I’ve been in a similar situation…
OK it was a long time ago, but being treated like that certainly taught me never to judge a book by its cover.
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Yes, I remember an apocryphal tale about some American rock star being thrown out of a RR or Bentley showroom in Kensington by a salesman only to return some hours later with a bag of cash and purchase a car from another salesman, who got the commission.
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I’m sure many folk have been similarly mistreated …
I never went back to that particular shop… which has since gone out of business (not entirely due to me giving them the cold shoulder… 
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I have never been a millionaire, but I do know folk who are… (or were before inflation hit )
If you are monophase you can’t. That is the max now and swapping to triphase is a whole other complication.
Check what your max draw is, as if need be you charge overnight then other things aren’t on there shouldn’t be an issue. We have wallbox, air source heat pump, air source hot water ballon, and house plus gîte full of electric powered white good and other household items. And we don’t get beyond that (except in depth of winter maybe).
I love to have fun with those type of salesman 
probably a little wicked, but just love dealing with genuine non-judgemental folk. Isn’t it amazing how attitudes can change once the smell of money wafts in the air if I’m buying anything rather expensive I make an effort to look a little bit scruffy to weed out those shallow types - normally works 
then they look shocked when you make the purchase with a colleague
IIRC they gave 2 reasons : (1) general advice to limit data sharing and (2) to reduce like likelihood of being cold called etc.
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We had a friend, retired, who was a self made millionaire. When in business, rather than pay tax, he bought property and rented it out (in London, of all places) well before the buy-to-let bubble. He never borrowed a penny… but when his accountant told him that he couldn’t take his fortune with him, he gave in and started to part mortgage his portfolio.
He seemed to be, at one stage, down to his last £20m or so but never let his wealth show. He drove about in an old Renault 4 (which he had totally restored and rebuilt) and dressed in old slacks and shirts to the extent that you would think he hadn’t two brass farthings to rub together!
I’m sure that when he wanted new toys (he had quite a few expensive ones) he was mischievous enough to “dress down” for the occasion and if he felt disrespected, he would simply walk away.
I liked him a lot, he was great company. He taught me a great deal about personalities and respect.
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So many, many years ago, when the person employed to clean the Gents’ loos fell sick… one lovely chap (much like your friend) took on the task… he absolutely insisted.
There was no way he was letting me even set foot inside such a place…
No-one realized who the “replacement cleaner” actually was… and I was sworn to secrecy. Presumably he gave the place a good clean 'cos we never heard any complaints.
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Yes, we’ve three phase so the Wallbox can push out 22Kw. I’m not sure how that fits in with he 15kVA contract I have. The box’s app allows you to limit the output and to schedule when charging takes place and there’ a load balancer to make sure the house gets its fair share and we never exceed the 15kVA.
We’ve a hybrid at the moment so no big charging requirement, but even when we move to an EV as we only do about 30 or 40 kms a day there’s still no need fora massive recharge every night. In fact one big charge a week will probably do. I’ll need to keep an eye on things for a while and see which of the bewildering number of offers from EDF will suit best, or maybe just stay on the Digiwatt option base we’re already on.
I’m very sure - you’ll never be able to use your cars full charging speed whilst at home (think of 1kVA as 1kW if the power factor is 1). The Wallbox will need to be capped at a suitable maximum to allow some other kit to be on. Having a délesteur is only any use if it can talk to the Wallbox to either stop the charge or to reduce it, once loads elsewhere rise too high.
Don’t forget that many EVs don’t support three phase charging so your Wallbox might only ever be asked for 7kW on one phase. That’s still plenty of power to take on board a lot of charge overnight.
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Thanks for that info. I do think 7kW is probably enough but the difference between a 22kW capable box and 7kW wasn’t great and since we had three phase I thought it was probably worth it. The balancer does talk to the box, it’s a Wallbox device too.
Just as an aside, about two weeks after the box was installed it developed a fault. I called the support desk and they were very helpful and dispatched an engineer. He pitched up a couple of days later and diagnosed a dead box. He submitted his report the same day and the Wallbox Helpdesk called me a few days later to say the box would be replaced, then there was silence from Wallbox for two weeks. Eventually a new box arrived and the engineer, who was very pleasant and competent arrived to fit it. He took the old box away with him as neither of us knew what to do with it and this morning, two weeks later, I got a message from DHL that are coming to collect the box. I did a bit of Googling and it seems Wallbox’s customer service is acknowledged to be pretty awful.
Brings back events to me.
In the 80’s I bought my first mercedes. As a hands on builder I dressed accordingly and turned up at the dealership in sign written van. I wandered around the showroom watched by 2 salesman who made no attempt to approach me until I jumped into a model on display.
It was like a scene from an American cop film with a saleman at the drivers door and the other at the passenger door looking down at me, my work boots and not so clean jeans.
I took delivery of our first Mercedes 3 months later.
Our next Mercedes was a whole different experience as we collected it from the Stuttgart factory, what a trip that was.
Those 2 cars were in my opinion the last if the solidly built mercs which now by comparison are just the same as all mass produced cars.
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I worked as assistant with an American photographer based in London. He was built like Buddha.
He saw no point trying to dress smartly, off duty. He dressed in sagging jeans, a denim shirt and scuffed workman’s boots. For a short man he had absurdly big feet. But the things that gave the game away to people like head waiters or hotel receptionists was the quality of his leather jacket and his wrist watch.
His working watch was a 1950’s Rolex Submariner. Off duty he had a collection of Rolex, Cartier, Patek Phillipe. They were duly noted by people who know about such things.
I once walked into his office, mid 1970’s, to hear him shouting down the phone “Jesus, man! You’re killin’ me! You want me to spend $10,000 dollars on a watch I can’t see!”
Once he’d put the phone down he explained that he had been talking to his watch dealer in NYC.
He had had a R-R but just before I met him he’d sold it and bought a £60 mini from some rastas under the Westway. Then he bought an lovely Alvis TD
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ah… a “Pretty Woman” moment 