A half-decent Danish shopping site

Before anyone accuses me of excessive bias against expensive Danish retailers and high prices the MOMs differential goes nowhere near explaining, the last post reminded me of a highly recomended Danish shopping site I have used in the past.

Electrical spares here are very expensive in the DIY shops, and even the national newspapers had an article on it. Their advice was to try El Salg. I did, and even for a few simple things I needed that would have cost about 350kr in the shops, they did the identical, same brand goods for 179kr, including the postage.

So there you go, and since they charge the same MOMs, what more proof do you need of the high street rip-off taking place here?

and now the washing machine has had it too

Following on from the Tumble Dryer disaster, our washing machine has broken down too. Hardly worth fixing, since the local repair bloke will want something like 1000kr just to look at it, before he even starts with repairs.

Unlike the Tumble Dryer, we happen to have one in reserve (long story), although it has hot and cold fill, so we need some new plumbing accessories.

and now to the shopping bit...spares are a ridiculous price here. A washing machine fill hose is 165 krone (£15), and I can't even find one of those self-tapping washing machine plumbing units you can screw onto the pipe, even though I've measured it up and it's the same 15mm copper as back in the UK! Bottom line - expensive.

A browse around on Ebay solved our problem. There are many UK sellers willing to ship to Denmark for little more than the UK price. So I bought a washing machine hose for £3.85 including postage, and an adapter for £9.53, including postage. So less than one hose at Hjem n Fix. (and it arrived from the UK in 2 days!)

The moral of the story is that there is no need to pay the high Danish prices for anything any more. So please don't do it.