Re: PR: Honeywell Video - Discotinued and Oversock Products

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just Looking wrote:
> Way too much sour grapes. All Bass is doing is taking the items on the
> Honeywell "Authorized Dealers ONLY" page
> http://www.honeywellsystems.com/buy/hvs/op/index.html for Outlet Products
> and linking it to the same items on his web site. Besides it Honeywell's
> gear to stand behind (or not), and not really Bass' problem.

Actually, it's not "Bass' problem" at all.  He'll simply "wash his
hands" of it.  "Caveat emptor" (let the buyer beware).


> And why get
> excited over that stuff? It's some video stuff made by someone besides
> Honeywell anyway. It just has the Honeywell name on it like the alarm panels
> do. You remember the panels with the "over powered" 128 ma polling loop for
> SIMs and such? Vista? I think that means view in Spanish. Vista, best in a
> far, FAR view in my opinion.
> Who knows? Maybe Bass is feeling the economic slowdown or is appealing to
> those that might be.

Do you honestly believe his "story" about how a shopping cart website
can pull a company from near bankruptcy to "averaging" $1.5 mil in
annual sales in less than a year?...  C'mon...  He's a huckster and (in
you) he's found a guy that will eat his bullshit hook, line, and sinker.
  He was struggling when he first started posting that "he sells more in
a day than most alarm companies sell in a month" and he's *still
struggling*.  He's the biggest liar in USENET.  He's *bragged* about
spending two hours on the phone with every DIY that buys from him and
told us some crap about how he sells eleven systems a day.  Do the math,
Roland.  He's a "one man show".  For *months* (if not over a year) he
listed a single contact number on his website.  Now he's got three.
One's a "business line" for Bass Home Electronics (which he lists as
"incorporated" when it isn't), one's his residence line (which he
laughingly calls his "fax line"), and one's his Nextel Cell (which he
refers to as his "customer service" line).


> No matter what Bass says, I believe more folks in the
> business (like the ones posting here) give him more buyers than from
> anything he is posting here.

They're welcome to him.  If you honestly believe he's able to dupe more
people (than just you and a few of his "sock puppets") into buying from
his online shill store, then I've got this really nifty bridge I can
sell you.  It's just undergone about 14 mil in "rehabilitation".  It's a
bargain.


> If you get a detailed proposal (with parts list
> and part number) from a reputable alarm or integration company, what's there
> to keep you from visiting Bass and getting it cheaper from him?

Ummm...  I dunno...  Maybe they're just plain *stoopid*.


> There are
> always the cockroaches that go for that sort of thing. That is Bass' niche,
> let him have it. Does anyone here really need or want that sort of customer?

Let him "flog" his wares in a newsgroup that cares.  The *only* reason
he's posting this garbage is (in Graham's words) "he's trolling".  Bass
is an *asshole*.  In CHA (where the people that post there are actually
BAss' market), they wouldn't tolerate this kind of crap either.  I
figure I should respond to each and every one of his "PR", "INFO", "FS",
and Bush rants with a whole lot more than just the BBB report, but I
also figure that anyone that cares to "Google" Robert L Bass will get
the "whole picture" pretty damn fast anyway (and if they still feel they
want to give him their business, then they deserve what they get).

http://westflorida.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=47&bbb=0653&firm=41001663