Free addvertisments in gas safe available !?

[Puddle]

My own personal opinion only

First I would say I think gas safe are doing a good job at the moment and the service is a lot better than the corgi service and more directed at safety and regulation side and not trying to be as commercial as corgi.I am a supporter of gas safe over all
However I have just opened this month’s edition of reg gas engineer mag to the centre pages, expecting a good story about the big chill we experienced over winter
There are a few facts in there, adding up to a small section, coldest winter for 31 years, average temp was 1.51 C as opposed to the normal 3.7C, and gas demand peaked at over 465million cubic meters on 8th Jan,around 25% more than the seasonal average
Then we go into free advertising mode, cheap journalism at its best, suddenly I find myself reading how good a big independent plumbing firm (They named it several times, could not mention enough) are and how they saved half of London from freezing, how great BG responded to the siduation and what a great service a large parts supplier gave, this all centre spread!, how much would true advertising have cost, think at least they could have had the courtesy to have placed ‘ADVERTISMENT’ at the top of the page instead of pretending it was a genuine article.
How the small trader or parts supplier, many of which were doing just as much, if not more would have given for such coverage, this they could have done if they wanted to take this slant on story, they could have rang round and got some stories from local small companies, but no we end up with the three mentioned but then again many of us small outfits do not have on hand press representatives that lazy journalists can just ring up and listen to their twaddle over a nice meal and bottle of wine +
Is this the start of the slip...........

IMHO

 

[wards]

My own personal opinion only

Fist I would say I think gas safe are doing a good job at the moment and the service is a lot better than the corgi service and more directed at safety and regulation side and not trying to be as commercial as corgi.I am a supporter of gas safe over all
However I have just opened this month’s edition of reg gas engineer mag to the centre pages, expecting a good story about the big chill we experienced over winter
There are a few facts in there, adding up to a small section, coldest winter for 31 years, average temp was 1.51 C as opposed to the normal 3.7C, and gas demand peaked at over 465million cubic meters on 8th Jan
Then we go into free advertising mode, cheap journalism at its best, suddenly I find myself reading how good a big independent plumbing firm (They named it several times, could not mention enough) are and how they saved half of London from freezing, how great BG responded to the siduation and what a great service a large parts supplier gave, this all centre spread!, how much would true advertising have cost, think at least they could have had the courtesy to have placed ‘ADVERTISMENT’ at the top of the page
How the small trader or parts supplier, many of which were doing just as much, if not more would have given for such coverage, this they could have done if they wanted to take this slant on story, they could have rang round and got some stories from local small companies, but no we end up with three mentioned but then again many of us small outfits do not have on hand press representatives that lazy journalists can just ring up and listen to their twaddle over a nice meal and bottle of wine +
Is this the start of the slip...........

IMHO

the big companies will always worm their way in,pushing us to the back. the number of customers who often tell me about their bitter experiences with these large outfits is unbelievable.will have to wait and see if gas safe is moving towards these big companies.

 

[BluePlumber]

maybe there should be some kind of plumbing co-op, just for us little guys.
Where we can offer fair trade plumbing products that are ethnically sourced, helping the developing world lift themselves out of poverty.
divided we stand and united we fall and all that.

 

[wnjswozo]

well said blueplumber,and a fairtrade for one man bands competing against bg of the world

 

[wards]

maybe there should be some kind of plumbing co-op, just for us little guys.
Where we can offer fair trade plumbing products that are ethnically sourced, helping the developing world lift themselves out of poverty.
divided we stand and united we fall and all that.

thought it was united we stand divided we fall

 

[BluePlumber]

 

[oldplumber]

thank god the good old general public cannt read the gas safe mag or all us sole traders would have to quit, as it would seem that none of us were doing anything during the cold snap. Im happy to say that i trned out at least twice were bg had failed to attend, bit of snow on the ground and actually got things working again.