Metropol

James H wrote:Right, well, giving makrel a call tomorrow to see what's up and whether or not it's a batch fault

I suppose you could but it would be a bit of a wasted call for both parties.

They will be selling a pallette load of these things and whilst there may be some returns, they will just give you another of the ones they have in stock anyway.

Because it is a fault which has developed, rather than being an out of box failure, there is no way for them to test the stock.

There, I've just saved you 10 minutes of music on hold.

We got a costco card for work - I tend to bulk buy cleaning stuff and 24 packs of flavoured watter for work - why pay 40p per bottle when you can get it for 8.5p

Still tent to spend about £100 but lasts for ages - we tend to go for the offers

I realised you had a makro card, but you can get one by telling them you are a hairdresser, gardener or dog walker (I'm serious). You were buying for your home. That is the norm of their customer base.

All of the big retail warehouses/cash and carrys seem to do this - although officially for the trade it's ludicrously easy to get a membership card/get around it. I occasionally go to Bookers for my boss to pick up some stuff for work, yet I don't actually need to produce the membership card or any company details to get past the front desk - alll I need to do is quote his account number, and even then I don't have to confirm so much as the company name before being waved through into the warehouse. Considering that there's only 6 digits and seemingly no secondary qualification to the account number, there's a faiirly good chance that if you walk into a Bookers and quote any number at random, then you will turn up a registered company, be able to buy whatever you like for wholesale prices, and so long as you always pay in cash you'd never have any problems or be traceable.