Tag: David Bleisch
ADT wins first round against Capital Connect
December 2, 2015Amy Canfield
BOCA RATON, Fla.—A U.S. District Court granted ADT's request for a preliminary injunction against Capital Connect, a Monitronics alarm dealer, barring the company and its sales force from allegedly making false claims to ADT customers. The next step will be to take the case to trial, David Bleisch, ADT general counsel, told Security Systems News.ADT sued Capital Connect, claiming it told ADT customers it was affiliated with ADT or that their alarm systems needed to be upgraded.Capital Connect...
Deceptive sales practices knocked at ESX
July 13, 2015Amy Canfield, Spencer Ives
BALTIMORE—Diane Pruitt, a resident here, recently had two young men knock on her door, lie to her about her security system and which company they were from, and persistently tried to sell her a different system.
Derrick Layton, a retired Baltimore police officer had a similar encounter, even after he told the solicitors they were dealing with a police officer and showed them his badge.
Pruitt and Layton shared their experiences at ESX 2015, held here, during a news conference about deceptive...
New door-knocking scams prompt ethics code revisions
June 25, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
NASHVILLE—ADT says unscrupulous door-to-door sales reps have some new scams and the Electronic Security Association has updated its code of ethics to specifically ban them.
“One of the new ones is people knocking on the door and [falsely] saying they're either from GE or from Honeywell and that they make the equipment [the customer has] and they now have a new preferred monitoring company,” David Bleisch, ADT general counsel, told Security Systems News.
Then the unethical...
ADT offers up to $25K to expose security sales scams
May 28, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
BOCA RATON, Fla.—ADT is offering as much as $25,000 to anyone willing to blow the whistle on security companies that train their door-to-door sales teams to use deceptive sales techniques, the home security giant announced this week.David Bleisch, ADT general counsel, said ADT believes some sales reps working for unethical door-knocking companies want to speak out anyway, so this offer is designed to encourage them to do that. “We want to also provide additional incentive and recognition...
ADT sues Vision—again—over alleged deceptive sales practices
November 18, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Just months after settling one lawsuit with Utah-based Vision Security over what The ADT Corp. characterized as Vision's deceptive sales pitches, ADT announced today that it has filed a second lawsuit accusing Vision of similar practices.That latest filing seeks to prohibit sales representatives of Vision, a door-knocking company based in Orem, Utah, from using deceptive sales techniques, and to obtain further damages and attorney fees.The new lawsuit comes shortly after Vision...
ADT takes Pinnacle to court over sales tactics
December 2, 2010Tess Nacelewicz
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Residential security giant ADT is suing Pinnacle Security in federal court, alleging the Utah-based summer model company and its employees used unlawful and deceptive sales strategies to steal ADT's customers and damage its reputation.
ADT also accuses Pinnacle of theft of confidential information about ADT customers and breach of contract.
However, Pinnacle, formerly an ADT dealer that went independent in 2006, “vigorously denies” the allegations.
Pinnacle contends...
ADT sues copycats
October 7, 2010Martha Entwistle, Tess Nacelewicz
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Residential security giant ADT says it is actively going after security companies, big and small, who make “the mistake” of using signage that looks like ADT's trademarked octagonal, blue sign. This summer, ADT filed lawsuits against three companies and won permanent injunctions against those companies, which means they're legally prohibited from using the blue octagonal signs to advertise their businesses.
“This is a case where imitation is not the highest...