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  1. Whale of a Wash

    Whats it worth?

    I have a 5 bay in MN that has the land alone valued at 300k on the city taxes, so I think if you want his wash, you will have to pay the price.
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    Kleen-rite Expo

    getting tickets to the KR expo now for the 3 or 4th time. weather is usually decent there- almost no jackets--great show- lots of prizes--i kind of like it better than the ICA. Only one day!- free!-- lots of things to see in the area. One year went to Hershey,PA, once we drove down to...
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    Mud from the bay pit

    For us a 6 bay will fill the 3000g pump truck and and every three months is about right. It then goes to our sewage treatment plant and dries out, and then to the landfill. About $800 every time. We have gumbo soil which really is a pain to even shovel as it sticks to the shovel so much. I...
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    Plastic finaly going away?

    This is been used everywhere for at least 10 yrs, the credit card and banking industry will feel this in their wallet. With so many cc breaches this year . It was bound to happen. The ATMs will be put next to the phone booths- storage garages. Very cheap to implement for us at the washes...
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    Working with a car dealership?

    Sounds like a car dealership- give us free washes and we will charge $110 to work on your car. Hand them out to people at your wash, and have control of the give away. They will get all the credit for the freebies, meaning the customer will thank them and not you.
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    The Jews

    I thought there were so few casualties in Israel because they were shooting Hamas's rockets out of the sky. The israeli's have by far the best electronics in the world, and far superior to our own . We are lucky that the world still thinks of us as a superpower, as we have no military just...
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    I wonder if they turn a profit?

    They must have been using the rowe validator if it was rejected so many times. Maybe they didn't have the 3 grand or whatever it costs for their cc swiper. In a rough economy it hasn't been that easy for a lot of operator . I believe 30-40 % have gone out of business so I feel kind of sorry...
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    Rowe changer, won't take $1 bills, still takes $5 and $10

    Which validator? I would clean the heads, belts and rollers and eyes
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    Vending Prices

    The free ship is in the Kleen scene flyer. Free ship on an order over $750 during August. Must put reference in the notes. (offer#23) There are some exclusions for big heavy single items.
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    Vending Prices

    I have had AA foam at $3 for ever it seems. KR has the jenn ray sexy topless airfreshners for .65 a piece and vend for $2 and barely can keep in stock. The big seller is wash cloths from Wmart , I buy them for $4 for 18 usually on an end cap- you can get all white or assorted colors ...
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    A snapshot of our industry. It ain't pretty.

    The positive and negative posts are close together on the ACF. These posts say it is all over with and they are all run down. A couple posts back. Bigleo put his place up for sale and said how quick it sold. He didn't say he had to pay to tear it down and got a poor price. He said he was...
  12. Whale of a Wash

    responding to on line reviews

    Just make a complaint to the online-bitch website like yelp or whatever and they usually remove it. Those websites seem to be tailored to trash talk. There are also companies for so many dollars a month will Manage online reviews. - another scam I get calls all the time. For only $129 a month...
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    June Business How was it?

    Down because of constant rain. Our state of MN is waterlogged and on the news alot, not just a little rain , but 4-5" at a time. It was hard to find a dry day to get the lawns mowed. California that is in a drought must have the big wash numbers. Famous customer saying-- You guys with car...
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    One Challenge of a busy wash

    How could someone allow a wash to run out of soap at 1 pm The plastic check valve stuck in the pick-up hose The soap had debris in it that plugged hydro- minder The soap was no good---I just had 9 Bubble gum brush soaps from KleenRite that were defective -soap was like jelly How could...
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    Disable coin return on AMS Sensit II?

    I think you push the program button inside the door. Then use the. #* to advance or go backwards till you get to force vend then I think 9 to access the force vend features. And then save it
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    Disable coin return on AMS Sensit II?

    I have mine programmed so that an item needs to be purchased before you can get a refund. That's the force vend
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    My new LED Outside lighting

    http://www.cooperindustries.com/content/public/en/lighting/products/outdoor_wall_mount_lighting/_269859.solutions.lighting!led!wall_mount.html I also installed a few 10w ones on either side of doorway to some apt buildings really nice and low cost to operate lighting. The 30's are mounted at...
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    My new LED Outside lighting

    I started to switch out some of the outside lights with leds. I had six 175MH on the building and went to 3-50watts LED lights with the refractive lens and 3 -30 watt lights They all came with photocells. The 50 watt lights are really a good 250w MH replacement at about $400 from my...
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    Blendco prices

    The Blendco seems to have jumped up about $100 for 5g. Also seems to have less cleaning ability than it did. The powder is HA Powder, and used to use Tire HA as a surfactant it was better for our soil (Clay). This auto wash detergent seems lame. Time to change as i am getting more complaints...
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    Blendco prices

    My latest 5gallons of auto wash detergent- the 5 of liquid for my vector cost $255, I don't think i can justify the price anymore with all the available options out there. Have any of you Blendco users noticed the prices are out of this world now.
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