that we al 0 hav community
pirit and are not out to cheat
them.
I would like to commend Play
Meter for being the leader in
thi field. Keep up the good work!
Timot hy W. Hoyle
Pensacola, Florida
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Having been an outsider to the
coin industry for most of my life,
I alway regarded arcades and
coin machine as a big rip-off.
Man, how my opinion has
changed!
My father recently became the
regional manager of a growing
arcade chain, and as time goes
by, I can see how t his industry
has had a bad case of public
relations . In the two years that
I've been associated with the coin
bu iness, it has really bugged me
that people think we are in the
busines to rip them off. I agree
with Bob Nim in his interview in
the June issue of Play Meter that
"There has been a lack of com-
munication with the general pub-
lic." I believe it is time for a
change. I'm not aying we should
tell the public the amount of our
profits, but I do believe that it is
time we how the community
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Bravo Mar hall Cara! Wi e
judgment hould win out. Item
#2:"RSVP." Let orne of our
pace age engineer manufacture
a low -priced amusement ma -
chine. What happened to counter
game?
Robert Lyons
Lyons Music and Vending Co.
Skowhegan, Maine
Is there a commercially made
tool for cleaning out the holes on
an air hockey table?
Jim Negley
Amt ron
Plattsburgh, N. Y.
(Miles Untiedt, Design En-
gineer for Brunswick suggests
straightening out the smallest
paper clip you can find. Alterna-
tively, he says, you can use a No .
62 drill bit. It doesn't sound
scientific, but it seems to
work.--Ed.]
We have a problem in Spokane:
one of the area operators is
selling phonographs and foosball
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table to location in order to
ecure their vending and electro-
nic game equipment accounts.
We ar not in business to ell
equipment, but, a a consequence
of thi operator' actions, other
location owner have begun to
xpect u to match his offer. Our
r al gripe i that the equipment is
bing uppJied to this operator by
a di tributor outside the North -
we t area.
Our que tion is this: What
protection does an operator have
again t di tributors who continu-
ally interfere with business com-
petition completely outside their
own region?
Rich Koch
Keith's Music
Spokane, Wash .
(We wouldn't be too quick to
blame the bootlegging distribu-
tor. Some distributors do sell
outside of their assigned territo-
ries and there's not much anyone
can do about that since distri-
butors--according to some inter-
pretations of the federal anti-
trust laws --are not legally bound
to selling to a restricted area.
"Bootleggers" deal over the
telephone and through the mail
and therefore they hardly ever
get to see their buyers face -to-
face. We doubt seriously that
there is a conspiracy going on.
The distributor probably has no
idea that the so-called "operator"
is re-selling the equipment to
location owners. So it wouldn't
be a bad idea for you to let Mr .
Distributor in on what's going on.
Distributors rightly shudder at
the name "location seller." The
distinction is bad news for future
sales; if there is anything an
operator won't tolerate, it's a
"location seller. " The distributor
in this case, when he learns the
facts, may well want to re-evalu-
ate some of his "out-of-town "
customers.
It is the "operator" who seems
to be the real problem here. We
think you ought to sit him down
and find out what he likes so
much about financial suicide. Our
suggestion would be to try to talk
some sense into him and, failing
that, just to wait him out. He
should go bust before too long.
But by no means be so stupid as
to match his outrageous offers.
--Ed.]