LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2020

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  1. Jack McHammocklashing

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    Double Glazing
    The companies will never give you a ball park price, Oh we have to come out and measure
    Yes but about how much would a standard double glazed 3' x7' door be, ROUGHLY
    We will have to come out and give you a quote

    When I sold shoes, people would ask and I could tell them Real leather hand made x pounds
    leather factory made by xx and xx about x pounds and plastic xx at x pounds, roughly

    Surely Double Glazing companies can say around £300 for a 6' x 4' basic window and about £600 for self cleaning heat retaining etc etc

    Jack McH
     
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    • pete

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      Well I agree up to a point, but sometimes it's not easy to work out what might be involved in the installation over the phone.:biggrin:

      I tend to get these kind of people to come out and have a look, then stick to my guns if the price is too high, if they want to waste their time its up to them.;)
       
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        It's all in that last word Jack, 'quote'. Another way of getting their foot in the door so they can convince you to buy face to face. Some people find it difficult to say no!
         
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          We never buy from somebody who goes door to door. We've just had our replaced windows replaced with some new ones, the old ones were over 30 years old and falling apart.
          The company that we chose wasn't cheap but very good with a good after sales. They measured them twice before they came to the price that they wanted and it was good.
          A good company wouldn't go door to door. We went for one that was in the area at the time and our next door neighbour had a conservatory put up with them after us.
           
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          • Jiffy

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            And some people can't say no

            I've herd lots of people say "I don't want to do it" after they have said yes
             
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              @Mike Allen
              An old Cockney rhyme/song:

              A muvver was barfin' ‘er baby one night
              The youngest of ten, and a tiny young mite
              The muvver was poor and the baby was fin
              Only a skellington covered in skin


              The muvver turned round for the soap orf the rack
              She was only a moment, but when she turned back
              ‘er baby ‘ad gorn, and in anguish she cried
              "Oh, where is me baby?", the angels replied


              Yer baby ‘as gorn dahn the plug'ole
              Yer baby ‘as gorn dahn the plug
              The poor little fing was so skinny and fin
              ‘e oughta been barfed in a jug

              Yer baby ‘as gorn dahn the plug’ole
              Gorn dahn the plug’ole ‘as ‘e
              Yer baby ‘as gorn dahn the plug’ole
              Right dahn to Sarfend on Sea.

              Yer baby is perfik'ly 'appy
              ‘e won't need a barf any more
              ‘e's muckin' abaht wiv the angels above
              Not lorst but gorn before.
               
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                I always buy compatibles for my printer. Manufacturer's ones are about £12 but compatibles are around £1. I never have any problem with them :noidea:
                 
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                  Make sure that the quote is in writing and headed by the word 'Quote' and not 'Estimate'. Quotes are set prices and estimates are open ended.

                  Then you need to read the contract terms as they try to squeeze in things such as additional prices for 'variations'. Variations are changes that you have supposedly agreed to and they can then charge you extra.

                  Always read the small print! :rolleyespink:
                   
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                    Where from Shiney?
                     
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                    I go for wherever the cheapest ones are on ebay. I have an Epson SX400 and it's at least 10 years old (given to me secondhand).

                    It uses one black and three colour cartridges. The last lot that I have are made in the USA but no manufacturer listed on the boxes. I could look up my order but will have to go back through our notebook (we keep all purchases recorded).

                    They contain 19ml each and at that price (think they worked out about £10 for ten - one of each colour and the rest black as I usually set the thing for just black and white) it doesn't matter if they don't actually have that amount in them. We've never had a problem with the machine recognising them or it clogging.
                     
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                      It's nice to know that when there is a problem some people get the blame for that problem even if they didn't do it, Heard that someone got the blame for something so we but that person straight :biggrin: the person that got blamed was the person that sorted the problem :heehee: so we said that person XXXXXX was the person that caused the problem :yahoo:

                      Tis nice to put people straight about the truth :yes:
                       
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                        Ever since we had dogs we always pick up after them,put it in a bag and take it home then put it in the dust bin, a lot of other people didn't. Then about ten years ago the council put bins up to put it in,the area was a lot cleaner. It gets emptied once a week. Sometimes it wouldn't then people would put the bags on top of the bin or on the floor under the bin. Why couldn't they just take it home and put it in their bin? If we're not close to the bin when ours does it we put the bag in our pocket, take it home and put it in our bin.Lately some dog owners are getting lazy and not picking up and the dog does it in the middle of the pavement. The other day I trod in some not realizing that it was there and it took me ages to get it off my shoe. If they can't be bothered they shouldn't have a dog.
                         
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                          Tell me about it!! We've nicknamed our lane
                          **** Lane.
                          Despite having a bin up the lane we still get....and this really annoys me...doggy do bags left hanging in the trees!!

                          We had a trail of it across our driveway a fortnight ago, cleaning it from the car wheels was a nightmare.

                          We have also had cheeky dog owners put their furry friends waste in our wheelie bin....why not their own!!

                          And don't start me on the horses!!..........:mad:
                           
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                            I know why can't they pick it up as well. :mad:
                             
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                              They do that around here, i don't know what they think what would happen to it.
                               
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