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Re: Ariston fan element
Three…… and a half…….. and a large Jamesons and now I’ve got a tin of Morrisons finest – note how the spelling and grammar has improved!
Since I opened the account, I have had no contact with Connect. Not a phone call, no offer of an area rep sticking his head round the door, and no response to emails querying certain prices where their price exceeded the SSP from the manufacturer. It did actually take (after 3 attempts to get an account by phone) me accosting Mr Parker at the last meeting to get the forms, sent them in and Lo! an account.
I am annoyed and embarrassed about the way things currently stand. As a sole trader I have £12-1500 a month to spend on spares and nobody’s going to get all of it (nobody’s got everything), so I ain’t going to have the worlds greatest buying power.
However, if you balance this against my time as Whitegoods Spares Controller for a large High Street Retailer, you have to understand that I know exactly and precisely how the spares business plays. Even those of you who are happy with your current pricing structures are paying too much – far too much.
Brushes? Pence. Belts? Pence. Timers and Motors? £10-15. Modules? Less than £10. Digiboards – £20 tops. Pumps? £1. It all goes on and on.
Buy Gen? You’re paying at least three times. Maker, machine manufacturer, UK distributor, wholesaler – you. Just bear in mind that there ain’t nobody making a loss.
Oh well, I suppose I might stir some emotion amongst you, but read and consider this – it’s how it is now. Anyone got any ideas what we should do to change it?
Second can of beer beckons, so greater minds than mine can ponder this and come up with a real killer idea over the weekend.
Cheers,
Chris.Re: Bosch SGS5002GB/07
What, and physically switch the I/O switch off?. The only way it should pop is via the door latch, or pushing the button.
Chris.
Re: New Buttons
kwatt wrote: Except from Goatboy, because we all know he’s not right in the head!
K.What head – there’s nothing but teeth!
Good effort in my opinion, much clearer. Perhaps we need to consider the order of the posts – Public to the top, then trade, then commercial at the bottom?
Chris.
Re: Ariston fan element
Faster than a waddling Penguin………..
Connect C00023884 – £23.18/1
………….ELE4587 – £12.36/1 – £4.50/1 – 3+Now I’m depressed and I’m going for a pint. Or 3.
Later……..
Chris.Re: Firenzi Fridge 3SR 921/1
Door is p/no 4819 442 78447. Dave will be able to get it for you.
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: Zanussi door springs
Looks like they hook on the back of the door hinges and run up the front cabinet members. Taking the side panels off should reveal everything for you.
Power off please :plug: .
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: Ariston fan element
Gen £6.99 from Masterpart, AR1407 pattern £5.99.
I haven’t looked at Connect, I’ll just get depressed again.
Chris.
Re: Bosch SGS43C12 – never ending wash cycle
Regret Jim never became a member, so we have no way of contacting him – up to your powers of observation I’m afraid.
Electric off if having a look yourself. :plug:
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: New Sticky ?
Look, he’s a twat with no ability – he’s posted again, so we haven’t killed him – why the fuck should we care? Unfortunate that it has to be Dave, who has shown commendable restraint; but as we all know, we can’t do the blow by blow “how to fix it” routine.
It’s a very fine line sometimes – does this poster know anything, or is he an idiot? I answered a d/w post the other night and the poster descibed exactly his problem, so giving a reply with some large clues in it was not a big problem, and we had a happy reply this morning. Well, yesterday now.
With any luck this particular idiot will post back in a day or two to complain that he did indeed have to pay his £89.95 call out to get the chicken bone out of his pump, then we can (I gather that this is a “Forum Technical Term” from Julia) “flame” him for his own incompetance.
Let us enjoy the moment when it comes.
Chris.
Re: I got my connect acc WOO HOO 🙂
Wake up, you lot – two bits of carbon with a bit of copper wire embedded don’t cost 50p/pr to make. They were probably made as a batch of 100,000 last September to see us all safely through this year, at a great saving compared with the gens in holders.
Accept that the manufacturers sell these en bloc to an Italian agent, who sells them to various UK Distributors and even with two lots of mark up that’s at most £1.50/pr. So Connect either want to steer the market somewhere else, which would be shortsighted and foolish given the plethora of other wholesalers, or they wish to extract the michael from those who have no choice but to buy from them, or it’s just blatant profiteering. Of course in these enlightened times that just doesn’t happen anymore. Well, not much any way. Comet Spares don’t sell brushes, only motors, so at least we’re not plumbing those depths yet.
Anyway, take another example – Martin‘s favourite Bosch brushes. You can pay £27 odd for the gens, or buy the “not quite perfect” pattern ones from (in my case) Maddocks for £3.25/pr. These are slightly more sophisticated in that they have springs and tags as well, yet are still cheap by comparison.
I suspect that we’re being unstuck from our cash in a mannner akin to the parting of velcro.
Which bit of “Rip-off” is puzzling everybody?
Chris.
Re: Cut Vinyl Graphics
I think I’d like a couple of stickers for the back of the van. God knows they’ll get read enough in Leeds traffic. Maybe by the other non-joining engineers in Leeds…… 🙂 .
It’s not complex, it’s cheap and cheerful – we don’t need the Subs number (yet) – stick ’em on the front page for £2.50 inc P+P and I bet we’ll shift some.
Cheers,
Chris.Re: I got my connect acc WOO HOO 🙂
You lucky, lucky, priveledged so and so.
C00047317 – £6.67/1
CBN5121 – £20.86/prConnect must really love you………..
Quite seriously you Connect readers on this site, where is my incentive to buy anything from you?
Chris.
Re: White Knight CL767
If it’s dead dead, having checked the fuse (?), I would look at the door. There is a striker peg on the door which works a switch in the dryer. This acts as a master switch for the whole machine. Over time, heat can distort the peg, so it doesn’t always work the switch. Also, if the door hinge breaks, the door may not sit as it should – again the door won’t work the switch.
Start there and see how you go. Power off if you go inside……. :plug:
Regards,
Penguin45.
