Throwing good money away..

[Shaun]

What's been your worst purchase!

Maybe it's been a form of advertising? or a product that you wish you had never bought?. What's been your biggest waste of money with regards to your business?

[Richie]

When I did discos, my biggest waste of money was a £500 laser. I had it for a year and a half and used it twice.

[jwpentgroup]

£100 worth of DMC CD's which arrived smashed in the post.

DFB Sound & Light didnt seem interested.

[Shaun]

When I did discos, my biggest waste of money was a £500 laser. I had it for a year and a half and used it twice.


Me too. £560 to be exact. I ended up selling the laser for half the price just to get rid of it.

[Candybeatdiscos]

Ehhh...in my short business like carear i cant really say i have wasted nothing...being thrifty and trying to look after the pennies helps mind you....oh and being a fifer

[spin mobile disco]

Mines probably got to be 2 aqua dots from maplin, good idea being LED and all and looked great in a pitch black room. But how often to we ever get a pitch black room. Gotta agree on the lasers as well lot of money for something you cant use very often.

[Paul James Promotions]

Prolight wind up stands come to mind.....

[Murrough]

A JB Systems Dual CD Player about 16 years ago, I did not have the money for the the original Denon MK11 (still have this unit, it still works, bought a year later) back then. This player used to take 30 seconds to find a track, and jumped if you breathed on it. But it was my first dual CD player

[alexperrins]

Skytec Wooden 2-4-2 case, appauling quality!

[spin mobile disco]

I still use a skytec 2-6-4 case weighs a ton with my numark cdn-88's and my Kam 960deck and numark mixer. One of those things when i hear the word upstairs and no lift i cringe lol. weighs more than the wife lol

[alexperrins]

Didn't mean to cause offence spin. I must have had a bad one. I lifted the hinge back and the whole lid fell off! :) Going to try a kamkase one when I can afford it!

[spin mobile disco]

nah dont apologise the build quality is poor, i would buy another make but most of the other makes ones are even heavier

[dj_ags]

Advertising on Yell.com :mad:

I forgot how much my dad paid for the ad, but we have only received a handful enquiries, with only two successful bookings :mad:

So it is fair to say that we will plough more money into the book based advertising next year, as we decided to downgrade our ad to make the transition over to the internet.

But possibly the fact that we don't have a website may be one result of why we havent received many enquiries!

[alexperrins]

Yell rang me up a record 8 times trying to persuade me to sign up, thank god I didn't!

[soundscapes]

a pair of jbl eon 1500's last year which sounded pants and got sold after just 3 jobs

[Dragonfly]

has to be an entire karaoke system ..... discs monitors cdg player mics the whole kit ....pushed it really hard advertising wise for 6 months.


2 enquiries.

[Have a disco]

118gethitched.com internet space absolute waste of my time not had a call via them in 3 months of paying for them still have 15 months togo mayhap I get a booking or 10 buy the end of it

[CRAZY K]

Hiya Dragonfly!!!


WELCOME


YELL.COM? Phoned me today--I said the feedback from here (MDA) suggests my money would be wasted :sad:

They did say their charges are coming down though--not enough I said :teeth:


CRAZY K

[Shaun]

YELL.COM? Phoned me today--I said the feedback from here (MDA) suggests my money would be wasted :sad:




I had a similar discussion with a representative of theirs. He screamed down the phone at me telling me I was losing business because I refused listen to him. Ummm, ok > (phone) CLICK

[A1DL]

YELL.COM? Phoned me today--I said the feedback from here (MDA) suggests my money would be wasted :sad:

They did say their charges are coming down though--not enough I said :teeth:

CRAZY K


tell me more... are they reducing charges for directories, web, or both?

[Danno13]

Prolight wind up stands come to mind.....

Had mine for almost 2 years now and they still work.. ok, so one has lost a handle and the brake is broken.. but still they've had their money's worth over and over!

I bought 4 source Jazzes when they went into liquidation as i got a good deal at the time. Two broke in less than a month...

Oh.. also spent about £200 building my last console case only to go back to using the first cd/mixer case i ever bought after a few months.

[Creature]

Numark Fusion111 CD Package - paid £299.00 for it and apart from testing it out when it arrived never used it again. in fact just put it up on egay now, so expecting a big loss of over 50%

[Sapphire Disco]

Numark Fusion111 CD Package - paid £299.00 for it and apart from testing it out when it arrived never used it again. in fact just put it up on egay now, so expecting a big loss of over 50%

Blimey that pink pound is going from strenth to strenth , will us straight unns be able to bid on it ?

[Sam]

Hmm hard one.. I would say that it was my speakers.. they are brill but i got ripped off by about £200.. i was just starting then and didnt have a clue..

In regards to lazers.. i have the crab from maplin :embarasse .. maybe simple and small.. but it makes great paterns on the walls.. and too be honest cant invisage using a lazer for anything else.. looks a bit odd in my mind!

[pagan_flame]

When I did discos, my biggest waste of money was a £500 laser. I had it for a year and a half and used it twice.Now I only paid £100 for mine, when I tried to sell it on here everyone told me to give it away before Steve locked the thread.

If I got to give it away, I might as well keep the **** thing!

[CRAZY K]

Diamond Geezer--whats that bird on your Avatar or whatever you call it?

Looks like a Red Kite?

Just interested as they breed round here, especially near the Beirut of Northants --Corby-- :sad:

regards

CRAZY K

[Thames Valley Discos]

um, laser, although i use it, has to be a waste of money as i think they are crap. umm, my denon dnd 6000 cd unit, although its there if needed, i never use the **** thing. loads of other stuff in the workshop that i never use including uv lights,numerous rope lights etc

[Thames Valley Discos]

Diamond Geezer--whats that bird on your Avatar or whatever you call it?

Looks like a Red Kite?

Just interested as they breed round here, especially near the Beirut of Northants --Corby-- :sad:

regards

CRAZY K

redkite

[Sam]

Oh yes.. rope lights.. i have been through about 4 in the last year.. the bulbs go reallly easily. or the connections or what have you.

[Thames Valley Discos]

Oh yes.. rope lights.. i have been through about 4 in the last year.. the bulbs go reallly easily. or the connections or what have you.
if you live local, you can have mine, they are buried in the workshop somewhere. i hate them.

[Sam]

well that would be fab.. except im in dorset! lol

[Corabar Steve]

Oh yes.. rope lights.. i have been through about 4 in the last year.. the bulbs go reallly easily. or the connections or what have you.
Serves you right for using them :teeth: :teeth:

[Sam]

haha.. they dont actually look too bad.. i will have to post pics.. although i am thinking off not using them..

[Corabar Steve]

Don't take any notice of me, if you like them, use them.

[Corabar Steve]

well that would be fab.. except im in dorset! lol
Thats ok, you go through Reading on your way to Dorset :teeth: (from here anyway :teeth: )

[Sapphire Disco]

Diamond Geezer--whats that bird on your Avatar or whatever you call it?

Looks like a Red Kite?

Just interested as they breed round here, especially near the Beirut of Northants --Corby-- :sad:

regards

CRAZY K

Sorry only just read your post , yes it's a Red Kite , pic taken near where I live , just liked it I see them every day driving to work .

[Sam]

haha.. don't worry i don't listed anyway ;-)

In my honest opinion i would say that rope lights still look better than lightboxes.. sorry to those who use them!