Re: Central Station Cancel Signal

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That means you're monitoring is 12 bucks a month, since 3 bucks are
allocated to worry free service and warranty.

15 CD = 12 USD

Man...which shipping, taxes, and handling how to you stay afloat...do you
pay yourself a salary? Not to mention overhead, and fuel costs for all those
service calls you don't charge for...man, one service call a year per
account is gonna cost you more than what you collect in gas alone not to
mention paying your tech.

Seems way too low for a brick an mortar business.


"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Good question ! During selling of the alarm, it is pretty easy to
determine
| if the client intends to continue with the monitoring or not. But I have
| been wrong three times. In each case, I sent the client a registered
letter
| telling him there is no warranty or any kind, or service on his panel (nor
| will I service it at an additional price), and that he must tell his
| insurance company of the cessation of monitoring. Plus, as part of my
| contract, he agrees to remove my decals when monitoring stops....they
belong
| to me. And since they are exterior mounted decals, I actually make a visit
| to remove them.  However, bottom line, he has paid me a fair and full
market
| price for the system, so I make my profit up front on the alarm itself. I
| simply dial in and remove all monitoring information, and reset the unit
to
| factory installer code, and turn the TLM and the dialers off.
|
| I've found that in selling high end systems to my particular clientele
(who
| generally are in the two income, higher echelon income bracket), this just
| doesn't happen. I guess these folks are smart enough to realize their
alarm
| is crippled without proper response, and they probably feel $15 a month is
| peanuts to pay for a combined package with an ironclad warranty.
| Interestingly enough, the three people who cancelled within 6 months, were
| all from Eastern European countries where they don't have monitoring
| services (or so I'm told).
|
| I lose far more clients from people selling their homes and moving than I
do
| from people simply deciding they don't want monitoring. However,
reasonable
| prices and good service with the first client wins me back about 75% of
the
| new purchasers (which I'm told from other dealer friends is a higher
| percentage than normal)
|
| Works for me.....
|
| RHC
|
| "alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:f2I1f.41555$lq6.6373@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|
| > Since you don't do locals, and don't require time contracts, what would
| > you
| > do if someone purchased a system, then stopped monitoring service after
a
| > couple of months?
| > js
| >
| >
|
|