Fitting a CD player into my lady friends narrow boat this weekend as the tape deck in there now is a POS and I had a spare. Thought I'd be clever and solder in an ISO plug to make things easier in the long term.

Trip to Halfords and I was offered the male ISO plug with bare wires for the bargain price of £15.99. I was somewhat puzzled so asked the lad to double check the price as surely it should be £5.99. Nope £15.99 it was Quick look on E-Bay at lunch yesterday and today my packet turned up with the plug for.....















£1.94. And 95p of that was the postage Question is I'm not sure what to do with the spare £14

 

i know i had the exact same thing was shocked at the mark up, No point in even goin in for those kind of products.

I only go Halfords for things i know will be cheap with my trade card which i blagged

 

Their unbelievable aren't they?and the bastard is it always seems you HAVE to go there for something or other!!I buy stuff called q bond and it's about £10,£19.99 in halfords!!and why do they always sell 3 fucking numberplate screws in a pack??only thing they do that's a good tip is their trim fixing clips,big White things about 5 or 6 in a pack for about £2 and they fit perfectly into Ka side bumpers,ford wanted £1 per clip!!!

 

£5.99 for a pack of washers the other day think there was 6 in a pack, ok they were stainless steel but come on!

 

They do have rather large over heads, so prices are going to be higher than somebody selling the same stuff from there bedroom

 

Halfrauds

 

since when?

 

They wanted 20 pound for a bulb for my Volvo. I said wasn't that expensive? And I was told flashy cars, needed flashy bulbs. (Pun wasn't intended). I went to a local place and got two for a fiver, and he said they were the same for many cars.

Benni.

 

What volvo do you drive?

 

They're always doing it with something or other,last time I went there they sold three of those sticky backed numberplate things,their just horrendous!!not bad for stereos price wise,but £15 to fit it?cheeky cunts!!!!

 

Halfords are a pure rip off.

 

Tags

 

Gotta say tho..... handy place on a sunday or late when nowhere else is open.


Steve

 

i know how you feel, other week i had a viewing on a a class, it was 6 pm local motor factors and maccess etc closed needed headlight bulb, a fucking tenner i felt totallly and utterly arse raped, its still annoying me now, i think im going to have to go up there and pocket something worth a fiver to make myself feel better

 

 

Get a trade card..... much cheaper by far, £10 bulb for about £3

 

you and your fucking lady friends, please drag yourself into the 21st century

 

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Depends what you buy. Pro tools are excellent quality and great value when on offer. You pay for the convenience.

 

The advanced range of tools are great quality and really cheap if you have a trade car, 99 quid for a socket set of near snap-on quality that would cost you the best part of a grand from the man with a van and he wont replace parts at 4pm on a sunday afternoon.

Retail price on bulbs and stuff is horrific but to the general public who buy such things once in a blue moon and want the reassurance of being told which bulb they need and being offered it fitted for a few quid, it makes perfect sense.

Great business model IMHO, they manage to tap into the profitable retail side of things and at the same time are great value for trade.

Wish I owned them

 

fookin lovin the tags lol

 

I WISH I could add tags!

 

This. Don't finish work till 7 so it's handy to pop in after work.

Bought one of the 150 piece socket sets for under £100. Lifetime warrenty, can't argue with that.

Going to Halfords for bulbs and stuff is like going to B&Q for building supplies. You just don't.

 

I bought one of them, they are fantastic quality for the price. Think I got it for £90 last year sometime.

And at the tags

Lee

 

Get a Halfords trade card.

Bought some Mobil 1 Motorsport 15w 50 last night for £38.99 instead of the £47.99 retail price in there. Cheapest EBAY price is £30.00 + £8.00 delivery and Opie Oils Members price of £38.69.

£3-£5 bulbs are normally under £1.

Batteries get 30% roughly off retail price.

Only problem is anything stereo or cleaning products do not get discount :headbang:

 

lol at the tags....

 

Do you need to be in the trade to get one or can anyone get one?

 

Depends how good you are at blagging A mate of mine worked there, so I went in one night and he wasn't working. The guy I spoke to said as you know him I will sort it out anyway as he heard about me and my brother's cars and knew who I was But I had business cards, letterhead, etc with me just incase.

Go into your local branch and ask the person behind the parts counter how you can get a card

 

Cool cheers, just look on their website seen you can get one if you are an aircraft mechanic so that must class as me!

 

Go out and get one mate, saves a lot of cash when you need to use Halfords. You get discount on anything "Service" related, so tools, parts, oils, batteries, etc

 

I went in Halfords in a pair of dirty overalls and a letter head from my mate who owns his own hgv workshop and got trade like that, i dont use them for polish ect but there tools are ok

 

Tell me about it, you should see the pigs ear they made of putting a disc changer in a friends car! Lifted the boot carpet up, screwed it striaght through the boot floor with self tappers then just left the carpet rested up against the side of the changer. Fooking muppets!

 

I need to get a trade card too.

Do you think they would class me as a "mechanic" if I said I was an Audio Technician?

Big-Dan.

 

Is that a euphemism?

 

Yeah, it's a double-din slot!

 

and a 10 dick changer in the booty

 

Apparently Ken Wood!

 

£1 per clip?! I used to get them either free or 16p altough I did go threw about 8 a week

 

just go in and blagg it, just ask what do i need to qualify for a trade card
i said i worked for kwik fit and used a pals pay slip. they didnt ask for ID or anythin.

 

I loved their sponsorship of motoring on Dave. Made it look as if Halfords employees are knowledgeable and skilled mechanics

I once went into Halfords to get a price for trailing arm bushes for my brothers car, and the bloke at the parts counter asked me what a trailing arm was.....

I didn't explain, I just drove the extra 3 miles to the motor factors