On 2007-06-02 23:23:48 +0100, Owain said:

Frank Erskine wrote:
Because their salesmen keep appointments, and if you're a little old
lady you could die before you can find an independent tradesman that
keeps appointments.
But do the fitters keep their appointments?

No, but by the time my mother got locked inside her Premier Bathrooms
easy-access bath they'd got their money and scampered.

Owain

Is this one of these things where you open the door at the side and
walk in and then close the door and fill it?

I think that if these suppliers want to try selling me something and
"not meeting expectations" that's one thing. When they sell things
and rip off the elderly who either can't or won't push for what they
bought it's unacceptable.

While I don't believe in "society" as a concept or accept the mamby
pamby packaging around it - i.e. I think that individuals should take
responsibility for themselves, I take a really dim view of commercial
outfits who offer specialised products and services to "seniors" and
the disabled and then rip them off.

I think that I will do my piece to redress this as a retirement project
in a few years time, so they had better watch out.