Posted by Mike_D on 7/13/11 10:54am
Msg #389578

Nationalink Closing 60 Miles Round trip

7pm on a Friday night.


'All we can pay is 65.00".


f'n ridiculous.

Reply by Notarysigner on 7/13/11 11:32am
Msg #389582

Ridiculous, thanks for posting the name.

Reply by Mike_D on 7/13/11 11:39am
Msg #389583

accepting at that fee.


after taxes, expenses etc....

i would be looking at less than 8 dollars an hour.

Reply by Calnotary on 7/13/11 12:01pm
Msg #389585

Sure they are taking Europe vacations and funding their kids 529 plans at our cost. We can't work at a loss guys!

Reply by TedG/AZ on 7/13/11 12:07pm
Msg #389586

I don't normally make comments unless I can offer something constructive. Your evaluation of the profitability of this assignment should not be viewed as a standalone order. You can accept and make money on their $65 fee in this instance if you are doing multiple signings daily and you have multiple signings in that area. So instead of a 60 mile roundtrip it turns into a 10-15 mile trip. It's all about multiple orders covering small distances. That's what you get when dealing with Service Link and National Link while running your busines as a business. I will agree that you cannot make money on these fees if you are a low volume mobile notary.

Reply by Mike_D on 7/13/11 12:13pm
Msg #389587

actually we have one in the area with another company at that time. i just refuse to set a precedent of a 30 mile away from my office closing at 65.00.

not to mention their files are huge and they want 50+ pages of fax backs.

how many signings my company does a day or week is irrelevant. if i go visit my mother who lives 50 miles away and there is a closing at the neighbors house should i do it for 50 dollars? absolutely not.

Reply by GOLDGIRL/CA on 7/13/11 12:22pm
Msg #389589

<<I don't normally make comments unless I can offer something constructive. >>

Your post was not remotely constructive, unless you want to alert everybody that you're doing your best to keep the lo-ballers in business. They must love u. Back-slappin' each other as soon as you take their crappy job. Sucka! they're saying. I can just hear them... and the "volume theory" has been soundly discredited on this board many times.

Reply by Notarysigner on 7/13/11 12:32pm
Msg #389593

Re: p.s. volume means...same location, same time n/m

Reply by MW/VA on 7/13/11 12:23pm
Msg #389590

I understand this is the co. that decided it's no longer

paying an e-doc fee. I don't work with them, but my response would be that's fine & then you can overnight the docs. I don't print doc pkgs. for free.

Reply by Mike_D on 7/13/11 12:25pm
Msg #389591

Re: I understand this is the co. that decided it's no longer

actually that was EDOCS included lol.

i forgot to mention. Nlink cant get docs out on time if their life depended on it. let alone a day in advance.

Reply by Calnotary on 7/13/11 12:55pm
Msg #389596

I don't give discounts because...

I am already at that location; sometimes one gets cancelled and I still need to drive all the way over there. Every single signing gets a 2 way trip charge. I don't give discounts because when I get a signing and I am already in that particular city and I just print in my car all docs. My equip. in my car works in my advantage not in the escrow/ss/tl advantage, I paid for it and it has to work in my favor.

Reply by Moneyman/TX on 7/13/11 1:10pm
Msg #389597

Excellent points. n/m

Reply by GOLDGIRL/CA on 7/13/11 1:15pm
Msg #389598

Very smart, Calnotary! n/m

Reply by garland/CA on 7/13/11 1:44pm
Msg #389602

agree! n/m

Reply by CH2inCA on 7/13/11 2:18pm
Msg #389603

Agreed Calnotary

I shipped a Teddy Bears to my niece this morning; 50 bucks! No Fed Ex discount because they happened to be going that way anyway...!!

Bought a cup of coffee at Starbucks this morning...no discount because they happen to making lots of cups of coffee anyway...

Reply by CF on 7/13/11 7:17pm
Msg #389646

CH2inCA- loved the Starbucks analogy!!!! LMAO n/m

Reply by BossLadyMD on 7/14/11 1:33pm
Msg #389705

Laughing at your analogies....so very true lol n/m

Reply by Kathy/NJ on 7/13/11 6:46pm
Msg #389644

Re: I don't give discounts because...

just wondering what equip you have to print in your car?

Reply by Calnotary on 7/13/11 6:58pm
Msg #389645

Re: I don't give discounts because...

I have a Brother MFC, laptop and a purewave inverter. Total investment is around 2400.00 dollars.
Not worth it right now. Not enough business to have all that money invested there. Mine it paid by it self already but if you want to start right now it will take you years to recoup your investment.

Reply by Mike_D on 7/13/11 10:03pm
Msg #389654

*Update*

Got a call about 6 hours later saying my fee had been approved. Looks like they gave in this time.

Talked with the scheduler a bit and they said that they are not a fan of this either. Apparently they have been inundated with emails. Also, they said people used to be happy to hear from them and now everyone is very angry thus making their job very difficult. They also said it was taking them hours to schedule closings that normally took 15 minutes.....

Reply by Lee/AR on 7/13/11 10:14pm
Msg #389655

Re: *Update* Hooray!!!!

Glad to hear your update. Now if SL would just learn from their mistakes~~

Reply by JanetK_CA on 7/13/11 10:41pm
Msg #389658

Yes!!!!! Great news!!

If it's taking them that long to fill orders, hopefully at some point the low fees will no longer be a cost-effective policy and they'll have to rethink it if they want to stay in business.

Reply by MW/VA on 7/14/11 9:32am
Msg #389675

Re: *Update*

It's been suggested before about contacting vendor management about these fee issues.
The schedulers are only trying to do their job.

Reply by Cecy/VA on 7/24/11 9:56am
Msg #390930

I got the same call and I told them to remove me from their list...jajaja