Chad.S;33162 said:
I talk to painters all day long and I hear the following over all the time. " I get on a forum and can only take so much of the aerosol cans, $20 gallon paint and the other low grade products."
This is why so many forums, the professional painters are gone and your left with internet wonders giving advice who do not paint for a living.
My favorite saying to most of them I talk to, is check out the SPI User forum, i get on when I can but never worry about bad advice, as we have so many top notch people on here, any bad advice will be corrected in about 60 minutes.
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HIG
Barry;33207 said:
I have to give a huge compliment to this site, the regular guys that reply to this site are top notch. It's nice to have a site where you don't have to filter out the BS.
Thanks guys!!
Steve
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Kroozen
Ditto
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moparmusclecars
Barry, any jobber's here in Montana? I know I could sell your products. I also have several auto painting groups on facebook, always asking me about paint products. Plus i used to sell welding supplies on a truck route, and new and used vehicles for the local Chrysler and Honda dealerships. I always have people asking me in several of the facebook groups about what to use, and I tell them to contact SPI. Sales should keep getting better for SPI. I have educated myself on the SPI products, so people are often referred to me, to answer questions on the products. I never answer a question I don't know thew answer to. I always tell them to call Barry and ask. We have a lot of people out here (throughtout the USA) wanting top quality products that they can actually afford. I say the same about SPI as I say about my own shop. "One of the best kept secrets". Meaning, maybe not a lot of people heard about me yet, but in the end, they will.
shine
Member
i can only add one small thing to this . keep in mind that many of the painters you will encounter would just as soon run over you with a truck . in far too many cases " paint rep " is a dirty word. during the 70's and 80's when urethanes were taking over we had nothing but hell and most reps were clueless and created major problems. to this day i dont let them in my shop unless i know them personally . so you have a strike against you going in. good luck with it .
Agreed with what Shine said. We also have a rep (Dupont) that said to one of my co-worker's, that you can scotch pad and using 222 and going straight to base on a new panel will work as well as sealing and painting. I told my co-worker that is the most retarded thing I have ever heard come from a reps mouth. He said the rep told him he tested it and had no issues with it sticking or chipping. He did a couple cars that way and I told him you ever do that again I will stop helping you. Dam those reps, they can and do say anything and some people take it as gospel like God himself said it.
So the biggest hurdle would be to deprograme the robots the reps developed and that could be difficult and time consuming.
So the biggest hurdle would be to deprograme the robots the reps developed and that could be difficult and time consuming.
Chad.S
Oldtimer
Getting started in a new shop is like pulling teeth. However when a rep comes into my place trying to sell something I don't usually want to listen either.shine said:
I have had this guy wanting me to add his oil line to my list of items we carry. and it took him four calls and three emails to finally understand where I was coming from..
I wasn't rude but I told him what my requirements were for me to even consider having a meeting to discuss it. And unless he could meet my requirements to stop wasting me time. I don't think he took my requirements seriously.. lol.
I have a weird attitude about salesman, a friend of mine that manufactures paint up north, says he will not even talk to one as they know nothing.
Now a lot of these chemical reps that is true but my feeling is, I will talk to all as if just one out of a 100 has a new additive that can make a product better, its worth my time.
But i do spend a lot of time testing new samples where they are saying its state of art and real quick, I see we are going backwards but it keeps me busy and out of the bars. LOL
Now a lot of these chemical reps that is true but my feeling is, I will talk to all as if just one out of a 100 has a new additive that can make a product better, its worth my time.
But i do spend a lot of time testing new samples where they are saying its state of art and real quick, I see we are going backwards but it keeps me busy and out of the bars. LOL