I had been looking into steam machines for a number of years, that looks like the one that Daimer makes, they do make the best in the industry but the owner and a salesman there are a couple of guys that ........to put it nicely are not telling the truth, and are very hard to deal with, I posted about them 2 or 3 years ago.
I talked to them earlier this year about seeing a demo and they did not want to do a demo unless I was buying a machine, they said that they are not in the business of wasting their time but earlier on the phone they said that they do demo's all the time no problem, even if people don't purchase that day. Kind of like the games unscrupulous salesmen do.
I was going to meet them up in Dallas to do a demo and they guy kept on saying over and over that they don't want to do the demo unless I am going to buy and I told them that if it does what I want it to do then I will buy it but if it does not do what I need then I will pass. At the end of the conversation the guy was getting pushy and just wanted to ship it to me and collect the check and would guarantee it would do what I wanted it to.
I told him that if it did not do what I wanted it to, they would pay the shipping back and give me my money back or I would do a charge back on my credit card and I would get my money back. The guy throughout the conversation kept telling me that he has over 30 years experience in the business and knows what he is doing, blah, blah, blah, and I told him that I have seen some of the steam machines that will do the job but are kind of slow and he would keep reminding me that their brand was the best, blah, blah, blah,.
I finally told him to setup a demo in Dallas and tell me the day to be there and I would drive up there since they would not bring one to the Houston Luncheon we had back earlier this year to do a demo. He finally told me to just go to Dallas and they would show me the machine to sell it to me, there would not be a demo, I could just buy it and take it. I told him that at the beginning of the conversation that they told me that demo's are no problem, even if I don't purchase and why the change of attitude, he told me that they are not in the business of wasting their time. I told him that I am not in the business of wasting my time but would buy the machine if it did what I wanted it to do (remove gum) but if it did not do that then I would not buy.
This went on and on for what seemed forever on a few phone calls and I finally asked if they would do the demo like they told me they would in the beginning and he told me no, they would not. I told him thank you for your time, I will be looking at other brands and see if they would do a demo.
The brand that sells to the Gum Buster franchises is the Goodway machine, several cities buy them for gum removal and they do work ok but they do leave clean spots all over but there is no slip and fall hazard, the area dries quick and no water runoff everywhere.
One of the best things is that you can clean during the day when people are around.
On a few of the shopping centers I was looking at doing, the gum was worse than what I had seen in a very long time (like the pictures above, some worse). I was thinking of going there (2 hours away) and cleaning up the gum first for a few days until the gum is gone then go back at nite and pressure wash the areas and hit the residue.
I talked to Ron about this and he recommended a different plan and I could not find those scrapers he talked about but I was going to scrape everything first then go back and pressure wash the areas, some were 5,000 sq.ft. and others were up to 20,000 sq.ft. areas riddles with gum, very bad gum that was caked on and baking there in the hot sun for many, many years, kind of like what was at the Vegas DMV at the demo site.
