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I got a phone call this morning: –
“‘ello mate, sorry to bovver ya but I got this ‘oover dishwasher wot got a duff capas-it-err. All I won’t is a nuu won, ave you got won?”It took ages for him to eventually tell me that it was in fact a 4 microfarad and I told him that I had a couple in stock and he could pop round anytime after 2pm today. :rolls:
Sure enough the front doorbell rings about 2:30 and this guy has parked his pickup in my drive with this Hoover Dishwasher strapped on the back! 😯
It further transpires he’s driven all the way from Bracknell (22 miles) and that he bought this machine off ebay from a bloke in BRIGHTON :rotl:
He drove all the way to Brighton last weekend and paid the guy 20 quid for this heap of shoosh on the pretext that it only needed a capacitor????????
I only needed to place my hooter within 6 inches of the dishwasher to realise the circulating pump was cooked…..He was well upset, he was very cut about it when I told him the facts. VERY VERY CUT UP IN FACT.:evil:
Chances are that this bloke in Brighton better not answer his door if I’m any judge? He’s headed in that direction.:?
If you live in Brighton and have just sold a dishwasher then I suggest you don’t answer your doorbell….better still….move house! 😈
Re: Ebay gem!
I get it all the time! 🙁
They buy it off ebay for peanuts, then I take £23.50 off them to tell them it’s BER. I wish I could say I’m sympathic, but I’m not! :innocent:
The best one in recent memoery, was a old lady that made her son drive from Hull to pick up a machine in Liverpool, to bring it back to Burnley. And it was a Ind WM103 with the drum snapped!
Re: Ebay gem!
I have a customer who teaches pottery so I regularly have to fit new elements in her kilns. She just rang me asking me to check over her new (used) kiln as it keeps blowing fuses. The seller assured her it runs off a normal 13 amp supply. I asked her to go and see if there’s a plate on the side with a kilowatt rating. She came back and says it’s 5.5 kilowatt! :rolls:
I still get a job out of it though as I now have to wire up a suitable supply for it.
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