Re: Do YOU ACTUALLY Own Your Equipment??

["Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim said:

"Opppps ...... pardon me. I just had a Campbel moment"

Jim, At your age, that could be serious :^)

Norm Mugford


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Crash Gordon wrote:
>> "... 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.
>
>
> OH MY GOD!
>
> You mean you actually lock your panels? OH what a horrendous beast you
> are. Why anyone who locks their panels is just such a nasty nasty
> degenerate. A real meany out to defraud their customers. I mean they
> OWN the panel and they should rightly have the code so that they can
> much easier give it to the next alarm company who they're going to
> defraud.
>
> Opppps ...... pardon me. I just had a Campbel moment.
>