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A Screenplay For The Pre-Employment Screener
October 03, 2013 posted by Steve Brownstein
By Steven Brownstein
Hey, dude.
Yeah?
I can’t help but notice how some companies have changed their prices by more than half.
What do you mean?
I mean, like I was paying maybe $90, $100 last week and now they’re only going to charge me $40, $50 dollars!
Wow. That’s great!
Well, dude, that’s the problem. I’m not so sure about that.
Why not? I mean, $50 is a lot of money.
Right, but why the price drop? How can they do it? Am I getting the same product?
Probably not. But man, it’s like big money.
Big money, nothing. You know how much I’m on the line for liability if I make a mistake?
But imagine how happy your boss will be when he sees the increase in profit.
Funny guy, you know I’m the boss.
OK. So I make a joke or two. But what the heck how bad can it be?
How bad can it be? Let me tell you a thing or two.. I looked at their Web Site.
Yeah?
And I see they’ve changed it. It’s got scrolling ads and looks real savvy.
Right, I’ve seen it, too.
And it shows great prices but two things scare me.
You...scared?
Yeah, kind of. I mean it all looked good until I noticed that every country mentioned in their scrolling ad showed the search done at the local court.
You know I didn’t see that. All I saw was the price.
And I didn’t realize that until I clicked on a country link or their order now form that they were all the same price and same local court.
Now that you mention it, I kind of noticed that, too.
And worse, was that when I clicked on order now, I thought that I was on one of those, you know, buy a national criminal record search for $29 Sites. You know the ones that at best use those databases.
Yeah, I can't believe anyone buys from them.
And if I was to order from these guys, it doesn’t make sense.
No?
I mean, if the best they can do is offer me a product at a lower price and try to sell it to me just because...
Dude, you’re right, you’d have to be crazy.
Crazy would be an understatement. There wouldn’t be an ounce of credibility left in what I was trying to sell.
So what you going to do?
Nothing. Well, not exactly nothing. I’m going to let them sell their $39 searches to the public just like those national databases. There’s no credibility in it anyway and sooner or late it's going to come and bite them in the ass. And better their ass than mine.
You’re a genius, dude. That’s why I like you so much.
