Re: Devcon Buys Out Coastal Security, Adelphia, & Guardian

["mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxx>]

30 times monthly for month-month contracts? Really? How is the buyer going
to handle that free service and rate guarantee? I dunno, Bob. That's a bit
of a stretch. Besides, you would wipe out your subscriber base for what? 40K
in your pocket and your revenue stops. Jeeeze, starting all over for 40K?

"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > Before you pontificate about what should and shouldn't be charged for
> > monitoring, you should try to find out what the "average" amount in the
> > US is, first. In fact, according to most polls, last I heard, it's
> > about $25.00.
>
> RHC: It's $24.95 by all accounts in reports I've read in SDM
> >
> > As far as long term contracts, you can bet that if you're not getting
> > them you're not doing your customers any favor.
>
> RHC: That's absolute unadulterated crap ! Many of my clients are quite
> mobile, and I'd be doing them no favours by locking them in to a long term
> contract that unnecessarily restricts them and costs them needlessly.
> Cripes, if you really believe you're doing your clients a favour by
locking
> them in, you really have lost all sense of reality !! I see untold horrors
> of customers being extorted by these bloody long term contracts, by all
> sorts of companies of all sizes big and small. Cripes, I could write a
book
> on it...
>
> You can change there rates every year.
>
> RHC: More crap ! I give the client a five year written rate guarantee in
his
> contract. And with the profit margins I make at $15, I doubt I'll ever
raise
> my rates ! (In fact, I may end up reducing them if my tax problems
continue
> !) I put that clause in when ADT started their bullshit along the same
tone,
> all the while hiding behind the fact that they can rate rates based on a
> cost of living index once a year. Those idiots will say anything to make a
> sale...
>
> I get a five year contract and don't change rates for
> > that long. My clients have a choice. Minimum one year contract ......
> > but the price will likely go up next year or 5 year contract and you
> > hold the price for 5 years. Very ...... very seldom to I get less than
> > 5 year contract. Good for me. Good for them. Oh and also, when it comes
> > time to sell your business, I'll match the price that I'll get for my 5
> > year contracts against what you get for your one year contracts.
>
> RHC: More crap ! I have a standing offer of 30 times monthly ! That's
> perfectly satisfactory given that I wouldn't have half the clients I have
if
> I chose to lock them in. My clients aren't that bloody stupid ! And NO ONE
> around here EVER raises their rates every year unless they've trapped
their
> clients in a long term committment and the customers have no choice in the
> matter...you must be dreaming ! If you tried that bullshit around here,
> you'd lose your client base in a hurry ! The only people who ever buy into
a
> long term contract when they aren't paying for a "free system" are either
> poor and uninformed shoppers, fools, idiots or both...
>
> Long term contracts when they are not being used to pay down equipment are
> nothing but an industry scam, pure and simple. And if you believe all your
> self serving crap about doing your clients a favour....well....I can't say
> anything without making it personal, and I won't do that !!
>
> Frankly, I'm getting more than a little tired of your sanctimonious
bullshit
> on this subject. You aren't doing anybody but yourself any favours. So
stop
> hiding behind lofty ideals about long term survival for your clients best
> interests !
>
> RHC
>
>
>
>
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