Re: Do YOU ACTUALLY Own Your Equipment -- Truce?

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Jim said:
>
> >You call what I'm doing "harping" when it's always you who brings up
> >the subject of long term contracts?
>
> Guys, how about a truce?
>
> RHC, it isn't right for you to run down other alarm dealers who choose to
> use something other than month-to-month service contracts.  It's an
> accepted industry business practice dating back a hundred years or more.
> If you choose not to use long-term contracts, good for you...but don't run
> down the rest of the industry for doing so.  It's unprofessional.  Plus,
> you are the exception, not the rule.
>
> Jim, if RHC will refrain from running down those of us who use long-term
> contracts, how about letting him alone?  If he chooses to run his business
> a certain way, let him!  I don't even mind if he preaches the virtues of
> month-to-month contracts, so long as he doesn't attack the rest of us in
> the process.
>
> There are different ways of doing business, and neither one of you is going
> to convince the other that your way is best.  I assume both of you are
> making lots of money; isn't that enough?  And beating this subject to death
> isn't doing anyone any good.
>
> Live and let live, what do you say?
>


I say, if he stops denigrating the people in this group and installers
in general who all "just happen" to use long term contracts. Fine with
me. Other than that, his 'holier than thou" attitude is tolerable.

He's done this continuously, for years here and no one has ever picked
up the gauntlet he's thrown down. You'd have figured that by now he'd
have come to the conclusion that no one agrees with him and he can do
what he damn well pleases with his own company. After so many years
it's finally reached the point that ....... who the hell want's to
listen to it any more and there no reason why anyone should. He's been
ignored. He's been politely challanged. He's been asked to stop. Yet he
continues.

In addition, he's rampantly hypocritical by sounding off on Paul and
Cooper for doing the same thing that he does. Yet in spite of the fact
that no one agrees with him, and that he's insulting the entire
industry by claiming contracts are a scam, he believes that because
it's HIM, what he thinks really IS good, true and correct and therefore
his message is legitimate to HARP on. Only Paul and Coopers message
isn't even though there's no difference between them.