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On Feb 16, 2:27*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:06:13 -0800, wrote:
In the bedroom was a massive plasma with a very snowy analogue BBC2 and
a perfect analogue BBC1.

No integrated digital TV tuner then?
Yes, but little or no signal.


Did you explain to the resident the benefit of getting a digital converter
box in order to watch non StretchyVision (tm) pictures on his expensive
widescreen screen?
Well, that sort of customer care isn't my job, because the resident
isn't my customer, but in fact once the DTT had been made to work it's
a no brainer for them to convert to digi. I don't need to tell them.
They know.

Bill

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"Brian Gregory [UK]" wrote in message
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I don't understand why you're so wound up about this.

He's a Daily Mail reader?

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"IanT" wrote in message
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Indeed, that is what you subject this group to. If your story is not just
another complete work of fiction, name the previous company that
were responsible for the installations. There seems to be a typical sales
pattern emerging here. Go to a job, say previous work is rubbish and
then charge for everything to be done again. The only possible reasons
you refuse to name previous companies is because either you lied to
get the job or you are carrying out work that might not be required.
Only you know which one it is - I know which I suspect.
You are probably scared of Trading Standards investigating you and
companies that will sue you for saying their work is substandard.
Watch out as one day you might just be caught out.

Fabulous! Where would we be without IanT to brighten our day?

SteveT

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In message , IanT
writes
There seems to be a typical sales
pattern emerging here. Go to a job, say previous work is rubbish and
then charge for everything to be done again.
You are totally out of touch with real life, possibly even reality.

Just because he only posts about the bodged up jobs he encounters
doesn't mean that all the jobs he goes to are like this.

It's really easy to get into trouble posting details of companies who
allegedly carried out previous work because you can't prove the job
hasn't been 'fixed' by a mate of the caretaker for a few quid out of
petty cash or even bodged up by a resident. It happens. There are also
more underhand ways that bodge jobs happen.

Of course, some 'companies' are just total cowboys (alarm wire used to
run CCTV signals, CO-AX jointed with choc block etc. etc..)

Similarly, some of the awful installs I have come across have been
carried out by the sort of person you'd not want knocking on your door
for fear of a good beating so all in, it's safer on many levels not to
name them. Plus, it may also prejudice any legal action that may be
taken against them in the future.

Now welcome to my killfile, make yourself at home and don't expect to
leave it.

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Clint Sharp

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On Feb 20, 8:07*pm, Clint Sharp wrote:
In message , IanT
writesThere seems to be a typical sales
pattern emerging here. *Go to a job, say previous work is rubbish and
then charge for everything to be done again.

You are totally out of touch with real life, possibly even reality.

Just because he only posts about the bodged up jobs he encounters
doesn't mean that all the jobs he goes to are like this.

That's a good point, but in fact I don't 'only post about bodged up
jobs'. Such jobs are of course more worthy of comment than the normal
run, but in fact I post about all sorts of other things.


It's really easy to get into trouble posting details of companies who
allegedly carried out previous work because you can't prove the job
hasn't been 'fixed' by a mate of the caretaker for a few quid out of
petty cash or even bodged up by a resident. It happens. There are also
more underhand ways that bodge jobs happen.
This is also a very good point. I inspect systems from time to time on
behalf of landlords and propery managers when they suspect bad work. I
then have to write a detailed report. This has to be forensically
accurate and scrupulously fair. I have to make it plain that I can
only report on what I see. I cannot make assumptions about the history
of the thing. This means that I can't say, "The installers smashed 23
tiles when they fitted the aerial." I have to say, "There are 23
broken tiles in the area of roof near the aerial (see fig 26)." I
can't say, "The installers made no attempt to adjust the terrestrial
signal levels." I have to say, "The terrestrial signal levels at the
output of the head end and the outputs of the repeaters were
incorrect, being too high in some cases and too low in others. The
relative levels of the analogue channels and digital multiplexes
appeared to be random, but were in no case correct."

Bill

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In message
,
" writes
Just because he only posts about the bodged up jobs he encounters
doesn't mean that all the jobs he goes to are like this.

That's a good point, but in fact I don't 'only post about bodged up
jobs'.
On reflection, no of course you don't. IanT just caught me at a bad
moment and my post wasn't perhaps as accurate as it could have been.

I
then have to write a detailed report. This has to be forensically
accurate and scrupulously fair. I have to make it plain that I can
only report on what I see.
Of course, I often used to write them for customers too.
Bill

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Clint Sharp

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On Feb 21, 5:27*pm, Clint Sharp wrote:
In message
,
" writes Just because he only posts about the bodged up jobs he encounters
doesn't mean that all the jobs he goes to are like this.

That's a good point, but in fact I don't 'only post about bodged up
jobs'.

On reflection, no of course you don't. IanT just caught me at a bad
moment and my post wasn't perhaps as accurate as it could have been.
Ian T catches us all at a bad moment. Merely reading one of his posts
makes any moment a bad one. Anyway, I was being a bit pedantic.

Bill