Thanks for your wisdom. & knowledge
Thanks for making time for giving me this great advice.
Thanks for giving me your business experience.
lol
In my defense, five of you replied before I did, and even @VOLVO_V70 didnât notice.
Could we move along from rental service bays? This was ten years ago and was a bad business plan then and still is. So itâs ok to talk about lift rental business administration 101 but not discuss main frame computers and the cloud. Sheesh.
I had an idea once to buy a building and install pick up truck bling. What do you guys think? What do you think the hourly rate should be and would it be better to install LED lights or wait for the power company discount offer? Huh? Anyone do this? (Sarc)
Clearly, one should wait for the unsolicited spam call from an unknown entity who offers to reduce your utility bill by 20% after you provide your credit card number.
I was just being sarcastic at some of the stuff here. Seriously though after my cousin retired from the power company, he started his own consulting business to save companies energy costs. He only got paid from a portion of their actual savings.
We have a new question from a new member with a new idea.
⊠as was IâŠ
And what was the new idea? Renting stalls like in a barber shop? Or rental experiences to a guy renting stalls in PA from a year ago?
Thatâs it. Not sure I understand your concern with the discussionâŠ
Ten years old, subject beaten to death and questions are business/marketing questions, not service questions. But it was the shutting down of a couple computer responses and car polishing that seemed a little inconsistent is all. I thought wet look car polishing had to do with cars more than renting stalls as a business. Everyone has their own opinion though. Thatâs why there are so many car colors.
Seemed on-topic to me because it got into the operations of a car shop, and weâve had other threads about that stuff. We also get threads about âmy wife says xxx, but I said yyy.â I leave those, even though we arenât a relationship forum. But, as you say, lots of car colors out there.
Ours are gray, black and tan
Like I said, just seemed a little arbitrary to close a discussion on car polishing because of a couple main frame computer comments is all because one person complained. But hey, itâs your show.
@Bing Thank you for the feedback. I went back and looked, and there were fewer of the cloud computing comments than I thought there were. The other userâs comment got me to look there. I didnât pay close enough attention and I thought it was further gone than it was. Iâll reopen it, but if it goes back astray and stays that way, Iâll have to do it again. Usually I get more complaints that I wait too long to close things. Oh, and please tag me to make sure I can see your comments about these types of matters.
Is there ANY possibility youâd be open to a little Q&A? Iâve been wanting to open my own DIY Shop, pretty similar to what youâre explaining, & was wondering if youâd mind giving me a couple of small insights from your personal experience? If youâd consider, I can be reached at metal.maiden.mechanics@gmail.com, thanks SO MUCH, & I hope to hear from you!!
First, this appears to be directed at Tom and Ray - and they abandoned the idea because folks needed specialized tools that they tried to borrow from Tom and Ray, Not to mention that many folks had no idea what was involved in whatever repair they were trying to make. They spent a lot of time âhelpingâ - and that wasnât the idea.
But go ahead, ask questions. Ray doesnât post here anymore and Tom has gone to the DIY garage in the sky, but there are many knowledgeable folks here who can give you practical advice.
Plus, no one ever correctly estimates how long a job will take. You rent the bay for 2 hours thinking youâll be done in 1, and then you have stuff disassembled and discover other problems, or find that youâve got the wrong part, or all the bolts are rusted tight, and now that 1 hour job is a 4 hour job, with the guy who rented the bay after you standing there glaring at you.
This is one of those things that sounds like a wonderful idea, but it just doesnât work in reality. I have a sorta-friend who is always asking to come over and do work on his car in my garage because I have tools and he doesnât. Heâs always surprised when I say no, which I do unless itâs something that wonât disable the car if it goes wrong. Before I started doing that, there were times when friends would come over to work on their cars and then the car would be sitting in my garage immobile for a week while they waited for parts or had to go to work.
I finally reached the point where I decided Iâm paying a mortgage for my garage, I should be able to park my car in it.
They abandoned the idea because they were there for advice and ended up doing the a lot of the work.