Re: Open Letter to Brinks over Tech-Man

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 12, 12:20 am, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 6:42?pm, "Just Looking" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > October 11, 2007
> > The regular meeting forhttp://www.hgcaa.org/occurredtoday. I was not in
> > attendance. I was at a refinery. Unfortunately I have not yet figured a way
> > to crack the hydrocarbons in old melted down Brinks panels to help solve the
> > energy problem. However many dealers and central station operators at that
> > meeting have been following this matter with Jim carefully. Most were not
> > aware how far it has escalated recently, especially the temporary site
> > shutdown. In this part of the country there are some real concerns about all
> > this by folks well known in this industry. J.D. Benfer told me he would
> > bring all this up again at today's meeting in Houston. I believe many
> > central station operators like Benfer aren't convinced that they won't
> > somehow get sucked into this dispute, one that is essentially over nothing.
> > Everyone has a vested interest in saving their own butt. I have asked many
> > central station operators, including Benfer, about how prevalent this Brinks
> > panel take over thing is and have been told it is simply a non event. It
> > literally doesn't happen. It would not likely be condoned by the operators
> > if it were discovered. Brinks doesn't have any real allies in this industry.
> > Brinks is tolerated by most in the industry simply because of the easy
> > business it frequently generates from the abundance of dissatisfied Brinks
> > customers nearly any competent dealer can acquire. This legal action may be
> > doing something to reverse that trend. I can say there will be some back
> > door contacts made to Brinks over this issue to invite sanity to return.
> > This is going to be on the agenda of many alarm association meetings in the
> > near future if there isn't a sudden change of tact by Brinks. I wonder how
> > the court would react if there were direct submittals by nearly every
> > contract central station operator out there to contradict Brinks'
> > description of the danger to their business over this. I suspect someone
> > should get really busy to figure out a strategy to overcome the real truth
> > of the matter. People are getting really pissed off over this. They are
> > pissed off enough to want to open their wallets and get something going. It
> > might not be like a David and Goliath contest after that.
> > As and example, if I were a salesperson for Brinks I might not want to try
> > to explain to a customer why the previous salesperson from another company
> > left a detailed sheet of questions to ask me about Brinks policies. I
> > wouldn't like to find that Brinks had been blacklisted by nearly every alarm
> > association on that list of questions for me to answer. I might wonder how
> > this Brinks hand out ended up on nearly every counter at places like ADI,
> > SGI, Tri-Ed, Richardson's etc. I guess because it had the alarm association
> > meeting schedule on the other side of the paper? Most folks want to know how
> > good your product or service is when making a purchase, not how many mad dog
> > attorneys you have available to turn loose on them. More than a few alarm
> > dealers are retired ex cops. It is amazing what strings they can pull to
> > make someone look really bad, and how far some of the favors owed to them
> > can really reach.
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> With reference to this "detailed sheet of questions to ask about
> Brinks policies"  Please E-mail me a copy or let me know (via E-mail
> only) if it really exists.  This way, if it does or doesn't exist,
> lawyer "Strudleman" will never know one way or the other. A list such
> as this is certainly something that could be E-mailed to every NBFAA
> affiliated alarm installer in the USA along with the story of what
> they are doing to Jim.
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> Why if you think about it, some one could get that out to thousands of
> alarm companies across the nation in .... what?  say a week or so?

RHC: I once put together an email list of some 2500 Canadian alarm
companies for use in potential advertising. Although I decided not to
use it to advertise certain services I offer (since it would be
interpreted as "spam mail"), I still have the list somewhere. Might be
useful....