And OP - you have come onto a forum complaining about the price you are being quoted by a GSR engineer. This forum is frequented by GSR engineers. They're hardly going to talk down their own trade and say you're being overquoted. I can understand why they get frustrated when people try to negotiate or barter down the price, but that's consumerism for you.
Actually, I came on asking for responses on a technical question - "is this possible", see OP for the question.
I was wondering whether something else was going on and added a VERY MILD suggestion of a high quote as a reason that's a possible prefixed with:
"In support of something else going on:"
I was already before posting sort of aware that I didn't want to upset people I was asking help from. Am beyond that now.
Seems I touched a raw nerve with respect to pricing/rates. However, my OP was **not** about price, it was a technical question which remains unanswered.
My impression is that the original company [and it WAS a company employing a gassafe engineer and probably not paying them enough etcetc, do you guys not have a union?]
a. sorted the wrong fan and then decided to pass a bill for 2 hours time @ 70 p.h. on to us.
b. IFF [if and only if] that is true: would be considered complete and utter rip off merchants in any decent honourable trade frequented by the decent honourable people who I still in a deluded old-fashioned sort a way see as my fellow Brits.
c. having got away with their first scam decided they'd try a quote that is somewhat higher than a mean since hell yeah if the suckers paid once they'll pay again
d. IFF all that is true: is a company which decent honourable trades people would want to denounce because they give the whole trade a bad name.
I am left wondering
1. whether there are people here competent to answer the original question [the one NOT about price]
2. whether I can be bothered starting a small claims process [search for moneyclaim online for anyone who has a similar problem] against them to get my money back or even just create stress, hassle and negatives in a karmic way to push negatives and hasten the elimination of a undesirable as a believer in a better world.
I am relaxed [and in a hot flat since several weeks] about it but hey ... ya wonder ya know,
There are a few good people on this board as well as "others" but some of the good guys have let me know in private they do not dare post here. That's a shame.
