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Post by desmorse on Mar 15, 2006 0:47:01 GMT 1
Most of the stock on B&Q shelves is still "owned" by the supplier, and B&Q are doubling the number of days between receiving the stock and paying for it, by which time they should have sold it and got the money from the customer to pay the supplier - that's how tight the retail market currently is.
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Post by desmorse on Mar 15, 2006 10:27:29 GMT 1
Are some of Hillarys top men from similar companies. I believe one of the new Hillarys directors is from GUS (i.e. Littlewoods & Index) and the the top honcho at the venture capital company that pulls the strings is ex M&S who paid him to go away. |
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Post by Bear on Mar 15, 2006 11:14:14 GMT 1
Most of the stock on B&Q shelves is still "owned" by the supplier, and B&Q are doubling the number of days between receiving the stock and paying for it, by which time they should have sold it and got the money from the customer to pay the supplier - that's how tight the retail market currently is. NEW SUPPLIER SHOCK!!!! Take walk round a "Homebase" store if theres one near you and look at the wooden venetians.. Its nice to meet up with old friends 100cms wide x150cms drop £29.95 DIY on offer 3 miles from my house All you need is a sharp band saw, different shades of Cherry Blossom and you are suddenly on £75.00 per hour pay rate , and to comply with the "self-Employment" rules you now have an alternative supplier!!!!!! |
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Post by dodgybracket on Mar 15, 2006 11:36:43 GMT 1
Are some of Hillarys top men from similar companies. I believe one of the new Hillarys directors is from GUS (i.e. Littlewoods & Index) and the the top honcho at the venture capital company that pulls the strings is ex M&S who paid him to go away. In reply many folk on this site hark to the days of Tony Hillary and "why dont the new lot try to achieve again the levels that Hillarys was famous for?" Reality check time, folks, We have been passed through the hands of various Venture Capitalists, each one made hungrier than the previous , as more life -blood keeps being sucked out, or asset-stripped, to use their language. These are the people who get us to buy SAM, get us to pay for Credit/debit card clearances, get us to pay for order forms, get systems in-house to ensure debits hit us without advice or negotiation before credits ever do, get us to accept shi**y product which we DOR and then replace at our expense in time and money,get us to shoulder as many costs as they can off load onto us as possible. Offloaded costs means less capital invested by them and all in all means a firmer bottom line to the investor. It will not be too long before someone with connections has a word with BBCtv "Watchdog"--Nicky Campbell the presenter of it had dim-out Romans fitted by his then girl-friend, now wife, in their West London flat. Strangely there are Agents with bed-fellows who are free-lance researchers for such programmes, and whilst they would not do a piece based on relatively small numbers of "diddled" agents they would be keen to explore the multi-replacement DOR scenario leading on to the fact that Agents have to pay for the time and money spent in multiple replacements with no input from HO. They are keen on the social impact of perceived BIG COMPANY money grabbing, wallet-lining, call it what you want. |
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Post by greenpesto on Mar 15, 2006 15:45:05 GMT 1
DodgyB!!!!
Don't forget the Trevor McDonald programme either!!!!
Imagine a half hour programme showing Hillarys as an £80m t/o company run by failed Executives from top high street stores cocking things up!!
It could show how an 800+ sales Advisor team is eager to give the best service available whilst earning a living at the same time.
These same people & the customers are let down time & again by shoddy inconsistent workmanship with product that are not of 'saleable quality'.
The company fails to put a system in order to rectify these problems or to adhere to their ISO certificate.
We could see that after continual revisits to customers homes with repeated product faults the customers are offered refunds etc & then penalise the Advisors for the company mistakes by way of illegal 'clawbacks'.
Also how they expect Advisors to rectify everything for no renumeration!!!
It could include how the Advisors out of desperation started up a web-site to talk to each other to avoid feeling isolated.
It could show how the company forced Advisors into taking on the company costs by way of SAM & how they made threats of termination if they didn't. This also forced some Advisors into unwanted finance agreements in order to pay for the system. This caused some into financial difficulty due to this!!!
We would then see how the company claim to have superior products that are made-to-measure which are in fact imported from China & have a poor quality that is lower than those purchased from B&Q or Argos for 10 time less than the Hillarys product.
The list goes on........!!!!!
What a day that would be!!!!
Imagine the complaints from customers to the TV company whilst that was being aired???!!!
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Post by Blind Scout on Mar 15, 2006 20:02:26 GMT 1
DodgyB!!!!Don't forget the Trevor McDonald programme either!!!! .... ... What a day that would be!!!! Imagine the complaints from customers to the TV company whilst that was being aired???!!! Although it sounds a great idea, remember the backlash. 1) Customers would be on the 'phone to Hillarys to demand a refund, that would be illegally clawed back from you. 2) Customers would contact other suppliers for future business and you income will dry up as you will no longer have a business. 3) As a result of 1 & 2, the company will fold and be taken over by the Chinese aka Rover, and supply us better blinds. Its a conspirency, its a conspirency  |
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Post by brazil on Mar 15, 2006 21:05:17 GMT 1
Imagine the dramatic drop in leads and our income !
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