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Oh, I just looked around and the prices have really gone up at most places. I was paying £15 at most for a dimmer. I have the 2 gang dimmer in one room. The ones I have are Siemens branded, like these:
http://www.diy.com/departments/siemens-white-switched-single-push-button-remote-control-socket/212641_BQ.prd
And a multipack of adaptors + remote for £18 which is reasonable:
http://www.diy.com/departments/siemens-white-unswitched-remote-control-socket-pack-of-3/178820_BQ.prd
Yes there are a couple of problems with it, security and that it is only one-way so you can't query the state of a device or get a reply that your command was successful.
Lack of security is ok for me, the most they can do is prank me by turning my lights on/off and it is unlikely someone would bother where I live.
The one-way issue is annoying, I have some house lights on a timer when I'm away to make the house look like it is occupied, but the system doesn't know if it is working. Though reliability has been close to 100% in my experience. You pay a lot more for 2-way home automation sadly.