Re: Hey Rob Blaire

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 13, 2:17=A0pm, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> Over 16 years as an owner and I still don't buy Optex if there is any
> >> other product in the world that will do because of you. =A0Imagine tha=
t
> >> could have been 16 years of product loyalty...
>
> >> Come on guys. =A0Its too quiet in here anyway.
>
> > So what did he do to piss you off for 16 years, because
> > ordinarily you're not one to bear a grudge or have a bad word to say ab=
out
> > a
> > distributor or manufacturer, even when they don't perform as expected.
>
> Nothing much at all. =A0Certainly not anything worth holding a grudge for=
 16
> years. =A0He just turned his back on me coldly and rudely in mid sentence=
 and
> walked away when I was a fairly new alarm company owner saying loud enoug=
h
> for me to hear clearly and in a tone I interpreted as pretty nasty, "Wow!
> Only been in the business a few months."
>
> This from being gungho to get me interested in his product and even offer=
ing
> to send me samples of items to try out.
>
> "So, how long have you been in the business"
>
> "Well, we started this company about 3 months ago... "
>
> TURNS SHARPLY AND WALKS AWAY TALKING TO HIMSELF CLEARLY LOUD ENOUGH FOR M=
E
> TO HEAR IN A NASTY TONE.
>
> "... but I've been a communication technician for about six (6) years, an=
d
> I've had a computer service business for the last couple years," which of
> course he didn't hear.
>
> I never got those samples he promised. =A0I never got an apology. =A0I ne=
ver
> even got a threat to sue me for continuing to bring it up every couple
> years.
>
> Me and a buddy of mine were over at King Alarm for a dinner banquet and a
> sales pitch for about 3 manufacturers. =A0We were all excited. =A0I had j=
obs
> going. =A0The bills were getting paid. =A0We were going to our first "tra=
de
> show" and learning all kinds of things. =A0We thought were going to go pl=
aces.
> One of the folks from King had called us and asked us to come so we did.
> Figured it was a one of our first steps towards really getting serious an=
d
> professional about the business. =A0I left shortly after my interaction w=
ith
> Mr Blaire, and I have never been to an alarm trade show of any kind since=
.
> Why bother if the people who want you to buy their product treat you like
> shit. =A0My buddy (and employee) was standing there with me. =A0When I tu=
rned to
> look at him a moment later his jaw was still hanging open.
>
> The folks at Napco do everything for me I could learn at a trade show and=
 a
> heck of a lot more, and I don't even have to leave my office.
>
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> Yuma, Az 85366
>
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>
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Many years ago I did  a lot of electrical work and the one place I
bought all my stuff from treated me very badly one day I walked out
and never went back this after  the previous year I gave them $250,000
in business buying stadium lights etc. and after my sales went back to
normal of about $100,000. it was like who the fuck are you.
The day i walked out the owner was coming in he saw how upset i was
and he never once bothered to call me to find out what the problem was
over 30+ years between what I have bought and my customers bought just
in electrical equipment is well over 4 million dollars all of which
these ass holes could have had .
Well they did not learn and them and a bunch of other jag off
electrical distributors are now gone in my area. 14 supply houses in
all. None of them learned a dam thing.
Its the little guys like me who come in pay cash/check  for what we
buy, do not haggle price and keep them fluid with cash while the big
guys dictate price and when there going to pay.
Some supply houses are smart others just never get it and are gone.