Spellbinders and same,Wow

[Patsy]

Do they really think we can all afford these machines,its ok if you make loads of cards to sell,but the average person at home just enjoying a bit of card making,its toooooo much money.And the way they say its only £200,get on the phone quick makes me laugh.:taphead:

[RozMinis]

Well I'm afraid I am one who thought stuff it, and bought the lot as a rissy prezzie to myself. Normally I don't bother with the huge kits, but Paul sold it to me this morning. I really can't live without it. Paid £49+ this morning, the remaining £47+ over the following three months, plus I get the cash back thingie. Next time I go to Barnsley I must nip into Iconuk and invest in a pack or two of the 8 x 8 cards. ;)

Roz

[suban]

The problem is that they seem to bring out these whopping bundles every month. So I pay £50 today, next month I pay a further £50, buy the next whopping bundle on flexipay, so that's another £40-50, then the following month 2 flexipays + the new set on flexi pay, by month 4 and thereafter I'm coughing up £200 a month. Now where the heck am I going to keep getting money like that. OK I get a job - couple of months later I'm laid off. Now well and truly stuffed!!!

[englishminx]

That is one reason i didnt go for them (well that and i dont like half of them), but i still have another flexipay to pay in October from the July Spellbinders POW, so couldnt justify having 2 flexipays of over £50 going out in October. Also I am sure i am going to want some of the things on Sues show on Sunday.

I could easily go bankrupt with the money i feel tempted to spend on crafty stash, but I have to keep reminding myself it is just a hobby, not a business.

[hobbit]

I also caved in and ordered them... but I like pretty much all of them, so I thought it was worth it. Fingers crossed I still think that when they arrive!!!

[LoobyLou]

Suban has made a point that occurred to me only today, lol. Eventually you will be paying out all your wages/income on flexipays to keep up with all the huge bundle deals you purchased from CC

[suban]

And lets face it Louby, once you open a flexi basket..... so the flexipayments usually grow from just £45 a payment.

[craftycat]

Some of us don't do flexibaskets though, or anything else from C&C.

LOL, changing the subject, did you know that if you don't concentrate and put your ickle fingers on the wrong keys, "flexibaskets" comes out as "tp4d9hweo6e"? I was merrily typing away and then thought, "what the heck is this computer up to now"

Off to my basket now, I've had a busy day.

[englishminx]

No craftycat you are not off to your basket, you are off to your hweo6e

[Millburn]

I agree with Suban; it could very easily end up with you paying out £200 every month with spellbinders POTD offers; I there was 1 set I am really tempted to buy, the standing wheat :blush: boy am I a Farmers' wife, down to my very soul :D

[RozMinis]

hahaha, jyrrjh'z. ;)

Ah now normally I don't go for these things, usually 'cos I don't like most of 'em. But well, this time I loved them all. Would have liked to have seen Paul do somat with that lovely gate though, or maybe I missed it as I didn't see all the shows. :(

I've been paying £100 a month into one of my savings accounts for quite a while, so that has just about paid for all the goodies I have bought over the last few months. Two laptops, goodies from Jane Greenoff, and a few extra bits and bobs from C & C. The other savings account is also very healthy, and there is even £180+ left in the current account from our pensions last week.

I worked out that the first payment won't be due on my credit card until November. Though naughty me was supposed to have paid off the current statement this morning, but I sort of forgot in the excitement of not getting wet! No matter, it isn't due until the 11th of October. I'll be in need of bananas long before then. Providing it isn't chucking it down on Monday I should get to the stitching group, so I can pay it at one of the banks in Barnsley.

Wonder how much longer I will have to wait for my compensation, and how much it would be. It isn't that I'm in any great hurry, but I would like to know. Think if I haven't heard by next Tuesday I am going to be emailing Jeremy to find out what is going on. I am especially concerned about that £14.80 for that taxi fare to Rotherham. High time the sods coughed up I reckon. :(

£12.08 cashback by the way. ;)

Roz

[lynnieb]

Well, I don't smoke, hardly drink, rarely go out, so crafting is my vice. That is my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!

[craftycat]

No craftycat you are not off to your basket, you are off to your hweo6e

or to the jw8yu67 step again. Which is much more fun than bothering to read some of the posts around here. And if that comment offends anyone - tough.

[LoobyLou]

Well I have never opened a Flexibasket either. I have had the odd thing on easypay from QVC, but generally those sale items or on the rare occasions when they had it in the old days on their craft days. Up until I purchased this Grand Calibur deal I hadn't bought from CC for must be 5 years! I only bought this time because it was a) cheap and b) I was able to pay with paypal and not give them my credit card details to retain ad infinitum. However, I had forgotten that their CS is shyte and of course I would be the one person who had a problem and needed to return a faulty machine. I am up to 3 emails sent now and 3 proforma replies informing me they will deal with my issue raised as soon as possible. Clearly it is impossible to deal with an issue in 4 days, because they either only have one person able to answer mails or they employ hundreds to do the job but receive thousands of complaints each day.

