cheapest owner ever

[pete f]

I just bought another mat, and collected today. We all know the first machine is always the busiest. So what to do if the box gets to full to soon? Buy a bigger box? Not if you are a cheap SOB. Look closley, he added 1/2 of another box with a couple screws. I almost fell over laghing when I pulled it out!
Note the other picture, a gasket cost $22 for a Milnor door to keep the water from leaking, this guy has a small plastic trash can for the water to drip into, acttualy pours into, not drip, saving that $22!! . Has been like this for at least a year that I know of. Funny thing is the customers know the drill. start the washer, put the bucket against it. These old Milnors aren't cheap, $3.50 a throw. I can't fingure out why this mat has any customers at all. The tops are wrecked, most have shot snubber pads so the rattle or bounce all over. Lids are rusted, bent, etc. Still, the mat is fairly srtong, so will be a great re-tool. You know I always recomend doing that. Buy the worst mat in the best location.

[Sunflower]

...uuuhhh, I kind of like the coin box magiverism...

[Kitty]

Pete hopefully the clientelle will appreciate you putting the needed TLC into this mat for them, sure looks like it needs it.

Did you buy the building and all?

[Ken]

I know a lot laundrey owners just as cheap since many are retired with one or 2 stores,so they spend their 80+ hrs in store,find all the funny way to save money.
I was in somone's store last week,he is closing his business,the guy tried to sell me his old drain hoses,water hoses,parts from 1960's dryers,rusty laundry carts.I told him he should junk them ,he was a little mad said he is going to take home and run an ad in newspaper.

[DuboisLaundry]

I think Pete's example takes the prize

I finally got rid of the junk left in my basement and boiler room from the previous owner which included used parts for equipment they got rid of years ago: timers, relays, valves, gears, even doors. I still have to dispose of the vessel from a 100 gal water heater out of the basement, its otherwise been disassembled and still too awkward and heavy to get up the steep narrow steps.
Why would anyone keep used parts? unless maybe they replaced it and still didn't fix a problem, in which case wouldn't you put it back in the package and mark it "good"?

I'm replacing some Neptune door boots soon and will most certainly throw the leaky ones promptly in the dumpster!

[laschmove]

...uuuhhh, I kind of like the coin box magiverism...

lol @ "magiverism"

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone keep used parts?

For the same reason my wife keeps a box full of old cassette tapes that she'll never access - some people just have a problem throwing things away. My theory is they get some kind of weird emotional attachment to things.

- John

P.S. this box of tapes is going in the garbage next week, I refuse to move it to another house next time we move!

[Kitty]

Don't you guys believe in the old BOY SCOUT RULE?

You must ALWAYS... be prepared, you just NEVER know when you will just NEED that whatjamijigger..;)

[Monarch]

This is nothing new. Had a call just this morning. The fellow wanted just one lock to rebuild a coin box that we made in 1971!! it was for the old GE with the four inch tray, that was made of plastic, from the same die as the old ABT coin boxes. He didn't want to hear that the locks from 2006 won't work in the box made 44 years ago!! Got very irate that this piece that had been setting around for upteen years could not be recycled with a $5.00. He was downright indignant that he would have to pay about $25.00 for a new box.

On the other hand, being an Ex-packrat (I have sorta mended my ways) I do appeciated that, especially older folks, were brought up with Buy it, Use it up, fix it up and use it again, rather than the the idea of buy it, use it up, & replace it. I have learned from experience that recycled old parts can be more trouble than they are worth, and that is IF you can find it when you need it, when it is buried under tons of other stuff that has been saved for the same purpose.

[The wizard]

People some how believe time is free. They spend hours repairing, magivering, wasting time. Some people like to tinker but if added down time from magiverism makes the machine a nightmare to save money. you have lost the customers trust and money. It not all dollars and cents. Spend time on things that will improve your operation. Not saving pennies on a piece of used junk you will have to repair twice or more and wast your time.

magiverism- Break out your funk and wagnals a new word has be born. I really like that show. But who was handing him the stuff from off stage He seem to have an army- navy surplus store at his disposal.

[pete f]

lol @ "magiverism"
can we ge a pronounciation on this? I was always bad at forgien language.

magiverism

Ma giv erism
MAg iverism
Ma give ism

what did this have to do with the cheap SOB?
;)

[pete f]

Pete hopefully the clientelle will appreciate you putting the needed TLC into this mat for them, sure looks like it needs it.

Did you buy the building and all?

We bought the center for appraised value. The mat takes up 1/'2
of the space, I plan to shrink it down to 1/3.
You all build bigger, I like to build smarter.

[Anonymous]

Sorry to say I just realized that 'magiverism' is "MacGyver-Ism", as in that terrible show macGyver.

You remember, the guy that could take a pair of binoculars and turn it into a laser with just sunlight.....

No wonder I'd rather spend time at my mat than watching tv. what a bunch of crap.

[kbc747]

Sorry Pete, my father in law wins that contest hands down. He didn't have one box like yours he had 10 of them and they were all metal so he had to have spent big time cutting screwing etc to put them together. But it didn't stop there he took the old coin slides an drilled and cut them at about 3 hours a pop so they would take the dollar coin. I replaced them with new slides that can take dollar or quater in each slot for $38.50 each. He had 8 W74 and never changed a single drain boot on them in 15 years, water was cheaper in his mind than the $5. boot, two had been repaired with goop or what ever that crap is called. He had 13 speed queen tops and 8 agitated in only one direction and this was okay because when the lid closed the customer can't see it work. 5 new Dexter single pocket dryers and no nuts had been tighten or the botton pulley greased in 5 years, why he had no service manual for them, it cost money I guess. I replaced the glass on the W-74 doors and when I told him he said how did they all get broke at the same time, well he just about came unglued when I told him they were just scratched and it was for cosmeditics. I can go on and on here but I think you get the piture.

[Sunflower]

Sorry to say I just realized that 'magiverism' is "MacGyver-Ism", as in that terrible show macGyver.

You remember, the guy that could take a pair of binoculars and turn it into a laser with just sunlight.....

No wonder I'd rather spend time at my mat than watching tv. what a bunch of crap.

So that's how you spell it! Now come on! You must have liked it a little bit or you wouldn't know how to spell it. ;) MacGyver is cool.

LOL - LOL - LOL - LOL - LOL - LOL

Anyway, the trash can at the top to catch a long-time leak is the cheapest of the cheap. (So's the coin box but I still thought it was funny!)

[Kitty]

Im glad you guys explained THAT ONE! ;)