Now we're finally getting somewhere! This is the first time you have addressed any of my points directly.air_king wrote:Repartriate?
you are clearly the clown...what exactly has Rock exposed besides repeating ridiculous, baseless claims? which i have repeatedly said are false and called him out on.
even though Rock claims that i have not responded to his "allegations", i have many days ago, but just got tired of repeating myself. but, for the benefit of the people in the cheap seats, let me do it again!
rock seems to be questioning my language skills, my time in Phil, my skill set, my time in the business, my prices (pretty much anything he thinks he can talk shit about).
now, this is the point: Rock has known me personally for about 6mo, certainly less than a year, and we have met personally only about 2 or 3 brief times. how the hell can someone who has known me for less than a year, claim to have any knowledge of the level of my language skills, my time in the business, my time in Phil, etc. it is utterly ridiculous for him to claim that he has any knowledge of me beyond one year ago. and anyone who listens to him say that he knows that is the one getting conned!
Rock knows for a fact that i speak AND READ fluent mandarin Chinese. he knows that because he has seen me speak it in a Taiwan, a country where you generally need to speak Chinese. but, the only two times he has seen me in Phil, we were in a group of foreigners, and he only heard me speak English. now, based on that, who in their right mind would conclude that i DO NOT speak tagalog? if Rock says he speaks spanish, but i've only met him twice briefly in a group of english-speakers, how the hell can i make the claim that I KNOW he cant speak spanish. that is a ridiculous assertion to make. besides, do you really think that after learning to speak AND READ a difficult language like Chinese, that i would not be able to pick up tagalog, which is much closer to english? come on...dont be a retard.
as for my time in Phil, my experience in Phil stretches back to 1997, just shortly after the mount pinatubo eruption. Now, rock has known me less than a year. so, i dont know how the hell he can claim to know what i was doing before that and be able to say that i'm lying about 15 years experience in Phil. that is an outrageously baseless statement, no matter how many times u repeat it.
if Rock tells me that he has over 15yrs experience doing business in Mexico, but I've only known him less than a year, then how the hell would i be in a position to say he is lying? its ridiculous to say something like that when you have absolutely no knowledge. that is what Rock keeps repeating. he is wrong, i've said he is wrong, but he keeps repeating it anyways.
as for my business track record. I abolutely have been doing private investigations in Phil since 2003. you said that this is a NEW BUSINESS. that was incorrect. again, this is not something you could know and have no right to make assertions about. you have no idea how long my business has been operating, so to claim that i am lying is bullshit. as i said before, i dont remember you sitting in on any recent staff meetings. so, how the hell can you be telling people here that YOU KNOW the details of my business. the NEW part of my business is simply the website. it is the website that is new, which is why you are hearing about it here for the first time. We recently decided to streamline operations, standardize it, offer standardized rates, and allow people to order online. that is the only thing that is new! so, again, stop accusing me of things that you have no knowledge of.
as for my location. I have businesses in both Phil and Taiwan, and even some in China. And I move between them. there are these new inventions called airplanes, you should look into them. also, there is this new technology. There is also this invention called the internet, you moron, that allows people to work on projects with a team and keep everyone on the loop even when they are not there. I'm sure you know that Winston is currently in the US. did you think that his business stops because he is in a different time zone. so, saying that I am not in Phil 365 days a year as proof that my business is bullshit is ridiculous and shows that you either are a moron when it comes to multitasking or, as i suspected before, just trying to find things to smear.
the fact is that I have business in Phil and Taiwan, and i have a son in Taiwan that i have responsibilities for (do you see now? this is the kind of personal information that i told you many times i didnt want you to force me to give. as i said, replying to all our ridiculous allegations would require me to give personal details of myself. and in a field like private investigation, especially in Phil, you cant let people know too much about you).
now, as for my rates. again, you have NO IDEA about my cost structure. so, saying that i am over-charging is, again complete baseless speculation. just because you, as an amateur, think that you know how to do the same thing yourself for much cheaper, doesnt mean that that should therefore be the standard for all businesses and that anyone who charges a profit is "scamming" people. the fact is, my background is in law, which is how i moved into private investigations, because doing background checks and investigations of people is almost a daily thing in the legal field. And i can tell you that any half-decent firm with real associates and investigators will charge a minimum of about Peso10,000 per hour to do any investigation for you (and a minimum of 2 to 3hrs). so, me charging a flat rate, no matter how long it takes me to get the case finished, is well under what a reputable firm that has standardized protocols like we do. That's the difference between a business like mine, which has serious protocols in place and confidentiality concerns addressed, compared to a bunch of guys who are just good at following people, but have no idea the proper protocols for collecting, storing, organizing, and protecting information.