[englishminx]

Looby I have never had an email that didnt appear to be autoresponsed. If i were you i would contact Gareth direct, otherwise you will get no where.

[sharica]

Ditto .. I Dont smoke, Hardly drink and may go out once a year for a meal with the craft class so this is my thing ..

The other day someone asked me how i could afford all this stuff because she could not .. She smoke 20 a day at least now i dont know how much they are now but i bet a couple of packs is equivilent to a set of dies .. :) ..

EDIT OMG I have just googled and its over £7.50 for 20 regal kings (Thats what i used to smoke 10 yrs ago .. xx

[sam]

Dean was saying on Dawns later show on Tuesday that he thought the Spellbinders offer might sell out on the launch show. Well I noticed that on the 10 minutes or so of the show that I saw around tea time on Wednesday that they had sold 70 per cent. Perhaps crafters pockets aren't as deep as Dean seems to think, either that or people won't just buy anything that Spellbinders put their name to.

[suban]

Or possibly people were buying the single sets!!!

[debo]

I DIDN'T buy a magazine this morning with my weekly shop (I very often do), so I reckon that's a fiver I can put aside for crafty stash this week. Also, I don't smoke, so that must be a good £5 a day saved, so that's £40 I can spend guilt free this week.
£40 for 52 weeks = £2080 a year! Hmmm...lots of goodies!!! Where's that flexibasket.........

[Teacherspet]

I gave up smoking when they cost about £2 a pack............. if they are now £7 a pack then I'm saving around £50 a week (£200 a month) and compared to that my craft spending is about half of that. So I don't think I'm being extragant spending on my stash. If I add in the fact I don't go on holidays then I'm being quite frugal really :tongue:

But when alls said and done there's no point buying what you won't use and many of that bundle were not my cup of tea and sadly the couple of dies I would have liked to buy were gone when I saw the show. I don't mind waiting and getting then a bit cheaper (I hope) when others start stocking them.

[craftycat]

I gave up smoking 30 years ago - cost even then was getting stupid, especially as I had was smoking over 20 a day.

I do like a glass of wine with my evening meal but I don't go on holiday, don't socialise much. So my card crafting, and embroidery can be budgeted for without too much of a struggle. I do appreciate though that very many people are on very limited incomes. I certainly wouldn't choose to buy a Spellbinder mega bundle of the sort C&C offers though. Partly because there are always items I don't like or that I own already.

As well as that of course, buying from different sources means I have a lovely excuse to browse - for hours at a time if I am in the mood. Almost another hobby!

[Millburn]

well my not smoking (stopped 5 yrs ago) saves me about £120 a week :blush: it paid for some lovely new furniture when this new house was finished :D

[Victoria]

Dean was saying on Dawns later show on Tuesday that he thought the Spellbinders offer might sell out on the launch show. Well I noticed that on the 10 minutes or so of the show that I saw around tea time on Wednesday that they had sold 70 per cent. Perhaps crafters pockets aren't as deep as Dean seems to think, either that or people won't just buy anything that Spellbinders put their name to.

I wonder if Sue would have made a difference to sales? I can't help feeling that the shows were lacking inspiration in one way or another.

[RozMinis]

Don't smoke either, don't often drink, can't on these tablets anyway. A bottle of whisky/whiskey lasts 'himself' a year.

I totted up how much it would cost at a fiver for a pack of 20, nearly fainted when I discovered how much that would have added up to over the week if we both smoked 20 a day. Don't even want to think about it if they are over £7 a packet. At least it explains why we usually have a fair bit left from our pensions at the end of the week, while the couple who live next door kept coming round asking if they could borrow various things. I say kept, we no longer supply them with whatever they want as they never brought the item back. I shudder to think how many cigs they go through in a day, but it is a lot more than 20 each.

My GC arrived today. I checked it out for problems, but apart from the doorbell not working when the lady brought them, there is no problems with my GC. Fluffits now enjoying diving in and out of the empty box. Simple things seem to amuse them far more than expensive toys. ;) My Spellbinders goodies might arrive either tomorrow or Saturday. Have to be good and put them away for Christmas though. ;)

Haven't had a holiday in yonks. Should have gone away last year but that bliddy woman and her rotten driving put paid to that. We were going to book a trip to Wales this September, but that was cancelled after the previous spell of wet weather when everything was flooded. No doubt they are flooded out again. :(

Roz

[Rentochops]

ROFL I love crafters justifying their spending, I don't spend £200 a week on vino, I still think Spellbinders are a bit of an addiction!

[Dax]

ROFL I love crafters justifying their spending, I don't spend £200 a week on vino, I still think Spellbinders are a bit of an addiction!

I agree ROC. So is buying all things crafty. :giggle: My excuse is we can't take it with us, so enjoy while we can. As long as I have the money to pay for my addiction I don't worry. Don't smoke, only drink occasionally and home all day got to do something other than the dreaded HW. :grin:

[suban]

Those of us on wee budgets (running a home on under £100 a week) can't afford the big bundles - simples! Please give us better options.