The New French Forum

Our SuperU has all sorts of soy sauce,noodles etc but there is no sign of any stir fry oil. Is it available here or is there a suitable alternative?
Thanks in advance

Unlike previous years Mrs LG will not be able to do the the UK Grand Tour to visit tout le monde and drop off Christmas gifts. Can anybody recommend websites offering gifts for delivery to or delivery within the UK. Any suggestions for things to send would also be welcome.

We have used this method before for some of our furthest family. We have...

Ours finally decided to fall out of the door tonight, it looks pretty knackered. We have been trying to fit it back in for a while now so it was just a question of time. The fire is nearly 10 years old.

My question is are they a bog standard fit that you cut to size? Do you have to go for the woodburner model ie Godin? Or can the local brico ones...

Special offer in Leader Price this week, 400g boxes for just over 3 euros, so now have two boxes safely hidden away here. Same size box in Intermarche this morning was just under 6 euros, just sharing that info in case there is someone else on here that enjoys them too and needs to restock :P

We use our dolce gusto at least once a day when home, spotted a box in Lidl for cappuccino to be used with this. It was quite a bit cheaper than the dolce gusto cappuccino we usually buy and having just had a cup I can say it was just as nice so if anyone else uses a dolce gusto, you might like to try them too.

Similar packaging...

Have all Lidls cut out or down on their supply of W5 and associated stuff? In three of their shops there are no longer any W5 air freshener aerosols, draw string plastic bags, dish washing sponges or microfibre dusters. It seems as if a heap of useful things have disappeared. Is it just our local shops or is it in other areas too?

They did this a...

The shops are full of bargains at the moment. A few whisky gift boxes selling cheaper than the standard item, with a couple of glasses or a novel box thrown in. Ideal for Christmas presents or those long cold dark nights with the one you love. The whisky, no your chick.

I have recently posted a compound mitre saw for sale on LeBonCoin, and have been inundated with scam messages.

Is there any better place to advertise proper tools/gear?

Can they be advertised on here? I've not found it yet if the answers yes!

Are LeBonCoin remotely interested in these issues? Their forum is full of comment, but they do not...

I know the weight of kitchen appliances etc has been an issue for some of my relatives so thought this might be of interest to others here.

Do you know of a source of good, dry cured bacon for delivery in France?

Morning all

Intermarché have some good wine offers on at the moment, some with 20% off and some with 10% off if you have an advantage card.........Some are also buy 2 get 1 free or buy 4 get 2 free etc......more details here. I have bought a fair bit to take back to the UK.

JD

I bought a security camera on Amazon, it was supposed to be delivered today. But I then noticed on Amazon tracking that they say that 'Unfortunately a problem occurred during shipping and they had to cancel my delivery. The package is being returned and they will refund me in 5-7 days.' I checked on Amazon and the price had gone up from £66.36 +...

I started a dispute with Paypal for an unreceived item. I started the dispute on 6 July, have a case number etc. but the delay to ending the dispute, I mean the date it should be settled keeps being extended

I've tried to contact them by email but nothing happens when I click on the email icon.

Does anyone know an email address for paypal...

This may have been around for some time but I was unaware of it.

Often I find articles that I want in the €5-€20 range on Amazon at a good price but the delivery often is offputting (I know its not a loaded price) and I can never think of something else to buy to put it over the €25 free delivery threshold & I think sometimes even that hasn't...

..Morning,

We're are in the early stages of seeing if it is possible to purchase some household items from a UK source who won't ship to France .

If the items are packaged as a single load it would probably be in a box very roughly 125X60X30 cm, 20'ish kg in weight, though might be better shipped as a split load of maybe 5 or 6 packages.....

Our lave linge is leaking badly and whilst I think I know where it is coming from I'm not sure I can sort it. So it's a new one in view.

Has anyone bought a new one recently, say around 450 euros ?
I think we need 8kg.
Have seen a Thomson tw148 locally at Darty and it is the last day of the sale. It would be reduced to 429€.
Your views...

My wife bought an ergonomic computer chair from Amazon France at the weekend. Noticed today from the tracking details that it was being despatched from a third party seller. I checked on the sellers website and the same chair was heavily discounted. Even the delivery price was cheaper than that of the Amazon site.
So lesson learnt, check when...

Here in uk no one appears to be using cash anymore, in France there appeared to be more reluctance to use a card, has that changed or will I still be able to use cash?

My Komatsu G3800 chain saw refused to start recently, despite me replacing the plug. I took it to a local motoculture supply and repair shop I've used in the past and after examining it the chap said it needs a new carb, which I thought strange, but I'm no expert. It is at least 10 years old and up to now has been reliable. The quote for replacing...

We bought an iron from Lidl which has now stopped working. It powers up, but doesn't get hot, so I guess the heating element has had it. As I couldn't remember when we bought it (nowt unusual there) I imagined it was out of the guarantee period, but when I checked my receipts file I noted we bought it in March 2018 and it is guaranteed for three...

Hi
I think I need to buy a Kindle but am not sure whether I can download books from both the French Amazon site and also the Uk site. I use Amazon Uk, France and Canada (for gift vouchers). I think I understand correctly that I should buy the Kindle from the French site as that is where I live and have my delivery address.
I will want to download...

It's a first world problem, but there's a lack of English teas in our Leclerc and Intermarché. Can anyone recommend a tea among the French range available that approaches the taste of English tea? I drink mine with milk and sugar.

Just noticed on twitter that Amazon are changing their terms of trading after the end of this year and are separating out the U.K. from their European offerings. This seems to mean that traders who take advantage of their warehousing offering will have to either restrict sales or hold warehousing stock in The eu and in the U.K. Or potentially pay...

At the risk of offending Captain Morgan .......................... I don't really like the coleslaw you get in french supermarkets. It's too râpée for me, so no crunch, and the sauce is not sharp enough. In the UK I was addicted, especially to the low calorie stuff which was sharper, it was an ever present in a sandwich of cheese, beef, ham, all...

I am trying to order a dishwasher online from the Ikea.fr website, but if a) I can add one to the basket, when I go for delivery to a store/retrait, all say No stock available.....or b) if I select other dishwashers they say not possible for delivery. Are places like Ikea back to normal delivery schedules yet?

JD