Re: Here's one for the books

["R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, that would be a bummer; good idea that !!

I simply don't do businesses at all, unless they are small corner stores
sort of thing, and only if I have the client's home system, and he twists my
arm to do it. I got rid of a lot of my business customers because of non
payment recently; the others I'm encouraging to find another dealer
(although you have to be kind of tactful with that approach...).

I only have two very large companies left with my systems; this one with the
bad board is one of them. The other one is involved with military and police
agencies and their head office in the States recently said that they weren't
happy having a little guy like me provide their security. So I told them, I
would be more than glad to hand the system over to Chubb, even working with
their technicians to ensure a smooth rollover. But instead, they had Chubb
put in a parallel system to mine, and kept me as prime contractor (yeah...I
know...why the hell would they do something like that....). Anyway, bottom
line, I'm still there.....:((((

RHC

"Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Since I don't do commercial fire anymore, when I run into a situation like
this, I go into it with a buddy who does do commericial fire (we have a
working-relationship)...so that I don't also lose the burg part to someone
else who may do commericial fire & burg.

There's nothing more depressing that wanting to do the right thing for the
client and end up losing the account.


"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Actually, you bring up a good point Mark. This guy has a large warehouse
> building and no fire alarm protection that I know of. Plus he's got a
> large
> inventory of millions of dollars worth of fitness equipment, and no formal
> fire protection to speak of. I have to wonder what his insurance company
> thinks of this...
>
> I'm going to take that issue up with him tomorrow, for his sake. I checked
> back on my records, and I was wrong; we never did install a smoke detector
> on this system. So I have to wonder what would have happened if the whole
> place caught on fire. I seem to remember something in there related to the
> heating system but I don't think it was a formal fire alarm system.
>
> RHC
>
> "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > "R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:isOdnbrun8pCjdffRVn-3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > If you had installed smoke detectors on that system they wouldn't have
> > had
> > a
> > problem with the building burning dow.....no wait
> >
> > Never mind :)
> >
> >
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