Re: No good cheap customers

["alarman" <thatsallfolksl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just Looking wrote:
> Is anyone interested in buying a cheap no good customer or two? I have
> several I need to unload. One who keeps bitching about how we are
> ripping him off for repeat service calls on a fire alarm trouble
> signal. I continue to explain that when you use a high pressure wand
> to wash the area, that the AV and pull station emt will fill with
> water. To prove it we remove the devices in his presence and all
> watch the water pour out on the floor and hear the gulg-gulg-glug as
> it flows. No matter, it is still out fault for not installing a water
> proof fixture (that he still won't pay for). Until we tag the panel
> and notify the Fire Marshall, he leaves it with all the zones
> troubled out. Yes the bonehead had a fire too. Good thing a driver
> passing by called the fire department. He called a meeting a while
> back to call our bluff about the red tag and loosing his C of O and
> invited a big national into the meeting to explain how they were
> going to take over the account, unfortunately they left the meeting
> and told him to F.O.
> Now pin head wants more cameras. He has a full 16 camera DVR. He
> wants at least 5 more cameras in two separate buildings. He "knows"
> there are "those cheap wireless cameras" that can do the job. He
> wants a bid but doesn't want to spend "too much" like before now
> "that everything has come down and is so cheap".

Just yawn and walk away, that's what I do.

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js

- The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
( Also, the harder they bite, punch, and kick.)