I was looking to purchase an item but when I went to check out I was informed I had to spend at least 30 pounds to have my order sent out. It was a bit of a bummer for me since I originally thought I was going to spend $16.00 US dollars plus shipping and then to find out I was required to spend over $60.00 with shipping on top of that, which means now I am spending ZERO. Even after I added the CR.42 LW and AB-41 I was way short!

I stopped ordering from them shortly after they started enforcing the "30 gbp" rule. All I wanted were some decals... I couldn't imagine it being so much of a hassle to ship a sheet of decals, but it's their choice... As a result my money went somewhere else.

It actually worked out for me even better, because I found out that most of the items I wanted are carried by Roll Models (http://www.rollmodels.net) and, for the most part, it's cheaper for me to get them from Roll than from Hannants. As always, no business affiliation - just a satisfied customer etc.

SeanSki
http://www.pme.org.pl
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"Car's grip is greatly reduced when wheels are not touching the ground" - Steve Matchett

..............you do not have to spend 30 GBPs if you order flat goods such as decals or books and etched material. So you can still buy your decals without the need of having a 30 GBP order.

I order from Hannants often and I have never had a problem.

Has bloody nothing to do with our hobby...just a slow Sunday morning. When we left Merrie Olde England (shortly after the Seven Years War and the Treaty of Ghent) my father brought home ten pounds a week working as a master moulder at the Sterling works in Coventry. Of course, back then you could make a meal on three penny's worth of fish and chips.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL:
They won't!

Hey Tim -

That's great! I used to get the stories about my Dad walking three miles each way to school in the wind, rain, sleet, and snow in Edinburgh. One day I made the fatal mistake of commenting "and I suppose it was uphill both ways?". That earned me a serious thrashing!

Cheers -

Malcolm

Can you imagine this thread over on the other treadhead site??? I guess the England I remember is ancient history, that Yorkshiremen actually DO drink French wine nowadays;-) My father...in his late thirties when we emigrated...had never driven a vehicle until we arrived here. My uncles, though, had a broader education: one rode motorcycle dispatch in Italy, the other learned to drive on Grants in North Africa. I came to this hobby late, after they had passed on...I never found out which regiments they served with, and regret that to this day.

I thought I was in a Monty Python sketch!

to survive on orders from the home market....because everyone I have emailed about this will spend no mo' money with them. As mentioned earlier....too many other options available.....such a waste of their marketshare.......

..............whenever I place a Hannants order I check with four or five friends to see what they want. We usually order all our unique to Britain items at that time.