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Re: statistics ???
I miss the days when I got my hands dirty and used my Engineering knowledge to repair a product.
I think the most complicated job I had this week was explaining why Hotpoint hadn’t made the NTC’s available as a spare on there 3 yr old fridge and how if I can’t fix it can I justify the call out and not explain it on the phone.
I miss the Hotpoint Top loaders. 😥
Re: Masterparts T & C’s
iadom wrote:
I know that life’s a bitch and all that but why should a small, one man operation with a very modest turnover be expected to stand a loss that is nothing to do with them when a large distribution company is making far more out of the faulty part in the first place. :rolls:Cos you add up all those one man outfits and it equals a huge profit, then they go to a board room and decide to fload the internet (Repaircare,0800 etc) with repair solutions forcing the one man band to work for £30 a call as opposed to the £130 repaircare charge.
Re: Masterparts T & C’s
Most of the modules I get come with the board detached from the housing and there usually a tight fit.
Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs
Money is tight and people are making do with whatever, I went to a washer the other day and found there intergrated microwave had string wrapped around the door pins as the lever to open the door was bust, I offered to repair it reduced and was told we are ok with that for now as we only use it to defrost the odd item and heat the odd coffee, its not very good and getting on a bit.
I guess when it goes they’ll buy a tesco mw for £40 and stick it in the hole.
Happy days. 😡
Re: Hotpoint Fridge freezer FFA71, Fridge compartment too c
Got the same issue on a FFA97 and posted same question here, it seems the Thermistors are embedded in the appliance and is a common fault.
Its best to throw back to Hotpoint as they have a 5 yr parts warranty although not sure if they get a replacement after paying the £95.00 ish callout charge, then again I bet hotpoint would still be making money on that piece of sh8t.
At least the chinese rubbish is repairable. 😆
Re: Should have stayed in bed
rolf wrote:Lee8 Whats that got to do with the price of bread.
You carnt say someone leaving a box of bold in your way constitutes to a bad day. 😆If only it had been a box of bold.
Re: Paying For Waste.. BSH Boss Says They Shouldn’t Have To
Its a fact, a sad fact that humans don’t get on with each other and that wars keep the populations down.
I went to a living museum today, on one of the houses was some family history about the original family back in 1800, they were in severe poverty and only just managed to rent the farm, by 1809 they had managed to buy the property and expand the farm, why, because the Napoleonic wars prevented European imports pushing the price of food up enough for them to sell there products.
Having a world war is a terrible act, but one I fear we have to go through, we share this with many many other creatures on the planet.
Its far more inhumain to have an over populated planet full of poverty and crime whilst still believing that makes us more civilised.
Re: Paying For Waste.. BSH Boss Says They Shouldn’t Have To
Fact is the planet has too many people living a “modern” lifestyle and the majority don’t care.
And to be honest i’m in the camp that believes the green agenda is deeply flawed.
Like Jeremy Clarkson once wrote, “If the planet has too high a water level, simply fit some space shuttles with tankers and dispose of it into space”. 😆
Point being in every decade there has been a threat to humanity and the planet, yet they always disappear, replaced with another domesday event.The solutions are implemented strongly by authority to our faces, in which as I mean that we must fill our recycling in the correct manor as set out in the rules, but we soon learn that the rules on us are not followed all through the chain, which leds me and many others to conclude that the goal is not as important as we are led to believe.
I too have witnessed nearly every green collection of sorted waste merely get dumped into the back of the same waste wagon, so why sort out in the first place ? Simple answer the more you feed people lies the easier they become at be controlled, stigma is attached by others, your neighbours, so we all roll along together in fear, then when govt decides to implement more rules, we simply roll over.
In Spain we had daily rubbish collections and all waste was deposited in bins at street corners, there are seperate for bottles, paper, food etc.My council tax bill was 140 Euros a yr, so how can Spain afford this and the UK cannot, other EU countries also manage similar systems of waste managment far better than the Great Britain or as one Spaniard called us the Gran Puta (Great Whore).
There is a change coming this yr and next, now that climate change science is being questioned we are going to be fed the line that oil will run out in around 5 yrs, so if we don’t use less we going to die out and the planet destroyed.
So keep recycling your waste, its not like the councils sell it on now is it, but at least your contributing 0.0000000000000001{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} to the planets health. :rolls:
Re: Paying For Waste.. BSH Boss Says They Shouldn’t Have To
Martin wrote:. Quality costs, consumers don’t want to pay for it. More reliable products = less replaceable demand.
Which is why charging the producers is a daft idea.
They won’t increase price, they’ll decrease costs further.
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kwatt wrote:
So, going back to what you said at the start… 😉
K.
Maybe you should explain that to BSH then. :rolls:
Re: Paying For Waste.. BSH Boss Says They Shouldn’t Have To
The retail cost should be higher with standards set into the design of the product which will then increase the manufacturing cost and ensure better build quality.
Re: Paying For Waste.. BSH Boss Says They Shouldn’t Have To
The cost to the taxpayer is tiny though, so objecting on that is not really an issue.
When companies such as the Electrolux group start purchasing Chinese products and sell them at mid range costing indicates to me that the business has a financial issue.
Increasing costs further I don’t believe will make the situation better, if anything it would cause more waste as production cost would be pushed lower, I doubt one producer would increase retail prices, there is too much competition on the high street and that is governed by buyers who are frankly idiots who like to complain to trading standards.
Re: Paying For Waste.. BSH Boss Says They Shouldn’t Have To
In a perfect world I would be driving a Bugatti Veyron for the same cost as a Astra.
In Cuba there are no housing issues as the state owns them and you buy and sell from the state, no equity funding long term loans that cannot be sustained and no profit induced thinking.
You cannot have both worlds, Labour are a prime example, you cannot rid the business/banking community of fat greed cats and produce a profit, especially when the govt brings its friends into the equation (the USA) and forces UK bankers into agreeing to take on poor unworkable business.
You also cannot expect appliance produces to pay for all the waste disposal of there products.
After all they want to sell products, make a profit, forcing there profit margins down will simply reduce the production costs further and bring more crap onto the market.
The only winner will be the govt and the waste companies, the consumer and the planet won’t notice.
