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Re: £179 For A Zanussi Washer!
i was thinking more on he idea of some media coverage to how the public and that includes us, is being manipulated by the manufacturers throgh their pricing strategies and in essence being ripped off, i agree a hysterical approach thats isnt sustained is of no use , unless you can use likes of these programmes to get an awareness on mass and to get people thinking, then to back it up with hammering govt as well.
sometimes takes an unauthordox approach to get issues heard and questions to start getting asked.
just something to think about 🙂
Re: £179 For A Zanussi Washer!
is it feasble as a collective group ie ukwhitegoods to contact the govt on this, at a guess as i havent looked into it, the dti maybe ?
or perish the thought, watchdog?
from a consumer point of view folk end up buying alot more machines in their lifetime than they did 20 yrs ago and it invarialy isnt the case that the poduct is a wreck but just not vialble to fix forcing their hand into buying new.
we all know how the industry has changed from the days when a hpt would last 10-14 yrs and be fixable at a realistic price.now its 2-5 if ure lucky and not economically fixable which is where we alll loose out.
so a consumer programme could maybe work in our favour from this aspect?
what ya think ?
Re: Press Release – e-Jobs
is there a email addy to send the relevant information for ejobs to ?
i dont have a fax machine and threw out my modems back a while 😕
i agree but then if you as a manufacturer want to keep volume of new sales up the easiest way is to make spare prices hideously priced so the viability of more and more reapirs becomes less attractive to do. there should be some kind of govt intervention imho just like there was to reduce the retail costs of goods to consumers., after all they bang on about the environment and energy saving etc etc enough, so the mountains of appliances being scapped and the impact of manufacturing isnt helping but then its all political point scoring, just look at the new energy laws coming into place this year regarding gas appliances etc. i will get off my soap box now.
the manufacturers are really only interested in shifting units, there is a war between elx group and merloni for the top spot in the league table of who is shifting the highest volume, elx currently holding this postion but merloni by their own admission at one of their product launch shows back a few months ago staitng they want the top spot. hence the deals that both manufactures are offering indpendents as well as the sheds are reflecting in the retail price. taking aside the cost of raw materials increasing, expect more of this aggresive pricing from these manufactures in 2005.
