Thanks for the heads up it's a nice price only spoiled by the postage at almost a fiver.

_Paul_

Profit ???????????

You have a bag or box, you have to pick the item and wrap it, stick a stamp on or process it thru the PO's PPI system.

We all know the PO works for sod all and staff do not expect to get paid, neither does any National Insurance payments.

Someone has to take it to the post office and queue up, or cough up £165 per year for a two day collection, 5 day collection is a lot more.

You are right, they must be running to the bank………………………………..

John S.

Ah, wait till it gets delivered and all you get is the piece of paper saying, 'You can collect from the Royal mail Office after 24hrs ' so you end up collecting a paid parcel !

I even caught the postman walking up the path with the piece of card in his hand already made out, they are on a death wish!

Clive

Had that happen to me Clive, VERY VERY annoying, by the time i got to the door he was pulling away in his van.

Derek.

Hi, buy five of them and give the other four to your friends for a Xmas present, and you won't have to pay any postage.

Clive, 24 hours before you can collect from the PO, I normally only have to wait 3 hours if I'm out.

Regards Nick.

It's easy to think that post and packing charges are rather high, but I sold some things on ebay recently and was quite surprised at the cost of postage. Once the package gets over 25mm thick the cost jumps a lot and then there is the time taken making up the parcel and taking it to the post office. It's easy to forget just how much postal prices have gone up in recent times.

Doug

I recently ordered a Karcher window cleaner for SWAMBO's Xmas prezzie It was ordered at 4.00pm and arrived the next morning at 9.27am – not bad service since it started in Devon and I live on a Scottish island and I was charged £4.00 for P&P! Our postal service is excellent and the post people here are very helpful and obliging and the high cost isn't their fault. I do however agree with an earlier comment. I get a bit annoyed when I spend some time fillng in various forms and it's only when I go to pay discover that the VAT and P&P are dearer than the article I wished to purchase. Keeping it on Model Engineering I used to get fantastic service from Millhill Supplies.

Prices including P& P mentioned above so you don't know how much the P&P part is. A certain company at a recent show kept the same prices at the show indicating that they must have a deal for truely free postage.

Hi All, I have one of these from a different company and have found a problem with battery life. It seems there is a small drain on the battery all the time and the only solution is to remove the battery after use–unless of course you use the tool frequently. I do not, its mainly used to set themilling M/C head. I have spoken to the suppliers and they told me about the drain feature.

Has anyone else found the same problem?

P & P I was involved in M/O for many years and belive me guys you are not being over charged and the companies are definatly not into profit — quite the reverse in many cases they are subsidising the postage from their margin on the product.

I have the same battery drain problem with the genuine Wixey level and do remove the coin cell battery after each use.

I say genuine, that probably means that the name Wixey is genuine

Len. P.

It's poor circuit design. Good design using two cascaded FETs can reduce the off consumption to fractions of a nanoamp (sadly i forget the details). I have an 'always on' Sharp pocket computer that uses two 3V litium cells and the batteries still had life in after being left unused for ten years.

Neil

The reason for the battery drain is that you only switch off the didplay, have you noticed when you turn the item on it still remembers the setting when turned off. It is using the battery to keep the memory going, same with any of the digital measuring devices, any that ratain the previous reading will be using power.

Mine is also a Wixey, bought from the states when they first started doing them and before all the copies started to appear.

J