** I have thought of something
before that is an honest consideration that I have considered bringing up to
potential tarp customers, which is: Do you think there could be a conflict of
interest in having the company that sells you new tarps also be the decision
maker in deciding when your tarps are "unrepairable"?
It seems
like they would have an incentive to be quick to declare a tarp "unrepairable"
so that they could increase the volume of new tarps they sell you. Think
about it...why would somebody repair tarps for free? Or even at no
profit? Do our customers deliver freight for free?
Doesn't really
make a lot of sense if you think about it. Unless...perhaps if you could
sell the victim a lot more new tarps, now that would make sense to someone who
was of such a mind.
Now this is not to say that they don't repair any
tarps, they certainly do. After all, they have to maintain
appearances. As a degreed accountant who has worked in a professional
setting, we would call this a breakdown in controls, a failure in the system
and we would feel obliged to point this out to our clients. This
principle is called separation of duties, it basically means you don't give
people unfettered access to your wallet.
I think those same potential
customers of ours could ask their accountant about separation of duties and
whether or not it's important and he would give them an ear full. Those
same customers might find that if they engaged a company that truly had a
financial interest (an incentive) in repairing their tarps or they did it
themselves, they may find that the number of new tarps they have to buy goes
down significantly and the amount of money they spend on tarps as well.
My Grandparents' generation knew this well...that's why everybody I grew up with
knew the saying: "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Sometimes I think that a lot of people didn't listen to their Grandparents. **
Even if a company like that just
decided to "not put all their eggs in one basket" (again listening to
Grandparents), the company doing the repairs for free or for no profit would
have a diminished incentive to try to pull one over on them. Regarding
those free repairs, have you ever gotten one of those calls where they
say: You've just been selected to win a free vacation! Sometimes
free gets mighty expensive.
Have a safe driving day,
Harp's Tarps
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