I had a funny experience a few years ago when I was at the local mower shop getting a belt for an Ariens self propelled. Andrew was looking through the book for the belt and out of the corner of his eye he spotted a bloke coming through the door with a Ryobi, he just looked at the bloke and, said "don't bring that thing in here" and went back to looking at the book. He was still looking in the book when a second bloke walked in with another Ryobi and he just repeated the processs. That was 2 in the space of a few minutes, I wonder how many of those he gets in a day. They are not worth his time even looking at the things. I remember taking a McCulloch chain saw to him to him in 1984 and the reply then was similar, "just take it back to where you got it from" Hi attitude has not hurt his business and has obviously saved him from wasting half his life working on this rubbish
Yes if a shop repairs and services a line trimmer you could be looking at spending $120 on an old line trimmer so it would be worth replacing it with a new one.
MF, I guess you are right to a degree, when Andrew told me to take my chainsaw back to where I got it, he did loose out on a sale because I went and bought my Stihl farm boss elswhere
I had a grumpy snobby older woman serve me at a coffee shop today even after giving her plenty of business. Sick of arrogant Aussies and I'm not alone. I find ethnics generally more pleasant and easy going and ABOVE ALL more genuine.
There are a few diamonds among the stones though.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
Took my last trip to bunnings for a while - limiting travel where I can
They had the store display models on clearance - got a homelite half crank split shaft for $40, and a Ryobi FC split straight shaft for $45. And it had a extension pole and chainsaw attachment ziptied to it - thats $120+$46 alone, so they paid for themselves really. A few parts were picked off by customers (mainly fuel line, primer, one missing carby bits) but I have most parts needed - and there isn't a mark on them
So I'm happy for the day
Almost bought the makita 4 stroke trimmer for $75, but I figured it was missing a few too many parts
