This is a warning to anyone thinking about buying anything from the catalogue chain store Argos. I have had so much trouble with them that I thought I would share it with anyone who reads this blog, which is no-one. It’s not the quality of service or anything like that as that is usually good. It’s just that every time I buy anything from them I end up with some crappy looking piece of tat that doesn´t even remotely resemble what was seen in the magazine, and that breaks sometimes even before I get it out of the box.
I have bought all sorts of stuff from them over the past few years. Storage boxes, drawers, bed side tables, book shelves and even a set of knives, they are all as flimsy as paper and I have even broken them trying to put them together. The set of knives were made of steel and I had to take them back because there was a massive dent in it. The last thing I bought was a set of 3 storage boxes, two of which had broken handles which where concealed in tape so we only noticed then when we got home. But they were so flimsy that one of them is already beyond use, and I only bought them 2 weeks ago.
So if you want sub-standard rubbish, or you are the sort of person who doesn´t know the difference, then shop Argos!