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OT - Most Unrelated Questions or Requests?
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| Topic: | OT - Most Unrelated Questions or Requests? This thread has 14 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 15:41 |
So we advertise quite a bit and get most our work from referrals... but in the last week I've had some questions that made me say...
Today was a call asking our rate to clean speakers? Just clean them off.
Last week I was asked which brands of chainsaws we carry?
Huh?
Got me thinking, do you get those 'huh' type questions or is it just me?
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| Post 2 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 15:43 |
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We get calls pretty regularly from people looking to have a CD player installed in their car. After a little investigation, I found that if you type "car audio Ann Arbor" into Yahoo, we come up as the second result. Wierd.
On a side not the #1 result is a hi-fi shop that does only 2ch and turntables.
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 15:47 |
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yeah, Before we changed our name our original name was "Mainline Home Entertainment" we had our truck lettered like that with pictures of TV's and written in bold was "Home Theater Design, Sales & Installation. I was getting coffee at WaWa and a lady walked up to me and asked if we were available over the weekend for her daughters party, then proceeded to ask how much it would cost for two clowns on short notice as the last one had cancelled the booking.
I looked at her, said "Ma'm we install home theaters and audio video systems, we are not a party company" she looked puzzled then said ohh! i see the TV's Well since your in the entertainment business do you know of a company that rents clowns.
Face Palm, the next month we changed our name and redid the truck lol
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 15:58 |
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some people see the word "marine" and think I can fix everything on a boat. I often get requests for engine service. sorry, I do marine electronics, i'm not a mechanic.
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| Post 5 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 16:03 |
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Your name is "Duct Tape" and you don't do mechanics?
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| Post 6 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 16:09 |
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On August 24, 2011 at 16:03, Total Control Remotes said...
Your name is "Duct Tape" and you don't do mechanics? That one literary made me laugh out loud. lol
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| Post 7 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 16:15 |
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On August 24, 2011 at 16:03, Total Control Remotes said...
Your name is "Duct Tape" and you don't do mechanics? Nope, my name would have to be Sledgehammer if I were a mechanic. Duct Tape is a name for car audio installer hacks. :p
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| Post 8 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 17:53 |
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We once got a call to get a quote to install some speedbumps. We verified that the person on the phone knew what company they were talking to, and they did.
No idea.
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| Post 9 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 18:12 |
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Nearly once a week we get a call wanting to know if we transfer vhs to dvd. we also regularly get calls wanting to know if we rent dj equipment
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| Post 10 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 18:18 |
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On August 24, 2011 at 18:12, Fins said...
Nearly once a week we get a call wanting to know if we transfer vhs to dvd. we also regularly get calls wanting to know if we rent dj equipment Wow, I get this probably twice per week. Maybe I'm missing a great source of revenue here?
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| Post 11 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 19:31 |
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We got asked to fix a leaky shower when we were doing a very high end theater
Got a call if we rented clowns
Got asked by a boat manufacturer that we were doing some warranty work for to redesign the generator house battery system... Wtf
If we customized cars super chargers and paint
And about 100 other odd requests
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| Post 12 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 21:40 |
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We regularly get asked if we rent DJ type eqipment, especially projectors. I think it may be a profitable, straight forward opportunity and also would lead to upsells to permanent installations on occasion. Does anybody here do it?
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| Post 13 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 22:54 |
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I was asked to catch 2 guinea pigs that a client's daughters let loose in the backyard. I had to oblige that one. :)
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| Post 14 made on Wednesday August 24, 2011 at 23:46 |
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My business phone number was previously a number for a flooring company...approx 6 years ago.
I get a call once or twice a month with flooring questions. The funny part, or sad part depending on how you see it, is the people calling leave a message AFTER they have listened to a voicemail detailing our audio video services!
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| Post 15 made on Thursday August 25, 2011 at 21:24 |
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not so much as an odd request, but we have a toll free number that is very similar to Level 3 Communications...i get calls all the time for circuit moves, dsl, can you install my phone line, etc. i explain to them they have the wrong number and about half of them understand, the other half keep talking and making request. the ones that keep talking i start making shiat up.
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