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Gino J. Morrow

No, I deleted it. It was spam... please, if you want to offer your service then go in and edit this particular post.

I got pulled into a deal like this once. and NO it wasn't free. turned out they hardly ever recovered my checks and was taking 1/2 off what they did recover. i do my own recovery thank you very much

What does spam mean?

Here ellas... hope this helps. Thanks, excellent question. http://www.tantalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=2320431&forum=1&0

Boy I must have hit a nerve with this guy. He sent me a message in a very upset tone saying I am narrow minded. Oh well, once you been burn from places like this you get that way.

Mitzi,

You must have been burned many times that you now expect it.

It is interesting that you did not disagree with what I said.

Unfortunately, I did not use the word narrow minded . . so it sounds like you connected with that word yourself.

Oops, I made a mistake in quoting you. Following is the pm you sent me and to me "not being open minded" is the same as being narrow minded.
As I stated before, I was promised the very same thing you are promising. NO COST TO THE MERCHANT. Well I found out the hard way that was BS from the people I dealt with.
You say I am being negative to you. Well I am just informing people in this community of the dealings I had with a "Free" Check Recovery company.



unforunately you may think you are familiar with this product, but it appears you are not.

in case you are wondering, there no costs to the merchant, at all, none, zero.

and from your negative slant in your response, you must not have an open mind to ideas to make you more profitable.

well, thanks for the response, anyway

Dear Mr. NF Recovery,
As business owners, we deal with companies trying to sell their wares to us each day, every day. I personally spend 20% of my time listening to their spiel and trying to politely say no, sometimes for the umpteenth time in one week to the same company. I do not visit the message boards to have to deal with more of it.

We have earned the right to be leary of someone telling us we are not open minded about being profitable. Puh-leeze...your tone hinted of condescension. I am grateful for other salon owner's input on how to deal with these companies. If you don't fit the mold then perhaps you should post a little more information about how your system works (so we can print it out for future reference). Then someone here might try you out and let us know how ethical or unethical you really are.

The fact that you posted here at all tells me you are not familiar with the dynamics of our industry. Our clients prepay for services. After they give us a check, chances are we will be seeing them on a daily basis. If the check go bouncy-bouncy, they have to deal with us face to face. I don't think bad checks are as prevalent here as they are in other retail establishments, so there is little need for services like yours.

Good luck

Why do you need a service call some friends take a ride to the house hang by the garbage can after dinner and "collect" when they come out, Jezz in NORTH JERSEY we have the better Ideas

That's why you are in North Jersey...

Whew, thank God for South Jersey!

LOL @ Jim and Laurie

This topic couldn't have come at a better time. Someone just came into the salon yesterday with the same information--different company. She said same thing. No cost to me,they collect from the customer. It is called "Ready Receivables". Anyone know anything about it?

Kathy
BellaDonna Tan

Kath, don't waste your time or money with any of these companies. I do my own collections and so far have had a 100% recovery rate. E-mail me, or call me at the salon this weekend and we can talk.

South Jersey?? U mean Delaware right? New Jersey ends after Seaside Park (only in the summer)

Gino,

A little bit of advice for you. You cannot expect to sell your product by arguing or attacking your potential customers.

Don't expect to come here, post your messages, engage our moderators in an argument over interpretations of your e-mail wording and expect to win business from any of us.

It doesn't work very well that way. If you have a legitimate and ethical solution that could help us, you can post information and we can then contact you IF we are interested.

To all who have replied:

Wow folks . . quite the opinionated group . . cynical too.

You all must have all the business you want, based upon your responses and pre-judged "know-it-all" stance and bashing of colleagues in your industry.

Regarding Tamar, I AM a business owner, owning multi, high volume, successful salons,
I haven't the time to spend "collecting" NSF checks, personally, nor do I want my staff. In the store, all personnel are "sales and service" oriented, not collection agents.

I spend my time driving the vision of my salons, increasing sales, grabbing more market share and being very aware of new and different ideas to help further that cause.

It has been my experience that SOME of those companies trying to "sell their wares" have provided me with very profitable ideas/services/products which have been VERY beneficial to my salons.

I wish those of you who have responded, so negatively, to this post, owned their salons near mine. I would greatly enjoy capitalizing on your perspectives towards business, and, specifically this industry.

Well, if I have upset what appears to be this little "coffee clutch," my apoligies.

And tangirl, if I may borrow from your quote, "growing old in your mindset allows many of life's opportunities pass you by."

In closing, "thanks" for making my first encounter with this website so "warm and friendly."

If there are any business owners who DO NOT share the views, as expressed in prior posts, please feel free to contact me.

Mr. Morrow, my post was directed to Kath, not you. If you took offense to my post, I'm sorry.

Since, I do not have a lot of returned checks, I do my own collections. This gives me the opportunity to make sure my employees are doing what I've trained them to do.

Mr. Morrow, you also need to understand that many of us do not own several salons and have the manpower that you obviously have. Using a collection agency takes money out of our pockets. Most agencies talk half of what they collect. It costs me $2 to do my collections myself. As a small business owner that has to cut costs any way that I can I would rather lose $2 off of a $20 sale as opposed to $10.

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On 2001-10-31 10:58, GJMorrow wrote:
And tangirl, if I may borrow from your quote, "growing old in your mindset allows many of life's opportunities pass you by."


By the way, I do mind you borrowing my quote. You have twisted it into something it does not mean. My quote does not mean that I allow life's opportunities to pass me by. In fact, it actually means that I will stay young enough mentally to take risks and pursue opportunities.

Becky,

Thanks for your thoughts. I was never my intention to "attack or argue" with the people on this site.

What seems obvious to me, by demonstration, is that a "warm welcome" to a new person joining tantalk is not commonplace.

Even the "moderator" could have had a pleasant manner regarding my apparant mis-use (un-intentional)of proper posting for this site.

Instead, I was met with very un-friendly, advisory, responses to what was an innocent attempt in sharing useful information.

I do not treat my clients/colleagues/associates with a negative/doubtful demeanor, yet, that is how I was treated here, thus far.

If this "jaded" response is commonplace here, I think that is unfortunate, in that this site had been highly recommended to me.

Maybe a little less "judge & jury" approach might be more inviting, it would be for me.

I am unsure how this site is managed, and I hope these comments will be utilized to improve it.

I certainly have been surprised by the "friendly fire" received from those whom I thought were peers.

Thanks!

Tangirl,

Thanks for your reponse. My apologies in my use of your quote. As you can see by others'posts, it appeared that many of them draw conclusions before understanding or wanting to understand.

FYI: The recovery service I utilize is an electronic one which monitors the NSF check account, and automatically pulls the funds when they become available. I DO NOT CHARGE YOU EVERYTHING . . . this is NOTHING for providing this service. I get paid by the person who bounced the check, as allowed by law. The advantage I have, over merchants, is that I get gain access to their account to monitor it for available funds.

Very large retailers, like KMart & Target utilize this same method, and do it house, because of their size.

Thats why I believe our industry can benefit from this technology as well, and I can provide the means.

Thanks again for responding.

Solid... my "Reply" feature is doing weird things...

Let's close this and start over. Gino... would you mind starting a fresh topic and we'll go from there?

I apologize for any misunderstandings. Gino I apologize for acting before I investigated further. I sincerely hope that Gino will still contribute and explain to us at length the details of what he can do.

Thank you.