"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
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Ideal tried that one on me. I informed them of the law. They didn't
know
that non corgi people can fit a boiler until I told these people and
they
looked it up. They fixed the boiler.

If you didn't buy directly from Ideal,
then it was you that didn't know the
law either, although it appears to
have been a successful blag!

The boiler was faulty out of the box. They came and asked if I was corgi, I
told the law, they ummed and arred and phoned back and then fixed. What
amazed me was that these corgi men actually thought only corgi can touch gas
installations.

Manufacturers can put pretty well
any non discriminatory restrictions on
their guarantees that they like
(including registered fitting requirements),
as they have no requirement to offer
a guarantee at all.

The law is the law. They can't insist on appliances being fitted by a club.
If that is their way then they should sell only through that club.