{"id":51851,"date":"2021-09-25T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51851"},"modified":"2021-09-25T09:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T09:29:42","slug":"smeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/09\/smeg\/","title":{"rendered":"SMEG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Magna Building<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon<\/p>\n<p>And at Regent Street<\/p>\n<p>St James<\/p>\n<p>appliances we dream of<\/p>\n<p>with certainty<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0claims<\/p>\n<p>eight out of ten<\/p>\n<p>Ethicsl Consumer<\/p>\n<p>over May and June<\/p>\n<p>assurances a pedigree<\/p>\n<p>irrefutable<\/p>\n<p>and in tune<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>with everything thats special<\/p>\n<p>a good choice<\/p>\n<p>we had thought<\/p>\n<p>The contract we were making<\/p>\n<p>which is why we sought<\/p>\n<p>SMEG and went to Abingdon<\/p>\n<p>and to Regents Street<\/p>\n<p>Where we laid our money down<\/p>\n<p>assured of the quality<\/p>\n<p>and we paid in London Town<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on delivery the enamelling<\/p>\n<p>was flecked and thinning, we<\/p>\n<p>were sadly in some disbelief of the \u00a0actual quality<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>our incredulity<\/p>\n<p>a suspiciousness \u00a0how sad we felt<\/p>\n<p>how to explain away<\/p>\n<p>the discrepancy before our eyes<\/p>\n<p>on that awful day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>an unsoundness<\/p>\n<p>and a sadness<\/p>\n<p>the quality was poor<\/p>\n<p>after sales felt frantic<\/p>\n<p>our plea\u2019s they did ignore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>inferior and broken<\/p>\n<p>we saw the unforeseen<\/p>\n<p>unpredicted and unheralded<\/p>\n<p>despair for what had been<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>quality and anticipation<\/p>\n<p>of eight out \u00a0of ten<\/p>\n<p>but on arrival<\/p>\n<p>sadly frustration sadly when<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>writing in and requesting<\/p>\n<p>the quality that we<\/p>\n<p>thought was understandable<\/p>\n<p>how it needed to be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but ignored we were<\/p>\n<p>inanity<\/p>\n<p>apparently was shown<\/p>\n<p>empty words and platitudes<\/p>\n<p>we really felt alone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>here it was SMEGS hob<\/p>\n<p>indeed its finish<\/p>\n<p>below par<\/p>\n<p>eye catching for a different reason<\/p>\n<p>it was not the star<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>performer in our kitchen<\/p>\n<p>contradictory to how<\/p>\n<p>the whole selling experience<\/p>\n<p>which evolved into a wow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and now a spot of dupery<\/p>\n<p>surfaced in our mind<\/p>\n<p>our confidence was rattled<\/p>\n<p>had we just been blind<\/p>\n<p>\u0177<\/p>\n<p>why was SMEG so smug about it<\/p>\n<p>what we had to do<\/p>\n<p>was buy another unit<\/p>\n<p>discounted yes its true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we paid over good money<\/p>\n<p>in advance of delivery<\/p>\n<p>and the picture not a true one<\/p>\n<p>a dissimilarity<\/p>\n<p>my wife she was beside herself<\/p>\n<p>she had chosen what she thought<\/p>\n<p>was quality and service<\/p>\n<p>which really came to naught<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>eight out of ten<\/p>\n<p>seemed unlikely<\/p>\n<p>a lack of clarity<\/p>\n<p>the offer unexpected<\/p>\n<p>a roughness \u00a0tragically<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon and Regents Street<\/p>\n<p>the efforts we had made<\/p>\n<p>the balladry aforethought<\/p>\n<p>our spirit for the trade<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and the unwillingness<\/p>\n<p>to help us<\/p>\n<p>the disinclination<\/p>\n<p>we had received a sub standard<\/p>\n<p>hob<\/p>\n<p>our exasperation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and your reluctance to meet<\/p>\n<p>with us<\/p>\n<p>that negativity<\/p>\n<p>recalcitrant and grudging<\/p>\n<p>it all felt bad to me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a poem it felt relevant<\/p>\n<p>a grudging service, we<\/p>\n<p>were hurt by the unwillingness<\/p>\n<p>and the inconstancy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a hard line and a doggedness<\/p>\n<p>the compromise unfair<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully Eight out \u00a0of ten<\/p>\n<p>for service<\/p>\n<p>the delay until now<\/p>\n<p>so when<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>is SMEG about to resolve the issue<\/p>\n<p>tergiversate<\/p>\n<p>for we<\/p>\n<p>are beside ourselves with the<\/p>\n<p>Hobson\u2019s choice<\/p>\n<p>presented in all honesty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Magna Building<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon<\/p>\n<p>OX14 1DZ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magna Building Abingdon And at Regent Street St James appliances we dream of with certainty The \u00a0claims eight out of ten Ethicsl Consumer over May and June assurances a pedigree irrefutable and in tune &nbsp; 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