Thread 3 - the one where things get serious

I wonder what order they are doing things in? I ordered on the 18th, and nothing yet!

The £5 ones are in stock now.

Here's a link to what they contain. If the RRP is ever charged anywhere, then the total value is (3 x £3.10) (watercolours) + £3.49 (Pentel pointliner) + £9.50 (brush) + £7.99 (watercolour paper) = £30.28.

I bought 4 sets so the postage was free.

I was a bit concerned about this sentence in Starfish's email about possible shipping delays

As a reminder, because this was a clearance event, all sale purchases are final and are not eligible for returns.**

However, UK legislation:

Source: https://www.gov.uk/accepting-returns-and-giving-refunds
It’s illegal to restrict or take away customers’ rights or to mislead them about their rights, for example by displaying a sign that says you do not accept returns or offer refunds.

Online, mail and telephone order customers have the right to cancel their order for a limited time even if the item is not faulty. Sales of this kind are known as ‘distance selling’.
You must offer a refund to customers if they’ve told you within 14 days of receiving their item that they want to cancel. They have another 14 days to return the item once they’ve told you.
You must refund the customer within 14 days of receiving the item back. They do not have to provide a reason. You cannot deduct any fees from their refund, unless the item has been used or damaged.
You must also refund the cost of standard delivery if the customer paid for it. If they paid for a more expensive delivery option, you only need to refund the cost of standard delivery.

Anyone got any gift ideas for an avid fruit and vegetable grower

There are some lovely little gift boxes of unusual varieties of veg I usually buy my Bil. Like rainbow tomatoes, cucamelons etc. Seem to go down well.

Can't find the brand I usually see in physical shops, but this sort of thing

https://www.growbar.co.uk/growbars/the-exotic-vegetables-growbar

Thank you! Brilliant price, just ordered one for my DS.

Tomato seeds from NR Tomatoes (the micro dwarf are fun but I can also recommend raspberry burst)

Seeds or a voucher, if they do one, for Real Seeds. These are all non F1, meaning the seeds can be harvested and saved from year to year

A trug, for harvesting. I have two slightly poncy ones and enjoy swanning around my allotment with them

A Niwaki hori hori knife

Depending on budget and closeness, something like merry people boots (I don't have them so can't vouch for them but want some!)

A wooden vegetable scrubbing brush. My local garden centre stocks redecker brushes and they're lovely

Seed potatoes and/or a pre order of chilli seedlings

I ordered on the 18th and mine would have been delivered today but we’ll be away so I switched it to next week

I also ordered on the 18th and have heard nothing. The order still says 'being prepared'.

@ShyMaryEllen I have just decided to start replacing all my kitchenware, much of which I've had since I got married 20 years ago.
I have bought a titanium frying pan from Longwell, a British company that has high ethical principles but my primary focus was the focus on no PFAS or PFOS coatings. I will admit at this point that I have not used it yet as it is a thing of wondrous beauty 😂but the hammering design means that after the first seasoning you should not need to use oil.
As a Mumsnet warning, they are a small company and postage did take a while. They communicated throughout the process.

Oo thanks @OneThingAtATimeForNow that and the build a bear from last week have sorted the plethora of birthday parties we have coming up!

(seen on HUKD and thought I would share)

Boots Advantage Card Offer—50% off on No7 (selected accounts only - sadly not me but seen others with it 🙄)

• check your advantage card offers and activate the No7 ones and any other money off
• No7 Future Renew is currently on 3 for 2 and 25% off
• Code REVERSE10 also takes £10 off

all the above stack if you have the offer so you can get day serum / night serum and eye serum for circa £25 depending on what advantage card offers you have

@mumbythesea i'm off to Portugal November 3rd so I will keep a look out for you! I know what it's like as I have a Jellycat fan so always off trying to find stockists!

Temptation gifts are doing free delivery when you spend over £10. Which is a massive difference to the free delivery over £59.95 so might be worth it if you only want a couple of bits. Xx

25% off selected Premium Beauty online only today at Boots. Save an extra 5% off the selected items with BEAUTY5

@Yalz - that stuck in my craw too - I ordered just one thing as a possible birthday present for my friend. I will be miffed if it doesn’t arrive, but even more so if it is poor quality and ‘can’t’ be returned.

Does Lisa angel ever for free delivery codes. I only want to buy one small thing so nowhere near the threshold

@Yalz the whole non-return thing was actually listed on the website when buying. Not saying I agree with it, but the email wasn't the first notification.

Yes, quite prominently too.

Of course distance selling regulations still apply, so I thought of it more as a clear communication of wishes - a meaning of “please don’t buy a bunch of stuff just to look at intending to return it. We’ll honour the return if we legally have to, but that’s not why we are doing this”.

That’s why I only bought things I was sure of.

@Mumbythesea1I live in Europe so have access to European Vinted and seems to be loads of the 2026/2027 Megacracks cards on there New With Tags. I don't know anything about them so not sure if they're a good deal or not but if you want to PM me I can send you some more info. Would be happy to post them to you.

They send you a small print of the chosen artist so you could copy it, my kids have used it for inspiration. And you get the materials so for example pens, pencils, pastels and the specific paper to use (watercolour, mixed media etc). I think it is value for money at the sale prices because the materials are artist quality and if you bought everything separately it would cost more ( it does depend a bit on the box but for example a watercolour Downey tube can be £6 on its own). As an artist I often buy just to get the materials a bit cheaper.

Understood

One of the points I was trying to make, though, is that they are breaking the law in saying that - and if it’s on the website then they are publicly doing so.

Code: BABYSAVE at Boots gives 15% off spends of £40+ on selected products.

It works on the LEGO a/cs bringing the cost of two down to £50.98.

Not overly, we have some loose screen time rules so they know what to expect, and tou can put timers on them so it turns off automatically once their alloted time is up. It's run through a parent account with a password so you can control it all.

Must.stop.buying.for.myself.

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