Filling a gap

[timdowning]

I was selling the ISE2 machine at £269; delivered, installed and old taken away.

Just wondering what I could sell instead, at this sort of price?

Looking at a £50 to £60 profit.

What make and where sourced do others people sell??

Many thanks.

[don]

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Hi Tim

That`s a little on the cheap side isn`t it ? After all it is an exclusive machine with a two year warranty and local backed service.

We use DAD at Gloucester who have good monthly offers on washers. This month among other machines they have the Whirlpool AWOD4505 @£149, it`s a good little workhorse 5kg load with 1200 spin. We sell loads to the property lets and to those who can`t afford the bigger ticket prices @ £274 delivered an installed.

DAD Tel 01452 504084

Don

[iadom]

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Isn’t that one made by Vestel Don?

[don]

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Not sure Jim, whats the best way of identifying it?

Don

[iadom]

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Stand it next to an ISE 2 with the tops off. 😆

[timdowning]

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I think my ISE2 price was fine considering the spec of the machine.

Looking on-line at 1200 spin machines with a 5kg. I think you are on the dear side. 😉

For example DIXONS are doing a 1200 spin whirlpool for £208.77 delivered and installed. (Unfortunately they charge less than £9 for install and scrap now!) 😯

I think I might go for that Whirlpool offer @ £149. ❓

It means I can sell at £239 and still make £60 profit.

Cheers for info.

[admin]

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Hi Tim

Look at the bigger picture..You’ll lose the in warranty repairs for 2 years,If that customer then decides she likes the whirlpool then she’ll probably go to curry’s next time to get a better price.

You could also sell the customer an whitegoods insurance policy that would be payable monthly.

Bryan

[boselecta]

Selling the ISE 2 for £320 now. Hate to think of anyone selling themselves short.

I am probably alone but I am not going out to a machine, diagnosing its BER, removing, installing and disposing of the old appliance for £50 – £60.

[timdowning]

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Look at the bigger picture..You’ll lose the in warranty repairs for 2 years

Sorry Bryan I don’t know what you mean??

Selling the ISE 2 for £320 now

😯

My customers wouldn’t pay it and to be fair I would feel a bit guilty selling such a low spec machine for such a high price, even with an extra years guarantee thrown in.

[boselecta]

suppose it depends where you live and what value you put on your time. . .

[timdowning]

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suppose it depends where you live and what value you put on your time

I like to earn £38 to £60 pounds per call.(Accounting for any spares profit). For normally 45 minutes to an hours work. So I see installing a new machine as nothing other than a good job. So making £60 on a new machine is good money in my eyes.

I can’t see why it depends on where you live?

What value do you put on your time? Is your value different on a new machine than on a repair call?

[admin]

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Hi Tim

what I mean is that once you have sold a whirlpool machine then that customer is whirlpools engineers bread & butter.At least if the ISE does go wrong you would get the money for the repair.

Bryan

[boselecta]

Hi Yes my value is different on a new machine than a normal repair. I normally price major repairs involving tub out bearing changes higher because of the labour involved.
I also justify the higher price on new machines as the total time and labour spent is equivanelnt (or more) than a major repair.

[timdowning]

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At least if the ISE does go wrong you would get the money for the repair

Bryan I know all that, hence why I’ve been selling ISE since day one.

The point is I need a cheap machine to ‘fill the gap’ of what products I sell.
Due to the fact that the ISE2 is no more.

[kwatt]

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timdowning wrote:Due to the fact that the ISE2 is no more.

For now. 😉

The simple fact is that we could, easily, order more but the price would have to ramp up because the pound has taken such a tumble against the Euro plus a factory increase in price. 🙁

Both of these make the 2 seem expensive to us unless you guys tell us differently. But you’re looking down the barrel of a 20-25{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} increase in price. And, yes, I’m fully aware that many others are also going up in price at the moment but even so it made it look expensive in our opinion.

Of course all this isn’t helped by the fact that this took us by surprise as much as it did everyone else, nobody expected the pound to fall so dramatically in such a short space of time.

But a price increase along with the little issues like the raft of lock failures just made the 2 seem untenable to us.

Then, as soon as we tell people what we were up to the stock that was there was cleared in two days by people snapping them up! 😆

I can’t say what’s going to happen with the currency thing but I do know that there’s no way that most of you wouldn’t have worn a 20{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} price hike. Or at least, I don’t think you would have.

So we were left with little options available and we thought it best to tell you guys the truth as soon as we could.

K.

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