"borosteve" wrote in message
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On 6 Nov, 15:29, "Keith G" wrote:
Just got back from a lovely, leefy 'bike ride in the gorgeous (but
thin)
afternoon sun and wuz talking to my next door neighbour..

A few days ago he told me the local Robber Baron 'HiFi Shop had
quoted
him 50 quid to fix his (presumably ancient) VCR machine. I told him
to
tell them to get stuffed and gave him a perfectly tidy Panasonic DVD
Recorder I simply never use.

The shop has apparently phoned him since and said they could now fix
the
VCR for 29 quid!

****ing shysters...

Then he tells me the local 'Agricultural and Garden Machinery
Engineers'http://www.ibbetts.co.ukhave just charged him 46 quid to
replace a
little squeezy tit thing on his lawnmower....

****ing shysters...

Thats cheap to fix a video..Less and less stuff these days gets
repaired as the gears so cheap to re-new.Hence service engineers don't
get enough work to live on...so to stay in business prices have to go
up.Either that or pack it in and become a driving instructor.Hmmn,
wonder what they charge an hour...


Oh sure, I got told once 'his time is worth 50 quid an hour when I
wanted a small part, one time' but that didn't stop him phoning me when
he wanted a PCB-mount valve socket. There comes a point when a shop
could just tell you 'it's beyond economic repair' rather than just take
your money - my neighbour is 75 and certainly doesn't have spare cash to
fritter away!

Don't bother to look these up, they were all at 99p when I found them:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-SLV-SE700... cmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aiwa-HV-FX5100...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JVC-HR-J255-6E...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Panasonic-NV-H...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JVC-HR-S5967EK...QQcmdZViewItem