Re: Paradise!

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:DONYi.191350$1y4.185701@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Robert L Bass spewed:
>
>> I checked on that.  As usual, you're wrong.  The price differences
>> appear to be random.  On the NX8 they beat me by a whopping $0.75.
>> On the AX200PLUS I beat them by about $50.  On the Winland 1040
>> their price is nearly twice mine.  On the WB200 they charge about
>> 25% more than I do.  However, on the HA-1 they beat me by about
>> 15%.
>
> Heh...  And while you were "checking prices", you were frantically
> typing in the changes to make your story "jive".  What a maroon.

Wrong again.  Every page has "last updated" information on it.  If
you knew how to read the information you'd know that.  Of course,
that wouldn't stop you making more bogus claims.

>>> which tells me they're probably buying product at a whole
>>> different level from you.
>>
>> I'm sure they are but not the way you imagine.
>
> Heh...  Right...  The prices I checked were all significantly
> lower.  I'll leave you to figure out where.

I checked.  You're wrong.

>>> And wasn't it you who once wrote that you sold more equipment in
>>> a single day than most dealers do in a month...
>>
>> Yes, and I still do.
>
> Sure, Bass...  Sure...  Your website's a "kludge".  There are whole
> sections of it where you offer nothing in the way of "detail" other
> than the same part number...

It depends on the vendors.  Some provide detailed descriptions,
images, etc.  Some provide only a list of products, brief
descriptions and prices.

> How you imagine a DIYer's going to navigate through all that is
> beyond me.

That comes as no surprise.  Almost everything is beyond you.

> You sell products which require a dealer account at a monitoring
> centre for "Petem's" sake...

Wrong again.

> Unless, of course, there's something you're not telling the Florida
> DBPR.

No one "navigates" through the lengthy lists.  They go directly to
the desired products by way of Google or my search bot.  Pity you
know so little abouot web sites.  That is more than apparent looking
at the mess you made of your own site.

>>> (and then provided the wonderful testimonial to "Search-Fit" that
>>> stated your store was barely getting by and you
>> weren't even drawing a salary during that same period)?
>>
>> Like almost* everyone else, we've had periods where sales were
>> good and times when they've been bad.
>
> Your "bad times" stretched from 1996 to 2003, though...

Wrong again.  One of the other posters here once mentioned he'd heard
from his ADI rep that we were their largest customer in the region.
You remember ADI, right?  They're one of several of our distributors
you went real world with, attempting to interfere with my business.
My rep called and asked who the moron from Canada was.

>> *I said "almost" because you don't sell or install anything at
>> all, other than your usual line of bullshit.
>
> Uh-huh...  Prove it.

Asked and answered numerous times before.

>>> What a maroon!
>>
>> For such a moron I should think you'd at least learn to spell it.
>
> You're obviously not a "Bugs Bunny" fan.  You're an "ultra-maroon",
> Bass.

Nope.  I always preferred Road Runner.

>>>> When an order comes in it's drop shipped.
>>>
>>> Their prices are better than yours.  And they're not selling
>>> product that's no longer available.
>>
>> On most items my prices are actually better and by a significantly
>> greater amount.  There are several discontinued items listed on
>> their site but I'll let you try to figure out which ones they are.
>
> There are more than "several" discontinued items on your
> site(s)....

With over 100,000 products online that's a given.  It's almost a
full-time job just keeping prices current.  We receive spreadsheets
with changes to anywhere from 1 to 50 manufacturers every few weeks.
I haven't figured out how we're going to keep it up to date as we
pass the 200,000 product level a few months from now.  What I have
found is that the more products we list with the search engines the
more clients place orders.

>>>> They have a smaller
>>>> website because they don't spend the time building it up.
>>>
>>> They have a "smaller website" because...
>>
>> Since you're not affiliated with them, you have no way of knowing
>> what they do or why.
>
> I know Andy well enough to know where his heart is...

It's in his chest, idiot.  He's in business trying to sell product
like anyone else (except you, of course) and you've never done
business with him so you have no way of knowing anything about him --
good or bad.

>>> For them, no.  For you, yes.  Their "ranking" is a tad higher
>>> than yours at the moment.
>>
>> Google, Yahoo and other major search engines seem to think
>> otherwise and they're far more important than you.
>
> Yeah, well...  You're a "three", Bass...

Same as almost every other online alarm store.  Manufacturers like
Honeywell are mostly rated 4 or 5.

> That's a big comedown from where you were before...

If you'd read Google's page rank information you would know that they
changed their ranking algorythm a few months ago, brining all but the
largest businesses on the web down between 1 and 3 points.  Compared
to competitors we've stayed pretty much the same.  The difference is
we have so many more products and we've been established so long that
we get far more traffic than most others.  We also keep links to our
sites (there's more than one) active in numerous newsgroups, forums
and related sites with hundreds of new entries every week.

