Re: the police was dispatched to ... the wrong house

[Julian <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:48:01 GMT, "Robert L Bass"
<RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> So it's the CS that's cheap?...
>
>Yes, but alarm companies are also at fault.  Neither
>wants to spend a little extra to do it right.

So I'M at fault now. It should be the subscriber who pays for it.

>
>> You gotta let the chemo drugs wear
>> off a bit before the stupid replies!
>
>Poking fun at someone for undergoing treatment
>for cancer has to rank as about the stupidest
>reply yet.  You've managed to bring yourself
>down to Jiminex' level because you can't debate
>an issue on the merits.
>

If anything, it's your level. You get what you give.

>> The CS is in business to make money. Plain
>> & Simple...
>
>Figured that out all by yourself, did you?

Yes, but I had to point it out to you since you don't have a grasp of
the concept.

>
>> ...pay for how much you service you want.
>
>The difference is that cable TV companies offer
>various service levels to every customer.  They
>publish a list of offerings and let the customer
>know what is available.  Most alarm companies
>don't even mention daily test as an option.

MOST alarm companies YOU know of. You're an CS expert now are you? You
know how MOST companies operate do you? It's time you got out of the
alarm business, brushed the dust off your crystal ball and opened your
Fortune Telling business there, Zoltan.


>Furthermore, I believe that daily test and Caller
>ID monitoring should be included at no extra
>cost to help solve this kind of problem, among
>others.
>

Believe whatever the hell you want and we'll conduct our business the
way we want. As you've said in the past, no one here and nothing
anyone does or says will make you change the way you do business and
conduct yourself, so do you really think your opion of anyone will
have on them. No way.



>> Same with CS's. Pay a basic amount for burg
>> & supervisory, add more for open/close, more
>> again for supervision, more again for daily tests...
>
>Central stations charge dealers between $2 and
>$7 per month for each account.  Dealers then
>mark the service up to $25-$0 per month and
>resell it to end users.

So what? I can't make money off services I sell? You're just mad
because you can no longer do the same.

>There is plenty of margin
>in there to cover the cost of daily tests but alarm
>dealers are too cheap to cover it.  The central
>stations are likewise too cheap to include it in
>the basic fee so customers are left in the lurch.

Customers are only left in a lurch if they deal with you. It's a
proven point and is beyond debate


>
>> After all it is usually the CS paying the tel bills
>> and they have to charge you more if you're
>> going to call them more. Long distance may
>> be cheaper today than 10 years ago, but it's
>> not free.
>
>As Leuck pointed out, 800 number costs are
>not the problem.  When a large CS runs several
>T1 lines, the cost per call is a fraction of a cent.
>On a monthly basis it's not even a dollar per
>account.

It's still not feel idiot. Do you understand the concept of FREE?
Appartently not.

>
>> And I don't really care how you USED to do it.
>
>And yet you try to argue about that very subject.
>Seems you care very much.  :^)

Sigh, I'm dealing with a mental midget.

>
>> If your CS was as good as you say - and we all
>> know how truthful you are - you would have sold
>> it and made enough money to take a permanent
>> vacation in Brasil.
>
>I did sell it.  The business wasn't large enough to
>retire though.  However, I manage to make two or
>three trips a year to Brasil.  We have a second
>home there.  I'll be down again this fall fishing in
>the Amazon forest.  Hope you're doing as well.
>

I'm doing great avoiding Brasil, braggert.

>> But obviously that's not the case. You don't
>> monitor alarms anymore and that's a fact you
>> can't deny, although I'm sure you will.
>
>Why would I deny it?  I sold the central station
>and all the accounts with it.  That's no secret.
>One of the nicest things about *not* running a
>central station any more is that I have the freedom
>to travel whenever I like.  In the old days we hardly
>ever took a vacation and when we did it was never
>more than a week.  Now I bring my laptop and a
>VoIP phone to Brasil, plug them in and I'm able
>to work a few hours each day, staying there for
>several months if I like.

Oh I'm so impressed. Not quite as impressed as I was this morning for
my dog's first shit on the lawn this morning, but close. Keep it up
and you might make it all the way up to dog shit.

And don't take my non response as an indication I don't care about
continuing this thread. Oh yea..... I don't.

Julian