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Wingy
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
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Location: Fife, Scotland
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I've been doing a bit of surfing tonight looking at pressure canners and found apart from Lehman's, Ace Hardware will ship to the UK, most others don't.
Bebo - has yours arrived yet? |
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Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: East Sussex
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Wingy
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
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Location: Fife, Scotland
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 08 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Isn't it ridiculous that the shipping costs are more than the actual item itself. Presto seems to be the most popular/available brand of pressure canners online that I've come across. Have you used one before?
I've contacted Ace Hardware to find out how much shipping would be to the UK - I'll post here what they say. They're located in NY.  I'm at that point where one would be very useful indeed, as I'm constantly fighting with my freezers for room. |
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Sarah D
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 08 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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MrD rates Ace Hardware very highly, but bought when was over there, good quality stuff, he said. |
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Wingy
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Posts: 266
Location: Fife, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 08 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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I quite like the fact that you can choose which carrier Ace uses to ship the product(s), but because of that their shipping costs are higher. So... from Ace Hardware, shipping to Fife via UPS, DHL, Fed-Ex comes in at $166.89 = £86 according to Reuters online currency converter.
Taking into account the cost of shipping + product, it works out to £35 more expensive to purchase the same canner from Ace Hardware but that would be using a courier service rather than postal services.
I don't know of anyone going to the USA in the near future and it's not on my holiday itinerary this year or next, sadly. |
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Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 6048
Location: East Sussex
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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It's here! Presto 23 quart pressure canner arrived this morning. I'm all excited now, but I'm working the next couple of days so I won't get the opportunity to play with it until the weekend. |
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spirals
Joined: 28 Sep 2008
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 08 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Bebo wrote: |
| OK I've done it. 23quart Presto Pressure Canner on its way from California for the grand sum of $170 dollars including delivery. |
Hi, we are in the market for something similar, can you give me the URL of the outfit you got it from as lots of US outlets are Con US (i.e US mainland only), thanks in advance spirals [deep in the bogs of ireland!] () ! |
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Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: East Sussex
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 08 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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That was it spiral. It did arrive fairly quickly considering and I've used it a couple of times. |
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spirals
Joined: 28 Sep 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 08 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for the URL and the warning re botulism nasty stuff. (dja.) [spirals is an research entity - dja. is "the" person at spirals]. |
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