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Topic: MTS Folding?????
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-06-2002 11:34 PM
Steve, it was. However, MTS apparently has a bad reputation in the mid-west for servicing, based on what I have witnessed as well as what some of the Film-Tech members have posted. There was no money in it anymore, at least not with that company. I don't think they lost money on it, but I do think there was not enough money in it to make it worth the effort. When I worked for that company, Rafnson told me the sum of the accounts that were collectable. It was nothing to sneeze at, and some were very slow payers. With all respect to MTS, I will not cite the value Rafnson cited. But since the downturn of the industry, I can understand why he wanted to dump the service work. MTS is a profitable company, but Rafnson had to change his strategy to keep it profitable. I certainly cannot fault him for that. I would do the same as he or anyone else would when the handwriting on the wall popped up a bunch of red flags. Rafnson is no dummy......He is, for the most part, a good business man. I think he might have been even better if he would have taken a field trip to see what the real world was like in the projection booth. Like most executives, he views the bottom line, and nothing more. His company is profit driven. Rafnson has to pay his bills, too. 
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Mark Gulbrandsen
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Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-07-2002 04:49 AM
Paul,
Nothing against the good techs there but if Rafnson was a really good buisness man his quality of service work would have stood out from the rest. Unfortunately it never did, nor could. I don't really think they will be missed at all in the long haul.
When I ran Midwest Theatre Supply back in the Chicago Burbs I kicked their butt big time...with the help of at least one other Film-Tech member that posts here frequently. All I had to do to accomplish this was to do good work and take care of my customers. Word of me spread like wildfire and I soon had many of their Wisconsin customers. I even had calls from Marcus theatres wanting quotes on projects they were doing. I turned them down though as I was just a small shop that handled independents. I still only will service the indies to this day. I covered the Northern half of Indiana, Northern half of Illinois, and the southern half of Wisconsin, although I had several customers even farther than that. Many of my old customers still buy from me and wish there was still good service available back there. I have to laugh now as I turned down a job offer from Mel when I shut Midwest Theatre Supply down. I also hope the good techs from MTS that get together can finally run things on their own the way they should be...and that is easy, all they have to do is good quality work. I also hope they join up here and start posting.
Mark
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