Conservatory Blinds Secrets and Tips you should not ignore
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My husband used to work for one of the large UK conservatory companies, another trick they use is to bring a bag of smaples and pretend they are to be discontinued. They then say that they can fit your conservatory with one of these fabrics but only if you sign today. I certainly shop around myself when buying blinds.
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Mikey the big conservatory blinds companies pressure their sales people to make the on the day sales, my hubby was not in sales but he did say the blinds business is no different from double glazing etc... simply best to take your time and shop around
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I worked in a similar area to conservatory blinds myself years ago, indeed the salesperson can change the discount by a huge margin. One sure sign of a not so honest company is the on-going price reduction, in other words after refusing the companys price sveral times you will realiaze how much profit they were "trying" to make out of you... do make sure shop around for your blinds. Danny
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It's the same as in all walks of life, you get the good and the bad
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I'm sure there are some honest blind companies out there but maybe this recession is making them desperate?
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WARNING WARNING!!
If you are buying conservatory blinds or any other product for that matter take heed, we recently had a salesman in who offered us a discounted "discontinued" fabric from a bag. Funny thing is the next company who we asked for a quote did the exact same thing, this is obviosuly some sort common sales scam to trick people into buying a "so called" end of run fabric. Needless to say we were fuming and purchased from a third company who were "surprise surprise" cheaper.
Saw this BBC Watchdog programe tonight about a firm called Hillary's Blinds, as we are interested in Blinds ourselves it was a real eye opener..
Just Google "Hillarys - do they measure up?"
TeslaGenerators 9 months ago
Didn't see the BBC Watchdog program concerning Hillarys? but did just see the video on the BBC watchdog website, "Very" shoddy stuff indeed...
UKConservatoryBlind 9 months ago
Also depends on what salesman you get, most conservatory blinds sales people work for comission. This means they can decide how much discount to give, push the salesperson as hard as you can and like us you could save a good few hundred pounds. The window blinds folk will bend over backwards to get a sale right now. Jan
janlady1224 2 years ago 3
It has to be said that you can get some great deals right now due to the recession, it is vital though that the window product you buy is the correct one for the job.
UKConservatoryBlind 2 years ago
I could understand if these conservatory blinds companies quotes prices that varied only slightly, we just had two blind makers quote for similar conservatory blinds with a difference of £800. Quite clearly one of them was trying it on, quite honestly it saddens me.
Berylgirl1 2 years ago 4
This only proves the point that getting quotes for your window or conservatory blinds from more than one blind or shade company is the right way to go, most of these companies work in similar ways to double glazing window firms. 2 quotes will secure you a good price for blinds..
UKConservatoryBlind 2 years ago