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Re: Those useless plastic coating dishwasher tablets….
I’ve only come across the issue a few times and all where due to faults on the appliance.
I do, if asked, recommend seperate powder, rinse aid and salt, much cheaper and generally gives better results IMHO.
Although I’m still amazed at how complicated it can be for clients, the most simple instructions seem to be too difficult for some, so there best left to there tablets and incorrect selection of programmes. :rolls:
Re: amazon
I was looking on e-bay for an element last night and came across a seller in Cheshire or somewhere selling second hand parts at relatively high prices. .
I personnally no of 3 Serviceforce agents Engineers who are ordering parts for clients jobs, more than required to complete the job, stating there fitting the parts on there paperwork and then selling them on E Bay, to make some extra cash.
I no of another who got sacked or rather persuaded to move on before Electrolux found out.
In my area there are several company engineers who finish around 2pm or ASAP, you can tell if your guys do it as there usually early starters at around 7AM, there then out doin there own private work and I no one company recently warned there engineers to stop.
I’m sure there are many more from other companies and other outlets.
Re: amazon
jeremy wrote:
Doom and gloom mind set isnt healthy or constructive imho.
True.
Although being unaware of your business, the market place and current trends can also be just as dangerous if not more.
Many happy peeps have lost and will still lose money whilst there heads are buried in positivity.
I’m not stuck in the past, I was merely pointing out that I have got the t shirts in various shapes and sizes.I’ve sold new appliances, recon appliances and for 10 yrs turned over £800,000 a yr just on Electronics and toys with Tandy until the last few yrs when all there toys would break and was not worth the hassle, luckily I read the signs well, got out just before they crashed and left many dealers out of business.
I’m not struggling, far from it.
One thing I learn’t in the past was knowing the signs of good/bad business, when to walk away, knowing when you should not increase debt in the hope the market will improve and when to move before or change.
It may well be doom and gloom to some.
Re: amazon
I don’t think selling appliances is moving with the times, I was doin that in the 80-90’s with Hotpoint etc etc, hell I was even a Tandy Dealer 😆
There was a sudden shift to larger retailers such as the Comet, Currys that opened less than a mile away from us.
We even did internet selling and now that has reduced thanks to the “bigger boys”.
Location may be a factor, for us/me, every change I’ve made has only lasted a few yrs at best and didn’t bring in much reward once the cost of change was paid, we had to fork out £30,000 to become Hotpoint dealers, we just broke into profit when Comet opened up.
Its easy to diverse into other area’s, the hard bit is doin it before someone else comes along.
Re: amazon
Yup.
No doubt some will say that were still needed as there are numpties who cannot fix the appliances we work on, Blah Blah Blah.
Whilst I have a high regard for myself and my abilities, I’m also a realist and learn’t yrs ago that the job I do is hardly rocket science and was not likely to bring the rewards it once did.
Stripping and rebuilding appliances is become rare and honestly the hardest part of my job now is dealing with the odd Dishwasher motor change or a compressor.
Maybe I’ve been doin it too long and it feels too easy, I don’t no, but there must be a reason for so many companies selling parts via the net, someone must be doin it, there not trade, so there obviously finding the appliances easy to fix.
Re: Train for Trade skills advert on TV
I mentioned it in the rumour mill D+G thread.
Its a training skills course, you failed to mention he could now gain £20-40,000 a yr as an appliance engineer. :rolls:
Its becoming a flooded industry.
Re: Caple integrated washer?
I worked on a lot in Spain.
There kitchens are pretty smart.An added benefit to these is there installed by agents to the standards set by Fagor, so no cowboy fitters doin shi8e work.
Something they should do in the UK.
Re: Caple integrated washer?
Its not that bad a machine, Fagor are growing in strength and is going to be a well known brand in the UK, they make kitchens to compliment there products.
Re: Caple integrated washer?
It could be finished in Spain, but when I worked on one recently there was a quality control sticker inside written in Chinese attached to the soap dispensor.
Its hard to tell the make of anything these days. 🙂
A lot of appliances use these guys based in the Basque country, there products are found all over the world in many makes, you may notice the heater assembly found in Bosch d/w’s.
Re: Sorry but I can’t do it……..
If I was perfect I wouldn’t be fixing appliances for a living now would I. :rolls:
In my defence though I was out of the house in in under 30 minutes. 😉
Re: Caple integrated washer?
Its made/distributed by Fagor, imported from China though.
http://www.fagor.co.uk/6kg-1100rpm-turb … 00144.html
http://www.fagor-china.com/webfiles/htm … e=11-12-41
Also sold as Baumatic BWD12.1, BA140 & BTWM5
Re: Facebook advertising…
Maybe I’ll just keep to ringing them and book phantom calls. 😀 😀 😀
An E bay seller recently got caught, sent to court for bidding on his own product to increase the amount so that other bidders would increase there bids.
Size doesn’t always matter and I’m sure he is one of thousands doing it and E bay only prosecuted one so that it looks as if there trying to stop it happening.
Not that google would ever be so dirty. :rolls:
Re: Sorry but I can’t do it……..
Lets hope they don’t take another view when you hand the bill over, hopefully they won’t try to claim it was your fault.
I have known technicians that will go out of there way, as you did, only to have the nice client suddenly turn rogue.
Many times I’ve heard stories from clients that did not add up and was not likely to have happened by the tech involved, happens to all of us when money is involved.
I had a call, luckily I was the senior tech for the area, an appliance that only leaked when used with towels.
1 hour 35 minutes of watching the appliance with towels in, all covers removed, guess what, no leak.
I had a phone call an hour later asking what had happened as the m/c leaked after I left.
I explained, client though told Customer Care Supervisor that I hadn’t removed the m/c and had only ran the m/c for 10 minutes and left and I had a bad attitude.
Luckily the tracker on the van and the start/end time on the laptop concurred, plus I photographed the appliance out with the covers off. 😉
The client complaining was the husband who had to admit he was not present at the time I called after the info I provided that I had gained by his really friendly wife who seemed more interested in talking to me than watching loose women, luckily they had an arguement on the phone whilst I was there and I gained some info that they could not deny if the arguement hadn’t taken place.
Clients are in general ok people, some though are idiots and all tend to turn into winkers when money is involved or they don’t get there own way.
One today was complaining of vibration from the cooker hood which had a replacement motor on Monday, I call and its all fine, but apparantly it never vibrated before, yeah cause everybody holds there hoods when its on.
Nope he was just being pedantic, it may well have vibrated a bit more than the last one, but no 2 appliances are exact and therefore any attempt by me to change the motor a 2nd time would have indicated that I too believed the hood to vibrate too much, if i could not cure it they would have insisted on further motor changes or a replacement hood.It could have been caused by several factures and I could have wasted hours there for nothing
I stood my ground and then left, I learned a long time ago when to walk away.
