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Here?s an interesting, somewhat relevant story:
A number of years ago I used to install pool/billiards tables for usually rich clients (I?d buy broken down ones on the cheap, redo them, sell them at a premium and make a shitload). This one doctor comes in and sees this really nice table that I?m working on (was an older brunswick). I?ve been restoring this particular thing for on and off about a month and was just about completely done with the unit.
The doctor really loved this table and just had to have it but he did not like the color green. I had already changed the felt and I started to cringe at this point as this model was a pain in the ass to skin. Anyways, he just had to have it in red. He asked how much would it cost for me to do it. At this point I was really pissed off because I just did not want to re-skin the damn thing, so I told him 3000 bucks. Though the work required is tedious and difficult, it certainly wasn?t nearly 3k bucks hard.
I dunno if it was because he was in love with it or because he really didn?t have a clue on how much these things cost. Anyways the fucker said ?OK!? without hesitation. I couldn?t believe my ears, sweet Jesus that was an easy paycheck. A week later or so I delivered the table with its nice little red felt and the fucker paid me an additional $200 bucks for delivering it so timely and doing such a marvelous job on it. What he didn?t know is it was a rush job and probably wouldn?t have lasted a year of use? lmao.
Moral of this story? Those who are clueless to what things cost, especially those with fat wallets, are especially easy to take advantage of. Also don?t trust notabook with pool tables.
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