£3000 Miele

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Oh and whilst on the dishwasher subject twicnix, people are most definitely buying the £1200 miele dishwasher! Go to a Miele dealership and selling £2000 plus ovens and such like is a normal everyday occurance, and this year Miele are having the largest new model launch in their history, so they must be doing something right as the company is still family owned and owes no money at all!
Overrated? Nonsense spouted by people who have no knowledge of the product and then spout it here for others to see when all they want is factual advice. Makes me wonder sometimes.

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DrDill wrote:Cant wait for someone to say that an ISE is not worth the money,” the wrath of K” will descend hopefully.

Not at all. I merely quote from fact, experience, solid stats or a combination of all.

Value for money is one of those “eye of the beholder” things. It simply depends on what the whatever it is, be it a product, service or whatever is worth to the individual dependent on their own needs and wants.

For example, is paying a painter worth £300 to me to paint a room or, is the fact that I would have to take two or three days off work to do the same job (probably nowhere even close to as well) worth more or less than the £300?

Or is the “I just want it” factor greater than the financial impact?

Only the individual can answer those sorts of questions often coupled with, “Can I afford it?”.

But the over-riding question/s in our industry should often be more along the lines of “Do I need it and is it worth it?”.

But think about that, £300 to paint a room and, that’s cheap in many cases. £900 for a washing machine.

Perspective.

K.

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DrDill wrote:Oh and whilst on the dishwasher subject twicnix, people are most definitely buying the £1200 miele dishwasher! Go to a Miele dealership and selling £2000 plus ovens and such like is a normal everyday occurance, and this year Miele are having the largest new model launch in their history, so they must be doing something right as the company is still family owned and owes no money at all!
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I get what you are saying, I am not either bothered or annoyed at the price. Just curious that there are people who are prepared to pay that kind of money. I even had a call out for a miele washer repair and the interlock change was an eye watering three figures sum compared with Hotpoint. I know Hotpoint and Miele are two different products like apples and oranges. As for dishwasher, a completely different product and I struggle to see the difference between a high end Siemens dishwasher and Miele dishwasher. Both have expensive parts, both wear well, both are made in Germany. The only differences are the price and it is strange to see a Miele of a price tag of £1,200 reduced to £600 then again to £450 to be pitched against Siemens with a price tag of £800.

I will have more success on selling Siemens then Miele. I am led to thinking that perhaps Miele is trying to lure new customer to buy their products if priced less than their competition? I am a repair man at the end of the day not a showroom salesman who know the trends and what people are prepared to pay. I can only comment from what I see. Like I said I am not too bothered, the only thing is that if someone call me to fix their £3000 machine and my response would be no as I am not prepared to be liable for three figures sum parts for a machine that I am not overly familiar with. I would simply point them to Miele website and call for a engineer as clearly if they can afford £3000 machine then they can afford their engineers rather than a local repair man.

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eastlmark wrote:

Oddly IME, the reverse is true. Assuming its someone that can afford it, then the more they pay the more understanding they are regards service. They also believe they have an exlusive product and only a specialist can repair it so are content to wait it out.
If they cannot afford it and have credited themselves to the hilt to buy it then its a different matter. See my older “smeg in a council house” for thoughts on that one.

I spent several yrs running around Marbella and Banus being abused by rich demanding clients and there cheap south american house keepers.

Dinner parties cooked by chefs in there homes where all the fashion, since the local restaurants where full of wannabes from London with no class or tourist outside photographing there cars. Try telling Mrs class act her 5 month old oven element is bo888ocked and the replacement will be in 2 months. :rolls:

Even worst the yachts with Gaggenau products.