Can't believe Screwfux

[Fredxxx]

"You have chosen an item which can only be sold to customers registered with the Gas Safe Register."

What bollox!

[Jonno]

Fredxxx scribbled

Covering their arse. WTF want's ambulance chasers giving them shit.

[Richard]

What was the item?

[Fredxxx]

Gas bayonet fitting.

[Tim Watts]

What item?

[Tim Watts]

It let me add it to my logged in trolley.

When does it whine? Actually at checkout?

[Fredxxx]

After clicking "Collect today". Just tried "Add for deliver". Neither get the offending item into my "Trolley".

What does your account have mine hasn't!!

[David Lang]

I bought one in B&Q and it had a label saying that since it had to be installed by a Gas Safe man no instructions are enclosed.

[Tim Watts]

I do not think I have ever seen a plumbing part *with* instructions.

[Tim Watts]

Nothing - they keep badgering me to register for Electfix but I have not even done that (as I hold a nominal "domestic installer" qualification and sometimes buy a few bits). I have not got the heart to tell them that I go to TLC up the road for serious purchases.

[J1MBO/m]

ha ha

[J1MBO/m]

can you not just buy that in b&q ? ...

[Chris French]

Yup, added the hose and bayonet wall fitting to the trolley, for both collection and delivery I can get to the point of paying with no complaints

[alan_m]

I've seen that on parts that can be used for gas fitting. It's a policy guaranteed that some of these items will be incorrectly fitted.

[Cash]

I had exactly the same response from the staff at the local Pumb Center quite some time ago for a flexible cooker connection hose [1] - but they said that they could "recommend someone who would supply and fit the thing".

I politely explained that they were wrong and were working a scam to help their mates get easy work - and told them where they could put that hose. I then proceeded to an independent plumbers merchant a few miles away and bought the item that I wanted without any problems - and a few days later, I saw the same make flexible cooker hose in the local B&Q for double the price that I paid!

Later on that day, I e-mailed the Plumb Center head office outlining what had happened and asking them if they would send their reasons by return e-mail - and I'm still waiting for that reply some seven years after the event.

[1] I explained that the item was for my son - who is qualified within the electronics manufacturing industry (a far higher qualification than the then Corgi one) to install pipe-work for gases that are almost immediately fatal to life if they escaped into the atmosphere - to install his new gas cooker.

Cash

[Brian-Gaff]

Huh? So how do people get them into stock for their staff, only some of whom might be registered? Brian

[Martin Bonner]

By using the business registration. They _could_ then allow unregistered staff to fit one - but they probably won't.