[GreenKeys] At The Movies

Fri Sep 4 21:44:12 EDT 2015

Horrible.... give  them  hell Jack.

I  find   we  do ok  with movie and ad   people  but  we make them  hare us 
 to accompany units
an  we ain't  cheap   as we would rather be  in  the building playing with 
stuff!.

It they  don't  want to pay the tariff... we  do not   need them..

Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) 

In a message dated 9/4/2015 6:32:57 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
paul0926 at comcast.net writes:

You must be heartbroken. I would be. This is such a tragedy. I’m sorry to  
read this news.   

Paul
W2TTY

On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:34 PM, Jack <_wa2hwj at att.net_ (mailto:wa2hwj at att.net) 
> wrote:

ZCZC

As you might be aware, I  agreed to “lease” three of my 28’s
to a movie production  company in New York (Long Island).
I also arranged for them  to pick up a 28ASR from Danny,
W3VF, and two 28’s from  Eugene, W2HX. Since Danny and
Eugene were near NY,  their machines were picked up by the
production company’s prop  truckers and their machines
were  undamaged.

My three machines, two  28ASR’s and a 28KSR, were more
or less destroyed. Even  though I had signs all over the machines
saying “do not lift at  the keyboard” they were all three
lifted by the keyboards.  The two ASR’s suffered other bumps
and dents and broken  glass. Two of the three keyboard
“hoods” were wrecked. The  KSR’s keyboard was “raised”
almost 2 inches, thus  jamming it up against the top cover. It
appears they were in such  a hurry to get the machines from
me that they shipped them  overnight air freight from
Kansas City to NY, with  no covering, pallets or anything else
(even though I was  assured they would be shrink-wrapped
and  palletized).

Fortunately, I had had  them sign a lease agreement that clearly
stated any damages would  be covered…and they paid dearly.
Of course, that doesn’t  change the fact that I have had
these machines for 30+  years and moved them across the
country twice, and they  lived in six houses…all without a
scratch.  

I leased my machines  three other times and never had
a problem…but that was  because I lived within driving distance
of the movie studios  (each time, in NY). So, I can’t blame
the movie production  people entirely (although they 
paid for the damages)  more than the jerks who did the
shipping/handling.  

Lessen learned…never  again.

One good thing that came  of the experience…I sent them three
machines and they brought  back five (they were just delivered
prior to me preparing  this email report). I bought Danny’s very
nice W.U. 28ASR and had  the “Craig’s List” 28ASR that my brother-in-law
picked up for me out on  Long Island (and was keeping in
his garage with no firm  plan as to how I was going to get it) used in the 
movie  and
they shipped it to me.  The Craig’s List 28ASR is complete, but
had seen better days. I  will be parting it out soon…stay tuned.

I won’t go into my  experiences at the movie studio…plane
crash in front of the  building, and all….

73,
Jack  K0TTY

NNNN

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