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weednpornnpolitics t1_j6awrwb wrote

Oh! So I worked for these shitbags back when the sold alarm systems under the name alliance security, and previously vms alarms. They were dealers for monitronics and safe home security. The owners name is jay gorta, and him and his team of career sleezeballs including brian fabiano, john hull and barry crins have been flim flamming for the last 15 years. There were several sec lawsuits for terrible sales practices; lots of us were contacted by us attorneys about it. State and fed dnc violations, fraud, obtaining full hard credit pulls using accurint, which they werent supposed to have access to in the first place. Pitching everything free then saddling the customer with YEARS of debt and headache. The bbb does nothing, your best option is to talk to the attorney general. Their current biz model is absurd, they get these young money hungry guys, GAS them up and get them to sell 50-100% above market price. Last I heard they were starting at $6 a watt. The company wont do anything; they encourage the behavior you described. "fuck em, knock harder." Good luck dude.

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nodumbunny t1_j6b9c2n wrote

Thank you, I feel a lot better for having turned away a young woman who rang my bell and interrupted my work day - I felt so bad because i was sure she was under pressure to sell and someone had probably sold her a bill of goods over how great the money would be. I told her "I'm in middle of my work day I can't talk now" and she said "Is there a better time to come back?" I just said "No, sorry." I could have been nicer and said "it's just not in my budget now" or something like that but she caught me off guard. I hope she gets a real job where she can make some real money soon.

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Low-Medical t1_j6cuhha wrote

But, I just don't get how this sales model is supposed to work? Haven't they heard of a "hard no"? You get a hard no, you move on to the next prospect. It's a numbers game. It actually seems like it's wasting their own time to keep bothering people who aren't interested.

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