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[oh_night_divine14]

Is it just me or is the Royal Sun UV scan a waste of money? I have never seen a single customer get any color from it. Anyone else try it?

[Glowtanning530]

What is it?
I am out of the loop

[Rob]

it sucks and it produces SSSOOOOOOO much heat!

[Rob]

[oh_night_divine14]

It's a high pressure machine that is big and yellow and rotates around the customer....I must say that it bears an impressive design- but that's about it. I just feel that my level 1 beds have been getting people darker than this hunk of junk.

A hunk of junk that cost me $35,000 outright! Could have bought a Corvette with that!

Dammit I wish I leased!:Guns:

[Tanning Queen]

Why would you have wanted to lease it? Woulda ended up costing you more! HOw about selling it and getting something else?

[oh_night_divine14]

Originally Posted by Rob

it sucks and it produces SSSOOOOOOO much heat!

Not to mention it's so LOUD! Should I try and sell it while it's still pretty new with low hours on it? I already lowered the price to (brace yourself) $20 A SESSION!!!!!!!!!

FOR HIGH PRESSURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!:Shocked:

[oh_night_divine14]

Well, since I made a stupid, impulsive decision to get the UV SCAN over the MATRIX....should I perhaps sell the UV SCAN in return for a MATRIX? How well does the MATRIX work??

[oh_night_divine14]

Originally Posted by Tanning Queen

Why would you have wanted to lease it? Woulda ended up costing you more! HOw about selling it and getting something else?

Actually, you're right about the leasing. I don't even know why I said that

[sunsally]

Originally Posted by Tanning Queen

Why would you have wanted to lease it? Woulda ended up costing you more! HOw about selling it and getting something else?

She would have wished she leased it, because instead of paying $35K of her own cash and not having that to go toward operating expenses and other items now, she would have gotten the use of a $35K piece of equipment for less than $30/day or less than the price of a normal walk-in HP visit!

This would be a pretty easy goal to meet - sell at least ONE visit in the HP each day! Sell 2 - and see a profit!

Meanwhile, her 35K would be in her bank account, for her to draw from, to help cover rent in the slow season, or to pay for advertising (a shiny postcard from Chronos Marketing showing the UV Scan and advertising 'Your Florida vacation for less than the price of a bus ticket'?) etc.



Now - since you DIDN'T lease it - at least all is not lost! Instead of selling it:

a. read the threads here on "How to sell HP"!

b. Have you checked the voltage to the unit to make sure it is in the best performance range?

c. Do you ALWAYS insist your clients use a HIGH QUALITY lotion with that bed since lotion use is even MORE critical with HP than other units?

d. Do you and your staff think it is good, use it yourself, and recommend it to clients - or think "it sucks"?

e. If it is a lower UVB unit, do you have regular users "mix it up" between this unit and your best VHR, so they are getting the UVB needed to stimulate the melanin to have something to get tan the next visit?


Dropping price is NOT the answer! Figure out HOW to make it work. It WILL, if you work with it.