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Title: The Best Place in Town to Take a Leak
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Broadway Used Tires
URL Source: http://www.broadwayusedtires.com/
Published: Feb 14, 2009
Author: me, who else?
Post Date: 2009-02-14 18:32:41 by Critter
Keywords: None
Views: 929
Comments: 59
Or Critter's hedge against the depression... 1st full week in business, no advertising, no grand opening, no nothing, cept 52 tires sold, average sale $40 a tire, average cost per tire, $8. Yes sir, I picked the right place at the right time. There is gold in that there used rubber. :) I expect that this shop will do 150 tires a week by summer. If you're looking for a good biz for the coming depression, this is it. It's hard, dirty work, but it pays good.
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#4. To: Critter (#0)
Whenever I'm at a junkyard I'll look around for a good tire. Most are gone, but occasionally I'll find a car with a Michelin or a Goodyear with most of the tread still on the tire. I consider such a find to be free gold.
#10. To: Turtle (#4)
I've been getting $5 gold from a few scrap dealers and a guy that works at a chevy dealership. They've been bringing me some premium stuff for $5 a tire, all they can bring me. Today, the chevy guy brought in 2 matched sets of Goodyear 225-50-15 with about 80% tread left. Cost me $40 for all 8 and I will get $160 for each set of 4. He's happy as a clam to get 40 and I am happy as a pig in shit to have two matched sets that size.
My nephew owns ProTire Repair in Geneseo, Ny. He started out in 1987 repairing those great big tires you would find on excavating and mining equipment. He sometimes runs across damaged tires, gets them free, repairs them and sells them sometimes for thousands of dollars. Now that is free gold! I know he repaired a tire that was over 9 feet tall when standing up and it had a hole in it big enough to put his head through. Someone took his picture with his head thru that hole. That repair job cost the customer over $7,000 dollars. I told him someone must be crazy to pay that much for a tire repair. He took me over to the tire catalog which is about 6 inches thick, found the tire he repaired and the retail price for a new one was over $24,000. The tire he repaired had about 80% of the tread left and he guareenteed his work for one year. He employs 6 people at present. Incidentally, his first year in the business he did about $14,000 worth of business. Now he is doing nearly 7 figures worth. I built his shop out of an old farm fertilizer building and designed and built all of his tire lifting equipment here in Meadville,Pa in my garage. I gave him his first lifting machine as a wedding presnt in 1990. In 2001 I designed a large all hydraulic lifting machine that weighs about 2 tons and is rated to lift 15,000 lbs. I designed and built it in 4 weeks. I also built him 4 work stations that can accommodate a variety of sizes up to and including tires weighin over 3 tons. Everytime he and I talk he thanks me and says he can not ever repay me for what I have done for him. Anyone up in Geneseeo, NY can stop in and see how a big tire repair is made. It is very fascinating. He is the only one who guareentees his work for one full year against failure and he has a one week turn-around on his work. One week turn around means he picks up your tire, say on a monday, and returns it repaired the next monday. Or course he probably works close to 80 hours a week.
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Replies to Comment # 4. I consider such a find to be free gold.
#22. To: Turtle (#4)
Whenever I'm at a junkyard I'll look around for a good tire. Most are gone, but occasionally I'll find a car with a Michelin or a Goodyear with most of the tread still on the tire. I consider such a find to be free gold.
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