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Re: How nasty am i?
kwatt wrote:this will not surprise those that know me well enough, I have a few ideas. 😉
Re: How nasty am i?
A friend of a friend had a classic quote “Some people are in businees despite themselves” 😆
Greg
one thing to watch out for when selling spares is a little trick that caught me out once and someone else tried it the other day. They buy a new fan element for a cooker and 1 hour later bring it back, with the opened wrapping and say its faulty. I megger it infront of them and yes it is faulty. What they do is bring back the original faulty one and hey presto its BOGOFF time!
These were both Neff items, only 18months -2 years old and there was no visual differrence between a brand new element and their old open circuit one.eastlmark wrote:one thing to watch out for when selling spares is a little trick that caught me out once and someone else tried it the other day. They buy a new fan element for a cooker and 1 hour later bring it back, with the opened wrapping and say its faulty. I megger it infront of them and yes it is faulty. What they do is bring back the original faulty one and hey presto its BOGOFF time!
These were both Neff items, only 18months -2 years old and there was no visual differrence between a brand new element and their old open circuit one.Where is your “Duty of Care”
You could be sued by someone doing there own repairs incorrectly or with lethal consequences.
By all means sell spares but give them a contract to sign
Brings me back to a forum on “Contract Conditions”
Eastlmark wrote “what they do is bring back the original faulty one”
You should put a security sticker on all parts you sell
And no returns on electronic/electric parts that have the security sticker tampered or have obvious signs of been installed
And as customers tend to bend the truth, a audio/ visual recording of all that you told them is absolutely necessary
Re: How nasty am i?
Isn’t it “wonderful” when someone else’s customer comes to you as they’re to embarrassed to go to the person they bought the spares off.
And of course you never hear from them again as they’re too embarrassed to come back to you
And of course another perfectly serviceable machine goes to the rubbish dump
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