Re: The summer alarm salesman are coming

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 9, 10:40=A0am, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> nick markowitz wrote:
> > yes once again the college kids will be coming around door to door
> > selling alarm systems
> > and then disappearing into the wood work.
> > One of my dads friends bought into there slick sales and is spending
> > $43.00 a month for next 5 years.
> > although they did give him a free system with about $350.00 worth of
> > equipment.
> > And these kids have big stories to tell to how there $350.00 =A0wireles=
s
> > system is so much better than the professional alarm system some one
> > already has in there home .
> > and every other lying cock and bull story they come up with.
> > One of my customers heads the local block watch in her community and
> > one of these kids
> > told her how there system was endorsed by the local block watch group.
> > what a sup-rise for the kid.
> > Yes I realise there young ambitious and full of vigor and anxious to
> > make money for school but if you ask me this is no way to sell systems
> > and many of these summer companies have a long list of =A0consumer
> > complaints filed against them as well to boot.
> > free systems was the begining of then end of the alarm industry .
>
> All you can really do is try and protect your customers. =A0Make up a
> mailer that describes the biggest differences or gives them some
> questions to ask these kids that will highlite either the systems
> inferiority or the "saleman's" lack of understanding about what a real
> security system is.
>
> Or maybe something along the lines of Bob's "Why You Yugo Doesn't
> Perform Like a Cadillac" letter.
>
> While doing a system PM a while back, one of our customers was asking me
> about the "lasershield" systems (Rush advertised it - it must be good).
> =A0 All I had to do was describe the vulnerability of not having line
> seizure and the inconvenience inherent in a system that ONLY operates
> with remotes and she realized that even in the alarm biz - you get what
> you pay for.
>
> In the end, all you can do is try and inform them.- Hide quoted text -
>
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I do not do residential except for couple friends and your right about
not wanting those kind of customers but when they start coming over to
the commefcail side with there nonsense it bugs me