as i've told you before. you cant just hire some student to handle a case like this. not only will they screw it up, but they will most likely not be trustworthy, which is why i tried to explain to you that we need to spend considerable time vetting and training good agents. that costs money. so, the fact that you think you can do a one-off yourself, has no bearing on what a business with trained staff and overhead should charge.
that being said, in any business there are cheap prices with low end services, and higher priced firms with better resources. you can buy a hamburger in McDonalds or one in a high end restaurant. because the latter charges more, doesnt make it a scam. it just means that they offer different levels of service and different quality of service. so, stop trying to say that there is something wrong with my service just because we are on the high end. maybe you are a cheap bastard. then go to Mcdonalds and get your hamburger.
so, the fact is, most of the things that you claimed to have "discovered" are just based in bullshit on things that you it would be impossible for you to know anything about. you've known me for less than a year, and we have only met personally 2 or 3 times. based on that, claiming to know my business experience for the past 15yrs, claiming to know my language skills, claiming to know where i reside 365 days out of the year, is just complete bullshit and you should be ashamed of yourself for repeating over and over that you know things like this when there is no way you could possibly know any of it! as i said before, ridiculous baseless speculation is not the truth, no matter how many times you repeat it!
now, i want you to admit, that you have known me for less than one year, and met me personally only 2 or 3 times, and that claiming you KNOW my language skills, my skill set, you know where i've been for the past 15yrs, you know what business i've been doing for the past 10yrs...is complete and utterly unfounded bullshit smear!
have the balls to admit that......DICK!
1. Nobody has asked you for purely personal information. So I don't know why you divulged that you have a child in Taiwan since you are so loath to share private information on this forum. I already knew that and know other things about you too, both from you and from others who know you. Taipei is a small pond and Angeles City is even smaller. But I keep things confidential as I should.
2. Instead, what I've been asking about are business related claims you yourself advertised on this site in the beginning. You may think they are insignificant. But if you are fast and loose about small issues, why would anyone trust you with something as sensitive and important as a private investigation case regarding their own personal affairs in the Philippines?
3. Consider the reader's POV. For example, your website says your PI biz has been operational since 2003. Yet in Winston's opening post, he says, "A friend of mine who is moving to the Philippines just started a Private Investigation service there. " and he titles the thread "My friend's new Private Eye service in the Philippines!". Wouldn't that inconsistency catch your attention and lead you to dig further if you were at all interested in evaluating the business? Seems pretty reasonable I would say.
4. So now that you've finally addressed my doubts and reservations, it sounds like:
a. You've been running a PI business complete with a team of investigators in the Philippines for 15 years, much or most of that time remotely from Taipei.
b. You speak fluent Tagalog. At least you can hold your own in a conversation lead by a native speaker about everyday casual stuff without reverting to English.
Is that pretty much it or do you wanna modify anything? Now be honest. I might just have you 'investigated' lol. Jokes aside, just tell the truth here. If you wanna effectively promote your business here, no exaggerations or lies, ok? It would be pretty easy to check you out on this stuff, especially the Tagalog.
5. I think the biggest issue with your promotion on the forum is the prices you are quoting for your signature service packages.
a. Age and civil status are simple and easy to verify reliably and quickly without the need to involve billable hours of highly paid professionals. How would you like it if your law firm in the States billed you $600 to mail a letter to you because one of the firm's partners did it himself and it took one hour of his time (u know how these guys always round up lol). I hope you would agree that it would be way beyond the bounds of reason.
b. However, the most salient point here is that potential clients really don't give a rat's ass about your internal costs or other particulars of your business. If you need to hire 50 people to perform a task which another firm could do just as well with say 5, that's your problem, not theirs.
All the client cares about is the service quality and cost. I'm afraid you still might not grasp this cus you keep talking about how I don't understand the internal workings of your firm as if that's relevant. It's not! If you charge $50 to change a lightbulb, is that justified by your high internal costs? How much extra assurance does one need on a government certified records check? And how do you go about offering this extra security? Do you have it signed and notarized by President Aquino or something lol?
Now these are business questions, not personal ones. So let me pre-empt you from pulling that excuse out of your hat again in case you refuse to answer.
6. As to your question about how long we've known each other, it has been well over a year now since we first met in mid-August 2012.
7. Finally and as an aside, you say, "my experience in Phil stretches back to 1997, just shortly after the mount pinatubo eruption." Kind of odd you phrase it that way (shortly after) given that Mt. Pinatubo last erupted in 1991.
