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AM I DOING THIS WEB PAGE? ALTRUISM:
I see people all around me suffering from infestations not knowing what to do and having to spend their hard earned money that should go toward family vacations. THE SOCIAL ENGINEER IN ME: I believe that if all people engaged themselves doing what was most efficient then everyone would be well employed doing the best they could do in all aspects of life. Pest Controllers should become Pest Exterminators, and an adequate market should exist for them without having to take advantage of consumers by allowing or worse: promoting misinformation, or by drowning out great recommendations with far less effective and more difficult do-it-yourself recommendations on their own websites. SETTING THINGS RIGHT: Right after we bought our current house 9 years ago an exterminator automatically showed up to "take care" of our house, and billed us $40 for the visit. We never saw them, we never met them, but somehow they got our name and said we were liable for the service they performed via a contract the former occupant made with them, and even threatened to send collections after us. Of course we sent them packing but here's the kicker: a year later we had termites in the corner of our house ... they were eating through the drywall into the kitchen. We called a pest controller our neighbors recommended and they took care of it, but I noticed some suspicious before he came over that I asked him about ... a weathered piece of wood nailed to our foundation, connecting the ground to that corner of the house. There was nothing else around it, no reason for it to be there, nothing structural ... very bizarre ... it was as if someone had expressly put it there to infest our house with termites ... what's more the nail was rust free, the wood weathered ... wha? What's more, when I showed the Pest Control guy he said exactly what I was thinking: "If I didn't know better I'd think that was put there expressly to give you the infestation you currently have." But wait ... it gets worse: after he left (and after I refused his periodic services, although later he said he needed the plastic bait station back and would charge us like $90 if we didn't let him come get the $1 piece of plastic it was made from) I learned that our neighbors used the same company the prior owners of our house had (the one's who tried to charge us for the pre-existing contract). As it turned out the guy that came to our house to treat the infestation had bought the business just months before from the company that tried to screw us over. In other words, we were paying him to treat the infestation that he prior owners of his company intentionally caused either out of revenge, or greed, thinking I was foolish enough not to notice or know that nailing a termite infested piece of wood between the ground and wooden frame our our house would insure a long and financially rewarding relationship for them. But how can I prove anything without catching them in the act of nailing that thing to our house when we weren't home? Now I'll be the first to admit that most Pest Controllers aren't devious like this and in fact I tend to believe the best in people. Most Pest Controllers, in fact, have been programmed to know only about less effective formulas (one even recommended engorging them to death on Gatorade), and have blissfully never heard of using a formula like Nasquecide, being victims them self (or rather beneficiaries really, when you think about it, the consumer is the victim) of the ignorance and misinformation promoted by the large corporation and industrial networks intended to enrich one another. All industries do this ... don't even get me started with the medical or dental industry - it's practitioners being the best people in the world, and woefully ignorant of the ugly truth behind why their profession is so profitable. So okay, now you probably think I'm a crackpot with that last sentence ... but regardless don't be so foolish as to let that keep you from trying Nasquecide. |