Myself, I am getting burned out on repair work. IF you hang out a shingle that says, "digital watch repair work", it doesn't take long before you are receiving 5+ inquiries a day and 10+repair jobs a week. Sucks having to send out 3-5 "Dear John, your watch is f'n dead" letters a week....at least with junkers off ebay your expectation is much lower. I keep thinking about pulling the plug on my repair services but I keep thinking about this unpleasent experience I had referring repair work to someone else - in this case the "Referee" bad mouthed me to the customer(whom I already had a nice working relationship with) and then the customer received their watch with the exterior work looking so bad I felt obligated to tell them I would make it right on my time.
I think part of the problem is that there are not quite enough(but almost) digital watch owners for there to be enough repair work to support 2-3 full time repair people world-wide. Even myself, if I didn't have other streams of income and a bit of a "toil away alone like a monk" mentality, I couldn't/wouldn't bother. Fixing and selling is much more lucretive.....I haven't had time to do that in a while, ditto with some of my other projects.
One thing I have learned from doing repair work is that there are thousands of people out there who own a digital watch, who want nothing to do with forums and user groups unless they have a problem. It is an old, retro watch, they just want it to work. A bit amusing when they contact you," I need you to replace this, and this, and this", like this was 1974 and someone has a warehouse full of the parts just sitting there.
All right, back to work...sorry I don't check in and "administer" here more, but it's been suggested I just let the forum run itself a bit more. So, I am counting on you die-hard fans to jump start things with fresh topics, "watch I'm wearing" photos and such. More than 3 posts a week and I get accused of running everything.
Couldn't resist chiming in on this topic, since it is so close to my "World".