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Thread ID: 117675	2011-04-28 23:55:00	Stores in new zealand like the $2 shop?	Question (15792)	PC World Chat

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1198016	2011-05-01 21:01:00	$2 shops are for little kids' parties and those who still believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. You get exactly what you pay for Of course. But you shop sensibly. I have bought a belt, used for years now. Greeting cards - $1 each. Good value. Someone sent me one and it said $6.50 on the back!!! Umbrella. No different from any other umbrella I've had.	pctek (84)
1198017	2011-05-02 06:53:00	So, 10% of your pens were faulty from the get-go then? I have a sets of highlighter pens that I've been using for well over 10 years, and they were neither expensive, nor dirt cheap. I'll lay odds that a $2 shop pen set will not last anything like as long as that. :D Cheers Billy 8-{) No, i bought a pack of 10 black pens. The highlighter pen was another item, and if i was still in Singapore i could easily go back for an exchange. As cheap as $2 sounds, I think you'll find a lot of the items for sale in $2 are actually a ripoff, especially when you take into account the quality (or lack of it) I've bought far more expensive pens that lasted only a few months. There are plenty of normal stores selling the same items for $10+, and its still the same quality. Now thats a ripoff.	Question (15792)
1198018	2011-05-02 07:02:00	No, i bought a pack of 10 black pens. The highlighter pen was another item, and if i was still in Singapore i could easily go back for an exchange. I've bought far more expensive pens that lasted only a few months. There are plenty of normal stores selling the same items for $10+, and its still the same quality. Now thats a ripoff. Perhaps before you left Singapore you should have made a large shopping list. :)	Snorkbox (15764)
1198019	2011-05-02 19:53:00	What about Dollar Value ? What has the world come to when we are full of ships selling cheap Chinese trinkets ?	Digby (677)
1198020	2011-05-03 10:27:00	Dollar value isnt even in auckland. Discount shops are a good thing because it allows people to stretch their dollar.	Question (15792)
1198021	2011-05-03 12:58:00	Sure, if you want USB cables for $2 that look like they'd short at a moment's notice and burn your USB controller (no doubt there'd be no fuse as you'd have cheaped out on the motherboard too and bought an ECS\PC-Chips) I had to repair a blown track on an ECS board once, because a USB device went faulty and where the polyfuses should have been there were only wire links!	Agent_24 (57)
1198022	2011-05-08 11:09:00	Funny this should come up now, but a friend helped me to buy some cheap international adapters(The kind for power sockets). One of them got fried the other day, somehow my plug burnt a hole right through it. No damage to anything except the adapter though. Well its so cheap that it doesnt matter, and it sure beats buying a $20+ adapter from noel lemming...	Question (15792)
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