Discussion Have you been getting these................... ??

Seen some, but nothing that ventures into the absurd. Though now that I think about it I got a financing offer on a CNC I was looking at but not moving on (until July, dear all salesmen, please pay attention when a customer says I don't want to do anything until XX day. Being on the receiving end of it makes me not want to buy their product.)
I did send out an email to all my customers claiming the opposite; The end is very nigh, so if I'm late on a product, I'll consider it an act of God.
And I can hardly blame your mechanics wife, mine has been on the phone with me once an hour every hour since they announced school closings...

 

Been getting them all day long. I don't need them nor do I care. If I wana read your statement about it I'll go to your website.

Was ordering some Gemini letters and WOW, their statement makes it sound like they are ready for an all out virus-war.

 

Ours has mostly been them sending emails to say that even though China is closed we’ve not to panic buy all the stock!

The sales guy has left us alone for a bit though so that’s ideal!

 

Just got off the phone with an EFI rep asking if I am considering adding a new Pro 32R to help boost production. While I would love to, I work in the trade show industry that is at a complete standstill with no production to boost... We will be lucky to have work by May I am guessing.

 

Oh man, that's gonna be rough. Maybe all shows are going to double down on order after all of this on hand wash signs alone?

When sxsw was cancelled, I awoke to NPR discussing it, and they made mention of a wrap shop losing upwards of 70k worth of work. It was one of those weird David goes to the dentist moments, thinking "Is this real life? I know I'm bad at wraps but how am I losing this much money?"

 

The restart from this is going to be slow. Its fast going down but slow to restart. We'll probably find all those postponements will turn into "next years".

Going forward after this scare we'll be on pins and needles

 

I p!$$ed off a waitress yesterday....my bad. It was fairly busy, and as we sat down, I asked her if this was the "storm before the calm" (all our restaurants and bars were to close at 3 pm yesterday).

Needless to say, I made it up to her with a tip almost equivalent to our check.


JB

 

I'm guessing that business is slacking off all over and these advertisers have little to do other than send out feelers. The virus just gives them an excuse.

 

I'm just happy my vendors are staying open!