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A couple of comments have been made over the past couple of days on Twitter about this, but I must say I have known about this issue for about a year, but didn’t want to say anything until now.
Yale have their own composite door website in which prospective customers can go design their own door in great deal, and order for it to be fitted by Yaledoor fitting teams. All this would be fine, if it wasn’t Door Stop in Yale’s clothing! Thousands of companies buy door slabs and ready to fit doors from Door-Stop at good rates. The last thing any of us need is a company the size of Yale to muddy the waters. I have had a customer in the past use them versus us, annoyed me a little bit. To make the waters even murkier and more confusing, Yale have just carried out a massive advertising campaign with various companies to help push their new Keyfree door handles on Door-Stop’s composite doors.
So are Yale here to help? Or are they just treading on other company’s toes? Well I’m of the latter opinion. Trading is hard enough as it is, we don’t need Yale making that task even harder. And by all accounts, they’re cheaper than some companies in the south of the country, which I’m sure isn’t going down well.
Would be nice to get some comment from either Yale or Door-Stop on this matter. But personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing the Yaledoor website disappearing!
Yale have their own composite door website in which prospective customers can go design their own door in great deal, and order for it to be fitted by Yaledoor fitting teams. All this would be fine, if it wasn’t Door Stop in Yale’s clothing! Thousands of companies buy door slabs and ready to fit doors from Door-Stop at good rates. The last thing any of us need is a company the size of Yale to muddy the waters. I have had a customer in the past use them versus us, annoyed me a little bit. To make the waters even murkier and more confusing, Yale have just carried out a massive advertising campaign with various companies to help push their new Keyfree door handles on Door-Stop’s composite doors.
So are Yale here to help? Or are they just treading on other company’s toes? Well I’m of the latter opinion. Trading is hard enough as it is, we don’t need Yale making that task even harder. And by all accounts, they’re cheaper than some companies in the south of the country, which I’m sure isn’t going down well.
Would be nice to get some comment from either Yale or Door-Stop on this matter. But personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing the Yaledoor website disappearing!
>We haven’t made a secret of this. You probably saw our release about it in the trade press 18 months ago.
It’s a tripartite joint venture between Yale, Evander and Door-Stop. Yale saw it as a vehicle to sell Yale Keyfree, while we supply the doors and Evander fit them.
http://www.door-stop.co.uk/blog/?p=150
>Do not usually like to agree with Nick Dutton, but regret to say, this is old news.
>How do Phoenix or Hallmark composite doors compare to the likes of Door Stop?
>This is totally unacceptable, talk about Door stop treading on the toes of their customers. Another thing I would say to the detriment of door stop is that they supply to everyone and I have come across 3 local installers who I have been in direct competition with who we all supplied the potential customer with the same Door stop brochure. Needless to say the customer was not impressed and bought from someone supplying selecta doors as they were different. Put me off using door stop
Would not use ANY of the said companies as they are all Incompetent to make a door to customer specifications and when there are issues fix them!!
Be warned – do not pay for a product in full until it has been fully supplied and fitted to correct standards.
In my case Yale blames Evander who then blame Door stop……………and it goes on and on! I am at a position now to take legal action against Yale as they are the tier 1 company.!!!!!!!!