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Should repair costs increase inline with pinflation

By Drewblood419

7 years ago


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    #21 7 years ago

    Here in St Louis I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone that wouldn't charge $100/hr these days for in home repair. You could probably add travel cost to that, too. That is if you could even find someone willing to do it.

    Last year someone was looking for a repair on a Bally home model Fireball. The guy told me he looked for 9 months to find anyone to repair the game and no one would even come out to take a look at it, and he would gladly have paid them whatever rate they wanted. My point is that this type of service is necessary and should command the same type of rate as someone fixing an appliance or other similar product.

    #26 7 years ago
    Quoted from Borygard:

    Hi, my name is Rob Anthony, I live in St Louis and do service calls almost daily. I guess we haven't met...
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    Ha ha...Rob you were probably out of town at a pinball show when these people called up

    Seriously, I have mentioned your name when someone asks about repairs. I still think that there is plenty of opportunity for a full time tech in the area. Some people can fix their own stuff and some people should leave it to someone else.

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