Re: Free estimates?

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:
>>>It's always been troll free except for the time you called me.
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>>Nope.  For over a year you didn't (for some reason) have an 800 number published to your website.
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> Read more carefully.

Heh...  right.


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>>>There's no license requirement for phone consultation, email discussion, online sales, etc.  You already know this though.
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>>For your sake I hope so.
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> Liar!

Now expressing a genuine concern is a "lie"?  Since when?


> You'd like nothing better than to find a way to cause problems
> with the state.

You're now confusing me with "someone else".


> I operate completely within the law so, try
> as you may, there's nothing you or the other morons here
> can do about it.

Once again it becomes a matter of interpretation.  My interpretation of
the law has always been based on what it was the people that wrote it
were trying to do.  In this instance, Florida (in their infinite wisdom)
decided to regulate an industry that was obviously "rife" with
"trunk-slammers" and pseudo-security "hacks" that espoused "years" of
inept security knowledge.  Flordia's done no more than what I've been
asking you to do for some time now.  Put up or shut up.

You "say" you started a "modest central station alarm company in
Connecticut" in 1979 with what amounts to *zero* industry knowledge, no
licensing, and no clientelle.  Submitting the paperwork to register a
company is pretty easy to do, but I sincerely doubt you had the
expertise (or the background) to "hit the ground running".  Remember,
this was the same year you were convicted of a felony assault in Florida
and sentenced to five years probation.  You finally got your license
(L-6) in 1983.  That means you could legally install and service low
voltage systems but couldn't pull permits.  You finally got the
contractor's L-5 in 1989.  Between 1979 and 1983 however, you were
installing systems *illegally* (if you were even doing installations)
and that between 1979 and 1989 you were doing so without the proper
permits.  This of course clashes with several posts you've made in which
you've stated you *always* pulled permits.

The MyFlorida website is actually quite a magnificent resource.  It lead
me to another State's website in which one "Robert L. Bass" was involved
in a real-estate transaction that involved the sale of a house.  This is
why I was asking fairly detailed questions about where it was you were
between 1993 and 1996.  It certainly couldn't have been CT because you
had (at one time) an Ohio drivers license.  But I digress.

I figure your "marital difficulties" probably prevented your direct
involvement in the "company" you started in 1979 for a period of between
four and six years (1993 to 1999) which casts quite a light on the
"length in the trade" statement you continue to spew.  I figure that
your "involvement" in the "management/sales" end of things probably
didn't allow you a lot of time to actually perform installations or
service.  I've concluded some time ago that your actual "experience"
probably amounts to about eight or nine years at best.

Meanwhile, you've based your personal attacks on several things:

1.  Your inability to "find" out anything about me because I happen to
be using my birth name in this forum when I'm known in the industry by
my step-father's family name.  This is akin to saying that "Jim", "I
brive a dus", and "tourman" while all bona-fide members of the "Yonkers
Kazoo Marching Band and Poker Club" simply aren't because their "screen
names" don't appear anywhere on the members list.
2.  Your aviation "expertise" (which has been repeatedly shown to be
somewhat "lacking").  You have yet to provide one shred of proof that
what I've related in this forum with respect to my experiences are
either lies or fabrications.  What's even more amusing is that you
expect us to "swallow" your own installation fairy tales which are
riddled with mistakes most "pro's" recognize immediately (and many have
"called you" on).
3.  Your obvious frustration over the fact that I'm *not* "walking the
road" with the likes of Mike S. (Groupie Muderator) so it's hard to
actually "lump me in" with that special group of people you often refer
to as the "IB" (as hard as you might try).
4.  I actually *work* in the trade while you're sitting on "your can"
all day spinning yarns over the Internet on how hard you're done by, and
how none of us have the least respect for the DIYer.
5.  You're an "Ultra Maroon".