Jon Ison
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 08:27 AM |
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Credit Crunch ???
Contacted 5 builders recently, approx £2k worth of work, under a week to do, all five said the would come look see.
Of the five two bothered to turn up, one has quoted.
His quote is spot on as far as we are concerned he's starting Wednesday for 3 days.
So, is there a credit crunch, are builders unable to find work or did I just unluckily phone builders that don't want work ?
p.s sick of watching the news with bloody great big downward pointing red arrows all over the back drop and have given up on papers that keeping
telling me the end is nigh..........
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 08:48 AM |
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If the media hadn't blown it all out of proportion I don't think anyone would have noticed - a self fulfilling prophesy
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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fesycresy
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 08:57 AM |
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Jon, I totally agree, I now even turn the news off before it starts, because you know what the intro is going to be 
A company could be flying making more money than ever, but still it's value drops.
Don't get me started........
By the way, I've a friend that's a builder (he employs about 40 guys) and only last week he says he's had the best years business
ever.
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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
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NigeEss
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 09:15 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
If the media hadn't blown it all out of proportion I don't think anyone would have noticed - a self fulfilling prophesy
Absolutely !
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.................Douglas Adams.
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peteday_uk@btinternet.com
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 09:24 AM |
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Couldn't agree with you all more. I work at a Honda dealership, we had a customer who said that she wouldn't buy a car at the moment
because of the credit crunch! When the salesman asked "how has the credit crunch affected you?" she went onto explain that her heating
bill has gone up by £60 this year. £1.15 per week!! the salesman said....
It was all media led, how does one bank not lending to another bank really affect me.......now the media have put their spin on it..........it
might.
Sick of it........
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woodster
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 09:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
If the media hadn't blown it all out of proportion I don't think anyone would have noticed - a self fulfilling prophesy
spot on ... people reporting on the news so called experts like Bob Preston( not used his real name) are loving the down turn and there part in it .
Positively drooling as they report job losses or shares falling ..... Bob Preston getting a semi on when he reports a rumour another banks in trouble
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graememk
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 09:31 AM |
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my mates a builder who is really struggling for work yet knows i need a ext doing to my house and hasnt contacted me about starting it, to many years
earning to much easy money i think....
its all media related scaring people into not spending
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tomblyth
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 09:36 AM |
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I have a small building team an I've just lost my 6 months of order book! so its effecting me! and the 3 lads that work with me! ( I build fast
track enviromentally frendly houses /extensions look in my photos!
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Jasper
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 09:50 AM |
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I run a retail business selling collectables and I can definitely say it's affecting us, we're trying to get rid of the lease on our shop
(we've found another a fifth of the price) and we can't even give it away with 3 months reverse premium - so it's really not a myth
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If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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locoboy
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 10:01 AM |
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I am 2nd in command at a 4x4 breakers yard and although we have only been trading for 6 months now, we hit our VAT threashold in 5 months of
trading.
Now you would think that the 4x4 market would be falling on its ass what with increased road tax, higher fuel prices etc etc, but we seem to be doing
really well.
We are thinking that the general 4x4 owner will have been scared by the media into thinking they don't have enough money in their pocket to put
their car into the main dealers as per normal for replacement parts, so they are being brain washed into going down the second hand spares route -
which is great news for us.
We are selling more and more to independant 4x4 garages where the customer has instructed the garage to fit a second hand item as opposed to new.
Seeing as we specialise in land rovers we are in a win win situation at present because their parts are normally of sub standard quality and therefore
dont last too lont but are grossly over priced on new items so we can still charge good money for good second hand spares.
  
ATB
Locoboy
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StevieB
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 10:38 AM |
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Some good things cn come of the credit crunch too - if nyou;re in the market for a second hand car, the prices are dropping.
Caterham have a 0% finance deal on at the moment (which is a sod because I bought an Elise 6 months ago when I really could have got a Caterham
cheaper if I'd waited) - however, I reckon that deal will last a while as thats how they;re going to attract customers for the near future.
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joneh
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 11:19 AM |
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Same thing here - I sent off for a printing quote, around a grands worth and only 1 got back to me.
Just poor customer service IMO.
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Benzine
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 12:14 PM |
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You know nothing of the crunch! You've never even been to the crunch!
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Fozzie
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 02:54 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
If the media hadn't blown it all out of proportion I don't think anyone would have noticed - a self fulfilling prophesy
Right on the button there! 
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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austin man
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 04:10 PM |
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I thought it was only me struggleng to get quotes, Ive had the worst builder in the world put up a conservatory, so bad I kicked him off the Job I
have contacted at least 6 builders to quote me for rectifying
the mess and have had zero quotes come in . So 6 months down the line I am still no further forward. Just have to rely on the trading standards and
complete the work myself me thinks
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mr henderson
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| posted on 25/10/08 at 05:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by austin man
I thought it was only me struggleng to get quotes, Ive had the worst builder in the world put up a conservatory, so bad I kicked him off the Job I
have contacted at least 6 builders to quote me for rectifying
the mess and have had zero quotes come in . So 6 months down the line I am still no further forward. Just have to rely on the trading standards and
complete the work myself me thinks
You might get somebody if you pay a daily rate rather than ask for a fixed price. Rectification work is notoriously difficult to quote because of not
knowing (without a great deal of inspection work (in other words, skilled time)) what the starting point for the new work is.
Problem with paying daily rates, though, of course, is keeping them at it, doing productive work, where every single delay means moremoney for the
builder
Doing it yourself probably is the only realistic option, certainly the least expensive
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