[TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
- From: "J Silverman" <greentron@xxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:58:18 -0400
We had several of each and each one had an assistant to do the grunt work.
Also had a support person to buy parts and get service literature and deal
with the rejected warranty claims. Receptionist to take care of paperwork
and act as a barrier between the customers and the techs.
Jerry Silverman
Greentron Inc
4 Newland Ave
Greenville SC 29609
Fax/Phone 864 232 3889
mail to: greentron@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:31 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
> I agree Jerry, if you had a large enough operation so you could have a VCR
> specialist or a camera specialist, it could have been quite profitable at
> one time. But for a one man shop like mine it was never going to be. While
> in the 30s through the 70s a one man TV shop was practical. Most grew
larger
> because they had to due to customer demand, not because the original owner
> wanted to.
>
>
> Russ Hoyt
> Hoyt's TV
> Exeter, NH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerome Silverman" <greentron@xxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:24 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
>
>
> > My technicians made a very good living fixing vcrs and camcorders from
> > 1982
> > to 1992, but nothing came along in consumer electronics to take its
place.
> > The company just broke even at best because high tech service was
> > expensive
> > to support.
> > Jerry Silverman
> > Greentron Inc
> > 4 Newland Ave Greenville SC 29609
> > Fax/Phone 864 232 3889
> > greentron@xxxxxxx
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:10 PM
> > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
> >
> >
> >> I'll make less, because I'm not investing in the equipment to service
it.
> >> Now you younger guys who MAY have 20 or 30 years to recover the cost
> >> might
> >> find it worth it but based on the last 20 years of changes I've seen, I
> >> regret buying that VC93 that I used only once, proving that a customer
> > would
> >> not pay for the cost of repairing anything that needed to have me use
it.
> >>
> >> I'm sure glad I didn't buy the equipment needed to repair wireless
> >> phones.
> >> I'm also glad I didn't spend $5000 on the exerciser needed to repair
cell
> >> phones and program them.
> >> Cellular One said I would be able to charge $100 to program the phone
> > after
> >> they sold it. That was about 6 months before they began selling phones
> > that
> >> could be programmed at the point of sale with NO equipment at all.
> >>
> >> Everything I've seen come our way in the past 20 to 30 years was
supposed
> > to
> >> be THE thing we would be able to, at last, make some decent money
> > repairing.
> >> They lied about all of it.
> >>
> >> Russ Hoyt
> >> Hoyt's TV
> >> Exeter, NH
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Hugh @ Main TV" <maintv2004@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:42 PM
> >> Subject: [TechAssist] HDTV future
> >>
> >>
> >> > Ok, next subject--- when HDTV gets here for good and NTSC is past,
> >> > how
> >> > does everyone think we will do in repair compared with now?
> >> > Will we make more or less?
> >> > www.Longmontmaintv.com
> >> > Main TV - 636 Main St.
> >> > Longmont, Co. 80501
> >> > Tel.303-776-6955 Fax 303-776-0792
> >>
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