Re: Napco

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:
>>Our industry ###ing our own industry.
>
>
> That's for sure.  Between companies selling so-called "free"
> systems that are worth just that, fast-buck artists like Fowler
> bilking customers left and right and morons behaving like
> schoolyard bullies in USENET, the public is being told over and
> over that the industry is nothing more than a carnival (not the
> same as "Carnaval"")) midway.

Interesting.  This coming from the "premier" fast-buck artist in Usenet.
  What is it now?  *Four* websites all selling the same product?
Fifteen (and rising) complaints at the Better Business Bureau in the
last three years?  I don't think Tom (or anyone else from the group you
frequently denigrate) sells product he neither endorses, recommends, or
supports, yet here you are telling us that "DSC is crap" while at the
same time extolling it's virtues on the home page of
home-automation.us.com.

You are right on one count though.  You do make this a "carnival midway"
full of "kicks and giggles".  I particularly like the link to your
"home-automation" guest book.  Reading that is definitely worth the
"price of admission".

Before you "start" slinging mud around the group again, how about
explaining how you "worked in the trade" for three years without an L-6,
and a further six years without an L-5 (in CT)?  How many systems did
you actually install *without* a permit?  As to your equally ludicrous
claim to having opened a "modestly successful central station alarm
company" in 1979 with no experience and no customer base, well...
enough said!  "29 years in the industry"...  Right!


>
> That is truly unfortunate because there are many qualified,
> caring professionals in the industry (only a very of them few
> here) whose trade is tarnished by the behavior of a few
> low-lifes.  Sad.

Actually I'm pretty darn happy that you're no longer in the trade.  You
must feel pretty "safe" posting this kinda crap all the way from Brazil
though, eh?

Frank Olson
http://www.yoursecuritysource.com