Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
electrofix wrote:website is there as far as i can see
https://www.qualityelectronicrepairs.co.uk/
Dave
Cheers Dave. It looks like they just took their old site down and put up another with different URL and didn’t bother to redirect the old one.
I used to have several links to QER on my sites and regularly recommended them to people. But I took the links down a year or two back when their website disappeared. I still can’t find them online. Have they just stopped dealing with the public?
Thanks guys. That’s an interesting possibility Dave. It’s about 11 or 12 years old. It makes more sense than any other fault because as we know the nature of pressure chamber blockages can be intermittent. I’ve given it a good thrashing with some limescale tablets and will keep an eye on it.
Re: Miele Go Sealed!
One might argue that of all the brands to have a sealed tub Miele would have the least impact on customers as (I presume) it’s still unlikely for their drum bearings to need replacing for at least 10 years if not ever?
Re: What’s the worst injury you’ve had repairing appliances
I’ve had a notification of further replies and accidentally scrolled down to that horrific picture again! 🙁
Re: What’s the worst injury you’ve had repairing appliances
Yikes this topic should have a warning on it 🙂 I’m squeamish with graphic pictures. Mine was pushing a detergent dispenser out through the front panel. It was very stiff, and when it eventually gave way I slammed my hand into the razor sharp surround and sliced deep into me finger. Had to cancel all my jobs and get stitches at the hospital.
Re: Hotpoint’s Undisclosed safety issue?
I’ve just got these too!
Re: The 0800 Thread
funkyboogy wrote:alright andy £4.01 and not a penny more lol ..
yes there’s a huge difference between pretending to be local repair co and advising customers where local engineers are
customers will have look at self help sites like andys , ukw etc and may decide after reading the error codes etc that it would be best to call someone out.
little do the customers know andys running the site from his yacht moored of some Caribbean island.
Ha ha 🙂 If anyone wants to contact me about being listed please do. I’m sick of only promoting the big national companies and “work-providers”.
Andy
Re: The 0800 Thread
I think the objection is to web sites pretending to be local when they aren’t 🙂 especially when they usurp all the genuine local engineers because they have more money. That stinks.
People come to my site from all over the UK, if they read advice or articles and then decide they want to book an engineer they can go to my repairs page and ideally find a genuine local engineer who’s advertising there. That should work ok 🙂
If someone comes onto the web to find a local engineer from the off they wont come to me but if they are looking for diy help or error code explanations etc they may well come to me first. If I can pass them onto proper local engineers that’s good for everyone but all I really have at the moment is UK wide service “providers”. The local guys with small web sites don’t get a look in.
Re: The 0800 Thread
kwatt wrote:That’s really interesting Andy, that 0800 paid £3.50 for a referral but some of the guys are apparently paying £20 a call as shown here:
Only just caught up with this. It was £3.50 for a completed job K, they asked if I would increase their presence for a lot more but I had to turn them down because I need all my repair advertisers to get an equal exposure or I’ll start loosing some. Then a few months down the line they dropped commission down to a measly £1.
I’ve just realised I left one of their ads up on my main repairs page but I removed about 20 instances of showing their banner (to be honest I did give them more exposure than the rest because I could earn more on the commission)
Anyway I just removed them altogether.My main problem has always been this, my users come from all over the UK, so being able to advertise national repairers who cover everywhere is very attractive. If someone in Sheffield wants a repairer and I only have people covering London it’s useless, plus if I advertise a small independent covering only a 30 mile radius the majority of potential customers who will see their ad are out of their area. That’s why I’ve advertised national ones but I hate what they do. I need to start advertising the local guys for a small charge and hope I get enough to make it pay.
Re: The 0800 Thread
I stopped advertising them after they contacted me asking if I would increase their coverage for twice the commission (which I didn’t do) to slashing it from £3.50 per job to £1 a few months later with no warning.
Re: Indesit washing machine explodes
I’ve been told all they are doing is fitting a bar across the top under the lid to limit damage in which case nothing is being done to prevent the “explosion”. Technically, they may be relying on the fact that even though it’s a known flaw, or inherent fault, if they stop it being dangerous that’s enough. Any SOGA issues are the retailer’s worry 🙁
Re: Indesit washing machine explodes
I’d just like to ad that I’m not interested in being right as such, if I can be shown to be wrong I’ll be happy to amend my views. Whilst ever it’s an opinion there’ll be differing ones but I’d love to get definitive proof of what is the actual case, if it turns out manufacturers do not have to take into account predictable and known user behaviour then I’d be surprised but prepared to accept and advise others accordingly 🙂
