u/UndeadMurderess

Where to buy zinc core or other wicks for gel wax candles in the UK, i only need 10-20

I'm not making to sell it's just a personal project making replica candles from a video game. There are 8 candles in the set. I need the candles to look like different colours of fluid so I'm using gel wax. Only after making 2 did i read you can't use standard wicks, as they won't stay lit or burn well. I've just lit my test candle that i over pigmented and wasn't useable for show, and there was barely any flame and after 2 minutes it went out, so the standard wick definitely isn't adequate.

Whilst the set of 8 I'm making myself are for show so don't really need to be burnable, I was considering also making a set/s for a friend/s who might want to burn theirs.
I was only able to find one brand on Amazon with zinc core wicks, they're coming from China and won't Arrive til September, but with everything else ready to go i'm itching to get them done sooner. They also have mixed reviews with some saying they didn't work in gel so i'm not sure they'll even work.

I can't really find any on google, especially not that don't come in bulk/wholesale amounts, and was wondering if anyone on here knows a suitable wick i could use that will work and can be bought in smaller lots. For reference i'm using a 6CL/70gram candle jar, like the mini yankee candle type.

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u/UndeadMurderess — 1 day ago
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Duplicate transactions i didn't make.

So about 5 hours ago, i bought a 5 gift sub pack on 35% off promotion to a streamer i watch, then another 5 gift sub pack 2 minutes later.
I've just been on my internet banking, and alongside these 2 purchases i did make, there are 2 single full price gift subs i did not make.

In my email confirmation receipts, each single sub shows as made at the exact same timestamp i made each 5 pack purchase. I only clicked agree and pay twice, once each on just the 5 packs. I did not go through any check out for single subs. It appears 2 transactions went through each time, one for the 5 pack i bought, and 1 for a single i didn't. In the stream, only the 2 5 pack gift subs showed up, so the streamer has only had the 10, and not the 2 extras i didn't buy.

It's been escalated to the support team, and while £9.98 isn't the end of the world, its money i didn't want to spend, didn't authorise, and didn't actually buy anything as those 2 subs didn't go to the streamer.

Is this some known issue or a weird glitch, and how likely am i to get the money back, or at the least the streamer gets the 2 subs and their cut of the money?

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u/UndeadMurderess — 2 months ago