Circulon Owners???

player_smurf, Oct 2, 6:14am
Just been looking at website in USA for Circulon Infinite and want DH to bring me back a frypan as it is dirt cheap over there!Anyone got a frypan/skillet and what size is best? Any other recommendations...may as well weigh his suitcase down good and proper!
cookessentials, Oct 2, 9:05am
I have the 20cm and 28 cm, the deep 26cm without lid and the bakeware. I also sell it. The best combination is what they call a "tryme" pack which is made up of a 24 and a 28cm. The 24 is a great size for omelettes,crepes etc and the larger one for bigger meals. The tryme packs always work out alot cheaper than buying the same two sizes individually.
player_smurf, Oct 5, 6:52am
Got an 11" frypan for US$29.99...saw the same one in Stevens on sale for $95!!!!!
cookessentials, Oct 5, 7:12am
Bear in mind it is not costing you anything to ship it! You are looking at NZD$40 for the pan if you do the conversion....freight from USA is very expensive, it can be as much as the price of the pan NZD
player_smurf, Oct 5, 6:49pm
NO...We just pay way too much for stuff in lil ole NZ....bought a silicon oven mitt in USA for $19.99....same one here is $60!Why is it we can buy LEvis in USA for $25 and yet they are in excess of $150 here??? It's not all about freight.......
cookessentials, Oct 5, 8:18pm
Have you ever bought product into New Zealand? I am lucky with alot of our USA product as I buy it direct from a distributor there. 90% of stuff bought in here comes from a distributor in New Zealand who add their mark up and they usually are tagged in with a parent distributor in Australia who also put on their markup, add the freight and there you have it. There are certain things I wont bring in because the shipping can cost more than the article itself! If you are happy to pay an air ticket to go to the USA to buy products, thats great. Just bear in mind, you wont have any comeback in regards to guarantees either. I buy certain items that another retailer in NZ buys, from the same distributor in the States, yet they are about $25 dearer than me for exactly the same product. That is why i often buy alot from the USA because with some things, i can retail it at not much more than the NZ wholesale price. By the time it goes through all the different hands on it;s way here and each has "clipped the ticket" the NZ customer WILL pay more, its simple maths.
player_smurf, Oct 5, 8:34pm
Um...my husband owns a company in the USA so we spend a lot of time going back and forwards, we have a home there...I am lucky and always pick up awesome bargains.It just makes me realise how much we pay for stuff here..be it TV's, linen, books or pharmaceutical products!!!
m41, Oct 7, 7:45pm
Agree player smurf nz is way to expensive and sayin shippings expensive doesn`t just cut it the retailers are greedy we ship and its not bad nzer pay far to much and if they boycotted things prices would come down pretty smart :)
cookessentials, Oct 7, 8:55pm
LOL. I know exactly what it costs me to bring stuff in from the USA and nine times out of ten the shipping is more than the cost of the product.We also ship product all over the world, including the USA and we always quote on the shipping first. Last order i had that was to go to the UK was going to cost well over $100 for two loose base cheesecake pans! You could always get yourself a container and ship it all in yourself, that way you wouldnt need to shop here in NZ at all.
Also take a look at the USA population, quantity of anything is always cheaper. I guess you could always move to the USA if you feel things are too expensive here.
greerg, May 15, 6:03pm
I bough the Tryme pack that cookessentials mentionned and I find those two sizes work really well.I already had one of the flat lids that fit anything which are quite cheap so the lack of llid in the Tryme pack wasn't a problem.Next on the agenda is a good saucepan and some of the muffin tins.Shipping is the killer - the price of Le Creuset in England and France is heartbreaking but husband reluctant to carry much cast iron around for some reason.