Re: DIY - Sometimes....

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 4, 8:22=EF=BF=BDpm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2:05 pm, Frank Olson
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> RHC: Uh....not to jump in to the middle of this pissing contest, but I
> won't work on a non monitored system for any reason - period!!
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Wellllll!     I guess if you can jump in  ..... I will too.


> Why not?...for several reasons..
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> 1- My business model is not to sign parties to anything other than a
> month to month contract. So if they want their local system serviced,
> I do it, and one month later they leave me ?

You look at it that way. Everyone else in the world would ask .... why
in HELL would ANYONE offer only a month to month contract?   And I DO
mean EVERYONE.  So that says that it's YOUR erroneous premise of
offering month to month contracts and free service that puts you in
the position of not wanting to service non monitored accounts.  If you
got paid for service calls and/or had term contracts, you wouldn't
have these things as "reasons" to have a problem with non monitored
accounts.

> 2- Local alarms are next to useless and I won't waste my time and
> someone's money fixing a local system.

Annnnnnd yet you promote the fact that physical security is so very
very important and should always be employed. And you've said that you
were in the physical security business .......only, for years before
you offered alarm systems. So what would be wrong with having just one
more deterrent like a local alarm system?  Seems rather duplicitous to
me that on one hand you say that you're so magnanimous with regard to
your clients and won't lock them into a long term contract, even
though it's detrimental to the value of your company, but you don't
seem to have a problem turning away people who don't want to pay you
for monitoring.

> 3- With too many accounts now, I reserve my limited time and energy
> for servicing my RMR paying customers.

And I'd imagine at about this point you've occasionally wondered how
much more you could be making on service calls,  ummmmm that is if you
didn't have another source of income for yourself and if you really
wanted to give your son a business that had some greater worth.


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> I gladly help people when they call me, but I simply won't waste my
> time (even billable time) on a local system. Luckily, virtually
> everyone I deal with sees the logic in
> having their alarm monitored properly, especially when it comes
> bundled with service and 100% warranty and all at a reasonable market
> price !

Sure ..... in the same way that the people who get the "Free" alarms
installed.  There are always people out there looking to get something
for nothing and by giving away a piece of the equity of your business
to every customer, that's what they get. Something for nothing.  Of
COURSE they see the logic to it .....  It's just that they don't know
what you're giving up to give them what you do.

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> Sorry Frank, but you asked.....-


Sorry Bob, you didn't ask ..... but I thought you'd like to be
reminded......-