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shreddy



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Free Dicksmith Shipping Till the 7th of Jan 2010

dicksmiths will send out any online orders under 6kg free until the 7th of Jan 2010. thank god for that as the dicksmiths i was visiting somehow didn't have the cheap 18v drills i was looking for Confused
link> http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.filereader?4b2c659a0005a12a2741c0a87e01063f+EN/catalogs/PRS0006446
so yeh if you're after the 18v drills like me, they're 2.7kg each so only 2 per order. i would ditch the batteries if i could Laughing
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Yeah $40... cheap... Crying or Very sad I miss $15 drills Evil or Very Mad
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Post Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:49 pm 
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well i got my drills today considering they told me they were gonna be a week. i am happy nevertheless Very Happy
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All i can say to dicksmith anything is BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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I have to agree, my local one doesn't even sell ANY fecking drills at all, no more kits, electronic parts (they went ages ago) or anything that vaugly resembles what dicksmiths was 6 or so years ago.

They can GTFO. Dick never should have sold it overseas Sad
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jaycar isnt getting much better. the one i went to the relocated blacktown store the other day that was 3 rows of actual electronics and the rest was USB powered farting this or that haha
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Post Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:52 pm 
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I sent a nastygram to Jaycars MD about this sort of thing a few years ago when the stores first started filling up with fart joke gadgets and other novelty crap.

I would assume that I wasnt alone in doing so, because Next years catalog had a defensive letter from Gary Johnston (The MD) assuring everyone that they were still "Serious about Hardcore Electronics Enthusiasts", but that they had to sell a "broader appealing range of products to meet profit projections etc etc".

Translated - we can make more money selling crap to idiots than we can selling quality electronics to people who know what they are doing and wont buy $2 worth of rubbish for $20.

Since then its been on a steady downhill slide, and looking more and more like a Dick Smith or Tandy Store every day.

I would reccomend heading for Altronics instead these days. Theyre where Jaycar was 5 years ago, and as soon as a Melbourne store opened up down here, half the Jaycar staff immediately left and went to work for them instead. There is only 1 store in each state, but they do mail order as well
http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=cont

or if you're looking for harder to get Small Electronic bits, Rockby Electronics www.rockby.com.au is pretty good these days with a huge stock range, and a fast mail order service.
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jumping on the band wagon, there was a local guy here running worldwide electronics, http://members.iinet.net.au/~worcom/ , but rent prices were too high for the small amount of business he was getting so he still operates but out of home.
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