The Show us what you make thread

[TheLordJohn]

Thanks for taking the time to explain - very interesting!

[ReaderScars]

Mr Overheads said:

What would you like to know?

There's a PHer who's recently been dumped with a large bizarre premium rate business telecoms bill, who I'm sure would be very interested in having a chat with you.

Can't recall who it was, though...

[smiffy180]

kand300 said:

Online printing of leaflets, flyers, brochures, banner stands, etc

is there a PH discount........

[Evoluzione]

I take these:



Which some people do this to:



And turn them into this:





Whilst keeping them outwardly looking like this:



So they can go onto to do this:



Without doing this again:

[VEIGHT]

I'd highly recommended Mr Overheads.

[felixlighter]

I fix big stuff

Edited by felixlighter on Saturday 14th March 21:46

[h8tax]

Mr Overheads said:

TheLordJohn said:

^^^ Go on then ^^^

Explain more, please.

What would you like to know?

Client was very happy, our fee was less than our normal 50/50 but was still happy with fee.

In the case above it was an electricity bill that had been massively underbilled for 6 years, using knowledge of industry process's and ensuring we drip fed information to SWALEC we got facts applied in the correct order (call centres / massive corporates struggle with more than one fact being corrected at any one stage) to get the entire bill written off. Most people when they get large backbills for energy do one of 3 things..but we are the 4th option:
a) Rant and rave and refuse to pay, get taken to court and lose.
b) Go to the press and get 10% off for their troubles.
c) Get a lawyer involved who argues contractual clauses and hopes to win on a war of letters basis, doesn't actually consider induistry regulations/process's.

We deal with anything that's not a core cost to a business, so Fuel, Comms, Energy, Stationery/Ink (we set up buying groups on Stationery and could quite easily do a PH Business Forum group for example - someone will have to start a thread if interested), Merchant Cards, Logistics/Couriers, Cardboard Packaging etc etc. And we charge 50/50 - sometimes I make £10 sometimes a 5 figure sum.

Image above was best way I could post a picture in this thread.

Its not as difficult as you might think (not to take anything away from Mr Overheads - that is some achievement!).
Last year I wrestled a £20k cheque off Thames Water for overbilling sewerage charges on one of the properties I look after - and I am just a pleb!

[illmonkey]

felixlighter said:

I fix big stuff

Edited by felixlighter on Saturday 14th March 21:46

It's not big, it's not even a high top!

[flatsix3.6]

[HoHoHo]

flatsix3.6 said:

I hope you're better than the jokers around West Sussex who seem to spend more time bodging rather than fixing - gives the industry a bad name that's for sure

[dazwalsh]

felixlighter said:

I fix big stuff

Edited by felixlighter on Saturday 14th March 21:46

"Yeah this one here needs a new set of wings and engines ***breathes in through teeth*** about 40 million pounds mate plus vat"

[uber]

flatsix3.6 said:

Why do private contractors never seem to be given the opportunity to fix public roads?

[loughran]

I make furniture,





But kitchens pay the bills so from this,



To this.



And sometimes bathrooms.

[Dr Interceptor]

We turn pools like this...



Into pools like this...



....and build new ones too

[Thurbs]

Provide solutions which control these:



Track and predict these:



Optimise these in real time:



Plus much more.

[Busterhighmen]

Thurbs said:

Provide solutions which control these:



Track and predict these:



Optimise these in real time:



Plus much more.

Provide the power supplies for these.

[TheLordJohn]

Thurbs said:

Provide solutions which control these:



Track and predict these:



Optimise these in real time:



Plus much more.

Be patronised and chastised by useless signs such as these.
Be held up by these at 2 am when they turn to red because folk are too thick to be trusted to be able to drive around without them on when it's quiet.
You aren't involved with those hopeless digital motorway signs, are you?
Those ones that, at no point in their history of use, have ever displayed some genuine, helpful, correct info?

[JohnJNR]

I own a company which makes really, really nice car wax.

[jbswagger]

jimmyVX said:

Design, manufacture, install, commission the whole lot.....

What sort of equipment is that?

[crackthatoff]

i sell lots of these