Re: Here you go housing starts in the dumper

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 21, 9:19=A0am, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 12:29=A0am, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Jan 20, 6:57=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > RHC: You said the majic words Nick !! =A0Residential accounts that wa=
nt
> > > everything for free are definately NOT my market. The crowd that buy
> > > phoney "free systems", or don't expect to pay fair market price for a
> > > system; who don't mind being suckered into overpriced, long term
> > > contracts, are a significant minority of people who are....(not
> > > necessarily in this order)....unsophisticated, lower economic "class"=
,
> > > poor shoppers, easily suckered by unsophisticated adverstising; simpl=
y
> > > have no money and won't likely ever have; don't think things through
> > > past the end of their nose; or are just plain downright stupid !
>
> > > I don't deal with these types of customers from the get go....it's
> > > pretty easy to send these types packing within a couple of minutes of
> > > starting to talk to them. They usually end up with either ADT or wors=
e
> > > yet Alarmforce....
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> > It's just a lot easier to say that the people who buy these systems
> > would not be my customers to begin with.
> > Sometimes, after they've had one of the cheapie systems for awhile,
> > some of them will become egermeckcated and learn the hard way. Some of
> > those I get occasionally.
>
> > > So ...yes....comparing the situation where you have to deal with thes=
e
> > > kinds of =A0customers, versus dealing with commercial accounts, I'd h=
ave
> > > to agree with you....
>
> > > (Damn...after 20 years in this business, I'm starting to get awfully
> > > crusty.....)-
>
> > See? =A0NOWWW you know why I'm so cranky all the time ....!!!
>
> RHC: Naw....you're not cranky, it's just that you (and I) have been in
> the business so long that we see how absolutely stupid a lot of people
> can be ! =A0But no matter how much we rant about it, there will always
> be loads of shoppers who will go this way, and there will always be
> loads of "money machine" companies like ADT and outright scammers like
> Alarmforce who will continue to value a customers money over their
> security.
>
> That's just the "way of the world" I guess....

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