How busy is your shop?
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Topic: How busy is your shop?
Posted By: CTOH
Subject: How busy is your shop?
Date Posted: October 14, 2005 at 8:52 PM
Our shop typically relies on dealership new car business,,,,as you can imagine our business has really cratered lately...how are some of you independent retail guys doing? How are some of you dealer expeditor guys faring as well? Its been a tough row to hoe lately and just wanted to see how some of you others were doing,,,Thanks,,,,
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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: October 14, 2005 at 9:53 PM
It's been quite well for me. We just need the colder weather to push customer's into thinking about remote starter's, heated seats & winter truck/car accessories. The only thing that hurt us was the poor weather we had in the spring & early summer. This put a damper on our truck accessories & pulled back out car audio sales for the spring months.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: October 14, 2005 at 10:06 PM
Busy, quite busy actually.... and reno's at the same time. Unlike Jeff, we don't get snowed on.  ------------- Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: October 14, 2005 at 10:12 PM
forbidden wrote:
Unlike Jeff, we don't get snowed on.
------------- Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: Asmodeus
Date Posted: October 17, 2005 at 12:32 AM
Its dead as hell...We are located in a small town and I think we have done everyones car here....:) For the longest people would drive up from Jackson Tn to get to us...But now with gas as high as it is they arent comming like they used to... I had expanded our business from the Tint/Car Stereo to include Custom Vinyl and Interior work hoping to aid our problem and its made NO difference... I am having to seek alternate means of making money...So I am back to building computers...I hope everyone else is faring well... -------------  Making the World A Louder Place
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: October 17, 2005 at 1:12 PM
My work is strictly dealer related and we are busy as all hell. I figure there should be atleast 2 more guys to be up to speed.
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Posted By: CTOH
Date Posted: October 17, 2005 at 9:31 PM
auex]M wrote:
work is strictly dealer related and we are busy as all hell. I figure there should be atleast 2 more guys to be up to speed.
Are you guys doing mainly alarms or what? We deal mainly with dealers but cater to the SUV video market,,,all they have been selling are cars, we're putting a couple of DVD's in those but most aren't wanting it installed,,,Where are you at? Glad to hear some dealer expediters are doing ok,,,
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: October 17, 2005 at 10:36 PM
Vehicle tracking. Phoenix, AZ.
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Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: October 18, 2005 at 12:09 AM
Our shop bussiness seems tobe tied to gas prices. Gas goes up, work goes down. The second it goes under $.95 /lt, we get busy, second it goes up we can count the strands in the carpet. Would be so bad if the greedy bas(^^% would share the wealth, but the best we can do is triple the charges for anyone who admitts to working for the oil companies. ( see how they like it)
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