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Re: Conference Tickets
r600a wrote:Hi Ken.
That’s great BUT we still need to find the solution for printing the badges.. or do we
bryan
Hi Bryan I think we are going to have to do it the old fashioned way for badges again ,but as we will have everyone that is attendings info beforehand I wonder if we can print them onto business card blanks that come on an A4 sheet for the printer.
oh and thanks for the hoses ,gt ormond st donated to .Re: The Sum Of Zero
Well I heard the question was asked why was no one from the WTA there when they had all been invited ,I had sent my apologies to my personal invitation ,but wasn’t aware any of you guys had anything other than the blanket invite ..
One thing that was said was how slick it was compared to previous ones ,but everyone acknowledged that was the work of David Wildes from masterfix ,who told Bryan at the swift show that they were copying us ,they say imitation is the highest form of flattery .
Now we get our heads down and sort ours and do what we are here to do I.e improve the life of the independent repairer ..Re: Work Up For Grabs
Since I finetuned my details I have had 4 jobs through ,nice one ,all for nothing but the time to do the finetuning ..
Re: work car or van
Was using renault trafic ,thats now gone to my apprentice and I’m working out the back of my Ford Galaxy and I have to say its working for me .
Re: C&G certificate in domestic refrigeration systems
At the risk of offending ,this MUST be kept between ourselves at this moment in time ,the right time to share this will present itself in due course.
Well done Ian and thanks for bringing it in to the WTA ,As I know that may not have been the case originally when you were working on it, hence the reason nobody knew about it ,its also thanks to Simon at Amica being so pleased with using mainly WTA members for his service provision that he has agreed to underwrite the costs ,I am seriously impressed that a company with the prestige of Leibherr have come on board as well .
If we do this right ,rolling this out at the Feb mtg will be a massive kick between the legs for some people in the room ….Re: Maybe a platform…
washdoctor wrote:but when he phoned me, he was as nice as a cupcake with a hidden M16 inside it. Ade.
😆 😆
Have to remember that oneMaybe a platform…
Reading through this I just knew it had to be a Bosch ,they recently kicked me back on tech info again ,go for it it’s only the truth you are putting on paper
Re: National Hoovering Of Service Work
Martin wrote: Trouble we are faced with though Lawrence is one of simple mathematics. By that I mean the appliance owner almost always adopts the ‘viability formula’. Namely dividing the years of service their appliance has given, minus the cost of getting it fixed, plus the cost of replacing it. Whereas we use the more complex ‘realistic formula’ in our calculations, which involves adding the know-how, divided by the practicality, over the square root of the cost.
I think I get what you are saying ,but isn’t that where something like the WTA comes in ,the louder it becomes with regards to ,appliance longevity ,repair viability,highlighting the hoovering tactics that are going on ,the more chance we have ,and before you wonder if the WTA is loud enough ?
Don’t forget its growing all the time ,you were there at the last meeting ,what if it were to grow some more then it would get louder and be able to be more vocalMartin wrote:, the national hoovering companies operate an extremely simple mathematical formula based entirely on the ‘numbers game’. Blanket coverage over the Internet attracting new business nationwide over an entire product range. Their revenue stream based on the well tried and tested ‘fixed rate sting’. Getting paid up front. Employing an army of repairers to go out all hours of the day, night and weekends in the full and certain knowledge that at least 65-70{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of those appliances attended to will be rendered BER by them. It’s a pure, undiluted and yet sophisticated game that they play all the while.
I know and like you it frustrates the heck out of me ,but what if there were the ability to play them at there own game ,I’m not saying we can or should I’m just asking the question ,what if we could get that work steered to the likes of us but not at warranty rates.
Martin wrote: us lowly indies suffer directly as a result. Simply because we still operate the old fashioned skills and experience route, selling our services on well established fair trading principles.
Thats my point about adapting the way we work ,We can work in the modern medium but still have principles gained from our industry experience can’t we ?
I know I haven’t got it all right ,but theres no harm in knocking this about cos we just may stumble across something
