Re: cleaner wiring solution needed (resend)

["Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I said you didn't  have to enforce anything but you could.
> If client doesn't answer repeated certified return reciept
> demands for payment you certainly *could* impede  his
> use of system.


That could well expose you to a liability situation that you might want to
reconsider.  All I'm saying is that we (as security professionals) have a
"duty of care" to all our customers (even the ones that are "slow payers").
You have the option of terminating his service, and if you happen to own the
equipment (or they haven't paid for it yet), you can always cancel their
service and remove the system.  Disabling it, or rendering it inoperable is
not an option (at least in my book).



>I had a guy once that skirted every attempt to
> collect, and infact owed me a few bucks on the
> actual install...he would send me 10 bucks here,
> a couple of bucks there, this went on for over a
> year, closer to 2 years by the time I took him to
> small claims. Sent him to collections...nothing!...
> I knew he WAS using the system because I had
> programmed opening closings and daily tests and
> could prove it. Took him to small claims court and
> won...got my money + % + expenses. The judge
> did ask me...why didn't you just turn him off?
> I shoulda.


Yes.  You could terminate his service with the proper notice.  I've run into
a customer like this as well.  Every check he wrote to us bounced from the
"get go".  He was difficult to get ahold of and I had thought of changing
the master code on the system so he couldn't use it but decided against it
because there was fire detection devices in the system and I didn't feel it
appropriate to endanger his family.  As it turns out he was a real
screw-ball, left his wife and kids, made threats, etc.  The wife's family
wound up paying for the system and we changed the access codes for her when
she got a restraining order on him.