Re: DDM Now - Bob's Griping Again

["Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Effemeral Rastafarian Society of Safety Installers.

I know those guys! They sell medical marijuana on line.

"Bob La Londe" <alarm_wizard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I wanted to set up a dinky link on a DM DS2P500 so the customer could
> select camera views froma  remote monitor in another room.  Figuring
> to save some time I called DM and asked them where the IR receiver is
> on the front of the unit.  The first guy told me there isn't one.
> Then when I asked him how the IR remote I was holding in my hand
> worked he put me on hold for ten minutes, and then when he got back he
> hung up on me.
>
> I called back and got past that bit of sillyness with the next person
> I talekd to, who tried to tell me that the indicator light on the
> front of the unit was the IR receiver.  Wrong.  A quick cover test
> proved that was totally incorrect.  Then this person told me I should
> just buy their IR remote kit.  Great idea if I had one, and the client
> wasn't waiting for us to give them functionality right now.
>
> I guess I could have just saved my time and done the card test to find
> the target since that's what I did anyway.  It works perfectly.
>
> By the way guys DM and Pelco....  the first word of the company name
> is THE.  Three letter prepesition.  Starts with 'T'.  Ends with 'E'.
> Has an 'H' in the middle.  Somehow when I named the company I figured
> The Security Consultant would be an easy name for people to get.  It
> always amazes me when people have to ask me what the first word is
> several times, sometimes even after I spell it to them.
>
> If I had known THE was going to be such a difficult word for everybody
> I'ld have name the company Effemeral Rastafarian Society of Safety
> Installers.
>
> Bob La Londe