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Thread: Masters no more
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7th September 2016, 09:34 PM #91
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8th September 2016, 05:23 PM #92
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Where do you get your fixings from Bebbo?
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8th September 2016, 08:27 PM #93
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Just got back from masters. I screenshot prices of some dar primed timber earlier in the week. It was less than half price. Go to the store today and it was about 30% more expensive than advertised. Apparently prices are updated every Wednesday. I was extremely off. It wasn't much money but the principle. They can die a painful death as far as I am concerned.
It's price baiting. Probably not illegal but very disrespectful. No store having a closing date sale should be raising prices.
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8th September 2016, 08:34 PM #94
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9th September 2016, 06:18 PM #95
Just a side issue on Masters Closing Down....
Just a side issue on Masters Closing Down....
Today I dropped in to see an old mate who works there and while I was waiting for him to finish serving a customer I asked the lass on the counter how she was and how things have been going with the sale.
Well I'd spoken with this lass before and she's quite a good kid but what she said nearly floored me.
The customers have been taking there frustrations about masters and the close down on the staff giving them some awful grief and in some cases abuse.
I was discussed and could only chat with her trying to encourage her.
PLEASE folk, don't take out frustration upon staff who are more than likely loosing the jobs.
Cheers, crowie
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10th September 2016, 07:26 PM #96
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20th September 2016, 10:53 AM #97
I went into Mornington Masters last week. Attracted by tv ad declari g massive savings blah blah. The only things reduced more than 10% was the exorbitantly priced imported American red oak and poplar. I never saw anything else priced less than 10% off. And they were still dearer than Bunnings. I commented on this to a staff member and he said discounts would increase as closure in December got nearer. Yeah, right! When only useless crap is left. Like plastic brush n pan sets.
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20th September 2016, 11:00 AM #98
I worked in a Timber and hardware retail outlet in the early 1980s just when DIY was taking off in a big way. If anyone with a brain and some commonsense at Woolworths would listen i could tell them where they went so seriously wrong. I watched, from day one, the slide to oblivion. Everythong from staff, product knowledge, product range, pricing, service and location. It was all wrong. Im not surprised they failed.
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20th September 2016, 12:06 PM #99
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First time i walked into a Masters, was impressed with how 'showy' it was, but disappointed to overhear two staff conversations bitching about bosses. Went away thinking 'something's wrong here????
I guess success and failure start at the top. If you can't motivate staff you will never succeed.
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20th September 2016, 06:37 PM #100
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I always found the staff at the Keysborough branch really good, but I never liked going there as it felt like walking into a morgue. Always dead and barely a person in sight any time I went.
I passed one last week and needed some concrete, so thought I'd pull in, but it seemed everyone else in Melb had the same idea, not a parking spot to be seen. So I drove out and went to Bunnings.
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21st September 2016, 02:41 PM #101
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Speaking of possible warranty issues. Went to Masters Ellenbrook yesterday and noticed about eight 600mm Bessey K-body parallel clamps - given all the other stores I've visited last week this was a surprise as most Besey clamps had been cleaned out. Was all set to grab a few (more) when I notice two were missing the protection pads... then I noticed two were pretty scuffed up. Turns out every one of them had some sort of damage. Perhaps Masters are dumping returned stock/seconds now.
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21st September 2016, 06:18 PM #102If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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21st September 2016, 06:45 PM #103
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