 12 months out of my haix and my meindles i got nearly 18 months and they were £185.

 

that means the haix cost 98p per day, or 12p per hour.

 

Meindle cost 51p per day or 6p per hour.

 

That seems pretty good value to me for comfortable dry feet at work. My feet are one thing i don't want to be thinking about work, there to much else to think about than worrying about the fact my boots are costing me 12 an hour.

 

Just tie it in to prices.

[bob]

£235 for boots that are comfortable when wearing them 5 days a week for 48 weeks of the year, i got just over 12 months out of my haix and my meindles i got nearly 18 months and they were £185.

 

that means the haix cost 98p per day, or 12p per hour.

 

Meindle cost 51p per day or 6p per hour.

 

That seems pretty good value to me for comfortable dry feet at work. My feet are one thing i don't want to be thinking about work, there to much else to think about than worrying about the fact my boots are costing me 12 an hour.

 

Just tie it in to prices.

was the last bit a joke or not

cheers for working all that out but my boots were £182 so how does that work out and i hope they last a few more days when thet have earned me 2p an hour i will polish em

[kipperfeet]

was the last bit a joke or not

cheers for working all that out but my boots were £182 so how does that work out and i hope they last a few more days when thet have earned me 2p an hour i will polish em

 

yeh just kidding about the adding on to the price, imagine the customers face when you tell them, "i'll have to put a 2p an hour sur charge on for my boots, actually, if you had called me a month ago it would have only been 1p an hour but thats the Euro for ya!"

 

Then theres the 20p an hour for the fancy trousers i'm wearing, and the time spent stitching them back together cause they are rubbish.

 

I do agree that some products are very badly stitched and fall to bits very quickly. £120 for a pair of trousers to get three weeks out of is a digrace.

 

Hi-flex trousers. Will not buy them again, thats for sure.

[bob]

yeh just kidding about the adding on to the price, imagine the customers face when you tell them, "i'll have to put a 2p an hour sur charge on for my boots, actually, if you had called me a month ago it would have only been 1p an hour but thats the Euro for ya!"

 

Then theres the 20p an hour for the fancy trousers i'm wearing, and the time spent stitching them back together cause they are rubbish.

 

I do agree that some products are very badly stitched and fall to bits very quickly. £120 for a pair of trousers to get three weeks out of is a digrace.

 

Hi-flex trousers. Will not buy them again, thats for sure.

 

obviosley not a joke the TIE it into the price

for a pair of boots

[volvo]

Just read some of this thread so excuse me if this has been covered.

Everything is relevant,what is cheap in this country might be more expensive in another country and quality is never cheap.

A cooked chicken in france for example costs 11 euros how much do we pay?.

I wouldn’t blame the dealers as they just have to pay the suppliers what they charge.

[Mesterh]

£235 for boots that are comfortable when wearing them 5 days a week for 48 weeks of the year, i got just over 12 months out of my haix and my meindles i got nearly 18 months and they were £185.

 

that means the haix cost 98p per day, or 12p per hour.

 

Meindle cost 51p per day or 6p per hour.

 

That seems pretty good value to me for comfortable dry feet at work. My feet are one thing i don't want to be thinking about work, there to much else to think about than worrying about the fact my boots are costing me 12 an hour.

 

Just tie it in to prices.

 

 

You should be an insurance salesman

 

Everything only cost pennies per hour but they soon all add up.

 

Good boots are definitely worth paying for IMO although the most I have paid is about £150 for aqualfell experts and I reckon they are boss

[Stephen Blair]

i used to go through 2 pairs of aquafell a year and 2 pairs of all round trousers,now i am old and wise. i have an 80 quid pair of elton boots, that i clean each night, a pair of wellies for splodging around the yard and a pair of riggers for around the yard when drier weather, my stretch airs are over 3 years old and i only wear them when climbing, i have front protestion 80 quiders for firewood and a boilersuit to keep everything clean (cold weather permitting) get a dehumidifier alternate the clothing and dont wash and tumble dry the life out your kit. please pm me for further money saving techniiques.

[Dean Lofthouse]

please pm me for further money saving techniiques.

 

Get a beday and do away with the bog roll, saves a few trees aswell