> Have you finally figured out that "search engine positioning" isn't
> as important as good customer service??

I figured out long ago how to market online.  I've been in business
all of my adult life, even built and ran a 13-person company while I
was in college.  For the number of clients / orders we handle in an
average month our customer service calls are about average.  You
constantly rag on us because I've caught you lying numerous times,
but it doesn't work.  My business continues to grow.  You and your
pals repeatedly gone real world, harassing my distributors and
manufacturers, filing bogus complaints (summarily dismissed) with the
state licensing agency and even filing false comp[laints with the
online BBB.  Meanwhile I keep on selling more and more systems.

Feel free to keep flogging, idiot.  You'll never win.

> Nah-hhh, you're still of the opinion that your "rank" should be as
> big as your ego to make up for that little "dingle".

You've never seen my dingle.  My page rank is ok.  As far as ego is
concerned, I guess I'm a little proud.  I've built a successful
business from scratch and weathered soe tough economic times while
many others have dropped out.  I've eeven figured out how to turn
your drivel into a marketing edge.  I'll let you try to figure out
how that works.

>>> I figure my doctor's probably the one that reads the "Dick and
>>> Jane" books in his waiting room.  Even the kids that come there
>>> read "Time" and "Newsweek".
>>
>> Clearly you don't.
>
> Nope.  The news is too depressing.  I like my Wonder Woman comics.

Too bad you make such a mess on the pages.

>> ISTR someone actually posted the Napco articles or a link to them
>> here a few years back.  But then, facts never got in your way.

> You've misunderstood what I've said.  I didn't doubt they were
> published.  I'm sure you "extolled" the virtues of the equipment as
> well as embellished your own participation and contribution (as you
> usually do here).

Wrong once more.  Napco wrote the articles.  I simply explained the
functionality of the systems and how I used their hardware to
accomplish it.  I've explained it here in CHA.  There's nothing
spectaular -- just intelligent (that leaves you out) use of existing
technology.

>>> Translation:  You can't afford a toll free line...
>>
>> You think not?  One of your friends did a GoogleEarth of my US
>> home a while back.
>
> Which your dad "gave" you for a dollar.
>
>>> You can't afford the Nextel phone...
>>
>> Heh, heh, heh.  The one in my pocket, you mean?
>
> Not that pocket...  The other one.
>
>>> You can't afford a good email server...
>>
>> I don't own an email server.  My web hosting service provides it.
>
> You can't afford a good web hosting service, then.

I keep telling that to the guys at SearchFit but they still insist I
pay them.  The fee is a measly $3,500 a month, including server
lease, bandwidth/throughput, etc.  We also pay around $5,000 a year
for custom programming.  If I could find a cheaper place that would
do as good a job I'd consider switching but, so far, none has come
close.  SF is one of the best in the industry.

>>> "Dad" had to give you his house (which you promptly mortgaged)...
>>
>> You're guessing wrong, as usual, but keep trying.  I'll give you a
>> hint.  Sarasota's property tax records are available online.
>
> I've seen them.  Saw the transfer documents.  One dollar was all it
> took (about ninety cents Canadian).

Now you're outright lying, but that's nothing new.

>>> Is it true what they say about the price of real estate in
>>> Florida??  You paid a buck for your place.  That must mean it's
>>> now worth fifty cents.
>
>> I wish that were so.  Perhaps I could get my real estate taxes
>> lowered.
>
> Clearly you're living with inflated expectations.

Naah, just inflated taxes.

>>>> The answering machine is a dead giveaway that the "company" is a
>>>> sideline business of a small installer with no one in the office
>>>> during the day.
>>>
>>> As opposed to a "sideline business" of a big blowhard installer
>>> wannabee with no one at home during the day...
>>
>> Oh, so you're finally opening an online store?
>
> Nope.  I just don't have the time.

Perhaps if you spent less time in airport restrooms...

>> I notice you didn't actually respond to the *fact* that it's an
>> answering machine instead of a live customer service person.
>
> I noticed you responded in your usual inimitable fashion.

Another dodge.

>> That's standard olsonic technique.
>
> Bassism.
>
>
>> When confronted with facts that don't support your bullshit,
>> quickly switch to attacking or change the subject.
>
> Another Bassism.
>
>> Nope.  The distributor did in fact send him the wrong part.  I
>> called and they then sent the right part.
>
>> Frank happens.
>
> All the time.
>
>>>>> they can't leave a message because the "mailbox is full".
>>>>
>>>> Answering machines are also not "mailboxes."  The posts were
>>>> nonsense.
>>>
>>> I don't doubt it at all.  After all, you're the most honest,
>>> trustworthy and upright individual it's ever been my pleasure to
>>> meet.
>>
>> We've never met.  Your face is not yet concave.
>
> Heh.  I'd like to see you try.

That's why you hide your address.  You're a coward.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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