Terminix ripped off my parents for years but my parents didn't want to start a lawsuit so late in life so in an attempt to thwart Terminix I also signed up for their pest control services. I set up hidden cameras in my house and often went and sat at a neighbors house or sat in my car parked up the street and watched my house when Terminix was there.
Usually after knocking and receiving no answer the man would walk around my house and squirt some spray in a couple of places then be back in his truck and gone in LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES. (I have a 2,350 square foot house all on one floor)
As always, I continued to receive my quarterly bill in the amount of $60 regardless. Sometimes I would insist upon having the inside treated and that is where the cameras came into good use. I would have a neighbor call me and would make an excuse that I had to leave.in my set-up on this scenario I would leave a handful of change or some bills and change laying around my house in several places with the cameras trained on those sites.
Low and behold I caught ON CAMERA 3 different Terminix men pocketing MY MONEY in addition to snooping through drawers, closets and my refrigerator in addition to not treating my house at all and usually leaving within minutes after I did. I had 2 other companies come to my house and do thorough investigations for termites and neither found anything, but when I had Terminix come do a termite inspection you can imagine how I was NOT surprised when the man came walking out of my basement with a piece of wood that had been riddled by termites!
I asked him where he found them and he said in one of the corners of my basement. I asked him to show me where but he said I wouldn't be able to access it cause it was in a crawl space. (I am 5'5" 130 pounds and he was about 6' and pretty fat) The termite inspector salesman went into a high pressure sales pitch and wouldn't take no for an answer until I told him to leave or I would have him arrested for trespassing and false pretenses. Then he told me that he had a wife and kid to feed and really wanted to help protect my house from future termite damage in addition to helping feed his family.
When I showed my parents the tapes they were very happy that they had cancelled their pest control with this rip-off place, even after being threatened by the branch office that they would sue my parents for breach of contract. Our new pest control company is locally owned and very trustworthy, and have never done anything wrong either on camera or off!
Before you call that so called "reputable" pest control company called Terminix you better do your homework and set up plenty of cameras for when they threaten to sue you. It'll stop them in their tracks real fast!
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