Solar Salesmen

Are Solar Panel installers the new double glazing salesmen??

I have just read Phil Clarke's interesting little story about the man from 3 Valleys who undertook research on the length of time six form girls at a boarding school spend in the shower. Staying away from the numerous innuendos, the girls would spend anything up to an hour and twenty minutes in the shower - incredible.

This brings me back to my original comment about the new double glazing salesmen. On regular occasions we receive scrap paper through the door from these companies promoting the benefit of harnessing the power of solar energy in the home...

The offers include large subsidies which as we know do not exist, as well major savings on your fuel bill. No mention of the install costs and the annual maintenance.

When we rang them up to talk about someone coming round and giving us a no-obligation quote, we were immediately told that we could be one of the lucky ones. Given our location, we were told that we could be eligible to a 'managers discount'.

Even greater luck was on us as they had one of their engineers in the area the next day. Wow. Just before we went out to buy our winning lottery ticket, we were called back by 'the manager' who sounded younger than the first child who answered the phone, confirming how lucky we were and little else.

The next day we sat at home waiting with all our lucky charms. The time came and went, and our luck faltered as our man never arrived.

Now we get calls every hour apologising.

We are still keen to install solar home energy, but without all the sales spiel would help..