The latest box of stuff from the swindlers ... sorry, chandlers ... arrived yesterday afternoon. No problem with the charts and stuff but I'm a little bit disappointed with the anchor kit
OK, the warp and chain is fine but the anchor is fairly rubbish - the flukes don't match, the galvanisation isn't terribly clever and it just looks really really cheap. Added to which the nice grey moulded plastic container to stow the rode depicted in the catalogue has mysteriously turned into a large white plastic tub with a seal type lid (of the sort used to contain paint etc.) - albeit sans seal - which has had a hole cut in it to take the warp - badly - with a sharp knife
The problem with this is ... the kit WAS really cheap! It was, by some margin, cheaper than buying the cheapest warp, chain, shackle and Danforth style anchor and assembling it all myself
So whilst I'm minded to have a winge, the truth is I suspect I've got what I paid for!
Hmmm... if the picture in the catalogue convinced you there should be a fitted case, and the text said the same, the that's what you have a right to expect, and I might demand it, or, given what else you've said, use it as a reason to send the whole lot back.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, though, you do get what you pay for... and if it looks too good to be true, etc, etc. Google the £200 Millionaire, that's our strategy. Buy the best - once.
I shall have a moan and angle for a freebie or discount off my next order :)
DeleteI would, ideally, be with you on "buy the best - once". It's a strategy that I like akin to the Vimes Boots Theory of Economics (which, for those unfamiliar with Discworld holds that a rich main pays $50 for a pair of boots which last him a decade but a poor main can only afford $10 for a pair of boots which last him just a year. After 10 years the poor man has spent twice as much on boots as the rich man AND STILL HAS WET FEET!)
On the other hand, the pot of money is strictly limited (I'm not allowed to break the boating budget on pain of pain!) and sometimes it's a case of "cheap will do for now", sometimes it's a case of "pay less for that and have that as well" and sometimes it's a case of "there's no point in spending more"