Re: Brinks Alarms: Beware of the Fuel Surcharge Tax

["Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
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> On Jul 29, 9:24�pm, "Petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Frank Olson" <use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a �crit dans
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>> > tourman wrote:
>> >> On Jul 29, 1:23 pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> 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:
>> >>>> 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.
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> RHC: Damn ! There's hope for you yet....
>> >>> Somebody please re-post this.
>> >>> Thanks.
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> 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...). 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.......
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>> >> 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).
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>> >> And that's no "poke"......(nor do I intend to continue this tired old
>> >> line about long term contracts)
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>> > In the case of Edwards/GE, it's not a "long term contract" you sign...
>> > You
>> > buy their equipment and you're locked in to their service. �That
>> > includes
>> > the price gouging. �We bought a smoke module for a 6500 system about a
>> > year ago. �They charged us $542.00. �When you look at the card there's
>> > maybe $20.00 in parts on it and the board looks like someone used a
>> > dremel
>> > tool to cut out. �I built better projects in my electronics class in
>> > Grade
>> > 11 and 12. �Sheesh!!!
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>> are you talking about a 6500 custom panel?
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>> if so this dinosaurus should be removed.. not repaired!!
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>> but i can understand you.. this thing is unkillable
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>> at one of my old customer place there was one, a waste pipe brock close
>> to
>> it and all the toilet from the 2nd floor to the 4ft floor dropped there
>> stuff on a jonction box (not closed of course , been left open by a
>> edwards
>> guys after a small inspection) let me tell you that it was a mess..
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>> the customer was a catholic school for girls (where girls sleep there)
>> and
>> of course didnt had any money to spare on a new panel.. well after a few
>> day
>> of cleanning all the parts and drying the main box , it started back.. we
>> got a few card to replace ( bells output) but it was working.. the bell
>> didnt ring when wast water came to it cause it was shorted at first ..-
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> That's the "crappiest" story I've heard in a long time.


And it was a smelly one too...