Dont believe the hype!

[Spud]

why do adhesive manufacturers hype their products it is infuriating at times,Apex grange who are a huge mapei and Ardex distributer near me had a kerakol rep handing out free adhesive to tilers in their carpark then the same rep told ESL a cercol distributer that Apex grange were taking Cercol on so he could get their adhesive business ,it ended up that both companies now think that kerakol are a bunch of clowns and wont do any business with them ,i was chatting to colin from Mapei at a trade show and asked him if they were bothered about kerakol and he said that their products are good but until they manufacture in the uk they are no threat, at the moment they should let their products do the talking and sell it to the trade at decent prices and then this will create the demand not just saying we are the best and trying silly tricks and marketing gimmicks to hype their products

 

[DHTiling]

They are full of it those kerkoll reps.. fookin still annoys me what they did to me.. lying basterddds..

 

[Dan]

They sound like they have a lot to learn in what's already quite a competitive industry with some very established firms out there.

I think Weber and Mapei have done well to catch market share that BAL could only dream of gaining back these days. BAL missed a trick or two. But Mapei don't seem to invest much in online stuff. Weber and BAL have made a lot of websites and focused a lot of their time on promoting them and I tip my hat to them both. Very well done.

Kerakoll are decades behind from that point of view and if this bloke keeps saying he has no problems on a forum, he will only get presented with **** loads lol

He needs to learn how forums work lol

 

[DHTiling]

Is this the same rep who is posting on other forums..?

 

[Spud]

dont know Dave I have asked for my account to be closed on the other forum, my mate Ray is on there and he is doing a product test with bal , kerakol and tilemaster at his yard to shut up the bull form Bal and kerakol as they have been bragging about their products but didnt send him any stuff to do the test with then started coming out with excuses he is going to buy the stuff himself and do it , I cant stand the bull over there anymore so asked my account to be closed

 

[DHTiling]

Don't know anything about that test.. what ever it is.. just thought i had seen a kerakoll rep posts somewhere else.. might have been the pink forum

 

[Dan]

haha is that our Ray T T? - I'd love to see the outcome of this test thing. He's a gent he is that Ray.

 

[Spud]

yes its Ray T T lol

 

[Aston]

hi gary,
i asked/got my account closed last week so thats the 2 of us gone lol

 

[Dan]

That Kerakoll John has mentioned the test on here now too lol

He likes his tests he does! - http://www.tilersforums.com/tile-ad...tion/38647-kerakoll-adhesives.html#post619871

I hope he does the original one and doesn't start the saga on here too to be honest.

 

[Pebbs]

hi gary,
i asked/got my account closed last week so thats the 2 of us gone lol

Make that 3, I like to keep things real, not listen to a load of 'artizans' bigging theirselves up.

 

[Dan]

They're pretty much left with the tileforums lot who we banned years ago from here, and a couple of extra heads. They've always been like that.

 

[Peter]

Is it possible to have a thread on the pink forums that doesn't advertise their courses?

Not sure about the Kerakol rep, he seems like a bit of a slippery fish.