New british gas tv advert

[REDSAW]

just thinking of the b.g. ad'


what planet are they on?

 

[acecharly]

In 1972 , a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...The A- Team.

This is total misleading advertising british gas vans are blue and they never turn up alone theres allways 3 on a job.

 

[REDSAW]

In 1972 , a crack commode unit was sent to tinternet by a guy called DAN for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security wash room in the London underground. Today, still wanted by the banned users, they survive as plumbers of crap fortune. If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...The MOD TEAM!

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[acecharly]

In 1972 , a crack commode unit was sent to tinternet by a guy called DAN for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security wash room in the London underground. Today, still wanted by the banned users, they survive as plumbers of crap fortune. If you have a problem...if no one else can help...and if you can find them...maybe you can hire...The MOD TEAM!

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Nice lol

 

[DTG plumbing]

I agree with hammers! Never heard a good word said about BG.

 

[chris watkins]

I agree with hammers! Never heard a good word said about BG.

Which just goes to prove the power of advertising.

 

[stegas]

I bet the bbc dont start Rogue Bankers, or Rogue MPs..or even Rogue bbc celebrities..now then

 

[Orry Clayton]

Do BG really have flying vans?

 

[Doodlebug]

I play the A-Team music as I pull up on a job and skip down the drive with my magical screwdriver in my hand smiling like a Cheshire cat. :-D

 

[Doodlebug]

couple engineers i know got pulled in as not failing enough boilers they say they get pressure from above to 'meet targets'

One word "bull****"

 

[Doodlebug]

One word "bull****"

Sorry, just realised that's two words lol

 

[petercj]

Have you seen the new BG vans?

 

[hammers4spanner]

One word "bull****"

hardly surprises me that you chose such an apt wording considering thats your companies main policy

 

[Avatar]

I had a confrontation with a BG 'technican' who started quoting load of bull to me - like you can only run one hot outlet from a combi boiler no matter how big it is, and running a washing machine will stop you getting hot water out of your boiler due to the drop in pressure . . . .

The guy I spoke to did not have a clue - although he said he had been fitting boilers for 10 years. . . .

The problem is someone like that does not have any ideas plumbing systems and how they work which is probably why he was quoting 'text book info' at me!

 

[petercj]

I had a confrontation with a BG 'technican' who started quoting load of bull to me - like you can only run one hot outlet from a combi boiler no matter how big it is, and running a washing machine will stop you getting hot water out of your boiler due to the drop in pressure . . . .

The guy I spoke to did not have a clue - although he said he had been fitting boilers for 10 years. . . .

The problem is someone like that does not have any ideas plumbing systems and how they work which is probably why he was quoting 'text book info' at me!

BG staff take authority from the name of BRITISH GAS, which is one of the reasons the company should trade in their true name of Centrica, being just another large commercial company that uses tricky advertising to gain people's confidence and charge over the odds for what they do.

The latest bit of BG tricky advertising is their guaranteed fixed price from £79, to include parts and labour.

The key word being from: all it really means is that they will quote for a repair and the cost of the parts, and their minimum charge is £79 - big deal!

"Looking after your world" ... "safe and secure knowing you are covered" ... etc, ... all these phrases are subject to small print get-out clauses.

The privatised version of British Gas is a major player in today's rip-off Britain.

 

[Doodlebug]

The service BG provide is second to none. I went to an on call assist the other day where the customer paid £99 for a one fix, the part I fitted to the boiler was over £200 but the customer only paid £99 all in parts and labour, not bad aye?

 

[petercj]

The service BG provide is second to none. I went to an on call assist the other day where the customer paid £99 for a one fix, the part I fitted to the boiler was over £200 but the customer only paid £99 all in parts and labour, not bad aye?

I take it this was under a HomeCare agreement where people pay a monthly fee, and get charged an excess of £99 when they need a repair?

 

[TBServices]

The service BG provide is second to none

Or second to everyone?

 

[Doodlebug]

I take it this was under a HomeCare agreement where people pay a monthly fee, and get charged an excess of £99 when they need a repair?

No, this customer isn't on contract with British Gas. see, you don't know it all.

 

[petercj]

No, this customer isn't on contract with British Gas. see, you don't know it all.

Seems rather a coincidence that the charge of £99 is the same as the excess charged on some BG HomeCare cover plans?

Call me a cynic if you like, but I do hold to the old saying: "If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is!"

Which is a well-worn phrase that applies quite aptly to most of BG's advertising!

 

[Doodlebug]

The customer is an energy customer, that's all.

 

[petercj]

The customer is an energy customer, that's all.

Have never seen that kind of a deal in the BG advertising - where can I find the details?

 

[Doodlebug]

It has been on the radio, it's a one off fix similar on the tiered on call assist but it's a reduced fixed price for energy customers.

 

[petercj]

It has been on the radio, it's a one off fix similar on the tiered on call assist but it's a reduced fixed price for energy customers.

And they pay a monthly premium to cover the fixed price repair - from what I have read on the BG site, it's a slight reduction on the usual HomeCare fees.

But then having fixed their gas prices with BG, they will be paying though the nose for gas anyway.

BG does treat the public like mugs, and they often get away with it, but because people are now so cost conscious due to the recession, I think BG are at serious risk of killing the goose that has laid the golden egg for them so many times over the past couple of decades.

 

[Avatar]

The general public love them - £15 per month boiler cover with a Gas Safety certificate as well!

Yeah and the rest . . ..

Its crap - it is nigh on defrauding the people who sign up and they steal the customers from the little companies and tradesmen who are already struggling (no wonder eh?)

I hope Trading Standards hit their false advertising like the way they have done with the cosmetics companies ridiculous claims.

In my mind there is little difference!!!!!!