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Sorry Ian I can’t seem to get it exactly the way I want itas any HTML coding is over-ridden by the CSS style sheet for UKW. Basically this means that I can’t hard code the font attributes in HTML, I can however alter it slightly and use a graphic instead if that’s what you want to achieve the effect you require. That however will take a bit of time with Paintshop or similar to get it so it looks right.
But you can see, I’m sure, what can be achieved with some simple coding.
K.
Re: expert services to the subscribers
Had a nice chat with this chap courtesy of Del, who can likely tell you more..
Address:
9 Garreglwyd
Benllech
Isle of Anglesey
LL74 8RBTelephone
01248 852418Facsimile
07092 334487Mobile
07885 700503You’re dead right Del and I have noticed not one post saying similar about anyone, all we can do is report and advise. Whether they all heed the warnings or not is their own call at the end of the day and I for one may well think it, but I won’t say it. 😉
K.
Okay, here’s two for you…
08700685437 -> Fax2Email
08700685438 -> Voicemail2Email
First one is obvious but untested, so could some kind soul send me a fax please? 😉
The second one ain’t live yet. 🙁
K.
Welcome to UKW Andy.
As yet there’s no official comment on the state of Powerhouse (I just checked it) barring my previous comments about the $17M NZ loss. The only other news I can find highlights that Powerhouse is losing money but PRG expect it to break even 2005/2006.
Other than that I can’t find anything… unless someone knows different of course. 😉
K.
And here’s the laugh in all this for you all…
Any member of Joe Public can do it themselves no problem, no questions asked and there’s no restriction on selling spares for gas appliances.
Go figure! 😕
K.
Hmm the deal just keeps on changing eh? 😉
TBH @ £30 a call you’ve no chance now I don’t think, maybe okay for a sole-trader but as soon as you have employees and all the costs that go with that never mind premises etc. then that figure is just too low. Some idiots will take it though thinking it’s the solution.
But I wonder if they’ve considered that if it costs you circa £27 to call, you take off a proportion for no-access and parts as well as other wasted calls then they are actually not going to make much, if any, money on it. Then you have the second call thing, you may well get other’s recalls etc. as well.
But you’d better make money as you’ve £6K’s worth of stock to pay for and they want that paid back in 6-12 months. Has anyone asked how long, based on the above figures, it would actually take you to generate that £6K? 🙄
K.
BM,
Try Paterson Quality Services Ltd who do cover that area a chap called Ian Patterson on 0161 4773725 and can you please tell them where you got the number, thanks. 😉
K.
Re: Merloni
I’ve been quiet of late, nightmare time with kids at night so I’ve not been getting my sleep. 🙄
Anyway…
Alex, you’re spot on. The bastards basically want employed engineers and want independents to run under the same regime and bloody well fund it as well up front and THEN lose money and time on top. Somehow I think not!
Not only that, as I said (or at least alluded to in the rumour mill) they will drop these poor buggers the minute that they can recruit new engineers or the workloads drop back to a level that they can cope with. I also happen to know that they are supposedly training or re-training 50 bodies, so where does that put you if you take this on?
The rates on offer are a joke, you will have three months notice of them pulling the plug, in theory, in practise I suspect you’ll have about three hours if any at all and a hell of a time returning any unused stock. And after that stock’s been knocking about in the back of a van for 6 months or more it’s worthless anyway and probably not considered returnable.
Na, I’m with Phil on this one….PASS!
K.
Re: Scholtes FE856 oven
johnmac11 wrote:I got this oven when i worked for Merloni about 8 years ago. As far as I can see the price for a Genuine clock is about £180 plus vat!!!!!
OUCH! That’s gotta smart some! 😕
K.
Tim,
If it says on the box it’s made by Proctor & Gamble, Lever Brothers or Benkiser then it’s pretty much safe bar liquids and 3-in-1 things, anything else avoid it like the plague! 😉
That goes for almost all products in my experience, washing machine ones as well.
K.
To be honest all this is pretty much academic really. As once the retailers cotton on to the fact that the service is woeful they’ll switch allegience to another brand and gradually the volumes will subside and normality will return.
Hence, in this case, I would look at this as a short-term thing and not a long-term solution as the employed engineers will always get first crack at the calls. 😉
K.
Hi EJ,
The market is a tad more complex than that with many things affecting the share prices of retialers and manufacturers. For now the price of raw steel is driving up production costs and profits down, so that is having a direct affect on the manufacturers as a whole.
When it comes to DSG, bear in mind that whilst Currys retail whitegoods they also have PC World which affects the share prices quite dramatically at times, retailers in other countries like the recent purchase of a Greek electrical chain which will, naturally affect the shares and they are closing down a whole load of Dixons branded high street stores.
Dixons Group is not such a good example as they’ve had a kicking on the market of late due to many of the factors above.
MFI have also, at great cost, introduced new systems to the organisation and that (from what I can gather) led to the profit warning but that is a temproary situation and not a fair long-term outlook as all shareholdings should be.
As with most shares there are often a plethora of factors that affect the pricing with many not always easily percievable without a good working knowledge of the industry as a whole, just like many other sectors.
K.
