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Yup, often fitting them and then try to send them back as well.
Well seeing half the population is of below-average intelligence.
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funkyboogy wrote:could absolutely be done but at what cost ,
Exactly and you need the people onboard to make it work.
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Exactly that Dave, how you fund it, even initially is (on the face of it) the biggest hurdle to overcome but there is more.
I built a lot of the tools to do it but, frankly, there wasn’t enough people interested to get to the point where there wasn’t the traction to support moving forward with the notion of building any sort of repair network.
And the lack of an appetitie for it from the guys was what killed it for me.
It’s all very well when you go along to all and sundry spoon feeding them with, “here, you’re getting pay £XX a job” and they’ll be emailed through etc, you get repairers falling over themselves for the work especially if the rates are good. But when you say, “well, this is a project we need to build and you need to put some effort into, it’s not all done for you” you are largely met with complete apathy. So my take on, very candidly put, was if they can’t be arsed, why should I be?
You also see this in the whole Google thing, repair search and other stuff, a lot of the repairers just can’t be bothered or it’s an “I’ll get around to it thing” that they rarely ever do. Then bemoan the fact that they get nothing from such things and, well, you know…
Even ignoring the complications of well I do RG21 but only on Ash Wedensday when the moon is full or I’ll fix XXX but only when things are slow and I need the work, etc, etc.
What I am essentially saying is that, in many ways, this industry is often its own worst enemy from the outset, let alone starting to work out how to actually get stuff done.
If people in the repair industry want to change the industry, there’s only one group of people that will do it. Them.
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I looked at this every which way and couldn’t come up with a solution but, even doing as you suggest involves either a lot of work at the backend or a lot of coding upfront = costs.
I have no issue with doing stuff for the guys but, I cannot afford to do it for free, I have to be at least able to cover the costs of it.
Ditto with a network where this started.
The biggest difference is I don’t care if I make anything from it, it’s irrelevant to me personally but I can’t have it costing me money.
One way we looked at was using Rapport to offer a decentralised network and that was in part done as leads from the repair search go straight onto Rapport users systems, just pops right up as a call to be booked. The same is employed for contract work only, the client can look in on progress to cut down on the daft chase calls and emails, see what’s been done etc on any of their work. And that works really, really well.
The issue is that not enough people were committed to it, though those that use it are evangelical about Rapport as it was designed from the ground up to work for the repairers.
All this stuff is hard to find a way through though, very hard. Unless you’ve got deep pockets and patience.
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We knocked about several ways of trying to do it but, the trouble is getting people to pay quite honestly. A lot of “forgets” and so on and I don’t have the manpower on tap to chase payments or generally administrate it all, payment and otherwise.
Eventually we gave people the ability to manage their own data as trying to do that for them was too onerous and even then we still got errors, from the data that the businesses put in I’ll add. Many seem to think, why I have no idea, that anyone working on a system like that, Google ads and more will somehow have a magical crystal ball and that thye will only get sent the wokr they want, when they get what they specify you’ll often then get gripes about it. And, hacked off punters.
Some time back we looked at trying to fund something for WTA members through that, promoting them even more heavily than is already the case but the issue is it’d never be “even”, businesses in cities or large conurbation areas will always get more so why should some getting less pay the same and so forth. But to try to split that all down and charge only for what each gets would be a bloody nightmare.
It’s a great tool and works really well, but how to fund it etc if you wanted to do paid advertising and get a lot more through it is an issue and one we couldn’t come up with a solution for.
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I did look at it way back when, but it’s a nightmare on billing people, a total nightmare, so I quickly backed off that one.
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There are links to this all over the place:
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/search/find-an-appliance-engineer
I can’t pay for advertising for that as, bluntly put, I make nadda from it, not a bean. It is a completely free service and though I’ve not checked of late it’s not uncommon for there to be 1-2K searches a month through it, even without any promotion other than on here.
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Being on Google is a no-brainer, anyone that hasn’t done that already really needs to get it done ASAP.
I’d still look at a “network” (God, I hate that term) if the idea and financing was sound so that the guys benefitted from it. I still think it could be done but all the stars would need to align to make it viable.
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Have a read of this before you decide:
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/tumble-dryers/3845-are-heat-pump-dryers-worth-it
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There are no specific issues with the ice noted for it anywhere but if you have an email I can send you a manual for it.
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It’s so new I can’t see much info on it but, the general rule of thumb is, if it’s frost free it’ll run 80{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} or more of the time it’s plugged in and so long as it’s hitting temperature there won’t be a fault with it.
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It’s frost free so it will run 80-90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the time it’s plugged into the wall.
Old non-frost free would only run, roughly, 50-70{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the time.
And being that new it may well have an inverter run linear compressor and they can run almost 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the time which, counterintuitively, is actually more economic in terms of power consumption.
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