Maybe of interest…
Each Monday in July and August we’re going to run a one-day only sale - with up to 20% savings on selected products.
For those who are unfamiliar with them, vesternet is a very reputable online retailer of home automation products, with a particularly wide range of Z wave devices for the UK market. They also have excellent customer support. 
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I’d go so far as to say incredible customer support, they are extremely helpful and friendly.
They will be my go-to shop for home automation for the foreseeable future - just a shame the (very strange imho) curry’s exclusive with smartthings precludes one from buying any smartthings kit there!
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I don’t know for sure, but since the Currys deal was announced right about the same time SmartThings announced their first brick-and-mortar partners in the US (Sears and Best Buy), my guess is they were looking for a UK distributor who had brick-and-mortar stores as well.
Currently on today:
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Vera Plus. 20% off at £111.20
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-vera-plus-uk -
Z-Wave Aeon Labs Z-Stick USB Controller - £42.12
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-aeon-labs-z-stick-usb-controller-gen5 -
Z-Wave Fibaro Universal Dimmer 2 250W - £38.88
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-fibaro-universal-dimmer-2-250w -
Z-Wave Fibaro Dimmer Bypass 2 - £7.30
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-fibaro-dimmer-bypass-2 -
Z-Wave Qubino Flush Relay x 2 Plus - £38.40
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-qubino-flush-relay-x-2-plus -
Z-Wave Fibaro Smoke Sensor Plus - £39.68
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-fibaro-smoke-sensor-plus -
Z-Wave Aeon Labs Extender - £26.74
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-aeon-labs-extender -
Z-Wave Popp Smoke Detector With Indoor Siren - £44.54
http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-popp-smoke-detector-with-indoor-siren-gen5
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If you’ve already seen one of my posts about the range extenders elsewhere in the forum, just ignore this one, but for newer members I just wanted to mention once again that you do not need a single purpose range extender for Z wave.
They were useful back in the early days of Z wave, but for a couple of years now pretty much any mains-powered zwave device Will act as a repeater, including pocket sockets, plug in motion sensors, and in-wall relays. And all the devices now work at max power.
So there’s no reason to give up a wall socket for a single purpose range extender device. Get a dual purpose device instead.
Also note that if you get any zwave plus device, you will get about 50% longer-range than from the old single purpose range extenders.
There are some members who have the single purpose range extenders and found that they did help get past a dead spot. It’s not that they don’t work. It’s just that with the newer generations of Z wave there’s no reason to pay for a single-purpose extender device anymore, as the dual-purpose devices extend the range in exactly the same way. 
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