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Re: Electrue/NESN
CaryGrant wrote:3,500 dishwashers nationally between 70 odd agents, thats another long term contract NESN gained then isn’t it ? It should last all of a month !!
That’s if it ever gets started! Apparently it’s already fallen over. 😉
But there are some “exciting propects”….again! 😆
K.
Re: Manufacturers Parts List CD Roms
Dave_Conway wrote:So, in my estimation that makes Electrolux TDS the best value, it’s the cheapest and has the most content, GDA Partfinder is the worst value, it’s the most expensive and only has the most basic parts information.
And the obligitory glib remark would have to be…
Merloni have to subsidise their cheap appliances somehow and it looks as if we’re the suckers in this case. 😉
K.
Heh, I sent him a Christmas card, to him personally and no, I’m not kidding! 😆
Thus far it is unconfirmed on the vote, but the info was from a sound source, we’ll just have to wait and see what transpires.
K.
Re: Recons
Penguin, you’re right to do decent machines on a small scale probably can work, the problem is getting the sodding things!
You mention 120/130 units a year, we were having to take in that a week, if not more! There is no choice in what you get, you just get it and it costs you, generally, £10-20 a unit depending on the deal so two trailers a week can easily equate to £3000 of which you’ll junk probably about 20-30{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} straight off without even looking at it, some loads are better than others. You also have to bear in mind that some drivers don’t exactly care about this stuff. 😉
Of that we were finding and increasing amount of the returns were the cheap cr*p like Indesit, Ariston etc. that’s not worth repairing, you go the odd one that wasn’t bad but it was rare and I can’t remember ever flogging one that wasn’t a problem at some stage.
So then you junk another 20-30{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}!
Generally at best you’re left with 60{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the machines you took in and that’s before you’ve spent all the money trying to put them right, the time and the cost of appliances themselves. So that buy-in figure, just accounting for the scrap rate is now £40-£50 a unit to cover the cost of them alone.
By the time you pay for the sizeable premises required to recon on this scale, heat it, light it, power it and then repair and test as well as clean the costs soon pile on and I speak from first hand experience. One of the big costs involved is labour, which is where these “charities” can win as their labour costs are massively lower as well as government subsidised as they are politically correct.
This is the point I was trying to make to Paul the other night in IRC and why it’s only the like of Remploy et all that can afford to recon appliances now.
This on top of a diminished market for recon appliances as new can be had so cheap. As I pointed out the other day, I can walk into Makro tomorrow and buy an Indesit for £150 plus VAT. If I could buy a container load I could have them landed in the UK for about £110 a box with no warranty on them and any name I like on the fascia, a fan oven for ~£60, landed. I did hear of, at one point, rework/graded Whirlpool washers being sold for £90 a pop ex VAT to trade last year with a year’s warranty.
The traditional markets for recon appliances were always the punters on the dole and local councils as well as, as you say estate agents, but most of the punters now have access to club books or catalouges that they can buy a machine from for £3 a week or whatever, to then the quality doesn’t matter. The councils I can tell you here are buying in Fagor washers, fully warrantied, for less than £140 (incl.) a throw and they have actually been alright.
Given that, what’s the point of recons if you can’t get a decent supply of quality appliances to recon?
You appear to have found a small niche for yourself there and all I can say is milk it for all it’s worth for as long as you can. 😉
K.
Well it looks as if NESN are in their death throes at the moment unless the browngoods side does keep them afloat for now.
The bell is tolling for our Jonathan anyway I hear.
My heart bleeds 😈
K.
Re: Electrue/NESN
Rumour has it…
That the Stoves contract has now been lost.
There are some issues with the Cornhill work.
A couple of directors at a board meeting on Friday past have called for a “vote of no confidence” in Mr Trubshaw (the MD) and he’s under pressure to exit stage left.
Just to keep everyone up to speed.
K.
LOL, I think he’ll cool it. He’s trying to make up for the time he was off and coming back with any old shite just now I think rather than anything really relevant. We’ll see, if it keeps up I’ll tell him to STFU a bit.
K.
Well when you can buy a 1000 spin washer (okay, it is an Indesit) for £150 plus VAT in Makro, I’d be forced to agree.
K.
Re: UKW Merchandise
🙄 There’s one in every crowd…
You ordered your stein yet?
K.
(off to see if there’s an insulated pastie holder he can brand up :lol:)
Well it was only a matter of time really anyway before it leaked, but calling all the DASA list was not so clever I think.
Still had no reply from them although GM did sign up to UKW this morning,
K.
Re: UKW Merchandise
Well the first and only order so far arrived this morning (you tight gits ;)) and the mugs are cracking, but I wouldn’t go for the large mugs as they are US (fat b*****d) sized!
The white T-shirt is cracking as well as the stickers but on the grey stuff the logo discolours slightly, but I’m picky about such things. The general quality is excellent, I’m pretty pleased with the results overall.
I am looking to do some “special edition” T-shirts on there with artwork I’ll generate, obviously using my normal warped sense of humour so you’re warned. 😆 If anyone has any suggestions for a design they want to see let me know please and I’ll see what can be done.
K.
Well it’s all out in the open now, no sense in trying to hide as obviously they’ve decided to cal up everyon and their dog anyway.No doubt even Harvey got a call today. 😉
K.
