Advertising- can you say what you want.

[Millsy 82]

As I'm working away cooking in a roof space I've got pirate fm on my radio which I've noticed over the past couple of weeks has become plumbing fm due to the amount of plumbing adverts coming on and they all say roughly the same thing like Cornwalls premier plumbing and heating or no1 and so on.

Which got me thinking bearing in mind I'm miserable as hell due to working in a roof space all day yesterday and a couple of hours this morning, how the hell can they say there the premier or no 1, I very much doubt any of them are number 1 in the county and how have they worked this out? Have they phoned every other company and said what is your feedback from your customers or how many customers have you got etc it's impossible for them to know who is the best in the county! So they are basically full of ****.

Any way ciggie break over now time to get back in the bloody roof space!

 

[Best]

I guess anyone can say they are number one, or elite, or professional, or Best (like me! Lol!).
Those words are accepted as just advertising yourself or opinion.
It would be different if you advertised you were gas registered and weren't for example.
It annoys me to see vans with fantastic claims on their sign writing when I know the plumber is an idiot.
If you can't beat them, - join them! As they say

 

[jtsplumbing]

Lots of this BS around Plymouth area, young guys with smart new vans claiming to be experts in everything, all sorts of expensive sign writing on van 6 mths later they have vanished, Talk the Talk, But Cant Walk the Walk.

 

[Best]

You find out how little some of the "experts" know when you are standing beside them when at merchants and hear the conversations.
Funny when they are struggling to know what materials they need. I remember one guy was doing a entire house and buying materials was asking for copper tube (most plumbers I know call it pipe) and then needed a copper cylinder but was unable to speak when asked what size.

 

[Millsy 82]

Whoa I call it copper tube sometimes ( the old boy that taught me called it tube) so what you saying about me? Lol

 

[jtsplumbing]

I do use both ! Tube & Pipe But I do live on the Cornish Border

 

[Stanios]

One claim I've always found questionable is "with over 20 years experience" out comes a plumber in his early 30s, makes you wonder at which point he started counting.

 

[Best]

Whoa I call it copper tube sometimes ( the old boy that taught me called it tube) so what you saying about me? Lol

I am saying then you must be a tube! :grin:

 

[Dotty]

Funny when they are struggling to know what materials they need.

I do this too but I think it's more of an age thing.

Going out with my trousers on is an achievement these days.....

 

[Millsy 82]

I do this too but I think it's more of an age thing.

Going out with my trousers on is an achievement these days.....

Do you write everything out on a pad/ piece of plasterboard/ cardboard like me then forget where you have put it?

 

[Dotty]

Do you write everything out on a pad/ piece of plasterboard/ cardboard like me then forget where you have put it?

I usually throw it away on the way to the van....

 

[hammers4spanner]

Do you write everything out on a pad/ piece of plasterboard/ cardboard like me then forget where you have put it?

I don't write anything down i walk in the merchants and state what i need as i plan the job in my head .Jobs in the past have been like 40 k just walk in and talk it through lol.
Oh i call it lengths not pipe or tube just state diameter

 

[tamz]

Oh i call it lengths not pipe or tube just state diameter

I call it bundles of pipe. Always think wtf when i'm standing there behind someone asking for a lenght of pipe and 3 elbas and a tee

 

[tamz]

I don't advertise, my van is bare silver and i don't answer the phone and always tell cants in the pub i'm too busy (cos they want it for fek all) i but i manage to work 7 days a week (any excuse to get out the house).
I have a bit of an advantage tho where i have a (pretty loyal) customer base of around 1200 who should see me out until the day i stop the van on the Forth road bridge, get out and throw my tools over the edge then get promptly arrested. That has been my lifes ambition for about the last 20 years and i count down the days

 

[jtsplumbing]

I don't advertise, my van is bare silver and i don't answer the phone and always tell cants in the pub i'm too busy (cos they want it for fek all) i but i manage to work 7 days a week (any excuse to get out the house).
I have a bit of an advantage tho where i have a (pretty loyal) customer base of around 1200 who should see me out until the day i stop the van on the Forth road bridge, get out and throw my tools over the edge then get promptly arrested. That has been my lifes ambition for about the last 20 years and i count down the days

Will you think about throwing yourself off as well ?? :angelsad2:

 

[macackau]

I call it bundles of pipe. Always think wtf when i'm standing there behind someone asking for a lenght of pipe and 3 elbas and a tee

Never understood that either, saw it yesterday and I always wonder how people get by when they buy exactly what they think they need for a job. What happens when your idea doesn't go to plan and you need more fittings?!

 

[Phil]

I actually hate going into merchants and do 95% internet order (Williams etc), I know in my own head exactly what I want but can never get it across.

In Naylor Myres yesterday I can a total brain fart and couldn't explain I wanted 3 3x3 and 2 4x2 timbers. I just needed to see them and choose myself. Its awalys first thing in a morning and my brain is asleep and I come across a numpty.