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Long Roller

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Drilling Cost
« on: August 14, 2007, 08:00:02 AM »
How much do you think the rate should be to drill a blank ball brought to the pro shop with a switch grip and two inner sleeves?
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2007, 05:03:56 PM »
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 WE as an industry need to stop GIVING away our knowledge and expertise.


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JOE FALCO

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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2007, 05:31:20 PM »
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 WE as an industry need to stop GIVING away our knowledge and expertise.



This should read:

CONSUMERS stop GIVING AWAY your MONEY!

I'd have NO PROBLEM at all giving up bowling if drillers start charging $75 to drill a ball!
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #33 on: September 11, 2007, 06:01:51 PM »
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quote:
 WE as an industry need to stop GIVING away our knowledge and expertise.



This should read:

CONSUMERS stop GIVING AWAY your MONEY!

I'd have NO PROBLEM at all giving up bowling if drillers start charging $75 to drill a ball!
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Will you stay in the game if the price raise to $74?
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JOE FALCO

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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #34 on: September 11, 2007, 06:21:17 PM »
Truthful answer: NO!
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2007, 11:47:34 PM »
Back in the Houston shop:

Blank Drill  $40
Finger Grips $7  (even though you didn't mention grips???)
Outer Sleeve $10
Inner Sleeve $20 each (X 2)

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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #36 on: September 14, 2007, 07:12:40 AM »
KOTM .. I don't know you yet I have the greatest respect for you! But .. like the LEXUS you are a little out of my range! Perhaps some day we will meet and you can do your MAGIC for me with a SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT (I hope you are laughing)!!
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #37 on: September 15, 2007, 05:09:33 PM »
I know of a pro shop that happens to be where I live close to and bowl 3 leagues in  and they charge 30 bucks for the price of the labor of drilling if you buy the ball there. The prices for the balls are not great but not bad.
But however, the fact that they charge 20 bucks extra (50 dollars) for bringing in a ball from outside that is not purchased in the proshop pisses me off so for that reason I do not have my equipment drilled there anymore. I'd rather drive 50 miles outside of town to save 20 bucks because it's the prinipal. Screw pro shops that charge extra for bringing balls you didn't buy from them!
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #38 on: September 16, 2007, 08:37:17 AM »
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I know of a pro shop that happens to be where I live close to and bowl 3 leagues in  and they charge 30 bucks for the price of the labor of drilling if you buy the ball there. The prices for the balls are not great but not bad.
But however, the fact that they charge 20 bucks extra (50 dollars) for bringing in a ball from outside that is not purchased in the proshop pisses me off so for that reason I do not have my equipment drilled there anymore. I'd rather drive 50 miles outside of town to save 20 bucks because it's the prinipal. Screw pro shops that charge extra for bringing balls you didn't buy from them!


Let's see....they put the investment in the ball...saved you the trouble of buying it online...used their shop that they pay rent on to house it in storage....and it p!sses you off that give you a discount on drilling it?

I don't really undestand your beef....?  The pro shop has inventory they are already spending money to keep in stock....and they are making a small profit on the sale of the ball.  With a discount they are trying to encourage you to buy from them.

This sort of attitude is what is destroying pro shops......I think we are a lot closer than most of the "armchair ball drillers" think to being down to just a few choices.
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #39 on: September 16, 2007, 12:31:00 PM »
just out of curiosity can you tell me why you charge $25.00 more for a reactive ball than you do for a plastic to drill a blank ball when the process is the same, and then you wander why people are apprehensive about going to a pro shop.Not bashing just curious  

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Our shops charge $30 to drill a blank plastic and $55 for reactive.  Grips are $12/pair, slugs $15.  Inners are $25 and outers $15.  But, we include a free analysis on the C.A.T.S. we have installed here with a reactive drill.  We charge $30 for the C.A.T.S. session so there is value in it for the customer.


Now here is something else to think about, we get $50 to plug a ball.  So, if you come in with a ball thats already drilled, I will plug, cut down, resurface AND drill the ball for less than a new ball.  I am currently lobbying to raise this more, but we were at $30 just last month.........baby steps.  Anyone in the business knows how much work goes into plugging a ball.  WE as an industry need to stop GIVING away our knowledge and expertise.
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Track_Fanatic

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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #40 on: September 16, 2007, 12:48:57 PM »
With reactives/particle, you have different types of layouts.  With plastic, its just putting 3 holes in a ball and making sure its not illegal.  Pretty simple.
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #41 on: September 16, 2007, 02:35:53 PM »
You think drilling a plastic ball is the same as a reactive ball????

Why even bother using a reactive ball if they are the same?
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #42 on: September 16, 2007, 08:22:53 PM »
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You think drilling a plastic ball is the same as a reactive ball????

Why even bother using a reactive ball if they are the same?
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Measuring for the spans, pitches and things like that are all the same wheather it is a plastic or a reactive the only difference in my book is deciding what layout you want to go with on a reactive and in my book that is not worth an extra $25.00 I dont give a dam how good a driller is.

yes the cover,s are different and what not but in my book its not $25.00 different.
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #43 on: September 16, 2007, 08:30:17 PM »
I've recently raised my rates to 35/plastic 50/reactive + inserts/slug.


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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #44 on: September 16, 2007, 08:42:58 PM »
He's "F.O.S. to the bone"...so he already knows it all.  Just throw a label leverage on it and the diamond does the rest.

Drilling a Lane 1 ball = drilling a plastic ball.
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Re: Drilling Cost
« Reply #45 on: September 16, 2007, 08:45:51 PM »
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Measuring for the spans, pitches and things like that are all the same wheather it is a plastic or a reactive the only difference in my book is deciding what layout you want to go with on a reactive and in my book that is not worth an extra $25.00 I dont give a dam how good a driller is.

yes the cover,s are different and what not but in my book its not $25.00 different.        


So you are happy to pay extra money for a ball from the manufacturer says its better than everything else, but you are not happy to pay someone a measily $25 for their 100's of hours of unpaid research into layouts?

Not the brightest bulb in the packet now, are ya....

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I will put it to you this way if most Pro shop operators spent the hundreds of hours like you suggest they do learning their profession rather than by trial and error, like they do in Arizona I would be happy to pay the extra $25.00 for getting my equipment drilled but most that I have dealt with here has not spent the hundred's of hours as you suggest. They take one class or spend several days in a shop watching and learning how to drill a ball from someone I have only been in one shop here that I would say they might have spent the hundreds of hours learning their profession and thats debateable
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