Folks,
I've posted for some earlier advice on this but looking for a bit more if any of you can help. In summary, trying to understand the proper price differential between the makes Nolte, Sheraton, and Hacker when there doesn't tend to be any openly published price lists. Also looking for any experiences of the three makes (I already have some good feedback on the Sheraton on my prev post).
Still undecided whether I do it myself or not but am clear I want to go a bit upmarket as we're going to be in this house a good while and have done the rest of it up to a good standard.
So far its looking like the following from a couple of quotes we've had.
Sheraton is maybe around twice as much as Magnet Hacker seems to be around 10-20% more than Sheraton We had a quote which put Nolte at THREE times as much as Sheraton, then subsequently discounted to roughtly the same*
- Bit suspicious, see full explanation below.
TIA Midge.
Company A (several good personal recommendations, but one poor one around fitting standard) quoted us £14K (ouch!) for the Nolte units alone as part of a much larger quote for the fitting and appliances etc. For the identical layout but using very similar kitchen units from Sheraton, their price for the units was £4.8K. i.e. the Nolte units were more than THREE times more than the Sheraton equiv.
Needless to say, we ruled the Nolte straight out - until out of the blue we got a requote due to price reduction (apparently) where the Nolte units have dropped to £5K, almost the same as the Sheraton. It has to be said that the Nolte was the one we liked from the outset until the quote came through. This company do supply-only as well as fit.
Company B (several recommendations all positive) sell the German make Hacker which is nice, but their nearest equivalent isn't quite as nice as the Nolte and their units work out around 5-6K. Don't think they do supply only. Not too familiar with the make but the quality certainly looks good so any experiences?
If it wasn't for the fact I'm a deeply suspicious sod, I'd probably go for supply only of the Nolte and just get some extra labour in to help me out. But a bit alarmed at the magnitute of the price drop and wondered if anyone in the trade had an explanation. Seems to me it could be:
- Company A or Nolte are struggling so discounting heavily (not necessarily a good thing if either are in serious trouble)
- Nolte was very overpriced and is now where it ought to be
- Maybe its a genuine reduction as the range may be be on its way out or something
- An attempt was being made to make a juicy margin on the back of German kitchen reputation to see if we bit at the higher price, and was reduced when we didn't bite on either