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About lunchtime, there was a knock at my door. I thought it was probably the postman, so went to answer. I found a chap in smart trousers and a tidy white shirt. He asked if I was the Spin Doctor (my trading name) and I confirmed this. He then asked, “Are you busy? Have you got much work on?” I said I was taking it easy but have as much work as I require at the moment and have recently reduced my advertising budget so I could cope. Anyway, he presented me with an A4 sheet of paper with a picture of a smartly signwritten transit van on it. I didn’t read it but I could see the word “Indesit” plastered over the van and below the picture a name and telephone number to call should I be interested. He asked me if I would like to keep the piece of paper and think about it. I briefly considered it, thinking it might be blank on the back and useful to print on, but in the end declined – I have enough to take to the recycling bank.
Anyway, you have been warned, they are out there scouting around. Be on your guard.
Mike.Re: Watch out for the dodgy doorstep salesman.
Shame you didn’t keep that A4 paper so you could perhaps give us more detail as to who the be wary of?
Indesit touting for trade? Save us all….. 😈
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do they still pay a BIG one six for a complete, if so you should have jumped at it.. i mean 16 a complete you could retire round about 3040..
where do these people get off … dont answer that ?
they must have a eprom slot in the back of the head where merloni brainwash them to believing 16 is a fair fee ..
ally
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Martin, I thought I had made it obvious which firm it was. I only needed to glance at the paper. I felt a little sorry for the poor chap. I mean who would want his job?
Mike.Re: Watch out for the dodgy doorstep salesman.
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:Martin, I thought I had made it obvious which firm it was.
Oh indeed Mike as…..to use a much used ‘through the keyhole’ quote…”the clues are there!”….but I can’t figure why Indesit would resort to knocking on folks doors rather than phoning around for an appointment first? They can cover much more ground that way without yomping down to the farthest points of the compass?
Having said that, there may just be a big gaping gap in the market down in your neck of the woods that they’re anxious to fill? Who knows with a bit of slick bargaining on your part you may be onto a winner there?
I also heard tell through the grapevine that they are stuck for coverage on the Scilly Isles…..?
But seriously speaking, I for one will be mindful of your warning lest my doorbell should ring.
🙂
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That very competent engineer known as “hotpnt” gave it up down here some months ago. He asked me if I’d be interested in a referral, which I politely declined. I guess they must be getting desperate by now and will have trawled all the advertising media.
💡 Maybe he’d been invited down to talk to one of my local competitors and having been rejected there, decided to do a bit of off the cuff campaigning.
A long established local independent shop has also recently closed.
Maybe if there’s someone working for them now who’d like to move down here this would be an opportunity.
Mike.Re: Watch out for the dodgy doorstep salesman.
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:
Maybe if there’s someone working for them now who’d like to move down here this would be an opportunity.
Mike.They already did, he lasted all of 3 months before finding the 80+ miles a day on country roads too much!,
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hotpnt wrote:
They already did, he lasted all of 3 months before finding the 80+ miles a day on country roads too much!,Wonder what he did in the afternoons? 80 miles aint that many
Alex
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try that on cornish back roads though, esp when a round trip to one job may take an hour, only yo find someone out, or an incomplete call, which means when you go back you have spent 2 hours on the road for £16!,
anyway, good luck to anyone who accepts the challenge,p.s not been on for a while, hope everyone is ok out there, keeping afloat
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Unusual for a manufacturer to look for agents in this way, usually they would call and make an appointment or to check you’re still trading. We only ever had one arrive on spec, Zanussi. But, that’s a story for another time.
Who knows what Indesit are up to now?
Who cares really?
They made their bed… 😉
On another note though, having driven fairly extensively around Cornwall, especially the North of it, I can confirm that some of the roads when the tourists are out are just horrific. Death by Cornish Slate is only a couple feet away most often or, some muppet with a caravan in tow that can’t drive.
It’s not that much better where you are Alex. 😉
Wales, you’ve tourists and bad roads in the South. Nobody in the middle that you can reach and in the North you’ve either leagues to travel between calls as is the case West or North of Swansea and it’s a Nazi state. Well, it is so far as the poor motorist or van driver is concerned, apparently.
England you’ve either got too much traffic or you may as well be in mid-Wales. So, you either can’t travel because they’re too many cars on the road or, you can travel fine but there’s no people to travel to close together.
Scotland from South to North, you’ve got the sheep and hill country… some population and lots of traffic then… more sheep and more hills.
The only nice bit about the driving round much of Wales (outside the towns and cities) and most of Scotland (outside the towns and cities) plus a fair old chunk of England (outside the towns and cities) is that the scenery is nice. Oh and if you choose the right mobile network no-one can get you on the phone while you admire the scenery, which is nice.
Fuel bills are a killer though.
Every area has it’s own unique attributes, both good and bad and, driving around a lot of it as well as listening to the people that work in these areas I really don’t think that any one of them is much, if any, better off than the other. That is of course, bar the really remote and rural areas, they really are brutal at times, especially from a financial viability point of view.
K.
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