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Re: Worst Week Ever
While I wish you all well with your Businesses, it is nice to know I am not the only one suffering from lack of work!
Re: Worst Week Ever
iadom wrote:Only had two calls in past fortnight, but then I am still on board this huge ship until Saturday. Both calls from ‘friends’. Now I know why I won’t give my mobile number to customers. 😉
Sailing back across the Bay of Biscay as I type, weather has been great for two weeks but we are promised some ‘motion on the ocean’ in next 24 hours. 😯
Sailor Jim.A man after my own heart, a sailor.
So if you have been away for two weeks then you are not a “Booze Cruiser”
And if you are on a “Huge ship”, I guess that may be Pont Aven?
And you either hate flying (like me). Have a dog or a motorhome or a motorbike or just prefer motoring over flying?Or…. I am completely wrong and you have been on one of those cheap cruises?
Hope you had a great trip?
TM
Re: Worst Week Ever
Woo Hoo
Rang Twice this Morning, two calls passed by my Brother as he is away for a week.
Anyone else so Quiet?
Re: Worst Week Ever
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:As there hasn’t been a post here for two whole weeks does it mean the “mini recession” is over (til the next time anyway)?
I allowed my ad contract in the local paper to expire at the end of July. Haven’t noticed a drop off yet. Maybe I can fly without them. Saves me a tenner a week anyway.
Mike.£10 a week!
Do you get much from it?
T
Re: Worst Week Ever
Worse week in 14 years here.
General Trade down 68{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}
Charge work up mind!Re: Candy CIC324 AK fridge too cold
pup wrote:
a1al wrote:
Hi chrisJust read this post have just been out to one of these last week have module on order would be very interested in your sent info if it not to much trouble.
Thanks
ali been to few always module 😆
Ive been to 100’s, nearly always NTC (thermistor)
Trev
Re: Candy CIC324 AK fridge too cold
snig wrote:Been back with thermistor and info only to find thermistor is not where indicated. measured very carefully but just not there! very annoying as still the same amount of work involved. Be warned!!!!!
Occasionaly they are nowhere near where they are suggested to be.
Re: £144 up front wanted by De Dietrich?
HELLO
I recently reduced my call-out charge in a bid to generate more work. A was called out by a customer who could not raise repaircare on a Saturday. A visit was arranged for the Monday Morning to His LG American style Refrigerator.
When I arrived, the compressor was red hot and oil in the condensate drain. The evaporator was leaking and the compressor not pumping. The best price including call-out, labour and parts I could do was £300.
At this point he then mentioned the Repaircare. I pointed out the pitfalls of calling them out to an extensive fault for £100 all-in and that they would probably, in-view of recent changes to their T&C’s simply refund him £60 and keep the other £40. On top of the £20 Nominal charge I had made.
I suggested he give D&G a call as they may be able to help. When He did this they quoted £169 for repairs up-to £250 including 1 year warranty on the appliance (not just the repair). If they could not repair it, then he would get a full refund.
In the end it turns out the appliance is still under 2 year warranty with LG. Now his problem may be that as I fitted an LTV to analyse the system, they may now refuse to repair.
You just can’t win some times.
Re: Customer Database
kwatt wrote:
TeeMyob wrote:
Having read the above and online reveiws, I have since ordered a MacBook Pro.Have you got it yet and, if so, what do you think?
K.
No Not yet, I built it online and waited a while and nothing happened. I rang Apple and they said they did not know what had happened and re-built it over the phone. Just checked my order status and it says “Pending”
Trev
Re: no work
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:Connect will do small orders at £3.50 first class post but you can’t get this over the internet, you have to ring it in on the sales number and make sure you specify it because not all operatives are even aware of the policy.
Mike.+the cost of the Telephone call to order which is an 0870 number
Re: Customer Database
kwatt wrote:IT is like anything that you happen to keep in your toolbox…
If you know what it is, what it is used for and how to use it then it can save you a lot of time and trouble as well as making the job a lot easier.
IT, for business, touches (or can) on so many areas it can make you massively more efficient and help you waste less time with all the backend paperwork which, as we all know, engineers just love to do. 😉 😆
And that means it saves money.
Gotta know what to do with it though and which tool for which job.
I’ll give you an example…
I used to be a devout Windows user loving the mass of programs and tweaks for it and the fact that it was an almost universal standard as far as IT goes.
IIRC in 2006 I bought my first Mac to play with and liked a lot of what I saw, I liked the simplicity of it for daily use as it just did the job.
Later, in 2007, I took a leap of faith and bought a Macbook Pro as my main “out the office” PC. After a good few weeks wrestling with many things that I was unfamiliar with I got totally converted to using a Mac and now I won’t touch a Doze box unless I really, really have to. They’re slow, cumbersome and difficult to use sat beside a Mac.
But the Macs are much more expensive although better built, almost double the cost in some cases.
To me however it’s worth it as the Macs just work and, keep working. All my stuff is backed up seamlessly without any intervention on my part every hour. I can search stuff faster and more accurately. All my contacts, diary and all that stuff is backed up to the cloud and synched across multiple devices, including my phone and again, I don’t have to touch it for that to happen.
But you try telling a devout Windows user that a Mac is better for work and they’ll bang on about allsorts of downsides and, to be fair, there are some. Not enough to put me off the Mac though and not enough that I can’t justify paying the Apple Tax.
But conversely I’ve never had downtime on the Mac other than the odd reboot.
The question that I asked myself was, how much was my time worth in relation to the extra cost of the Macs? The answer was, my time was worth more than the extra cost of the Mac weighed against the benefits of using that as a PC, for me.
You make the same choice with something as simple as an electric screwdriver. Is the time you spend taking out all the screws from the back of a machine by hand worth more or less than the cost of the screwdriver? Short answer is that, yes, it is invariably worth paying for the screwdriver. Or even whatever other tool you happen to name and some are even required just to do what you have to do, so you nee it just to earn.
Then you find all sorts of other uses for the tool as well though usually, in this case a simple screwdriver.
And this is where the expression, knowing the cost of an item and knowing the value of an item (or tool) are two entirely different things, IMO comes from.
K.
Having read the above and online reveiws, I have since ordered a MacBook Pro.
