Re: BOSS Security Systems

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 24, 6:33=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 8:54=A0am, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > RHC: He shouldn't be spamming a newsgroup either..... So what does
> > that say ? A flashy website doesn't mean squat in this business (look
> > at Alarmforce's for example to see the difference between reality and
> > advertising!)
> > He might be good or not...who knows !!
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> I didn't go to the website but I could never understand why and alarm
> installation company would want to advertise in this Newsgroup to
> begin with. The chances of hitting an enduser, who would follow up one
> single add here, is so remote that it's hardly worth the energy
> expended in the typing. I mean, is it just stupidity or the need to
> aggravate people? I would never follow any kind of spam ad that was on
> a Newsgroup. I'm I alone in that regard ..... or what? I'm thinking
> that if one was going to advertise in Newsgroups that they'd be better
> off posting an ad every day and never stop. At least they'd increase
> the chances that some passerby would think that they were a "regular"
> here and that might ad some credibility. Oh well, nobodys said you had
> to be smart to spam.

RHC: I think it fits the model of a spammer....throw information at a
lot of legitimate email addresses (and in this case newsgroups) and at
least some people will look at it. It costs nothing and "may" bring
results. If you blast out a million messages, there will always be a
few souls that will respond, and if even one of them "buys" your
message or product, then you have made money, and at virtually no
cost.

If I were an end user looking for security services, I'm not sure I'd
ever want to use a security company that has to resort to such tactics
though. But then many consumers aren't very astute shoppers are they,
given their proven propensity to fall for "free systems", poor quality
products such as Alarmforce, and a great many other low quality
systems that you see advertised as well......