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I recently repaired a fridge freezer and invoiced the insurance company an authorised £670!
What’s the largest amount you have been paid for a single appliance repair?
Come on, don’t be shy! I know you can beat this. 8)Re: BIG BILLS
Yeah, a brand new Brandt range cooker with damaged door handles.
Just to replace the two handles and the four posts was £600 (ish) and they wanted it done 😯
I can’t beat yours though 😉
Dave.
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Might be about to beat both of you, we have a home for persons with disabilities on our patch whom I look after their Miele commercial machines. They have had a power surge and the washers have blown both circuit boards as well as the switch board as well as 3 (they are 3 phase) chunky 30 amp cartridge fuses on both machines! The driers have only blown he single pcb. Am pricing it up right now and the washers are heading for the £800 each mark!
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BSH-MAN wrote:I recently repaired a fridge freezer and invoiced the insurance company an authorised £670!
What’s the largest amount you have been paid for a single appliance repair?
Come on, don’t be shy! I know you can beat this. 8)What did you do to it?
Bet you were after a write off 😉
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This is like “black cating” but here goes,
Servis Autowasher…..£740.79 inc Vat
Has since been written off a few months later when it developed another fault.
We at least have been paid, just another 12 months to get out of the 15 month claw back zone 😉
Kevin
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Got another one….£649.07, same as before a SERVIS auto, but this one is still working.
These two add up to more than my 1st van (1984 Escort £800.00) which lasted for 70,000 miles before it collasped in a heap.
Kevin
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Brand new Whirlpool American side by side. Both doors damaged by delivery company. Insurance company coughed up over £1000 – a nice little earner. K
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boro wrote:
BSH-MAN wrote:
I recently repaired a fridge freezer and invoiced the insurance company an authorised £670!
What’s the largest amount you have been paid for a single appliance repair?
Come on, don’t be shy! I know you can beat this. 8)What did you do to it?
Bet you were after a write off 😉
Fzr comp,inlet valve + fdg door seal.
I obtained a concession price for new appliance for the insurance co. but they found £6K a bit too much! 🙁Re: BIG BILLS
kheath wrote:
Servis Autowasher…..£740.79 inc VAT …. 😉
Kevin
:eeek: was it gold plated?
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patches wrote:Brand new Whirlpool American side by side. Both doors damaged by delivery company. Insurance company coughed up over £1000 – a nice little earner. K
“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors orrf”
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Fraid not……
what this highlights is the disparity between what a part costs to manufacturer and deliver into a distrbutors warehouse, and what we pay as a trade price.
Project X has taught us that £10.00 plus vat is the manufacturing price of a motor.
If any manufacturer would like to reply and defend their prices to us, please feel free.
I suspect the silence may be deafening.
welcome to RIP OFF UK Limited.
Perhaps we can rewrite the rules
PROJECT X
is a good start.
KevinRe: BIG BILLS
I bet there are a few quivering a@rse cheeks in the land of the big boys.
Project X Team :tup:
Greg
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I doubt it Greg. They’re probably curious as to what we’re up to, but beyond that I doubt it will raise too much of an eybrow.
It’s fine, I like being the long-shot, the underdog if you like.
In the end, if this all changes things for the better for all of the industry then, so far as I’m concerned, mission accomplished.
I’d actually hazard that a few manufacturers etc. would also like to raise the prices and professionalism of this industry as well, some have already expressed an interest in just that. If this gives them the reason or excuse to do that then again, we don’t lose, nor do they. In essense we’re not trying to be the enemy or a competitor persay, we’re trying to make the entire industry better. Big goals, how much chance of success? I honestly don’t know the answer to that, but as I said at the start of another thread, we’re game for trying and at least we’re doing something to make that happen as well as generate good income for the repairers in the meantime.
But you don’t seriously think I’m going to just stop at this point do you? 😉
K.
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If they stopped the blatant profiteering on spares prices, there’d be more money in the pot to pay us a sensible rate and improve the appalling BER rate on cheap appliances.
Crhis.
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