Re: Brinkley's at it again

[Jim Rojas <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the realtor is acting as an agent for Brinks Home Security, simply
contact your state's contractors licensing board and see if the Realtor
has a license to also do alarm sales. If not, report it as unlicensed
activity on the part of the realtor.

Brinks may be violating state law by hiring realtors not license or
properly registered as a alarm sales agents. It's one thing to place a
door hanger on the outside of the house. But by placing a Brinks label
on any equipment that may or maynot be leased, is in direct violation of
your protective service agreement. The realtor nor Brinks has any idea
if the installed equipment is leased of not. You may have grounds for
tortuous interference if the customer did not completely fulfill the
terms of your contract.

In Florida, even a licensed electrical contractor must also carry an
statewide EF or EG alarm license in order to do any work to any burglar
or fire alarm system. All alarm companies must have employees,
salespeople, or agents that are required to be registered, background
checked, fingerprinted, and a 60 hour training class under their belt
before they can do any door to door sales.

Jim Rojas


Nick Lawrence wrote:
> Assuming the stickers were provided by Brinks, and applied to various
> non-brinks systems (such as the one installed by your company) by
> realtors, it would appear to me to be an unfair (and therefore illegal)
> business practice on the part of Brinks.
>
>
> Crash Gordon wrote:
>> This is really starting to piss me off...
>>
>> http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d17/elrobo/stupidalarms/?action=view&current=binky-label.jpg
>>
>>
>> These guys never "inspected" anything on my systems of homes being
>> sold. This is an out and out ploy that they use to get new homeowners
>> with perfectly good working alarm systems to call them so they can rip
>> them out and lease them their crap. I took this label off one of my
>> keypads in a home that had recently changed ownership. The system's
>> been up and working fine for years and inspected by US...not
>> them...prior to being put on the market and then again yesterday when
>> we made contact with the new owner.
>>
>> I believe they pay the realtors to put these fraudlent stickers on
>> alarm keypads and panels. Fortunately, most new homeowners are smart
>> enough to call US from OUR decals and lawnsigns that are all over the
>> home and grounds. I don't believe they have ever entered this home to
>> do an "inspection".  Bullshit.
>>
>>
>>

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