[Jukebox-list] Cheap juke buyers (Was: trade-in for a 200 select?)

[Nigel Pugh]

I second your thoughts - its the same situation in the UK!

What gets me is folk will happily pay someone £100 to turn up and repair a
£150 washing machine, but some 30 year old jukebox, that is specialist stuff
with very few people that have the knowledge - and they winge like mad !

I love callouts where they claim theyve just bought it and the vendor told
them it was working. Of course it was working once (in 1970 something!!)!
You turn up for a repair, and it needs a restoration ! and they still want
to pay £50 !!!
I've wised up and only visit my current customers that value me and my
service.

Once a guy called me out to repair his Jupiter. It had just broken down.
I was curious that there was only 2 or 3 records in it, no stylus and no
volume control. Must have been a clever machine to work without those
components!
Tool box in car and a hasty exit......

Nigel, UK

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Subject: [Jukebox-list] Cheap juke buyers (Was: trade-in for a 200
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Rich" <ronnnrich at yahoo.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Re:[Jukebox-list] trade-in for a 200 select?


>   I have been called to "adjust" many "Craig's list/Ebay"
machines--usually winds up in MAJOR amount of work--ie:  Big $$$$$$$$$$$!!!!


That's why I no longer repair jukes.... why is it a "customer" will insist
on believing some jerk that just suckered them out of hundreds of dollars,
and not someone in the business?  "The seller told me it just needed
adjusting, why are you trying to cheat me?"  I basically got to where I
would tell them they had to bring the juke to my shop. After that I'd get
phone call after phone call, begging, whining, pleading. Then cussing. Odd
thing is, out of the dozens of used jukes I bought and sold in the short
time I had an actual store, only two ever required a service call after
delivery, both because they owners ignored my basic instructions.

I get the same thing in heavy equiment too, customers buy a machine at an
auction, don't bother to service it, run the wheels off of it... and then
when it dies, they call the dealer hoping for a cheap fix, and whining for a
discount on parts, because they "paid less than that for the whole machine!"
Like that makes any sense... I can buy a dead car for fifty bucks, does that
mean the dealer should sell me a complete new engine for forty?

The jukebox hobby is destined to die out, because they're too big, too
complex, and require maintenance every few years. The average person doesn't
have the patience or skills,( and are too cheap to have it done) and the
younger kids don't even know what a jukebox is.

In the end, there will only be a few collectors with pristine restored jukes
in a museum like setting. That's okay though, I'll be in the ground by then
and won't care....

Lanway

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