Re: Brinks Alarms: Beware of the Fuel Surcharge Tax

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 29, 2:13=EF=BF=BDpm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 29, 1:23 pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Jul 29, 12:12 pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Jul 23, 12:56 am, Frank Olson
>
> > > <use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Their truck charge is a rip off. I'm surprised their customers
> > > "stay" their customers.
>
> > > RHC: Good question ! Hey, I know....they're likely locked into a long
> > > term contract and can't leave.......:))
>
> > It's more likely the end user was too stupid to realize that you don't
> > get something for nothing and that going with a national company to
> > get a "Free" alarm system if the first sign of a rip off.
>
> RHC: Well finally you post something that we can agree on.....
>
>
>
> > Let me put it in terms you might understand.
> > It's not the gun that commits the crime, it's the person holding it.
>
> RHC: Absolutely !! Good analogy.....
>
>
>
> > Likewise .............
> > It's not the long term contract that holds the customer against his
> > will with bad service, it's the company who wields it.
>
> RHC: Damn ! There's hope for you yet....
>
>
>
> > Somebody please re-post this.
> > Thanks.
>
> RHC: No need. I didn't bother to put your filter back on yet since I
> wanted to see if you planned to spew more hate towards RLB. I hope you
> are enjoying gloating over his misfortune.

Robert, if  you've read my recent posts you'd realize that there's no
"hate" involved and never was. You interpret it that way, that's your
problem.  If it truly were hate, I'd have killed him myself. Hate is
blind. The value of my life and well being is supremely more valuable
to me, than his. In view of his illness, it was inevitable that he
would die soon. I didn't make it happen. Wishing is just a way of
expressing a desire. My desire is that he would go away. Wishing he
would die, in my view, was the only way we would be rid of him. Now we
will be. Clean, clear and simple. Am I happy he's going to die? I'll
just say that I'm happy he'll be gone. I'd have been just as happy had
he stopped doing his nasty deeds. His contributions would have been
exemplary. He wouldn't stop voluntarily. Now he has no choice. All the
same result. One way or the other, it makes no difference, the result
will be the same.

He built walls instead of bridges. He placed obstacles instead of
making paths. He destroyed rather than created. His whole existance in
Usenet was wrought with arrogance, sarcasm, venom, contempt, taunting
and no respect for the mores of social intercourse. This is his
legacy. He made his bed and soon he will sleep in it. There can be no
respect (except for your misplaced adoration)  for a person of such
rancor. It is obvious to anyone, of any intelligence at all, that
someone of that ilk does not derserve consideration of any sort from
the people he's maligned for years. Regardless of how he will depart,
the result will be that he will be gone from here and finally there is
hope for this Newsgroup to grow into something that he refused to let
happen.

I think it rather unique that this group has not progressed because of
him and now .....it will ....... because of him. Isn't that called
Karma?

>
> BTW, my post was a "tongue in cheek", lighthearted post to take a poke
> in the ribs at Frank's comment (and I'm sure everyone but you saw
> that...).

Sorry, but obtusenes is more in your realm than mine.

But ....... One poke deserves another.

>If a customer pays for his system fully up front AND is
> stupid enough to also sign into a long term contract that doesn't do a
> damn thing for him, so be it ! A fool and his money are soon
> parted.......

If a customer gets a lower price for an alarm system and is required
to sign a long term contract because there's no other choice,(because
all alarm companys in the area use them), and receives supurb service
along with it, where is the fool? I'll tell you where the fool really
is. It's the stupid alarm company who doesn't have term contracts and
gives away a little bit of the value of his business away, with every
account. Now THERE's a fool for you. But I'm sure you're familiar with
him.

>
> I just had a new client who had to pay out $850 to buy his way out of
> a contract in order to come to me for decent service (and that's after
> buying his system fully up front).

Dumb customer. Should have done his homework. Yet you place the
entire  blame on the unsavory crook who took advantage of his
stupidity. This recently came up in another thread about who was to
blame for the Indian guy down south who got beat up and his store
trashed by Red Necks, after 9/11. Do you place total blame on the Red
Necks or is some blame shared by the Indian guy who owns a store in a
Red Neck area, who has dark skin, wears a turban, looks Arabic and
continues to run his store in an area occupied by ignorant assholes,
after the country has been attacked by people who look just like him?
Same with the white guy who walks down a street in a black ghetto, at
night.    Excuse the pun but, everything isn't always black and
white ....

But anyway,  it seems then that you're promoting the policing every
trade and business, for the bad guys who take advantage of dumb
customers ..... huh? Quite a task you've set for yourself. There is no
end to dumb customers and people who are willing to take advantage of
them. You can disparage the people who misuse the long term contract
to hold people hostage, but to hold the legitimate use of the long
term contract it-self to blame, is stupid. I've used them for years
and don't hold any customer hostage unless they owe me money for
services rendered and sometimes I don't even bother then. Where do I
fit into your spasmodic, redundant castigation of long term contract
users? You paint all with the same brush and as long as you do, I'll
oppose what you say.
>
> And that's no "poke"......(nor do I intend to continue this tired old
> line about long term contracts)


Yeah, I know. It's always the same with you and your obsession. Poke
and run.
It's just suppose to be acceptable for you to make YOUR remarks and no
one is supposed to respond ..... that about it?

Not gonna happen .........

Talk about someone not being able to see the obvious .............