asda key cutting

[Guest jason7890f1]

hi guys just found out today asda has just put in a key cutting machine self service jobbo.

does anybody know if these are any good or are they as i am hoping rubbish.

[Gray]

Not here, not yet but if they do all feel free to bang a nail in my coffin. What next Asda engraving Asda shoe repairs.

[Craig Gardner]

Not here, not yet but if they do all feel free to bang a nail in my coffin. What next Asda engraving Asda shoe repairs.

 

have a look at this post viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3612

[Gray]

I happen to know Asda are paying £1.000.000 in rates where we are, on top of the retail park that has just opened in the last 18 months god knows what the rates are from them. Why would the council worry about all the shops that are closing. Nothing but a load of short sighted money grabbing arsewipes.

[Gray]

I may have got carried away there. No on second thoughts i didn't. It's people like me that made this town what it was. Good honest family business, providing what people wanted, good honest service, i will fight to the end!

[keymaker]

Best thing ever invented, was an automated keycutting machine in a grocers shop! They are the creation of some accountant pen pusher who thinks that they can create extra revenue. How wrong can they be? Records show that they don't last in the same store long enough to affect keycutting professionals. These machines are only a fad that pass from store to store to make managers look good. No threat.

[k4mrc]

Records show that they don't last in the same store long enough to affect keycutting professionals. These machines are only a fad that pass from store to store to make managers look good. No threat.

 

problem for us all, in time there machines will get better and better!

computer driven they can even produse a key blank from a blank piece of metal, (like the easy entrie) so the longer it goes on the better they will get!!

i am seeing more and more of the blanks from customers who have bought,

[welshwomble]

Nope just been into Asda Swansea no signs of a machine here

[Mick Friend]

B&Q tried it years ago big key bar trained staff - lasted two weeks before key staff were not available, boxes covered the display.

I cant think auto machines can pay for themselves, love to put in my winkhaus restricted section key and see what it makes of it.

and when the metal dust gets into the food hall...........

 

Has anyone tried the fly paper test? hang a fly paper above your key machines and at the end of the week see how much metal dust has stuck to it...... and you breath that same air...

[Gray]

What do these machines look like anyway? Is it just a big box with some poor sod sat inside with a box of 1A's and a machine

[Lee]

I did put up a picture of these machines a while back, taken from a B&Q (no longer installed) I also reported on the fact that I had moved my entire key cutting set up from one wall to another to highlight this service, I think Rick has since deleted it!

Yes these machine will get better, yes they are out there (Local Rainbow super market has one) & yes its time to act!

 

I am happy to report an increase in Key Cutting following the change around. Carry plenty of stock, keep your machines well maintained offer EXCEPTIONAL customer service & don't allow this competitor to get a foot in the door.

 

Lee

[Lee]

I also see that the list of "nearest machines" for the yale machine totals a staggering 15 machines! either the website is behind the times or Yale have made a big investment mistake! \:D/

 

where are you based Jason? perhaps Yale are simply not updating the website to often?

 

Lee

[3D Group]

Big B & Q warehouses had them near me. Now they have taken them out. Maybe the fact they couldn't do Euro mortice keys which they sold the locks for.

[Gray]

And don't forget Joe public are a dozey lot. Ever seen them trying to fill their cars up at self service pay by card unmaned filling stations or even trying to get through the self serve tills at Asda.

[key cabin]

I live in Ashton-Under-Lyne in Manchester and Asda have had one of these machines in for a few weeks now. A lady whent to have some cylinder keys cut at £3.80 a pop, she came to me a few day later to see if i could do anything with them, the machine had cut them wrong and was a total mess, i told her to take them back to asda and complain telling them she had to get a locksmith out to let herself in because the keys didnt work. This way maybe Asda will get rid of them as B&Q did. They may look good but they dont have the personal touch or the ability to correct a wrongly cut key, they are just an automated money taking machine with no personalty.

 

LONG LIVE THE HUMAN KEY CUTTER.

[welshwomble]

Just found this while looking for new machine

http://www2.yalelock.com/Yale/Templates ... 20479.aspx

[lockpicker1969]

I would like to know who they are purchasing the lazer machines from

[Auto Key Wizard]

The machines aren't, purchasable, they are on loan from Laserkey, Laserkey make profits from the sale of their unique blanks for the machine.