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Last Post 12 Feb 2009 10:40 PM by Gene McDonald. 19 Replies.
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Gene McDonald
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07 Feb 2009 07:09 PM

    just thought id share this and youse are always welcome to use this as a sales pitch to sell the premium priced vetrazzo
    This is what i decided to do when attempted to do my own concrete tops...i get alot of people saying Vetrazzo is too expensive...those Vodka sky bottles they use must really cost...anyway I created this as a gag to show those type of customers that really cant afford a high budget..it gets them laughing and they seem to pick the vetrazzo after I show them their choices

    Look at the lovely Mad dog 20/20...wine that never saw a grape

    lets not forget wild irish rose

    and oh..not the strawberry boones farm

    I also thru a couple of cigarette packs in the mix to and used up the broken glass i have in coffee cans for various inlays

    Then ya show them the Vetrazzo and its an easy salegood luck fella fabricators..below is Paladian gray vetrazzo


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    07 Feb 2009 08:06 PM
    That is some nice work. Be sure to save that sample as your first. It can go in the Smithsonian someday.

    I would pick the Vetrazzo myself also.
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    07 Feb 2009 09:45 PM
    Lipstick on a pig, can't disguse that its still a pig.. All those "green" products are overpriced. Guess being "Green" means the company makes more green in the form of $$$
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    07 Feb 2009 10:46 PM

    Gene,  throw a Jameson's  bottle face in there I might use is on my disco dance floor  ooooowwwwwwcccch!

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    08 Feb 2009 03:51 AM

    Gene:

    I think you're really onto something with the Mad Dog countertop. Veterazzo Verschmazzzo, give me the Mad Dog top!

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    10 Feb 2009 04:45 AM
    Posted By Wags on 07 Feb 2009 03:45 PM
    Lipstick on a pig, can't disguse that its still a pig.. All those "green" products are overpriced. Guess being "Green" means the company makes more green in the form of $$$

    This is the case with everything though.  Remember when Corian sinks were over $1000?  Law of supply and demand.
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    10 Feb 2009 10:54 PM
    They had good reason to be over $1,000, failure rate was about 90%
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    11 Feb 2009 03:05 AM
    Posted By Wags on 10 Feb 2009 04:54 PM
    They had good reason to be over $1,000, failure rate was about 90%

    Wags:

    I fancy myself a bit of a solid surface historian but that's the first I've ever heard of that. Could you please substantiate or elaborate a bit Master?

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    11 Feb 2009 06:20 AM
    I don't recall having that high failure rate on the Corian sink.
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    11 Feb 2009 03:28 PM

    We had, maybe, a 5% failure rate on the Fountainhead KO2O sink. I would be surprised if we have had a total of 10 Corian failures since we have been in business. 

    The first Corian sink I sold was $1,450.  I could barely get the words out of my mouth.  We were paying over $1,100 for the sink.

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    11 Feb 2009 04:03 PM
    Posted By Kowboy on 10 Feb 2009 09:05 PM
    Posted By Wags on 10 Feb 2009 04:54 PM
    They had good reason to be over $1,000, failure rate was about 90%

    Wags:

    I fancy myself a bit of a solid surface historian but that's the first I've ever heard of that. Could you please substantiate or elaborate a bit Master?

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    11 Feb 2009 04:09 PM

    Gene you being from NJ and your ability to work with cement makes me nervous.

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    11 Feb 2009 06:55 PM
    Posted By Linda on 11 Feb 2009 09:28 AM

    We had, maybe, a 5% failure rate on the Fountainhead KO2O sink. I would be surprised if we have had a total of 10 Corian failures since we have been in business. 

    The first Corian sink I sold was $1,450.  I could barely get the words out of my mouth.  We were paying over $1,100 for the sink.

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    11 Feb 2009 07:53 PM

    Joe,

    Age is a state of mind!

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    11 Feb 2009 08:20 PM
    Posted By Linda on 11 Feb 2009 01:53 PM

    Joe,

    Age is a state of mind!



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    11 Feb 2009 08:33 PM
    Now as the Fab net Camera scans to Norm's House. We see the delete finger ready for action. Sweat pouring off the fore head Waiting for that one comment that puts this post over the line.
     
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    11 Feb 2009 09:05 PM
    Posted By Jon Olson on 11 Feb 2009 02:33 PM
    Now as the Fab net Camera scans to Norm's House. We see the delete finger ready for action. Sweat pouring off the fore head Waiting for that one comment that puts this post over the line.
     


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    12 Feb 2009 12:51 AM
    Startin to look like  a "far Side " comic strip,    picture this,   Norm hunkered over his pc late in the night while a single bulb fixture burns next to his tailless cat who lies on his  desk licking his [edited by Norm]    while Norm ponders over the consequences if he hit the "delete button"  the question is,  what is on the screen?
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    12 Feb 2009 10:40 PM
    Jon..dont get nervous..Im trying to get the Mob to go green...I dont care who they put in cement shoes...and throw to the fishes

    I just want them to mix in some fly-ash and recycled glass...if they do that I aint got no problem with them...i make them an offer dey cant refuse
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