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

[Jackie]

Lanway,
don't dispair!!!  I am teaching my kids to love and respect my Jukebox, I 
really think at least one of them will carrry on and they all think it's 
very cool, even though they all have IPODS.  I have been careful to put in 
records they remember and love, my son is into Classic Rock so he gets 5 
selections, my one daughter is Country, she gets 5, my husband has his 
"Cream" and "Moody Blues" section...................you see why I need 
another Juke?????

I think Music lives on and the Jukebox is such a wonderful machine, my guess 
is it will continue to be a Hobby and love of many for years to come.
Jackie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oregon Jukebox" <oregonjukebox at comcast.net>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: [Jukebox-list] Cheap juke buyers (Was: trade-in for a 200 select?)


>
> ----- 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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