NWRA Response to GlassStarz

[AutoEgo]

In one breath you say without the replace industry repair could not exist. The next breath you say that the very organization you want me to support is tirelessly fighting to take away 80% of my livelihood by limiting the area I can do my repairs in?

I got news for you. When you come after 80% percent of my business I'm not going to be your friend! I'm trying to build this business and I'm busting my butt to do it and you just told me that with the stroke of a pen your organization wants me out of business before I get started.

Someone try and set me straight, cause you definitely lost me there.

Sean

[desertstars]

There are so many legitimate good points posted on the side of the NWRA and legitimate bad stuff posted against, that it is impossible to take the time to separate the wheat from the chaff.

And I won't.

But, for the apologists, to simply say that a windshield REPAIR organization cannot successfully overcome steering; cannot convince the insurance companies to STOP dealing with incestuous networks rather than unaligned networks; and to further state that the reasons are because of lack of support is pure bushwa and a matter of placing the cart in front of the horse.

The NWRA receives little support from repair only shops simply because the NWRA seems to deal with esoteric matters rather than dollars and sense.

I can't prove it, but I'd be willing to bet that given a fair shake of the dice, every repair shop that joined an honest, objective network would receive ten times the leads they receive now; steering would become almost non-existent; insurance companies, the environment and the policy-holder would benefit; and the NWRA membership would increase as well.

Simply a matter of addressing the priorities.

The very stated assumption by a NWRA member that it took Safelite to alert the NWRA in re the Connecticut proposed legislation reveals something about the NWRA in itself.

And even that saintly largesse can be looked at in a different light.

One cannot steer a repair to a replacement if one doesn't receive a repair lead in the first place.

Finally, NO ONE that I know of on this forum believes that EVERY combo-shop practices bait and switch or employs incompetent repair techs.

I do not assume that and I have never suggested that sort of universal condemnation.

To state or even hint that any of us have ever used that as an argument against replacement shop membership in the NWRA is to start out with a false premise and that kind of fuzzy thinking or obfuscation almost invariably results in false conclusions.

Either we are talking about the NWRA here or we are talking about the NWRRA here and let's call a spade a spade.

[Brent Deines]

Now don

[DaveC]

Both of these actions will ultimately benefit you. Some things are exactly as they appear, not what you are afraid they could be.

Brent,

Nothing is ever as it appears!!! Ever go to a bar, late at nite, in the French Quarter of New Orleans?? :-s

I smell a conspirancy!!! AND, this all seemed to have started about the same time that Jeff, Coitster and desertstars accepted their "new" positions 16 days ago :-k

[desertstars]

A spin can be applied clock-wise or counter-clockwise assuming spin is applied in the first place.

I wasn't aware that Safelite had notified the NWRA of the (at the time) impending Connecticut repair limitations.

But, since I consider myself a realist, I'm locked into questioning the motives behind that notification coming from a company notorious for steering.

When in doubt; follow the money.

I see a question about Safelite's financial status at the onset of their network compared to now. A google search will reveal some very interesting information in that regard.

We can discuss the matter of w/s manufacturers ownership of networks until the cows come home but let me ask a few questions.

Would any of us be willing to turn our customer lists over to our competition?

(We already reveal our customers everytime we submit an invoice to the network.)

Would each Safelite location open up their lists of customers to each of us?

(What's good for the goose is good for the gander.)

Is there anything in the network contract that precludes Safelite from mass mailing YOUR customers if they feel like it?

I can just see Allstate giving their client list to State Farm or vice-versa. Or Delta giving their's to their competition.

When pigs fly, maybe.

And yet, we are forced to divulge ours.

[desertstars]

I saw the same blurb, Brent.

It's not a question of paranoia at all and thank you so very much for the $2500 Harmon.

And, I'm sure that Bush appreciates the campaign contributions from Enron and Halliburton and they in turn expect nothing.

Or Kerry carries no baggage in some regard?

Is it TOO much to ask that our industry is not dragging around a bunch of dead weight, Brent?

Is it TOO much to expect that we can have an organization EXCLUSIVELY dedicated to the livelihood of entrepreneurial repair techs without being infested with remoras and ticks along the way?

Perhaps I'm looking at a gift horse right in the eye, but $2500 seems cheap enough to me to keep a finger in the pie.