Intermediate English Course
Programme 19
Text One

A Formal Complaint

16 Manor Road,
Harpole,
Hants.
22nd January

The Sales Manager,
Sparks Electrical Suppliers Ltd.,
13 South Street,
Southampton.

Dear Sir,

On Tuesday you sent one of your fitters to install the dish-washing machine we purchased from your company recently. Although you had assured us that we would not have to pay extra for installation, your workman told us that we had to have a new tap and various electrical fittings before he could connect the machine up. Naturally we had to take his word for it, and we told him to carry out the necessary work.

The bill he presented us with afterwards seemed exorbitant, so we went through it and checked the prices of the items. We found that elsewhere the identical articles were little more than half the price he had charged us. Moreover, we have since discovered that we need not have had a new tap at all.

We trust, therefore, that at your earliest convenience you will send another man to exchange the new tap for the old one again. We also hope that, after examining the enclosed bill carefully, you will see fit to reduce the prices considerably, as well as to deduct the price of the new tap.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. C. Jones


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