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Arrrrrrrrrrrahhhhhh - Once, Twice, Three Times John Lewis

  Our household is aspiring middle class. We buy German branded white goods. We shop at Waitrose when we are feeling extravagant and usually visit John Lewis for our household stuffs. In the last two years we've bought a Bosch washing machine, a Bosch cooker and recently a Bosch slimline dishwasher - the dishwasher to replace our 14 year old model.  John Lewis offer a delivery, installation and take away service. On Monday 14th May the service was pretty curtailed.  They delivered the new dishwasher, but didn't uninstall or take away the old model. Apparently, they thought as it was a freestanding dishwasher it would be a plug in. It wasn't  - it was hard wired and the guy who came to install it couldn't do hard wiring. So they left but not before speaking to HQ, telling what had happened and organising another visit by someone who could hard wire the new dishwasher. The "hardwired team" arrived  at 7:15 this morning, both men as fresh as the day's dawn de...

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