How to waste money easily
I have a new Samsung HDMI TV and managed to find a brand new Panasonic VHS player still in its original box on eBay (not easy to find since they are not made now). Having no idea how to connect up to an HDMI TV I contacted Skyward Communications in Bearsden near Glasgow.
My intention was to copy old family VHS tapes onto DVD disks.
Two men turned up on 7th April 2016 and after a few attempts at joining up connections with no success they used a single aerial cable to connect my Sky+ box to the VHS player with success after a bit of tuning.
For the half hour period doing this there was a £45 call out charge to travel 2.8 miles taking 9 minutes. I was glad it worked and had no complaint about the charge although it did seem high.
Seven days later it didn't work having only watched one VHS tape and when I met Bill locally I requested that he come back to check it again and shook hands on a gentlemans agreement to be charged a 50% discount and a day was chosen 4 days ahead.
He then phoned a couple of days later to say he was taking a few days off and would phone me to rearrange another visit.
Needless to say, in early June, I still can't watch tapes or convert them to DVD disk.