Re: Do YOU ACTUALLY Own Your Equipment??

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Experiences, Experiences. The longer we are in the trade the more we
collect. I just find it interesting that some that aren't in the day to day
find it easy to critizes the industry, its procedures and ethics. Oh well,
it takes all kinds to make the world go around.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:PmYif.16$9x6.308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "... I have had people call with the story that they are the **new**
> homeowner, which I have found to be a fraudulent statement. They try and
> pull this to get out of their contract. They are to stupid to think I
can't
> find out that they do if fact still live there. Caller ID says they are
> calling from the same phone number or cell number that has always been
> listed on the account. Tax records show the house has not been sold.
People
> will try anything."
>
> Tell me about it!
>
> I had a lady call me, said she just moved into a house with our system in
> it..could we please come out and get her online ASAP..her ex-hubby was a
> skeez-bag etc. OK. I run one of my sales guys out the same day, test the
> system, reprogram it for her, teach her how to use it. She signs the
> contract (yes I checked public records and she was the registered owner).
We
> collect the partial quarter of monitoring from her on site.
>
> 9 MONTHS later and we hadn't recieved any further payments and no response
> from polite collection letters...I finally get her on the phone and she
says
> she never wanted monitoring and never signed any damn contract! Yes, she
was
> NASTY nasty nasty. Ok fine...I turn off monitoring and remove her code
from
> system until we can get this straightened out. I also send her to
> collections. Now all of a sudden she is calling ME everyday...after a few
> days I return her phone call but still refuses to payup. So I send my
sales
> guy back out for a face-to-face...
>
> TURNS OUT....she did NOT sign the contract..she had her girlfriend/lover
> sign the contract to defraud us (never thought to ask for photo ID). The
> reason she didn't want her credit dinged was that her ex-hubby had gotten
> sole custody of the kid during the divorce because he had found her in bed
> with the girlfriend and she was going to court to try to get the kid back.
A
> REAL sleaze bag living in a million dollar house. Go figure...she tried to
> rip me off! The panel is still locked and I hope it cost her a ton of
money
> to get it replaced.
>
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