The Medway Handyman coughed up some electrons that declared:

The Medway Handyman wrote:


Price promise my arse.

And another winge while I'm at it. Local enourmous B&Q had a promotion on
Bosch accessories, buy 5 get 50% off.

Luvley jubbly I though, 5 blades for my PMF 180. Trouble is, they all had
to be the same and they only had 4 of any particular type. Looked every
time I went in over the next few weeks, never more than 4 of a kind.

Asked various assorted droids if I could buy 5 mixed and the answer was
that HQ had specifically forbidden managers to allow that.

Piggin scam if you ask me.



Sounds like one for a note to Trading Standards. If they are bored enough,
they might go in. If they find 4 of everthing under a "buy 5" sign, they
might just give the manager some verbal abuse...

Long shot, but it would only take 10 minutes to knock up a note.