Getting the cheapest possible bargain price on your heating install.

[Ray Stafford]

Saving money by shopping around.

Money doesn’t grow on trees, and few of us have so much of it that we can afford to waste it. It makes sense, therefore, to shop around, and make sure that we are getting good value.
So we Go-Compare, we are sooooo! Money-Supermarket, and we have Meerkats in places where 10 years ago, we didn’t even know we had places.

Fortunately, we have Ebay, and Moneysavingexpert on our side, which is just as well, because all the traders out there are sharks right? Well, maybe some are. Certainly it makes sense to use the internet to get an idea of the price of rarely purchased, high value items. However, when it comes to services, rather than products, how can we be sure that we are comparing apples with apples?

It’s not easy being a savvy consumer, but it’s very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the cheapest deal must be the best deal.

However, we don’t all shop at Lidl, drive Dacias and holiday in down-town Kabul. Ever so cheap, that holiday apartment in Kabul. J

With this in mind, here are a few things that you might be in the market for at some point in your life. We wonder if the cheapest price, or the lowest bidder would be your preferred measure when choosing:

• The surgeon who will operate on your wife or child?

• Your new baby’s car seat?

• The contractor who maintains the planes for the airline you are flying with?

• The people who design the braking and fuel systems in the car your wife takes the kids to school in?

It might be worth reflecting on that list when you choose

• The person who is going to fit the gas appliances in the house where your wife and children sleep.

Every year, 200 people go to hospital in the UK with Carbon Monoxide poisoning. 40 of them don’t come out again.

 

[Best]

Brilliant Ray! At the very least the basic message of that should be given to anyone getting quotes looking for the cheapest.

 

[REDSAW]

thought it was a sales pitch ray! lol

 

[Riley]

You're wasted as a highway man Ray

 

[Old Account]

You couldn't say that better , well done - thumbs up big time!!!

Shame don't see that like that

 

[townfanjon]

Ray , its a shame its only us guys who will read this post, it would look good on news at ten, billboards, back of buses etc. perhaps the public may just think ????

 

[Ray Stafford]

Ray , its a shame its only us guys who will read this post, it would look good on news at ten, billboards, back of buses etc. perhaps the public may just think ????

I posted it on a public section of the forum in the hope that people looking for advice on squeezing costs would read it, and decide to make their savings in another area. I'm not sure that we can get it on news at 10 or the back of buses, but isnt that what social media (like this forum) is for? To allow people without big advertising budgets to get a message out.

 

[Old Account]

So true mate,

Would you mind if I share that on Facebook ? I'd like to try to publish it a bit more ?

 

[Riley]

whilst I utterly agree with what Ray has written. The problem is there are so many people out there that come onto a forum like this to look for justification for their ridiculously cheap quote which they are going to go with even if we say yes or no. people don't like being told what to do especially when money is concerned. The amount of them that are so proud when they found themselves a basement bargain The real way for this to be dealt with is for the government to step up and to work with Gas Safe so that illegal/DIY/unqualified gas work can't happen.

 

[Ray Stafford]

So true mate,

Would you mind if I share that on Facebook ? I'd like to try to publish it a bit more ?

No worries - go ahead.