  That is stupid, that if you click on the camping equipment section there right now it just says 'There are no categories or products in this category'!  This is the stupidest thing I've seen recently on an outdoors website since I had to point out to Mountain Warehouse; that the advertised prices on their website were often somewhat way off the mark - ie a two pounds ninety nine packet of water puri-tabs a few months ago that they had listed as £450.00 original rrp. As well as listing their own discounted prices higher than the listed goods rrp's there too; which as I emailed to tell them made them look rather foolish, as if they were bragging about ripping everyone shopping there off or something! Then there was the recent Alpkit website competition for an outdoors one-pot recipe, that finished on the 31st of September, and has there ever been actually a 31st of september ever at all? 
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Trevor, thats why i dont shop at F&T. What a joke, the 31st of sep, they must think were all soft.
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Yeah, that mistake on the days of september was Alpkit though, which I suppose means no one will ever win their competition maybe, as it must be totally open-ended until there is one day a law passed to produce a 31st of September some-when or other! 
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They will be bringing out a competition that ends on a leap year next. So you will have to wait 4 years. And they will promise it will be unworn with labels attached, oh and that mark and rip and dodgy zip are part of the design to promote ventilation. What a carry on.
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https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/webpoint/webpoint.cfm?ID_COLOUR=180&id_product=25690&SHOWMESSAGE=0&ID_SKU=261116&ID_WEB_GROUP_LEVEL2=128&SESSION_EXPIRED=0&FULL_RANGE=0&BRAND_NAME=&fuseaction=productdetail&ID_SIZE=9737&MENUSTATE=N&BRAND_FULL_DESCRIPTION=&ID_WEB_GROUP_LEVEL1=15&GOTOLOCATION=0 Or small link to. - Whilst we are on the subject of seemingly silly things on outdoors kit websites, look at this Cotswold outdoors webpage right now live today. They are still banging on here trying to sell compression stockings to cut down upon symptoms of dvt on long haul flights, years after most manufactureres and retailers have abandoned such a sales pitch; due to the fact of the results of those last big scientific studies of the problem, that found the stockings quite simply made little difference in anything other than a 'placebo' form effect. Since the problem was thought then, and is still currently as far as I'm aware, to be caused by the circulation of bad air in the aircraft primarily. Especially poor air was circulating in aircraft on long haul flights, following the banning of on-board smoking a few years back ago on all national airlines. Then as a cost cutting mesure the big airlines started use this as a justification to stop the use of their aircraft's on-board air conditioning systems. A practise identified as not only being the single biggest primary contributing factor to long haul flight dvt fatality statistics, but also to the now common incidents of noxious fumes poisoning amongst aircraft passengers and air crew, by build-ups of poisonous fumes produced by faulty on-board engine systems.
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Trevor, it looks like a tube of toothpaste thats had a new logo put on it.
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I wonder if they also too have a Colgate 'Ring of Confidence' to go with it then; as they smile sweetly in the selling process perhaps maybe there, AJ? Oh, ok I see what you meant there now, AJ! A seeming peculiarity of the website there at Cotswold outdoors; that as I linked first there to the seam seal page earlier on, now in trying to link to the dvt flight stockings in the footwear sale section it instead links back to this seam seal stuff too! Boy that's helpful isn't it! When I copied the link page above I can assure you it had the flight stockings on it, for sure!
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Trevor, no joy with that link, unless flight stockings are designed to look like tubes of toothpaste.
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That is their rather naff site again there displayed in all of its 'non-glory' technically then. The dvt socks/stockings are to be found in their Rock Bottom sales section under the heading of footwear.
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 Hi Trev, I'm working the night shift and your internet trawling is keeping me entertained! John 
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Sorry there mate, I missed this last night, as I went to bed just befotre your post here it appears. Glad to be of service here though, entertainment-wise.
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 I see that the new Field and Trek operating company have opted not to continue to be an OM partner advertiser now then seemingly? Their name seems certainly to have disappeared from the list at left here of the site partners advertising here upon the OM. A shame that, as we have tried to support them by highlighting in good mention of any good deals they've done this last year. They obviously could not bear to take the little criticism of the decline in stores and internet service that went with their changeover/takeover we gave them here upon the forum perhaps.
And oh my have they ever so sadly thrown out the baby with the bathwater with their new look adoptive website meethinks! It is less easy to navigate and less user friendly than the last one! All they really needed to do was improve their old site which the new outfit had inherited, by keeping it more current, and keeping it populated with up to date details and the pertinent pictures! Instead they've opted for a completely new look, and one that left me feeling frustrated at having to learn anew how to navigate it. And as I say, I just simply do not think that it navigates quite so well as the old website did either!
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 Trev, FFS stop with the long weblinks. If screws up the page formatting.
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Yes CB, I fully realised that last night, that especially where Cotswold are concerned I can only now do the tiny compressed links there. Their links are huge aren't they, I'd quite forgotten, as it was ages before this that I'd last tried linking to anything there.
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'Well, what can I say! The new website is a little bit of a nightmare to try to navigate it appears. Click on lots of bits like under the camping sections and one goes nowhere very fast! Clicking on activity 'camping' brings up a lot of really unhelpful dead ends. One says 'There are no categories or products in this category,' under the 'camping equipment' heading there. That is rather silly! Under the tents bit there both boxes simply end in dead ends completely too! Same thing likewise with the sleeping bags section there too as well! I feel like I'm just having my valuable time wasted here, trying to find stuff that I used to be able to just go straight to and order! Not happy here! Trevor D Gamble' I just emailed this note to Field and Trek webmasters about the problems I've experienced with navigating the new website there. I don't think they should be live with the new site yet in fact really, I think they have maybe tried to launch it far too early, before they are really ready to do so even perhaps.
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