RE: Re: Which HA standard to use for first home?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Li at Laser is someone I consider a very good and very long standing
friend
as is Mike (my old boss at Lets) - both are people that I met through their
help and assistance with my first steps into home automation.

Both of them deserve every bit of support they can get as IMO between them
they built the UK Home Automation retail "scene" along with Mark
and the
UKHA_D egroup and I guess a number of people here can, like me, say that
they are also in that respect responsible for the jobs they're doing
nowadays (not sure whether to thank them or curse them for that). :-D

Mike did recently ask me to keep this quiet but it's on his website now so
I
think I can mention it...

"On November 14th, Let's Automate Ltd purchased the domain and stock
of
www.simplyautomate.com

Let's Automate are very pleased to welcome all customers of Simply Automate
and we look forward to serving you to the best of our ability

We believe that this purchase cements our position as the number 1 on-line
home automation specialist in the UK"

Nice to see that in these days of doom and gloom the people that put their
balls on the line in the first place are still being bold!

Phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ian Lowe
> Sent: 04 December 2008 22:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Which HA standard to use for first home?
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Duncan" <duncan.sample@...>
wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I found some units on buylowest.co.uk that are a little cheaper
than
> > letsautomate, but I'm wondering if they're UK sockets.  I know
it's a
> > UK site, but when you search on Google for the product names and
> > numbers they show up looking a like US devices.  Anyone had any
> > experience with these GE modules?
>
> Hi Duncan, you identified yourself as newly looking at HA, so let me
> fill you in on a bit of the history of the HA scene in the UK.
>
> The two longest existing suppliers (and the owners of both companies
> read this list and participate) www.letsautomate.com and www.laser.com
> have been supporting home automation during the last decade (and
> beyond).
>
> Li and Mike have been *ridiculously* helpful to a great many of the
> users here, often going above and beyond what you could expect to help
> resolve issues. when I had some issues with a couple of the low costs
> S10 modules being twitchy and failing, Mike swapped *all* of the ones
> I had ordered, rather than waiting for them to fail. He shipped out a
> replacement to me before I had sent back the faulty units.
>
> Similarly Li has passed on tech documents, helped with kit, and
> basically did everything you could ever want from a supplier.
>
> The short version is - when you see a price difference that, let's
> face it, wouldn't buy you a big mac meal, remember that what the extra
> money buys is absolutley stellar customer care, and helps keep people
> in business who have supported HA from the start.
>
> buyitlowest says 'why pay more when you can pay less' - because paying
> the absolute bottom price for everything (and stripping the value from
> the business) hurts you, hurts the HA industry and hurts the HA
> community.
>
> just my 2p.
>
>
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