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[caz963]

My washing machine gave up the ghost on Sunday. I've had it for quite a while, so it wasn't unexpected - but what IS unexpected is the problem I'm having getting a new one. Most places I've found one I'd consider buying can't deliver for ten days or more. One I found on the Comet website says delivery is in twenty-one days!

WTF?

Do they want my money or not?

It appears the only way of getting one faster is to go to an actual shop, buy it and lug it home ourselves. But washing machines are fucking heavy, so there's no way I'm doing that. Also, when they deliver, they take the old one away, which I need doing as well.

Yes, we have a local launderette, and we can always take stuff round to my Mum's if we need to. But seriously - ten days to get a new washing machine??!

What is the world coming to?!

Comments

[hooloovoo_42]

Flippin' 'eck! Ma got a new one delivered within a couple of days. It was only a fairly cheap one, but she ordered it online and they delivered a couple of days later.

[caz963.livejournal.com]

Even the local independent shops can't deliver until the beginning of next week - that's the shops that have got anything in stock for under £400.

[leli-5.livejournal.com]

My mother's washing machine quit a few weeks ago and she's been going to the laundromat in the meantime. It outright sucks, though, and now that my father has had a go at the old thing and declared it a lost cause, I expect they'll start looking for a good deal on a new one. I hope you get things sorted quickly so you don't have to lug the wash back and forth too many times!

[bas_math_girl]

I ordered mine from the Co-op online and got in a few days! So I always recommend them.

[caz963.livejournal.com]

I confess, I haven't looked there. But hopefully, Mr Caz will have sorted something today.