Started no March 26 04, Bought 5 machines. Assined by Pantheon to a locator known to me only as Ross. Ross was over joyed he had a "distributer" in N.J. "How close are you to Newark Airport are you?" "why only 40 miles" Ireplied. "oh good, how many machines do you have?" "5" I replied. "Oh Gee I hope that's enough, Some of our locations require 7 or 8 and they don't like fooling with multipal distributers" "well let's see what you get. Then we'll wory about it" Says I.
Ross also told me how hard the machines were to get and how valuable they were. Mean while he did get me several locations. One was a 2spot deal. They were all hotels in the Parsippany area which is only 30min. From the house. Great! Thats when the trouble set in. Imidately I contacted the locations and made arangements for machine delivery and location of phone lines. I then called the Phone Co. And ordered phone jack instilation.
Then I called for a DSL line. Boy was that a joke! Seems a DSL with static IP cant be had anywhare in this area. So I spent aproximately 45 days on the phone with every company in the phone book and every one I could find on the internet. Decision was T1 at $300. Per month was the only thing available. The Pantheon papers said $75. For phone and internet. It was totally out of the question.
The only one even came close was a motel near the Tappenzee Bridge in N.Y. State. I kept putting in the lines and someone was having them disconected as fast as I could install them. Pantheon had doubled up on distributers. I still have a machine sitting in Madison N.J. It, s been there since July. The man has T1 and is willing to rent mea line.
To date it has not been Installed and I disconected the phone line the end of Sept. I now have a missing machine that nobody knows where it is. It was in a sleezy bar ie Bayone and was suspose to be delivered to Roxbury. Never got there. Nobody knows nothing.
I have now paid over $4500 in phone bills and I do not have one terminal working. I have never turned down a location so nobody can say I got to picky. Now I am consentrateing on one machine just a few minutes from the house. It has had working phone and internet sinse the end of Nov. I installed the machine myself and had a tech. At New Edge Tech get it on line, almost. That was around The15th of this month. However it willnot accept credit cards, The HOT SPOT dosent work and nobody seams to know how to put on advertiseing as I have a couple of interested parties.
Getting back to Pantheon, two weeks after I purshased the origional 5 machines, This guy Sandy Gold[Ha HA] calls me and says he is looking at 5 machines right now. Not only that he is willing to give me a big break in the price. Now, we already know these things are valuable, Hell, Batman is on TV telling me its a turnkey operation, Ross is telling me we need more machines to get the top locations, so I make a deal for 2 more! Hey, I'm a TYCOON of the industry!
About the end of July I was so desperate to get machines running that I offered Aeril at Pantheon $1000. To get my machines running. He declined but Jeff Cooper AKA Jeff Cuba Told me that he personally would guarantee a machine up on line and running every 2 weeks and I was gona kiss him. Well, I ain't kissin no Floridia Scumbag. Any how he got me for another 2 machines and totally screwed up most of what I had gotten togeather.
I've sent numerous letters to Pantheon all are unanswered. I've got half a file drawer on these people and I've filed arbertration in Floridia and I'm waiting. Does anyone know of anyone else in this process or does anyone care to go in on it and share costs? Are there any sucessful distributers out there? I'd sure like to hear from you and make you an offer.
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