Re: Please recommend a non-monitored system

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 10:57:08 PM UTC-5, Jim wrote:
>> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:22:56 PM UTC-5, tourman wrote:
>> > > > I just LOVE long term contracts.....
>> > >
>> > > So will I, when I cash out. $46.00 on the dollar right now for 2 year
>> > > or more contracts.
>> > >
>> > > I'll guess that you'll be getting about $00.46 regardless of what
>> > > people are telling you that they're willing to pay you now. When you
>> > > get to the table, is when you'll discover the cost of your
>> > > foolishness. There's just no getting around it. Term contracts are
>> > > what buyers look for in spite of what you have deluded yourself into
>> > > thinking. Also, you'll probably not ever see it personally but your
>> > > son will someday have to "pay the piper".
>> >
>> > That's crap. I have a standing offer of $28 for month to month term
>>  contracts.  Doesn't matter a hoot since we'll be looking to
>> sell...oh...some 40 years from now.
>>
>> So .... you're actually calling me a liar?  and $28.00 ??????  .... and
>> you still think that month to month contracts get just as much as term
>> contracts? You're actually pitiful if you do.
>>
>> And, oh yeah ... 40 years???, you'll not be around to be able to compare
>> what your son "could" have got if you'd had any sense at all.
>>
>> All I've got to say is, as much as you're not here any more, it's been
>> that much more enjoyable not having to listen to you constantly moan
>> about contracts and ADT ..... Jeeze   man ...... get a fucking life
>> already.
>>
>> Nobody else here harps on anything since your rotten fuck friend asshole
>> buddy did us all a favor by dying a nasty fitting death.... but even in
>> your short appearances here, you've still got to carry on endlessly with
>> your incessant bullshit. I never make one mention pro or con about
>> contracts neither here or any other group that I participate in. I know
>> that some people use them and some people don't but .... so be it. I
>> don't care what they do .... but if they, like you, would try to bully me
>> or anyone else with a pack of lies as you do ..... ain't gonna happen.
>>
>> The very fact that you endlessly have to bring the subject up shows just
>> how much your that your main objective is to cause turmoil over something
>> that's so fucking radical in the alarm trade that you think that you have
>> to constantly defend it.  There's no one here who cares what you think
>> about contracts in the past or anymore. We here all KNOW what you think
>> about them and no one will ever try to convince you to think otherwise
>> ..... that is until you start with the same old horse shit you've been
>> spewing out of your mouth for years. Get off the soap box ..... the rest
>> of the industry isn't listening and we don't want to hear it either. And
>> especially since it's now the ONLY thing you contribute to this group.
>>
>> I believe that's called being a troll ..... right? You wouldn't be
>> following in someone's dead footprints ..... would you?
>>
>> How proud he must be........ I'm sure he's looking UP at you admiringly.
>
> No one here is calling anyone a liar, least of all me. By questioning my
> numbers, it's more like you are calling me a liar if I wanted to carry
> this stupid discussion to it's end point. It amazes me to see someone I
> really thought was a professional calling another a liar and acting just
> like those you oppose, simply because conditions are quite different in
> your area versus mine. Then you go on a rant about Robert Bass who you've
> obsessively hated since day one and who has nothing at all to do with this
> discussion. We disagree strenuously on some things and that's ok, but you
> just joined the rest of those who insist on dragging every discussion to
> the bottom of the barrel. I only stayed on in this newsgroup on an
> occasional basis [VERY occasional] because of the very few who do know
> their stuff. Clearly this newsgroup is pretty much useless for
> professional discussions by pros in the business. Now you've just added
> further reason to sign off for good. I predict, it won't be long before
> others do as well and you can continue to talk to yourself....
>
> You're old school and there's nothing wrong with that. But times are not
> the same as when you and I started in business.I wish you well in selling
> your business when the time comes.
>
> So I'll sign off for good and I hope you have a nice life (and I mean
> that...)

To be fair, you come on pretty strong with your anti contract pitch.
Sometimes stronger than others.