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?