Re: Best place to buy parts for those of us who don't have a dealers license ?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"-)...
I only install the ones I feel like doing. I've gotten really selective in
my old age. If a cllient is a pain in the butt I won't take the job.

Did a real nice one today up in the mountains a referral by someone herein.
Nice client, nice trip, nice install, good money.




"Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|> A while back I had done a quote for home CCTV, quite extensive system.
Gave
| > the guy my proposal and he calls back the next day and starts quoting
prices
| > out of the ADI catalog, saying that he was not going to allow me to make
| > "that much money" on the system. He'd called ADI and told them he worked
for
| > me and went by one of the branches and picked up a cat. with prices.
| > Needless to say I ripped that branch a new asshole...then I told the
client
| > that if he thought it was so easy to install the equipment he could just
do
| > it himself...which he did..or actually he tried. A couple of weeks later
he
| > paid me HOURLY to redo everything he tried to do properly.
|
| That guy got what he deserved -- not for DIYing the job but for
| taking advantage of you and ADI.  In this case, one can
| understand ADI's error.  The guy smooth talked them.  At least
| they didn't offer to open account for him.
|
| Crash, I don't have anything against installers making a fair
| price for their work, their hardware and their knowledge.  Guys
| like you and I try to give people what they pay for.  But if you
| stop and look at it carefully, the ones doing most of the whining
| here about DIY are the unskilled "professionals" who cheat their
| clients, lie to make the sale, do slovenly work and (often) bend
| the client over a five-year contract that would do old Slew Foot
| proud.  The true professionals don't give a rat's Olson about
| DIY.  They figure that DIY customers are not their market and
| concentrate on the 98% who are.
|
| It's the same for me.  I have no problem with most people hiring
| a pro to do an installation for them.  Heck, I occasionally refer
| customers to professional installers.  I've referred customers to
| Jim Rojas on occasion and he made good money doing the work.  I
| also used to refer people to Worthless until he started behaving
| like a fool in the newsgroup.
|
| The point is there are distinct segments of the security
| marketplace.  Few, if any, companies are equipped to deal with
| all of them.  Bob Campbell is respected by every technician in
| this forum (well, except one moron from Brooklyn with a penchant
| for assaulting children with hammers).  He tried servicing the
| DIY market and for various reasons it didn't work for him.  No
| problem.  I owned a small but modestly successful alarm company
| for ~24 years until I sold it.  At this stage of life I have zero
| interest in starting a new installation business.  I'll leave
| that to guys like you.  :)
|
| --
|
| Regards,
| Robert L Bass
|
| Bass Burglar Alarms
| The Online DIY Store
| http://www.BassBurglarAlarms.com
|