My wife does cooking and baking for our daughter's restaurant mainly desserts and wedding cakes etc. and it has been apparent for a while that her six year old Blanco oven is stuffed and she needs a new one. We went shopping and bought two Miele ovens, one a microwave convection now my retirement has been put back five years. Isn't it curious that the Germans all have the same marketing concepts, if you don't like the price go and buy something else.

We asked the bloke in Hardly Normals for a better price and it turns out that all the store does is show it to you and the purchase is done by the store online through the Miele website on your behalf so all the store gets is a commission, this way there can be no discounting or giveaways. Festool haven't thought about that one yet but give them time.