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This is sad news if true. I liked their outlet at Silverstone and even if I didn't need anything I'd always walk out with a new pair of gloves!
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It's these reasons and some others which led to all the "false sales" on the high street in recent weeks. I'm sure you all noticed that once behind the enormous sale banners, it was hard to find anything which constituted a price reduction of any size. |
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And if any of those 'sales' were genuine and they were just trying to shift stock at cost just wait till they have to restock. (BTW how come DFS have a sale and you place an order to be told you have to wait for the factory to make it, how can that be a sale i thought a sale was to shift unsold STOCK!!) anyhow just had three or four jobs come in so must get on :-)
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Just had a talk to Jason and he said there is no connection with Tweeks !
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Al, I don't agreee with haggling for the sake of it, but I do stand my ground if I think the price being asked is unreasonable.
I just got a quote for repairing my broken gearbox. It's a lot of money, (£350-£550 depending on how many bits are broken) but I think not unreasonable for the work involved so I didn't haggle. I also just got a quote for a new inlet manifold. I think £700 for a lump of aly with some pretty basic machining is just too much so tried to haggle. Was told that it was a rare item and the price was as quoted. I just walked away. Bargain hunting is one thing, value for money quite another. |
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GPR's prices were a bit OTT. Sure, they competed with Demon Tweeks, but I found another site selling exactly the same stuff that I wanted (all racewear) and they were selling it for £135 cheaper than GPR!
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Now I'm one of the tightest people on the planet (think nearly as bad as Arkwright from Open All Hours!), but also the most sympathetic when it comes to what customers have to pay, I see things more from the customer's point of view than I do my own (which is bad business I'm sure and got a telling off at my last job for undercharging), but I also see it as - if you don't rip them off, they WILL come back! Since Saturday, I've had 7 jobs, 4 were previous customers with new problems and 1 was a recommendation. |
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My prices are very reasonable anyhow, I am even cheaper on canvas prints than ASDA and Tescos (I did email them once and said look I won;'t sell food, you don't sell canvas prints and mugs etc, wonder why they never replied :-)) However you still get people coming in haggling especially on van sign writing(especially foreign guys who could get it done back home for a lower price, I then ask them why are they here, obvious because they can earn bigger money here and that bigger money has to come form somewhere which is why I cannot charge Rumanian or Polish prices ), I just find it depressing in the end.
The thing is you all want to earn your fancy wages if you are working for a company so just where do you think that money comes from, don't delude yourselves here, its easy to dismiss things as a rip off but then to find staff want paying £500 a week plus. Last edited by Al Weyman; 7 Jan 2009 at 10:33. |
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The British way of doing business is - "This is the price, it's non-negotiable, you pay it, or try to find a company that's doing it cheaper." If you're already under-cutting the opposition, they'll come crawling back to you when they can't find anyone cheaper (as a number of customers already have done with me, several months after telling me I was too expensive). |
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I found prices varied between DT and GPR and others - just because one item in the book is cheaper than the other company does not mean everthing will be - always has and always will pay to shop around.
Haggling over the price or wanting a discount must be down to volume purchased over a period of time - just because you finished a close second in the central weston hot hatch series last year and you want a roll of tank tape and bottle of brake fluid, for a sticker on you helmet, doesn't in my book warrant a discount. |
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Time people stopped ripping each other off, if companies try it on, either tell them what you think, walk away, find a cheaper supplier!
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In the ideal world yes,but is it not the way of life in the UKkk,as a good friend said,"Its the American way of doing business".Even the Multi National companys are up to thier little stealth add-on charges.You are quite right about the French though,THAT is HOW we should be,not the stiff upper lip old boy! syndrome and just accept it.Cant imagine why there are sooo many Brits just dying to get out of here!
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