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[Bigron]

Not unusual for goods from China, DG, is it? Although they are often better than they predict.

Ron.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I did when ordering, but as I am in no hurry it doesn't matter, especially for that small price

[BazaJT]

Only caught a bit of the ad for the AA thing,so didn't know what it did or what cost.It'd have to do a whole lot more than that for me to consider such a thing and at £29 a year they can keep them.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I bet the AA will made shed loads of cash from this little device, until they end up on Watchdog!   

[tidla]

Bit like British Gas Hive

[Nick W]

I saw those, and can't see that they do anything more than a cheap Bluetooth OBD device and a copy of Torque on your phone. That's anything useful to you.

[omega2018]

This is a bit cheaper, Lizzie:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LED-Car-Battery-Digital-Meter-Monitor-Volt-Voltmeter-Gauge-Cigar-Lighter-Plug-/262729724598?hash=item3d2be972b6:g:7CwAAOSwHMJYNAER

and doesn't have an annual fee!

Ron.

i've got one of those, they are great.  didn't get it as cheap as that though

[Kevin Wood]

So, you can pay £29 a year to allow the AA to stalk you.

I wonder who they're selling the data to?

[Varche]

This is a bit cheaper, Lizzie:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LED-Car-Battery-Digital-Meter-Monitor-Volt-Voltmeter-Gauge-Cigar-Lighter-Plug-/262729724598?hash=item3d2be972b6:g:7CwAAOSwHMJYNAER

and doesn't have an annual fee!

Ron.

My hobby horse. How do the produce that, package, post and admin it for £1.49.

[Bigron]

Agreed, Mr. Varche; I have often wondered about exactly that from so many goods from China. Even if they didn't work (they do) there are still significant costs involved. Our own Post Office can't manage such low carriage rates and they don't have to use a boat from thousands of miles away!
There must be a hidden agenda, something that I have missed, surely?
Anyone clever able to answer this?   

Ron.

[Doctor Gollum]

This is a bit cheaper, Lizzie:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LED-Car-Battery-Digital-Meter-Monitor-Volt-Voltmeter-Gauge-Cigar-Lighter-Plug-/262729724598?hash=item3d2be972b6:g:7CwAAOSwHMJYNAER

and doesn't have an annual fee!

Ron.

My hobby horse. How do the produce that, package, post and admin it for £1.49.

Simple... they've made 100,000 of them...

5,000 units covers the cost of producing all 100,000 units, a further 20,000 covers the global shipping in a container to a convenient first world hub, the remaining 75,000 units are gravy

Do that ten times in ten different colours and you've a nice little business. Add an led for the next batch and so on...

[Sir Tigger KC]

Chinese factory workers getting paid about a penny a week! 

[Varche]

I think they are hugely subsidised by Chinese government.

I bought a perfectly serviceable external spare wheel cover for £2.49. Several years ago I went to buy one today for an elderly neighbour and they are now a whopping £11.all inc postage. It says may take six weeks , so come to a container port hub in Europe I suspect.

Spain now has an enormous "pound shop" infrastructure which I am convinced is a money or drug laundering front. I cannot see how they make enough from the small footfall.

[STEMO]

Agreed, Mr. Varche; I have often wondered about exactly that from so many goods from China. Even if they didn't work (they do) there are still significant costs involved. Our own Post Office can't manage such low carriage rates and they don't have to use a boat from thousands of miles away!
There must be a hidden agenda, something that I have missed, surely?
Anyone clever able to answer this?   

Ron.

The Chinese government are behind these companies and have installed software that will stop every car using one when the secret code is transmitted. Other devices will wreak havoc on whatever they're plugged into. Obviously really.

[Nick W]

Agreed, Mr. Varche; I have often wondered about exactly that from so many goods from China. Even if they didn't work (they do) there are still significant costs involved. Our own Post Office can't manage such low carriage rates and they don't have to use a boat from thousands of miles away!
There must be a hidden agenda, something that I have missed, surely?
Anyone clever able to answer this?   

Ron.

The Chinese government are behind these companies and have installed software that will stop every car using one when the secret code is transmitted. Other devices will wreak havoc on whatever they're plugged into. Obviously really.

don't forget the cumulative mind-control drugs that are delivered by camouflaged drones to all the Chinese takeaways. They'll be activated by a carrier wave broadcast by all the cheap tat imported over the last thirty years, and we'll all be sleeping in the shed whilst our new masters occupy 'our' houses.