Posted by BrendaTx on 5/17/06 8:58pm
Msg #120604
Indulge me...
I just want to say two things...
-hold your ground
-judge each ss on its own merits.
My network had a good client who was working directly with us. An SS privy to that info thought it was a big favor to us to scoop that client and pay the network members half of the fee we were getting and offer them to us for that as if it were a favor. I gritted my teeth and bit my tongue.
Then when that TC client wanted a ton of fax backs, it caused a lot of hard feelings and some of us stopped taking the signings from the ss when the owner balked at paying $15 to one for fax backs to this TC -- 50 pages.
We began to hold our ground about that...it was not pretty. Now that some of us have enough backbone to say "no more," we are seeing the TC directly again.
In rural Texas, there are not scads of qualified notaries under every bush. Eventually you can burn all your bridges.
I know that some ss's worry about notaries soliciting their clients...but it's tough when an ss friend receives marketing benefits from a group of notaries only to act like $15 is going to break the bank. Cannot see the trees for the forest, that one.
We are all rejoicing that we are seeing the TC again directly. Networks like ours do not solicit ss clients - the one who did is no longer with us, actually...but we hope that when we give an ss's name out to help our good clients and when we have a gentleman's agreement with them...hoping to create more business with that so-called "friend" who can focus on finding notaries in the far regions ... well, you'd just hope they'd own up their their agreement and not get greedy.
It was really hard to swallow for me...I feel as if by referring this person I really screwed some of the network members. I think some are still feeling the consequences.
Good guys like Sylvia's regional ss, Andy Le (NdWa), AMR, Negretes, and a few others are hard to come by. You deal with them and then you think that other ss's will treat you as good and fair...but they'll be here long after that.
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