Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs.
Fox House Elmdale Chepstow
NP16 7LA
Telephone 01291 625540
Mobile 07913 158497
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Paul Easton.
Completed a comprehensive 5-year City and Guilds apprenticeship in carpentry and joiner.
Bringing 50 years of industry experience.
Welcome to the desktop view of our website. Located in the town of Chepstow, Paul Easton Locksmiths provides a comprehensive lock and door maintenance service, emergency locksmith services, and garage door repairs.
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Why it pays to use a local business
- By paul easton
- •
- 22 Jul, 2019
Take a look at what it could cost you to use a national based locksmith company instead of a local business like Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs Chepstow
Take a look at the invoice in the photograph above, the total bill for an emergency call out is a whopping £712.00. That's over five times what we would have charged for the same job.
These are typical of the type of charges that National based companies advertising as local locksmiths are charging customers.
Many if not all of the listings on Google for locksmiths in the Chepstow and Caldicot area are falsely claiming to be local businesses by using 01291 telephone prefixes and dialing codes and calling themselves Chepstow or Caldicot locksmiths.
Some are even registering addresses on google to further give the illusion that they are a local based business.
Our charge for this exact same job at Paul Easton Locksmiths Chepstow would have been £145.00.
That's a whopping £567.00 less than this customer was charged.
Yes, that's right we would have been over £500 cheaper than this invoice.
So when you need a local business you really need to look carefully at what is coming up on a google search to filter out the genuine local businesses from the national call centre companies.
We here at Paul Easton Locksmiths clearly show our home address Fox House Elmdale Chepstow NP16 7LA on this website and all our advertising along with all the other information pertaining towards where we are based.
One of the other things that many people miss is that none of these companies when you ring for a quote to attend an emergency or do work will typically not include in that quotation the VAT due or mention that VAT will be added to the final invoice.
Take a look at the invoice in the photograph and you will see that VAT of £118.00 has been added to the final invoice that's very nearly as much as we would have charged for the whole job completed.
They have charged as part of the job for a new lock, they are invoicing the lock at £345.00 plus vat.
These locks are £45.00 retail price which is what we would charge, That's eight times what it should cost you.
Their is no VAT to pay on any work done by Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs as we are not VAT registered.
These are typical of the type of charges that National based companies advertising as local locksmiths are charging customers.
Many if not all of the listings on Google for locksmiths in the Chepstow and Caldicot area are falsely claiming to be local businesses by using 01291 telephone prefixes and dialing codes and calling themselves Chepstow or Caldicot locksmiths.
Some are even registering addresses on google to further give the illusion that they are a local based business.
Our charge for this exact same job at Paul Easton Locksmiths Chepstow would have been £145.00.
That's a whopping £567.00 less than this customer was charged.
Yes, that's right we would have been over £500 cheaper than this invoice.
So when you need a local business you really need to look carefully at what is coming up on a google search to filter out the genuine local businesses from the national call centre companies.
We here at Paul Easton Locksmiths clearly show our home address Fox House Elmdale Chepstow NP16 7LA on this website and all our advertising along with all the other information pertaining towards where we are based.
One of the other things that many people miss is that none of these companies when you ring for a quote to attend an emergency or do work will typically not include in that quotation the VAT due or mention that VAT will be added to the final invoice.
Take a look at the invoice in the photograph and you will see that VAT of £118.00 has been added to the final invoice that's very nearly as much as we would have charged for the whole job completed.
They have charged as part of the job for a new lock, they are invoicing the lock at £345.00 plus vat.
These locks are £45.00 retail price which is what we would charge, That's eight times what it should cost you.
Their is no VAT to pay on any work done by Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs as we are not VAT registered.
