Worst Week Ever

[Turbo]

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I am amazed how busy the repair trade is at the moment with all my competitors very busy as well.
I have started to cut out Hotpoint, Servis and Zanussi washing machines and concentrate on Bosch and Siemens due to ill health but the work still keeps rolling in.
Have never been able to work out why the work comes and goes like it does 😕

Graham

[Madmac]

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garn wrote:I’m A Sole LONETRADER :rolls: Myself
This Year is Different Than last quieter”

recently Its The Time Of Year I Landed My Books on My Accountants Lap.

having A Think About This Years Turnover I Took A Good Look At This Years Accounts To my Astonishment my First half years Turnover Is On The Same Parr as Last Years Although Its quieter”

Well you’re lucky garn, this year has been my worst EVER 🙁 turnover & profit has quite literally halved.
The speed of the decline has made my head spin to be honest, long standing customers seem to be going down the ‘buy cheap & chuck it out’ route, lost track of the amount of customers i’ve bumped into in the supermarket or wherever who proudly tell me about the Beko or Matsui they replaced their old Hotpoint 95 or WM with :rolls:

Multiply that loss of work from 100’s of customers doing the same thing & i guess the current work load is not suprising.
Classic example last week.. wife of retired vet calls me on Fri morn & leaves a message about her Hoover 8kg dryer, no drum movement.
Recognise her voice, been going to them for about 10 years, called her back at lunchtime.. she informs me she’s been on internet & ordered a new one in the two hours since her call :rolls:

Now, these are in theory your ideal customers, nice middle class retired couple, always recycling etc,etc.. yet seem not at all fussed about throwing a major appliance out for the sake of a poxy 8uf capacitor :rolls:
I did end up doing the job, her daughter needed a larger capacity dryer so at least it will live on for a couple of years.
The general public are more & more viewing major appliances as totally disposable, people who still get things repaired are seen as a bit quaint IMO :rolls:
ANYWAY, roll on the VAT increase on 1st Jan, might make a little difference, if not, i recon i’ll be movin on before ‘er indoors divorces me for being such a sh*t provider of funds to support her decadent lifestyle 😆

[kwatt]

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Topic split due to wandering off topic after Madmac’s post 17th Nov. 8:22pm to this new thread on energy efficiency claims

K.

[johnnyj]

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I cannot complian this month this has been my best month ever and there is still 10 days to go in the month, i just hope it continues.jj

[wilf]

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very slow here seems to be gone are the days of “how soon?” in are the days of “how much?” I’ve had more calls today trying to sell me insurance, banking, advertising etc than work enquiries.
still if my delivery arrives I’ve got a couple to go to!!!!

wilf

[deltra]

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busier than hell up here! only thing is all our road bridges are f”$£&! so the mileage has all of a sudden trebled 👿

[Madmac]

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deltra wrote:busier than hell up here! only thing is all our road bridges are f”$£&! so the mileage has all of a sudden trebled 👿

Been wondering how Engineers in your area are doing deltra.. looks like a bloody nightmare mate 🙁 Hope you live up a hill!! 😯 😉

[deltra]

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thanks , ive altered my start and finish times,11-9, avoids most of the traffic ❗ cant just nip back for that part ive left in workshop 👿

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