Westfalia Tools

Has anyone had dealings with Wesfalia

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is their stuff any good .I think they were a German Dairy and Milking machine outfit Regards E

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I have, never again. Products are not good quality and their replacement and refund system is sooooooo slow.

They were the cheapest place for a watch opener though, and that was ok.

First order I placed they could not supply any of it. Second order about half. Third came with one thing broken, several things not available, the replacement item they eventually sent disintegrated in use (a garage fluid sucker up ) The refund took a month to come.

Their catalogues now go straight to the paper salvage unopened.

mrcheerful

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mrcheerful

Another junk shop selling cheap tat.

One of my neighbours bought some stuff from them. There were missing and faulty items from the order and lousy customer service for returns.

As to whether their milking machines are any good or not, you'll have to interview a cow.

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Andy Hall

Not personally, thank goodness, they're infamous.

They're like Northern Tools, but without the quality or service. Cheap Chinese tat, thrown in a box with half of the order pick missing and the rest badly packed.

(NB Northern Tools are rubbish too!)

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Andy Dingley

Yesterday in Somerfields SWMBO bought a set of Chinese digital bathroom scales for, wait for it. - £6.49.

It comprised a set of four load cells in the four feet, a toughened glass deck plate to stand on, a set of microprocessor electronics, a coin battery, and a large liquid crystal display.

It came well packed in a decent colour printed box and had been shipped from China. All at a total price half what it would cost me to get a courier to deliver a similar box to the next town. Of course Somerfields must have made a profit on it despite handling it and giving it store space so it probably came into the country at a cost somewhere around the 2 quid mark.

At these prices we are doomed, we will never have any industry ever again, and by virtue of that we will only be able to have products that the Chinese cook up for us, at a level of quality they choose to provide. But hey, since we are not generating wealth any more we probably won't be able to afford anything better.

I don't know how accurate these scales are, but the results don't seem particularly repeatable, but to SWMBO the quality was a secondary issue to the very low price.

Sorry for off topic rant.

DG

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Derek ^

Some of their stuff is just junk goods, eg the lime dehumidifier, anything that looks any good (in the catalog) can be got cheaper from toolstation or screwfix.

NT

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meow2222

With purchase logic like that, we are definitely doomed.

Watch these things if there is any water about or you will find out about how A&E works in the 3rd world.

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Andy Hall

then what use are they?

NT

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meow2222

Never mind about that. They're cheap, so they must be good value.

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Andy Hall

They look OK.

They fulfil the same purpose as the cheap tat Chinese tools. If nothing else the mere aquisition of items like this gives one the gratifying feeling that "We've got one". We Brits have evolved into being "Mrs Bouquets on-the-cheap" and we fall for it all the time.

I can't blame it all on SWMBO, I bought a JML copy of a Dremel tool

  • 54 (?) piece kit of attachments for £8.99 + vat.

It was so feeble it was literally *useless*.

In fact it could do nothing at all useful or otherwise.

But for £8.99 it wasn't worth the fuel to take it back.

I put it down to the 50+ years of bad/unsuccessful governments we've had since 1955, and their litany of failure. It has become acceptable, chic even, to be unsuccessful. If you are successful you get surcharged. My own son came home from school and when I went through his excercise book, said the teacher told him he "Didn't have to get them all right", "You don't want me to be some kind of swot do you?" he said.

We have a "Chinese tat" quality education system, and a "Chinese tat" quality NHS :-(

Unbelievably, they (the NHS) sent my cousin for acupuncture to a Chinese alternative practioner because of pain in his chest wall, then a month later with no improvement sent him for an X-ray and found he had a broken rib. :-(

You couldn't make it up.

DG

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Derek ^

With bathroom scales SWMBO would probably be delighted with scales that misread by 10% .... in the right direction of course.

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Tony Bryer

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