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Re: Most ridiculous part price
Servis Cooker. Model TG600I Main oven element part number 524011900. From Electrue cost to US is £132.43. I shudder to think regards the actual retail price.
This was for a D&G call, needless to say D&G not going ahead. The operative at D&G Bedworth told me that lately all Servis parts seem to be gold plated.
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Just had a quote from my supplier for 150820 power unit for hotpoint toploader 198 + vat!
also zanussi induction motor £135 + vat! machine is nearly 20 yrs old and the lady is having it fixedHowsabout a Miele W709 timer. It’s a Crouzet 889 series (you remember – Hoover Logics …) It’s £249.17!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regards,
Chris Chantrell.Door seal for Miele commercial a/w – £102 and some pence (But £17 from our Welsh friends ……..).
Penguin.Re: Most ridiculous part price
technics1200 wrote:Just had a quote from my supplier for 150820 power unit for hotpoint toploader 198 + vat!
also zanussi induction motor £135 + vat! machine is nearly 20 yrs old and the lady is having it fixedThe GDA cost of that power unit is way less than that, it would seem the parts wholsalers dont want to bother with it hence the high cost.
Okay yesterday I opened an album in the photos for this just to give people an idea of how big a rip off some spares are.
Obviously if it is a genuine error and it is subsequently corrected and refunds given to the poor blighters that have them in stock we will remove them from this “rogues gallery” of what we consider to be rip offs.
If you have any pics and comments please send them in as the only way it will get sorted is if the manufacturers are made aware of the issue.
K.
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This is a good one.
Kupperbusch dishwasher, made by electrolux the type with the iwms unit in the left hand panel. The mod kit to prevent the sticking of the antiflood valve. Kupperbusch part number: 435326 price retail £208.80 +vat! Part arrives with electrolux label part number 50274488001 price £28. considering this is to fix a basic design fault it should really be free of charge.
Result, one part heading back to kuperbusch and one being ordered from elux.Re: Most ridiculous part price
This request from GUEST (12 May) is possibly posted in the wrong area but I shall try and help just the same.
The model numbers from B&Q do not always correspond with the manufacturers model. It is possible this is an Arrow appliance made by TEBA. The correct model number will be on the rating label that is stuck to the outer cabinet (More that likely on the top). Look for a model that has a letter for the first digit, five numbers, two letters and followed by two more numbers – e.g. A02004GB01.
The doors for ovens do not come complete so we need to know what part of the door is required.
I hope this helps.
Richard
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Hi guys, just stumbled on this debate and thought you may be interested in the following. Yesterday (17/7), there was an item on radio 4 concerning disposal of old white goods. It seems we as a country are awash with some many old white goods because people are replaceing them rather than fork out for high repair costs. The up shot of this is that the scrap industry is unable to cope and they are becoming a waste and enviromental problem. So white goods makers take note, we need to m ove away from a throw away society. Rob 😡
Rob,
Sadly that’s a sign of the times, consumers demanded cheaper and cheaper appliances and got them. Now they have appliances where spares pricing is ridiculous in relation to the cost of a replacement or the original purchase and, as you say, there is a huge waste problem being created but that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Cheap washers have also killed the laundrettes off as well as the local spares and repair shops to a large extent and there appears to be no let up in that either. Also the vast amount of the actual manufacturing processes are carried out outside of the UK and, in fact, there are practically no UK owned manufacturers left, certainly no mass market ones as both Hotpoint and Hoover are now under the control of Italian owners. So litte of the revenue or wealth of the jobs created actually helps the UK at all.
I never seem to stop reminding customers that, when I started in this trade 20 years ago you couldn’t buy a 1000 spin washer for under £300, now you can get a 1200 for under £200. On a primarily mechanical device, how do you think manufacturers have managed to beat 20 years inflation and lower the retail price at the same time?
Had washers tracked with inflation then the minimum you’d be paying today would be about £6-700 for a new one and most of the goods in this industry follow the same pattern. This is why we hear, day in and day out, “but my old washer lasted 15 years and this one is only two years old and it’s broken”
When you look at it in the light of what I just said, is that statement any wonder?
K.
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Some good points K, and I guess educating the puplic gets no where, its why I dont want to resort to taking troublesome dishwasher to the tip. I came from a very poor working class family, until I was 14 we lived in just 3 rooms and I was 5 before we had our first fridge. But I was raised that you not take things for granted, that you should only have things when you could afford them and above all take care of them and dont waste them. Not such a bad idea I suppose. I still find it surpriseing to work out how a company can charge £250 for a washing machine, but £200 for its controll module. It canot have cost them that. I suppose they want us to keep buying new machines. It must make your life tough, but good indepents like the folks on here are worth their weight in gold, the problem is finding them. Take care and best wishes. Rob 😉
You said it Rob – I am currently dealing with a Bosch WFF2001 for a landlord which won’t turn on the hot water valve. Bosch price for module – £173.18 + p+p + VAT! I can fix this at board level – its a sticking relay – but it’s going to come to £50 approx; and the landlord will argue about that! It’s just thankless sometimes.
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: Most ridiculous part price
robmac wrote:Some good points K, and I guess educating the puplic gets no where, its why I dont want to resort to taking troublesome dishwasher to the tip.
Thanks Rob.
As an extensin to that, educating the public and making them aware of some of these points may well be thankless but maybe we’ll get the message through to some people, that’s the hope anyway. But you’re right most customers couldn’t care less, they simply have a problem and want it resolved at a time and date that suits them.
Frankly it amazes me the level of service that customers expect, especially in warranty, on most appliances. It’s not an expensive item really and most are not essential items bar a fridge used to store medicines. Yet that same customer will happily accept that their car, which costs many, many times more has to be taken to the dealer for service, usually a week or so in advance, at the customer’s expense and left there all day in most cases for any remidial or repair work. Staggering really that customer’s expect us to call within 24 hours to their home and repair an appliance for far less than they would pay for an hour or so’s labour on their car. Go figure.
K.
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Move down to Brighton, we will put loads of work your way. My best friend has a Asko Dishwasher. The module failed and he called a local repair service at a cost of £275 and a 3 week wait for parts. The first time he used it the panel got hot and smoke came out. He called Asko who sent one of their head office people out. It seems that not only had the module been incorrectly fitted causing a melt down, but that the original board could have been repaired. Asko were so horrified they replaced the module and repaired the machine free of charge. So who do you trust, tell the landlord he is lucky to have you. Rob
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