"borosteve" wrote


No John, there are no fixed standards for these ribbon type cables You
will not be able to adapt them.Your only chance is if your system has
an AUX input which uses phono type sockets which could be used to
playback an external source like a cassette deck.If not..you're
knackered I'm afraid.
Regards,
Borosteve (retailer shyster)(!)


:-)

Boro, me auld shyster china - I supect you are ever so slightly
referring to my comments about the local HiFi shop and my next door
neighbour's recent experience...no?

Let's look at the facts again:

The Panasonic VCR is 3 years old and cost 89 quid new from the same
shop. (He's looked it all up!)
The repair was quoted at 50 quid or so - although there wasn't the
climb-down on price that I thought, based on the incorrect figure
supplied initially.
The customer is a 75 year old pensioner with *30 years* standing with
the shop.
Cheap VCRs are available (elsewhere, I suspect) from 30 quid and up.
The shop is well-founded and *minting* it but not getting the repair it
once used to, apparently....

OK?

In my book, if the shop had treated him half decently he would have been
told either 'giss 20 (25?) quid and we'll fix it' or 'snot worth fixing,
I'll knock you a tenner off a new one' (which would see him out) *or*
'you could get one from Tescos for 30 quid'...??? Not just strim him for
*Top Dollar repair shop time* like he was a) a stranger, b) a normal
wage/salary earner, c) hadn't ever bought from that shop before.

Let me add some insider info which shouldn't bear on the situation but
*does* (sorry) - the 'repair technician' is one of the brothers who now
own the shop. He sits up in the roof all day (on his own now,
apparently) waiting for £50/hour work like a fekkin' spider and
doesn't/won't get involved in anything else and is an odious **** to
boot....

But, anyway that's just me - as you are no doubt *a cut above* what
exactly would you have done in the same circumstances?

Don't bother to lecture me on sales/profits/costs/overheads - been
there, done all that. Call me a prat if you like, but it was always more
on my mind that we had 27 kids between us that needed feeding and
mortgages that needed paid, rather than how much money we could place on
short-term deposit each month! (??)

(Hint also: My rates these days are £1,000/hour but it's been a long
time since I got any paid work....!! ;-)