In article 47fefb16@qaanaaq, Andy Hall wrote:


I would have thought that your curtain lady and her customers would
have heard of Bosch - there's a reasonable chance that they will have
seen their domestic appliances and will have realised that they are of
moderately good quality and reputation. Since you made the point
about this being a customer service issue, and not wanting to show up
at a customer in a rusty pile of junk that should have been at the
breakers years ago and having your arse hanging out of the back of your
jeans, you've obviously understood that visual impression and looking
professional is important.

Hence, considering that objective, and the context of Bosch being a
well known name, it could easily be worth the extra £50 over a period
of time to be using one of those for these jobs rather than something
that looks like it was made by Mattel or used by Flash Gordon.



So it would be better if Dave turned up at the curtain lady's with an
inferior (according to you) Bosch than a superior (according to you)
Makita or Festool, because the Curtain Lady's heard of Bosch? It's all
about bling, is it?

And what if the Curtain Lady's read Andy Hall's Big Book of Economics
(Reading age 4- 7) and remembers the chapter on Lidl... "They should
stick to selling cauliflowers"? She'll turn to Dave and say, "Bosch...
they should stick to selling washing machines."