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FERNSEH · 13th Mar 2018, 11:41 am

The problem with my business (or what's left of it) is the rent of the shop which including service charges can be over £10.000 per annum.
Thankfully, I'm in a rates assisted area.
It was in the early 2000s when I stopped selling small screen TVs. It would be OK to sell such items if it was just a matter of handing the sets over to the counter and the customer did the tuning in themselves, but it wasn't so easy for me. That £149 TV had to be delivered and tuned in which meant fiddling about with the loop aerial to achieve some decent pictures. Then there was that problem with certain Thomson small screen TVs with a patterning effect which required an additional filter choke in the power supply, more work, and all this hassle for £20 mark-up!
Stopped selling small screen TVs after that debacle.

DFWB.

13th Mar 2018, 11:41 am	#138
FERNSEH Dekatron Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 7,444	Re: End of an era. The problem with my business (or what's left of it) is the rent of the shop which including service charges can be over £10.000 per annum. Thankfully, I'm in a rates assisted area. It was in the early 2000s when I stopped selling small screen TVs. It would be OK to sell such items if it was just a matter of handing the sets over to the counter and the customer did the tuning in themselves, but it wasn't so easy for me. That £149 TV had to be delivered and tuned in which meant fiddling about with the loop aerial to achieve some decent pictures. Then there was that problem with certain Thomson small screen TVs with a patterning effect which required an additional filter choke in the power supply, more work, and all this hassle for £20 mark-up! Stopped selling small screen TVs after that debacle. DFWB.