Curry's taking the WEEE
Yep Curry's are at it again with their adverts - for goods over some price they're offering delivery and they'll pick up your old appliance and packaging and recycle all for free. Wow how damn magnanimous of them.
As I've mentioned here this isn't the first time they've tried to pull this one. So once again I'd like to point out that I don't know of any major (heck even minor) electrical store that doesn't delivery large goods for free and once again that the recycling bit is something they have to finance by law.
Curry's - offering you what everyone else does and what they're obligated to do by law.
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I have a better example of a business taking the 'Wii'. A work colleague of mine was looking to buy a Nintendo Wii, but had no luck finding one on the high street. So he went on-line. He found some in the States, but there were restrictions for buying from the UK. Eventually he found a good deal on Amazon Germany. He purchased on-line and within a matter of a few days received his Wii (multi-language instructions so no problem there).
Later a friend of his asked where he purchased his Wii from. He told him Amazon Germany and his friend had a look, only to find that they have now banned UK buyers of Wii's on Amazon Germany. So much for the free market, I guess Amazon think they're big enough to break the EC treaty!
-Tav.-
I believe it's the same situation with Amazon France and a few other foreign businesses that have been inundated with UK buyers.
As you say what a wonderful Free Market, all the rules seem to be set up to protect companies against the evil government restrictions.
Tav and Flipc
I think it all depends what you are buying. I don't have the slightest difficulty in buying books from USA and Canada cheaper than I can from the UK.
Sure if you're not buying anything 'complicated' you've just got to be careful when importing something that needs and lacks an EU safety certificate.
Things can also get antsy if you're importing something that hasn't been released in the EU yet, but I'm really talking about bulk buyers in that instance.
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