I am in favor of not having signing services listed as signing services on NR. This is a notary database, not a signing service database.
I don't know how that can be policed effectively, though.
I like what Renee' said, "I wonder what would happen if we NSA's were to list ourselves in the SS venues? What a mess that would make of those lists - do you see my point? Clients who make the CHOICE to seek out a SS would find how much value in a list like that? Fries my cookies =O"
It would be nice if SSs could get a community of their own, wouldn't it?
What about the "cafe"? Did that not work either? Wait...didn't I hear that SSs began to get disgruntled because title companies were able to be members of the cafe just like SSs? That TCs began to have access to notary databases SSs were PAYING for? That made me laugh when a member of the cafe SS folks told me that. Scummy TCs developed their own SS arm and began offering the same lowball offerings that the SSs did. "Not fair!" That's what the members of the cafe said. Ha. Paybacks are heck.
It never crossed their mind that the database they were members of and paid plenty of money for would make their clients their own competition. (Sounds so familiar, doesn't it?)
So, here they are back at NR again doing the same to us. If it weren't for notary databases such as NR, signing services couldn't be as effective in taking business away from notaries.
Perhaps signing services haven't figured out how to become organized into communities because they cannot trust each other to cuss and discuss among themselves. Some signing services cannot understand boundaries and getting beyond the sense of entitlement they feel to have a piece of all the work that goes on around them....so they come here...because there's no place else for them to go...and they want to figure out schemes to make notaries hand over clients.
Therefore, they have their "referral" offerings. Pimping this model is not new. It's been tried by AnnieMae (as I recall), and a couple of failed SSs. (Remember Paul from SigningZ? Andy? They tried this if I remember correctly.) Notaries are NOT completely stupid and they see that there is NO way to know if the SSs will give them their referral fees...so, the model hasn't been successful as far as I can tell....anywhere...by anyone.
Let the SSs list as notaries. Not as SSs. As soon as they are reported and verified for listing they are an SS, they lose their right to be listed. That's how I'd love to see this handled. They've got their place on SC. Let them pay for a listing. "What??? Pay????" That would chap their hide.
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