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Jasonovich said:
Annoying also, when you form a queue at the new checkout, you're still waiting for the cashier to arrive and you're watching the few people who were behind you in the old queue, who decided to stay put, heading off with their bagged up shopping to the car park!
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Online shopping solves that problem, our’s is delivered every Tuesday.
 
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Friesiansam said:
Online shopping solves that problem, our’s is delivered every Tuesday.
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We do a bit of both actually, for the big shopping (and raw lamb hearts for the cats) it's Tesco online, for the casual shopping it's over to the local supermarket.

Tesco's online they like to milk the customer; you need £50 minimum shopping otherwise they'll charge you extra for the handling, so it makes sense to shop small for the ad-hoc stuff.
 
Jasonovich said:
Annoying also, when you form a queue at the new checkout, you're still waiting for the cashier to arrive and you're watching the few people who were behind you in the old queue, who decided to stay put, heading off with their bagged up shopping to the car park!
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I'm slowly learning to take my daughter's advice. Stop stressing about the queues, if they open another one, just stay put we're not in a rush. If we are specifically asked to go to another till and the original queue moves faster stay calm. 😵‍💫
 
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Agents/promoters and the prices they charge. I took my daughter to Manchester Comiccon at the weekend and she paid to meet an actor and get his autograph etc not a major star but he played a character she was besotted with. £60 for an autograph £60 for a professional photograph and even £60 for a member of staff to take a photo with my daughter's own phone. So she spent £180. The promoters put the digital files up yesterday of the professional photos. You'd think when you've paid for the photo in the first place you would get a code for the digital file....No another £7 for the digital file. I wonder how much of that money the actual actors get? For bigger stars you're paying £££'s
 
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Cricketbat70 said:
No another £7 for the digital file.
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That's taking the...

We've got quite a collection of signed stuff, almost all from eBay*, a few in person or by post.

(*I always buy from someone who's in one of the trade bodies - there's AFTAL and another whose name escapes me - if they are prepared to pay to go on courses and maintain their membership, that suggests good things. Plus check online to see if the sig looks like it should.)
 
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That's taking the...

We've got quite a collection of signed stuff, almost all from eBay*, a few in person or by post.
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The two photographs, first one taken with my daughter's own phone after she'd got the autograph and the second one, the professional photo done a few hours later in the photo booth.
 

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Cricketbat70 said:
Agents/promoters and the prices they charge. I took my daughter to Manchester Comiccon at the weekend and she paid to meet an actor and get his autograph etc not a major star but he played a character she was besotted with. £60 for an autograph £60 for a professional photograph and even £60 for a member of staff to take a photo with my daughter's own phone. So she spent £180. The promoters put the digital files up yesterday of the professional photos. You'd think when you've paid for the photo in the first place you would get a code for the digital file....No another £7 for the digital file. I wonder how much of that money the actual actors get? For bigger stars you're paying £££'s
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As I read that I just think, I'm glad I don't care about celebrity culture, so much money saved...
 
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Revolutions said:
Was he in Star Trek then?

Also, the phone photo is better lit than the "professional" one. Hope your daughter enjoyed it, even if your wallets didn't 😢
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No Star Wars the Acolyte. My daughter loved the series and his character but it got a lot of hate and cancelled after one series. My daughter has just reminded me that she also paid another £3 for a certificate of authentication for the autograph but forgot to ask for it at the time as she was so nervous and excited about meeting him. She paid for everything online before the event.
 
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Cricketbat70 said:
No Star Wars the Acolyte. My daughter loved the series and his character but it got a lot of hate and cancelled after one series. My daughter has just reminded me that she also paid another £3 for a certificate of authentication for the autograph but forgot to ask for it at the time as she was so nervous and excited about meeting him. She paid for everything online before the event.
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£££ come and go, experiences last a lifetime ♥️

p.s. Star Trek was a bad joke after seeing his lightsaber. Sorry 😬
 
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£££ come and go, experiences last a lifetime ♥️

p.s. Star Trek was a bad joke after seeing his lightsaber. Sorry 😬
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No sorry I should have twigged very slow on the up take🤦‍♂️It's my daughter's light sabre by the way. Her brother bought it for her as a present two weeks ago. It is modelled after the one he uses. Annoyingly it was broken so it wouldn't switch on for the photo. Thankfully the company it was bought from have a stall at the comic con and repaired it for her later. These are the expensive ones with the blade made from the same material as riot shields. I couldn't believe the number of different designs they sold, all based on light sabres that have been in the films and TV shows.
 
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