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Originally Posted by Sir Trev
We have a guy just round the corner from us mends domestic appliances and he said business is really poor for him as people just throw stuff away now instead of mending them. The prices are now so low on things like dryers that most don't bother and his phone rings less and less. Seems such a waste, especially as John Lewis/Currys take your old one away for free and someone probably gets them cheap off them and mends them...
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When you take away old units, as we do with our old refrigerators, you are not allowed to even break it for spares, can be quite annoying sometimes as we havevto send perfectly good units for scrap just because some designer does not like the colour, such a ridiculous waste.