Outlet Items

C-Lion said:

You may have noted from a different thread that I would like the Kelly Hoppen throw with the two matching cushions:-

https://www.qvcuk.com/outlet-k-by-kelly-hoppen-luxury-faux-fur-throw-%26-set-of-2-cushions.product.831488.html#reviewsContainer

This. Morning I rang Customer Services and inquired as to why it was a TSV and £49.98, yet this one is listed as £68.28.

She said it’s an outlet price, so it may have been returned not in its original packaging etc etc.

I asked why it would be more expensive than the TSV given that this is an outlet and she said that the price was set and the TSV was a max 27 hour offer.

Am I missing something?

It’s been sent out to a customer maybe it has been used - sent back not necessarily in its original packaging yet it is more expensive than the original TSV!

Surely it should be cheaper ? Can anyone explain this?

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Guy Andrews said:

Received two Outlet orders today - Lock & Lock set with hinge broken and Kelly Hoppen pillar faux candles without batteries - CS answered within seconds - refunded of first faulty set refunded (no return required order value £13) and £5 credit for missing 4 C type batteries - fourth Outlet order received with obvious faults and think I got a CS rep at the end of her shift - but love my glass TSV Lock & Lock though

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C-Lion said:

I am really concerned about plastic usage in cooking.

There has been a good amount of debate recently on the cancer rates and I just remain massively concerned that this has links with plastic being heated up - during cooking with food - and also that non stick coating. I know in America a while back the non stick had some links to known carcinogens. The EU banned certain types of it a long time ago.

That is why I try to use ‘natural as possible’ cooking products. Glass, stainless steel, wood (chopping boards and utensils) and ceramic. Even my cat and dog have ceramic bowls. Sounds OTT I know but my late Mum would not have plastic cooking items either. She was a specialist cancer nurse for a while.

It is pretty much impossible to eradicate plastic in our lives though - it’s everywhere from the food it comes wrapped in, containers of liquid (milk, fizzy drinks, juice etc) to the kitchen items and appliances, through to the dashboard and fit outs in our cars, to the fleece material we wear and use in our homes. It’s a nightmare, but if you can reduce it in heating and cooking I am quite sure it will help.

The Lock and Lock set I bought on TSV does have the plastic lid, but I will only use that for freezing and covering over (like raw onion for the fridge). When I come to heat in the microwave I put a plate over the top. I don’t really use the microwave too much either. Maybe I am a bit OCD after all

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Samki said:

I have a parrot and have long been aware of non stick pans and plastics in cooking - they can give off fumes that are toxic to birds

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Toril said:

My glass L&L set arrived yesterday.

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C-Lion said:

That’s quick given they are quoting 5-7 days for delivery due to the warehouse being reconfigured!

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Samki said:

I have a parrot and have long been aware of non stick pans and plastics in cooking - they can give off fumes that are toxic to birds

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alter ego said:

Hence the canaries kept in coal mines.

However, I came across several very interesting consultants during my time in the NHS. One lung specialist I worked with hated people keeping birds indoors due to psittacosis transmission.

I lived in a coal mining area at the time. The specialist would despair at all the old miners he saw with pneumoconiosis from coal dust refusing to give up their budgies and parrots even when he explained keeping them could make them very ill.

Even though PFOAS have been banned and non-stick cookware is supposedly safe, all the items I've considered buying in the last decade have warned not to use higher than medium heat.

Someone needs to tell that awful Clodagh on This Morning that as she was insisting we all get the pan as hot as possible for her frying pan pizza earlier this week.

Lots of commercial kitchens use aluminium pans yet they've known for decades that heated aluminium cooking pots are a risk for dementia.

We're damned if we do, damned if we don't but heat seems to be a factor when it comes to kitchen items. I'm happy to use a microwave (as long as I'm a few feet away when they're on) as I understand the physics of the process, but I don't heat food up in anything other than glass or stainless steel these days. Even my plates and mugs are glass as the glaze on some dishes is suspect (especially if imported from places like China).

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alter ego said:

Hence the canaries kept in coal mines.

However, I came across several very interesting consultants during my time in the NHS. One lung specialist I worked with hated people keeping birds indoors due to psittacosis transmission.

I lived in a coal mining area at the time. The specialist would despair at all the old miners he saw with pneumoconiosis from coal dust refusing to give up their budgies and parrots even when he explained keeping them could make them very ill.

Even though PFOAS have been banned and non-stick cookware is supposedly safe, all the items I've considered buying in the last decade have warned not to use higher than medium heat.

Someone needs to tell that awful Clodagh on This Morning that as she was insisting we all get the pan as hot as possible for her frying pan pizza earlier this week.

Lots of commercial kitchens use aluminium pans yet they've known for decades that heated aluminium cooking pots are a risk for dementia.

We're damned if we do, damned if we don't but heat seems to be a factor when it comes to kitchen items. I'm happy to use a microwave (as long as I'm a few feet away when they're on) as I understand the physics of the process, but I don't heat food up in anything other than glass or stainless steel these days. Even my plates and mugs are glass as the glaze on some dishes is suspect (especially if imported from places like China).

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Samki said:

I have a long list - I can’t use scented candles, certain cookware etc as it’s toxic for him. I know there are risks of lung disease from birds.
I just wish he would have the same considerations instead of throwing all his seed out on a daily basis and intimidating the cats

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Samki said:

I have a long list - I can’t use scented candles, certain cookware etc as it’s toxic for him. I know there are risks of lung disease from birds.
I just wish he would have the same considerations instead of throwing all his seed out on a daily basis and intimidating the cats

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alter ego said:

I put seed out for the birds. The finches are notorious seed-flingers! The dunnocks are like little hoovers under the feeders, though. A relief as I don't want rats here.

Our neighbours are a bit dirty. They put dog and cat food outside the back door and just leave it there. They top it up every day but never clean the dishes. The flies in the summer here were awful so I assume they were coming from there. Though it might have been from the rubbish they piled against the fence and never put out. They also put a whole sliced loaf out in the bird bath and leave it there. They left their outdoor light on one night and I glanced out of the bathroom window as I closed it to see a whole family of rats all over the food out there.

They never answer the door so ignored Mr. AE's knocking and the note we put through the door asking them to please remove old food was also ignored. When we saw rats running across our patio in broad daylight we contacted the council (they're council tenants in a private house). They told us they'd had complaints from the neighbour the other side and two neighbours opposite who had also seen rats coming from the rubbish pile in daylight. They sent someone around and it was all cleaned up but it all re-appears a few months down the line until one of us gets fed up and has to ring the council again.

They need dogs like ours as food is wolfed down in seconds and one of them will sit under the feeders trying to catch the seeds. The other one is a bit more savvy and does a "dunnock" at the end of the day. I did think about fencing the feeders off when there was bird flu around but my two Springers would need a Colditz-style fence to keep them out!

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