[Jonah]

Re: my home connect @ currys

Cancelled our meeting after I talked to my Business Manager at the Bank, he feels it does not seem quite right and advised against paying out or even giving any account details to a Company that cannot be checked out or is using a National Company name like Currys to ‘sell’ their product.

I am also going to e-mail Currys head office to find out if they know about this.

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: my home connect @ currys

Has anyone tried Currys yet to see if this genuine or not ?

I cant see them being to happy if their name is being used in some type of how can I say it ‘recruitment’ for a network they know nothing about!!

:rolls:

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Samsung B1215GWI/XEU a/w

Penguin,

I’ve got one in stock if you still need one.

cheers

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Staggering Really

Ken, I havent posted for quite some time but I have a point on this subject, my son left school last summer and is still struggling to try and get into this Industry, a trade he knows well and has been involved with me for the last few years, I cannot afford the cost of training him and the wages even at the minimum wage as we are too small a business, I recently enquired about grants etc for him and was asked the usual questions disabled, ethnic background, learing disabilities the list goes on.

If as I am sure I had said my son was from Eastern Europe with some sort of physical or mental disdability i’m pretty sure I would have a Trainee engineer at the moment but sad to say i am still trying to get him on the ladder with any contacts I can find within the trade, no luck as yet.

regards

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: any M F I engineers ?

I worked for them for 7 years, had no problems at all great people to work with, still work as an Agent now for them.

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Service Software

It’s a frightening cost for small one man set ups, but I’m now in the situation where i have to get something and Eurorealm is the only one i can afford really ( and thats pushing it ), so if you come up with something fairly soon Ken I would very interested.

cheers

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Service Software

Alex,

Got quoted a minimum 10 grand from Job Logic for their system, Eurorealm actually came down to Devon from Reading to give me a demonstration, I thought it was very good and at 2.5 grand for the basic system much cheaper.

cheers

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Faulty Smeg Dishwasher

The LED’s on the door then show three flashing and one on constant – which doesnt correspond to any of the error messages in the manual (helpful!).

This sounds like an E7 fault common to the Diplomat (Smeg made) D/washers, the Diplomat version can be reset quite easily, i think i have seen a thread on this on the site but if anyone wants the reset details PM me

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: ‘Acorn’ Extractors

It’s possibly made by Bernstein !! 🙄

Will try and contact them, LOL, looks like it will be a no go 🙁

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Unpaid customer invoices

I got our PDQ through Barclay Merchant, could have bought it for about £600 I think, but I pay monthly for it a bit like a mobile phone, I know the cost is quite high at about £30 a month but it saves me a lot of hassle which I think outweighs the cost for me, with Chip and PIN coming in on Jan 1st i think customers will get used to using this system more and will feel a lot more comfortable about it.

I don’t get many problems, only the occasional shall I say older customer who finds it difficult to understand electronic payments, anything that saves me time and hassle is a bonus for me.

Cheers

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Unpaid customer invoices

Martin,

It’s not a problem, we don’t take any payment from the card untill work is complete we only authorise it, same as when you book a Hotel room etc over the phone, it’s easier than cheques as going to the Bank in the centre of town is a nightmare and I don’t mind paying a little extra for credit cards, debit cards arn’t to bad about the same cost as paying in a cheque, we just find it more secure for us and the customer, we have a mobile PDQ terminal and the card is entered on site in front of the customer and they enter they PIN number into it the same as a shop transaction, quick and easy and no ‘rubber’cheques, it obviously costs us to do this but I prefer the convenience of it and the extra cost is just added to our charges, our profit margin stays the same.

cheers

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Unpaid customer invoices

I have got so fed up with this problem that I do not even attend a cash call now without the customer supplying a valid credit or debit card details so we can authorise it before we even go there, I do not accept cheques anymore, mainly due to the Bank charges paying them in but also the ‘rubber’ ones even with a cheque card, taking the card details is the only way we can control the situation.

Most customers are quite happy with this, I can’t really see any other way of completely covering yourself but generally as has been said you can suss out a dodgy call most of the time.

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Flavel FSD A091664

Dave, is this the same one that I have been having trouble with, I’ve lost the part number, seems if it is then I’m not the only one!!

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Brandt Review

You can add me to the list as well, loads of spares I’m unable to return, crap tech info and at least a double visit everytime, excessive spares prices etc…. the list is endless!!!

Dave

[Jonah]

Re: Kupperbusch D/W UG632IG

Knew it!!! always a problem, thanks for your help Ken

Dave 😉 😉

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