Re: Ambulance Chasing Scumbags

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I know a guy that built his entire business on that model. He was a cop and
>started his own business while still a cop. He chased every burglary report
>he received (and his cop buddies told him about). He considers himself a
>very Christian and ethical man by the way. That is not my take on it
>certainly. Now he is a retired cop but he is still in that mode, but a
>little differently. Everytime a new technology comes around (that he can't
>understand) he tries to find other dealers to "help him understand" the
>item. He'll pull some crap to refer all of the leads he has for that item
>to you. Once that referal lead stream reaches a certain level then he
>thinks it is time "you showed him how to do it". We don't take his referals
>and leave him to three doors and a motion trunk slamming (where even that
>is over his head.) He has more accounts and more money than most (partly
>because he pays dirt low wages), but I think he feels himself struck in the
>tar pit of his own lack of technical ability and sinking in a world where
>security integration is getting more and more technical and he isn't.
>

More than once I've had it suggested to hire ex cops as sales reps.  Never
done it.  I prefer to follow a technical tactic instead where we sell stuff
that works to people who want it.


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