Anyone at Sherwood CenterParcs?...

[CenterParcsToyHelp]

...that fancies picking up a toy that I really should have bought my DD at the time? We came home yesterday.

I didn't, thinking I'd secretly nip back for it, then surprise her on her Birthday, but I didn't clock that the Just Kids shop closed at 6.00pm.

I've called the store, and they won't post it. It's not available anywhere in the flipping UK, and charges from the US are £25.

It's a Polly Pocket set, about £15.00. If anyone is kind enough to pick it up and post it to me (I'll obviously pay the P&P) I would be eternally grateful.

It didn't occur to me how tricky it would be to find one!

Best of mumsnet here - kind hearted generous posters and batshit derails. I come here for both 😁

Really hope you can get it! Watching for the outcome.

There are a few on eBay in the US - is this the right set?

I've never bought anything on eBay outside of the UK, but the shipping costs/estimated delivery seems to have been adjusted to shipping to the UK. Not sure whether overseas shipping is something the seller has to say they are/aren't willing to do when listing the item?

I just searched Polly Pocket mermaid pirate and these 3 came up

OP...we can do this!!!!
I promise I'll call them on Monday.
We have to make your dds Christmas xxx

@Cookerdog do you work for that shitty amazon company?

ive just got back last night otherwise I would have gone and got you it without thinking.

have you checked local garden centres that sell toys? I noticed a few things have been in garden centres (if nobody can help)

do you have a link for what
you are looking for ?

You're an absolute star, thank you! And to all the other lovely offers of help - I'm so grateful.

I'm turning in now, so thank you in my absence for any further kindnesses and ideas. I'll check in in the morning again - thanks again, you lovely lot! x

@Cookerdog Well good for you that you have been so generous!! Shame your goodwill hasn’t been extended to MN !

So glad this is going to get sorted, would Def help if I could

It does seem a bit "computer says no" of them to not help you themselves really. Would surely be easy for them to sort, not like they won't have payment and parcel systems set up.

Paignton Zoo bent over backwards to help us a few years ago when DS lost a treasured toy he'd got from there years before. We weren't even sure they'd still have similar and struggled to describe what it was. It wasn't available online and we live nowhere near! I rang and put some poor assistant through what must have been a confusing story, but they popped off and found it, took payment over the phone and it came by post, addressed to DS and beautifully packaged.

Cooker don't read the spoon rest thread.

What is the spoon rest thread?

"By the way I have donated £40,000 to charity over the last 7 years."

Hopefully not as a tax write off.

Is it sorted out now?
I live not too far away, and could take a drive over early next week.
Not sure about entry without a booking, but haapy to give it a go :o)
(I haven't read all responses I admit, I got a bit depressed by the end of page one.)

I agree. The kindness of strangers is a precious thing, we need to celebrate it where we can.

Nobody is misunderstanding you, you’re being deliberately obtuse and weird. Why does there need to be a forum dedicated to people doing each other favours? Why do you have this expectation that there needs to be recompense for said favours? Why don’t you understand that people have been doing each other favours on Mnet for years, and that it’s only a weird concept to you? Why do you have to be so dogged in your determination to be as irritating as possible?

Step away from the keyboard @Cookerdog . You're being weird.

Agree best of Mumsnet here, kindness to strangers and batshittery!! (Now off to find the spoon rest thread!)

Or they don’t!!

Totally agree with you @veryawkward, IME people who give that sort of money to charity rarely, if ever, use it as an argument for why they’re not the arse that they’re being (either directly or, like this, by their words!!)

……. Or you could just order online from a plant catalogue company (maybe even one run by the imaginary garden centre) with next day delivery and have them on your doorstep on Monday or Tuesday

Unlike the OP who has tried all sorts of ways of getting a specific toy that just isn’t available in the U.K. except from a shop on a holiday park who also won’t send it out!!

To be fair, I've seen similar posts on our local fb page. Not asking someone to make a special journey, but "if anyone local to me is going to that garden centre this week, could they possibly pick some bulbs up for me?" and people have had positive responses.

You are missing the point though. Where is the MN forum thread for this kind of thing. I am genuinely interested.

@Cookerdog the OP posted on chat. Chat is where people post random things about anything, including questions they can't answer. So chat is the place. HTH.

I reckon @Cookerdog is nursing a sore head somewhere after that performance last night 😂

What a lovely thread, please let us know when you are sorted OP

I am quite interested in your proposal.
I live next door to this garden centre and they often give me free tulip bulbs. I also live very close to a PO so could easily post them to you.
However, I am a bit of a cunt so I won’t
I donate loads to charity though (as a tax write off)

Update! I've just got back to a lovely message from a MNer currently in Elveden CP, who has found the Polly Pocket set! It's been safely purchased and will be posted in due course!

I'm absolutely overwhelmed by the lovely messages offering help here and by PM - you are a lovely lot!

Hugest thanks to that very lovely MNer, have a magical time at Elveden - my DD will be so, so happy 😍

Thank you everyone! xxx

Brilliant well done mystery Mumsnetter in Elveden.