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Re: Buying New Machine (Washing Machine Guide Help Appreciat
Thank you both for your comments and assistance – Dales, that was a wealth of helpful information and I like the tip on the labour warranty, that makes sense and seems like a good indicator, and true on the callout charge part – I have to confess and share a story from my teenage school years..
I was about 15 or 16 at the time and being a bit mischievous I kinda vandalized one of those smart card payment system thingies (you stick a plastic credit card like card into the device and put money in another slot, then you can use your card to buy lunch and stuff from the vending machines).
Anyway, one of those days I ended up handling the smartcard interface a bit roughly and ended up ripping or pulling off the plastic casing from the front. The machine itself still worked, it was just the plastic cover/fascia that had come off. In a twisted sense of fate, when the school checked the CCTV footage, because they used the crappy recording quality with a low frame rate, it looked really sinister as it showed my head facing to my left, then abruptly to my right and then the thing comes flying off (even though in reality it was all quite casual).
The school head of year called in my family, and wanted me to pay a bill for the damage, if I remember correctly it was something daft like £178 – then my brother got involved and challenged the school on the extortionate figure.. it turns out they were charging £3 for the plastic cover and £175 for the freakin call out charge, saying they only had about 3 engineers in the country – and even that was probably made up on the spot because after a little discussion they agreed and let me go with a warning and a £3 fine (and ofcourse an increasingly murky school record ) 😈
