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been to my local b&q today and they look like they are gonna start pushing machines in a bigger way. they have a huge display right at the entrance with loads of machines piled high.Servis 1100 £149, Indesit £199,moon £299,Aqualtis £369 also dish washers from £149 and f/freezers.more death bells for 3 year old machines costing £60-£70 to repair for another few quid they can get a new one 👿 .Why do manufacturers alllow shops to sell products for such a ridiculous price ❓ .More to the point why do the government who is all about green issues nowadays let it, as more machines will go to landfill.
Rant over have a nice weekend whats left of it 😀 .chris.
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The answer is real easy, the goverment don;t care a toss, they say one thing and do another, sure they say that they are green but look around and their green credentials are bogus.
Take a few examples for instance.
1. If this Goverment had any real intention of really making an effort they would firstly impose heavy fines on supermarkets and the manufacturing companies that are associated with them to make them stop producing all the excessive packaging that they generate.
Instead they bang on about the helpless consumer taking action to recycle and the focus is on making us pay to dipose of this huge mountain of rubbish which we have no real choice in.
2. Junk Mail, we all know about this one, again if the goverment sorted this out it would stop millions of tons of unneccesary waste that is poked through our doors without our consent, it would also have a impact of other forms of pollution such as carbon emissions generated in moving all this rubbish all over the place.
3. Fuel ! change all fuel to bio fuel starting with nationwide transport, public transport and private vehicles. Lower the price of the tax on fuel and pump the profits into heavily subsidising public transport to get more people of the road reducing congestion and then we would not need congestion charging zones and all the wasteful admin and staff that have to be funded.
4. Have incentives for small grocery traders to have businesses and penalties for chains like Tesco who demolish petrol stations only to reincarnate small supermarkets with a few petrol pumps on the site. Once they have driven any small business out of business then they then have a monoply to drive up prices with the public having no choice.Its not rocket science all this, but the goverment is useless at all of this and the Wee directive is a prime example of another hairbrained half cocked idea poorly conceived and implemented.
I travel often abroad and when you look at the disposal faclities in other european countries ours is a joke. If its wrong at the top then its wrong at the bottom and actions speak louder than words Mr Brown.
I can see no change to any of this other than that we as taxpayers and indiginous residents of this small island will bear the brunt and cost of this series of cockups.
thats my two cents worth for this lovely sunday ! 😀
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2 cents, i thought you were British.?
we are agents for one of the budget end appliances, and i cant complain to much as it keeps us busy..
the only thing i know for sure is…there seems to be an endless amount of customers who are willing to buy at the budget end of the market.
some may i point out have previously purchased expensive appliances and had nothing but trouble with them..
a lot of middle of the road customers we go to have some excuse up their sleeve as to why they bought a budget applinace… ie they were going on hols, or the car broke down as well..so went for cheap appliance .
but most customers we go to dont really have the luxury of choice …to them its the cheapest that they can get..
its all about profit to these large companies.. dont know what they make on a sale, but i think appliances leave the factory door about £40-60..?
and your right they dont give a stuff about green policy’s, they only pay lip service to them.
cant remember what else i was going to say…
so that my tuppensworth..
ally
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Well I am british or more precisely English, eitherway I am sick of endless talk about green issues and how we the public must take far more responsibilty along with paying to dump.
There is an old saying that goes, You can’t get smethig for nothing,
Cheap is cheap and when you buy something cheap it will be made and produced as cheaply as possible. You cannot apply the logic that because the item is cheap that you are suprised when it breaks down and has to be thrown away, it is unreasonable to expect a cheap product to have the same durabilty as something costing far more regardless of the Consumer legislation.There are always people who buy cheap goods, there are many others who require quality and realise that you cannot get something for nothing !
Sure its all about profit and these companies know that, they sell to the masses and they buy the stuff. Interesting thing is I have lost cont of the nmber of customers I have called to who say we have only had this machine 13 months why does it cost so much to repair it, after all it only cost us £199.00 ! What can you expect ?
Look at the issues with the Chinese toys coated with lead paint ! More rubbish being imported and I thought we had left the lead paint issue behind decades ago. When I was a kid we had toys made in England, i fact in those days most things that were any good were made in England. Then came the cheap Hong toys that broke i your hand after ten minutes leaving many a child in tears, how short memories are for those who lived in those times.
I have not changed my mind on this, buy your cheap Beko’s Indesit’s etc and hand your hard earned cash over for it, just don;t cry when it folds up after a short period of time and expect it to be fixed on the cheap.
As a parallel imagine that we as a trade offered cheap repairs using cheap spares that lasted a short period of time then failed.
Customers would quickly loose confidence in our quailty of service and where would we all be ?
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i take some of your points funkyboogy re affording the cheap appliances but it seems that if your busy then thats all that matters but if for some reason you stopped being an agent for the budget end company which i also am then what do you repair? if a servis module costs the trade about £100 and a new machine costs £149 i dont think any of us will be very busy. i also have a small shop but i cant compete with £149 i sell a recon for £110.
cheers chris.
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