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Title: Strange call? Post by: collecture on September 05, 2008, 11:28:43 am I got a call recently that was pretty weird.
A guy called me about restoration and after talking a bit I find he wants me to do an 80's model machine. I told him I was mainly a 50's machine guy and restored the coin mechs for the old RT's, but had not the ability or equipment to redo a whole machine much less an eighties model. I asked him how he got my number and said I was referred to him by the Regional Coca Cola office... :oh: ...HUH?.... :Oo: .... Do you think the CC police have a file of every eBay seller/bidder of their trademarked items? ...and known CC related restoration guys? Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: bubba on September 05, 2008, 12:51:50 pm Wow... thats a pretty scary one.. :Oo:
Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: sodaworks on September 05, 2008, 01:31:52 pm Big brother is watching you. :help:
Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: MoonDawg on September 05, 2008, 01:45:21 pm Probably a Coca Cola employee that saw some of your old machines and kept
your phone number at the plant to share with others. Got my customer's coin mech back from Tom today and we are thrilled. Very quick turnaround and it looks and works better than new. It was frozen / stuck when we sent it to him. Very high reccomendation to anyone else needing this service. :happydrinkers: Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: Sodak Bob on September 05, 2008, 02:32:20 pm Interesting.... And Glen, I agree.. Tom has helped me on a couple of occasions with mechs. Right now, he is working on my coin changer.
Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: collecture on September 05, 2008, 03:10:06 pm Thanks Glen - I'm glad you and Mark are happy with the mech!
Yeah - my phone number is out there, so not sure how he got it or if I believe the regional office thing - hard to get a real feeling for a person on the phone (ie. whether they are just a BS'r or what). Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: cormy on September 06, 2008, 10:52:09 am "Do you think the CC police have a file of every eBay seller/bidder of their trademarked items? ...and known CC related restoration guys?"
That would be a PRETY BIG file......... :laugh: Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: globalcompressors on September 06, 2008, 08:43:16 pm I get a lot of that also. The Vendo Company gives my name out to quite a few of their
customers, including the different branches of the Coca Cola Company. Vendo no longer manufactures the 1/4 hp units or the older 1/3 hp systems. Since I do, I get these kind of calls quite a bit. Eric Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: sodaworks on September 06, 2008, 09:33:20 pm As far as I know only one member here has actually been contacted by the CC police.
Title: Re: Strange call? Post by: collecture on September 06, 2008, 09:42:03 pm As far as I know only one member here has actually been contacted by the CC police. 8) :Oo: :oh: LOL...HmmmmTitle: Re: Strange call? Post by: MoonDawg on September 07, 2008, 01:18:14 pm :blush: Who me? :blush:
Yeah! They don't like couches being made out of their 7 foot long coolers, they would rather we send them all to the dump :down: |