recession

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Topic: recession

Posted By: howie ll
Subject: recession
Date Posted: October 05, 2009 at 11:28 AM

Are things finally starting to pick up your side of the pond? I've actually booked in a full week of work, alarms and tracking with some big tracking deals coming up. I hope we're finally getting out of it. No retail, little referral work, all the retail outlets are closing down, my biggest alarm customer is based in an industrial unit in the boondocks but has a massive website and attends all the shows. Even the (tracking) fleets are starting to slowly upsize again.

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Posted By: ckeeler
Date Posted: October 05, 2009 at 5:56 PM

still a little on the slow side in my neck of the woods Howie.

Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: October 05, 2009 at 9:28 PM

Northern part is the same, a little more work, almost a week. What's retail, been so long forgot what it is.

Not enough to pay the bills, just a challange to see who will survive the longest............... betting it's the guys on the net who sell anything, wether it works or not.

Posted By: yimke
Date Posted: October 05, 2009 at 10:39 PM

My weekend was booked solid, overheads, remote starts, alarms, you name it. The weekdays, that's another story, but is improving.

Posted By: tommy...
Date Posted: October 06, 2009 at 7:27 AM

Yeah...We are starting to turn around...With the media claiming that the depression/recession is over...People are less scared to spend...! We are consistently slow in the spring and fall months...But picking up some...

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M.E.C.P & First-Class
Go slow and drink lots of water...Procrastinators' Unite...Tomorrow!

Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: October 08, 2009 at 9:54 PM

Saw thing the other day that Dubi is $80 billion in debt, open office space in the new big buildings, import workers sent home, no big projects for next year........aw to bad.

Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: October 10, 2009 at 10:39 PM

Hasn't really slowed down in 2 years for us. Pipeline guys are keeping us hopping and yesterday 3" of white gold fell from the sky posted_image

Looks like I'll be heading into my hole of an installation bay for the next 5 months and may come out with swollen,cut up hands again this year from the looks of things. Booking in 3-4 remote starters every day now and 9 day booked in advance already and it's just Oct !!!

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Posted By: cyrus12009
Date Posted: November 19, 2009 at 4:52 AM

The next six months are very important for all of us. May the things turn in our favor.

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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: November 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM

Funny, it stil hasn't really picked up yet here, I get one week with all the signs then the next week goes dead! It's thursday lunchtime, I've earned £75 ($110)so far this week of which £60 was this a.m. betwen 7:00 and 8:30am. Next week I've got an E36 on Monday for an alarm, tracker and R/S, £200 ($300) labour and I'll knock it off in my sleep inc. w/close and trunk. Wed I've got 8 trackers with fuel allowance, that's about £300 ($400). Talk about up and down.

Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: November 19, 2009 at 10:01 PM

Same here in Canada, starting to feel like a yoyo.