Re: More Brinks stuff for sale.

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's why there's so much of the Brinks crap on eBay - gets ripped out and
sold poor slobs that don't know any better.



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Crash Gordon
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<I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe>
"Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Roland Moore wrote:
| >> someone at Brinks is going to start asking some hard questions.
| >
| > Someone at Brinks should have asked questions a long time ago. An
otherwise
| > erudite attorney is lurking in an obscure alarm newsgroup for fodder for
his
| > case? How ridiculous! If any group of folks are more regulated in this
state
| > I can't imagine who they'd be. If he needs to find out who is hurting
| > Brink's interests by doing something illegal, I am obligated by the
rules
| > all are licensed under to help him if asked. And what "trade secrets"
could
| > ultimately be so worthwhile to Brinks to pursue this mess? I realize,
and
| > Brinks does too, the low skill level of their employees. That is the way
| > they want them and pay them. My hat is off to Brinks for their success
in
| > the market place to date. However, for those of us that don't work with
| > three doors and a motion for a living, just what is to be gained by this
| > expensive legal pursuit? Brinks' business model (along with ADT and
others)
| > has made their target customers too unprofitable for many independent
| > dealers to court. There is a whole other world of security that most of
us
| > have moved on to. Brinks is welcome to their customer base and their
| > equipment. When that customer is sick of Brinks, he'll come to us on his
| > own. What Jim does (or doesn't do) simply can't influence that process
one
| > way or another.
|
|
| I couldn't agree with you more.  Jim has NEVER offered to rent the
| programmers to anyone that ISN'T in the trade.  I, for one, simply can't
| understand why someone would even consider taking over a Brinks system.
|  The keypad looks like crap.  It would be a service headache because
| you'd need the programmer anytime you wanted to make changes.  You can't
| download the sucker because you'd need the "Brinks software personality"
| to make the Compass program work.  And then (most likely) the you
| wouldn't be able to program the communication fields anyway.  Rip the
| crap out and replace it with a *real* alarm system.