Rip Off UK Yanmar

[Robin]

I am so very tired of UK Rip-Off PLC! Just had the bill for the winter service on my Yanmar 44, replacement impellor cost £41.99!!!!!! I should know better, I've advised others before to buy their Yanmar spares in France where the current cost of the same item is just 14.80 euros or about £10 and that is from a CHANDLER not a discount store. I will be stocking up next trip.

I won't even go onto the USA bargain basement deals available at the moment!

P%%%%d Off of Poole

Robin

 

[snowleopard]

The buzzer on my control panel packed up. The component that failed can be bought wholesale in the US for $1. Over here you have to buy the complete unit for £145.

 

[NigeCh]

Re: Rip Off UK Yanmar - Not always the case

I bought a 1GM10 Yanmar impellor 2 weeks ago from a chandler in N Wales for £4.80; plus an impellor shaft seal set [ie 2 spring loaded seals] for£4.38 and a new in-line oil filter housing for £32.56 c/w filter, gasket and 3 new bolts .... Yes and I did get a reasonable discount as well.

 

[omega2]

Keep voting Labour

 

[pappaecho]

Under EU trade terms, all items sold within the EU should be sold at the same price, less local taxes. This is known as unitary pricing.
In 1975 Distillers were fined £1 million by the EU for selling Red label whisky at different prices in different states in the EU.
I would send a snottagram to the corporate HQ for Yanmar, asking why they are not sticking to unitary pricing, and why they are breaking EU law.
I would further ask for "compensation" and further "compensation" for taking the time and effort to warn them they are breaking the law.
You can of course take your case to the Local Trading Standards, who will probably tell you to sod off.. but they supposedly have jurisdiction.

 

[bob_tyler]

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Keep voting Labour

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And you'll be ripped off by G Brown /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[Robin]

Their other option of course would be to RAISE the prices outside of the UK! I'll stick to raising two fingers to Yanmar dealers here and buy the bits in France, what I save will buy a case or two of wine.

 

[Robin]

Never never have and I very much doubt I ever would. Unfortunately there are so many idiots out there still who are still daft enough to do so or to make their protest by voting Liberal which will have the same result. I wish like them I could lie and lie to my customers like they do to voters and still keep my job. I'd like to retire but in order to replace my destroyed pension will do so eventually only by selling up and leaving the UK, not because I want to but because I can no longer afford not to. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[snowleopard]

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Never never have and I very much doubt I ever would. Unfortunately there are so many idiots out there still who are still daft enough to do so...

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It's interesting to see that almost no-one on these fora has a good word to say for labour. A foreign visitor looking only at what's said here would expect TB to be out on his ear next week. In reality of course he's going to get back with a comfortable working majority. He manages it by restricting his class warfare to only a small sector of the population. Unfortunately that's us.

 

[Robin]

I have two boating friends who were fanatical Labour fans, both of whom now have the same loathing bordering on hatred of B.Liar as me. They will be protesting next week, one by spoiling his vote and the other by voting yellow - some protest. I have another student friend who is also voting yellow because of their policy on tuition fees/top up fees, but cannot understand that Lib/Dems will never be in a position to introduce that policy, so she too is in fact voting for yet more years of lies, spin, nanny stating, political correctness and mind numbing arrogance.

Um, in case it is not entirely clear, I don't like Labour!

 

[bob_tyler]

Stealing from our Pension Funds, £5 billion, and then saying that we will have to save more? That is how G Brown works so that he can steal more!

I agree that a Yellow vote is a completely wasted vote and the only chance of getting rid of T Bliar and his spin doctors is to <font color="blue"> VOTE BLUE </font> the ONLY chance of expelling the liars.

 

[Evadne]

Here we go again...

Well, those of us who are Labour supporters do tend to get drowned out by the Rottweiler tendency if we open our mouths, and as I learned long ago that you can't change someone's mind by arguing with them, I normally prefer not to waste my time. I felt just the same about Thatcher, who inspired me to join the party in the first place, and I'm glad we've been able to repair a small proportion of the damage she and her cronies inflicted on the country in the 80s.
All politicians are liars to a greater or lesser extent, although as far as I know it was only members of Mssrs Thatcher's and Major's administrations who have been to prison for it in recent years.

 

[jonjo]

I finally flipped from New Labour to Tory about 2 months ago when days before we were due for new legislation on extended householder rights to self defense, instead as a substitute we got a glossy brochure from New Labour HQ.

Sod that I thought, Courts implement the Law not the printed platitudes of Tony Blair.

 

[Cobra25]

Next thing we'll be blaming the EU

 

[oldgit]

O woe is us.the ides of May

That the great british public may not value the advice so generously offered in the above postings.How can they wilfully ignore the philanthropic values espoused by certain folks,who have sacrificed so much for the greater good of others. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Birdseye]

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I am so very tired of UK Rip-Off PLC! Just had the bill for the winter service on my Yanmar 44, replacement impellor cost £41.99!!!!!! I should know better, I've advised others before to buy their Yanmar spares in France where the current cost of the same item is just 14.80 euros or about £10 and that is from a CHANDLER not a discount store. I will be stocking up next trip.

I won't even go onto the USA bargain basement deals available at the moment!

P%%%%d Off of Poole

Robin

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When the starter motor failed on my 2GM in France, the dealer cost of a replacement was near £600. And I checked more than one dealer.

The cost to have it couriered out from the UK wa just above £200.

Same situation on electronics - way cheaper in the UK.

Your prob is that you are comparing the UK full rrp with the discounted French chandler price. Its always less to buy bits than you get charged when they are fitted for you. But the real answer is to do simple jobs like that yourself. If you can afford to have a dealer service the engine, then £41.99 for an impellor shouldnt matter.

 

[duncan]

well my 4 engine pencil zincs (yanmar) were over 80 squid a couple of weeks ago - no suggestion that that included fitting!!!!!

made the 92 for the 4 Mercruiser self fit outdrive anodes almost seem reasonable.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[KREW2]

Rip off uk I dont fink so, having lived in England for the last fifteen years I hope to move on somewhere where the cost of living is cheaper and the living standards as good if not better. It is nonsensical to complain about high prices when you live in an expensive country, nobody seems to moan when their house doubles in value, but put tuppence on a pint of beer and all hell lets loose. My local marine engineer doesn't come cheap, works long hours, and I don't think he leads a lavish lifestyle. I think the UK economy is out of sync and a correction is forthcoming.
In the meantime as a yachtie do your duty and keep on signing those cheques.
Yours just liquidated KW

 

[Parsonsheath]

Re: Here we go again...

I seem to recall one Mr Blair with promises as to the integrity of his party, thank God he appoints all the commissions, just tell him to try and remember his lies, he does seem to have told more than any PM in my lifetime!

 

[starboard]

Cheap at half the price........try buying spares for an old volvo penta. Top end gasket set for old single cylinder, about £200....!!!!

Paul.