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Old 3rd Mar 2018, 4:51 pm   #220
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Default Re: Maplin stores

I used to go in a Maplin's shop quite a bit in the early to mid-'90s. Circumstances then curtailed my hobby activities and it was when I stated messing about with old radios that I went in again; that would have been 2011. I found, as has been said ad nausium, that they'd greatly reduced their range and upped the prices, as a result I got about half the things I'd gone in for. I think I've been in once since but came out empty-handed.

I now buy things in fifties or hundreds from China as they keep alright and even if I ultimately throw forty or ninety of them away I'll still be on the right side.

Luckily I very rarely need anything urgently so am happy to wait a few days, or weeks, for delivery. I'd have to be very desperate to pay £4 in 'bus fare to go to Maplin's specially, and if I leave it 'til I'm in the area that negates any speed advantage.
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