[Jukebox-list] RE: Cheap juke buyers

[Wesley Dean]

    Kyle, this is exactly why we do not service $600.00 jukes. By all the 
negative response we get here is usually from persons that have supplemental 
income from other sources. If repairing jukes were their only source of 
income, they may have a different attitude. We do not do just 'once over'. 
We cannot afford to do this kind of work. Our credibility would suffer. 
Surviving over thirty years by adhering to this policy should tell all you 
doubters something. We do not look up to the original designers as lofty 
individuals that make no mistakes. It is true they follow the state of the 
art, but get real! In today's world this art is obsolete. We feel that our 
customers deserve better. Most want a juke that is reliable because they 
cannot call the service person each time it malfunctions. Wes

> C'mon Roy.
> There's no reason a perfectly good 1970's era $600 jukebox should need a 
> $2000-$2500 overhaul.
> That's all well and good if you're doing a major clean up and recapping od 
> a golden or silver era-juke, but an extreme.  So are we supposed to 
> discourage newbies in the hobby who honestly don't know any better when 
> they buy their first jukebox by giving them a price quire like that?
>
> If you don't want to do service calls, just say so. No harm done, but no 
> need to scare these people..
>
> I hope for $2500, you're giving them more than a once-over and degreasing 
> and cleaning/lubing the mech and recapping all the components.>
> Kyle ~
> Mechanical Music of San Francisco
>
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