UK prices are hideously expensive, like £200+ ($400) for 5 eurocards with a
2-week turnaround. Trouble with Olimex is that I'm not giving my credit card number to anyone in Bulgaria nor using Western Union.The problem with the UK is that it's just such total rip off. I was charged £13 ($26) the other day for buying something in the States costing £22. This country is just a dump.
Looking at UV tubes right now.. £10 for single 12" UV tube. £10!! That's the cheapest round here where I can just walk in and buy. If I go to B&Q/Homebase they're about £20 and in fancy packaging with party goers all over them.
I dumped a load of laptop LCD screens at the rubbish tip the other day and had some jobsworth telling me I'd put them in the wrong bin, "they're LCD screens," I said pointing at the big plasma displays in there. He wanted me to put them in the metal bin as they were computers. Erm, no, they're all plastic you argumentative turd. "Do you want me to dump them in a lay by perhaps?" That's what all the sane people are doing. Go for a walk in the countryside, trip over a saucepan!
I HATE this bloody country. :-( Where I can't send my kids out to play football without some council official bringing them home saying they don't have insurance. Wot!! Insurance.
*rants*:-) That was meant to be slightly humourous of course. But really, the UK has just gone mad. You can't do anything if it isn't approved, stamped and monitored.