Re: ARE YOU REALLY BEING MONITORED? READ THIS

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd buy an alarm from a technician before buying one from a salesman. I have
FAR more stories about what stupid stuff salesguys have sold than what techs
have done.



"Sonicduck" <jones1019@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| That was very informative.  I said I wasn't a geek.  That proves that
| the training for the salespeople is almost non-existent.  The tech's
| here would have liked me selling their jobs, though.  I never "married"
| a location for ANY device.  I suggested that they would "probably"
| install this here and that there. In the end I always left it to the
| installer to decide, and told the customers that as well.
|
| I have had tech's almost UNSELL what I had sold.  I had two while at
| Hell South from Protection One tell a lady she needed a bunch of other
| crap, when she and I had discussed everything, and paired her old AT &
| T system down.  She didn't need the same level of security.  I would
| have had to sell her a sensor for 30 some windows, and she would have
| bailed.  The dumb tech's opened their mouths and I ended up rushing to
| her install at 4:30 pm on a Friday afternoon in rush hour.  When I got
| their, the retards were putting a motion detector BEHIND the top of a
| big floor to ceiling curtain, and I got pissed.   The customer even
| wondered why they were putting it BEHIND the curtain.  I chewed their
| butts right in front of her.  They had also convinced her she wasn't
| going to get a sensor for her back door, when it was plainly listed on
| the front page of the agreement that she was.
|
| I do have some stories of tech's that went far and above what I would
| have expected to get a job done, and get it done right.  That was from
| the best installers I ever worked with, from the Port St. Lucie Branch
| of ADT.  They will always be #1 in my book.  The best install manager
| was Wesley from West Palm Beach by far.  So, I'll give credit where it
| is due.
|
| Thanks for your story and correction....I am still learning some things.
|