Pinnacle Security Systems And General Electric BEWARE! PINNACLE SECURITY IS A SCAM TO EMPLOYEES,DO NOT!DO NOT WORK THERE Houston Texas

David(owned a business for 15 years, then decided to find a job on craigslist in houston). How can you call a huge international security provider like Pinnacle Security a scam? It just doesn't make sense. We sell alarms door to door (mostly). Pinnacle spends more money than most any other company to generate an account. What does that mean? Pinnacle allows their sales reps a certain budget  to give a qualified homeowner, anything past that budget would come out of the front end of the sales reps compensation. So if you give a customer 13 sensors when pinnacle allows you to give them 11, then you will be charged for the extra 2 sensors unless you collect money for them. Obviously you gave away too much stuff. I've sold alarms for 5 years. I have successfully funded my life with selling door to door security. I never work more than 6 months full time a year. Why am i good? Everyone that starts with my team is interviewed a bit different than this guy. It is a 3 step interview that does NOT start with craigslist. I put countless hours into training my reps. They follow me and i try to have them emulate me on the doors until they find their own style. I dont' lie and cannot lie. Pinnacle has such an extensive compliance call with every customer that clearly outlines all the payments and timing of the contract. SO even if a person can't read, they hear all the contract details repeated to them on the phone. The customer also does the same call after the install. that's a total of 3 times outlining the rules of our agreement to recieve a system from Pinnacle. If i give away extra sensors i get charged for it, but also i can sell them. I'm really not an emmotional guy and i feel my customers appreciate my straight forward approach. Please talk to a pinnacle manager directly, not a guy who has worked for a week or 2 with little or no success. Also if customers cancel then you do not get paid of course. Yes we get paid great and have fun cool toys. Yes we make money off of our employees, just like any owner of any business. Thanks for anyone who supports logic like myself.

I am a wife to an employee of Pinnacle. He hs worked in the industy for three years now and he makes great money and sales a wonderfull product. He feeds three mouths with his job and not to mention the Home, Car, and stuff we all have is nice too.  I dont think a trusted name such as General Electric would back up a product if it was a scam to a consumer or employee.

I will admit that if you DO NOT do your part by reading your contract or understanding fully how to do the job you will get money taken out of your paycheck if you give too much free struff away. Only an 8 piont system is free, anything over that....well SOMEONE has to pay for it...and if you wernt smart enough to do your HOMEWORK then I guess it should be the person who, in fact, made the mistake.... RIGHT??

David did admit that he never read his contract...... isnt that the first rule of thumb when becoming an adult.....my mom told me...maybe someon should tell you David..."NEVER sign anything without reading it first".... But maybe thats why us "young College studant" types are so successfull.... we do our homework and as a result we make 100,000 a year.

UPDATE:
I must be honest. I tried to contact that blind woman I sold the security system to to apologize. She said that she knew at the time that I was a salesman and that I was going to fabricate things but that she was done using ADT and had wanted to try something new anyways. Although, she did say that Pinnacle was about the same as ADT and that she had had some problems (and said that just like ADT, Pinnacle's customer service was kind of slow to answer her problems), but I just wanted people to know that she kind of knew what she was doing more than I gave her credit for.
But that still doesn't change the fact that I didn't feel right about the dishonest sales tactics I was taught and I was still taken advantage of as an employee and denied wages.

LOL. You are an adult. You of all people should know to read what you can. I don't know who you talked to, but your contract was no more than 8 pages. I signed the same one. I read what I signed however, and I know how I got paid. Yes, you can get paid what they say, if you do it right. Unfortunately for you, you didn't read or understand what you could give away. I don't know what sales experience you have, but you CAN give away your own pay when you don't sell things correctly. Maybe next time you'll read what you sign.

LOL. You are an adult. You of all people should know to read what you can. I don't know who you talked to, but your contract was no more than 8 pages. I signed the same one. I read what I signed however, and I know how I got paid. Yes, you can get paid what they say, if you do it right. Unfortunately for you, you didn't read or understand what you could give away. I don't know what sales experience you have, but you CAN give away your own pay when you don't sell things correctly. Maybe next time you'll read what you sign.

LOL. You are an adult. You of all people should know to read what you can. I don't know who you talked to, but your contract was no more than 8 pages. I signed the same one. I read what I signed however, and I know how I got paid. Yes, you can get paid what they say, if you do it right. Unfortunately for you, you didn't read or understand what you could give away. I don't know what sales experience you have, but you CAN give away your own pay when you don't sell things correctly. Maybe next time you'll read what you sign.

LOL. You are an adult. You of all people should know to read what you can. I don't know who you talked to, but your contract was no more than 8 pages. I signed the same one. I read what I signed however, and I know how I got paid. Yes, you can get paid what they say, if you do it right. Unfortunately for you, you didn't read or understand what you could give away. I don't know what sales experience you have, but you CAN give away your own pay when you don't sell things correctly. Maybe next time you'll read what you sign.

Pinnace is a great company to work for. I have worked with the Houston office several times as an employee and know that if you work hard then you will have a great opportunity to make some good money! You first check they take out standard things such as shirts and what not because simply put, sales isn't for everyone. And most people that quit don't return the shirts they get, which add up. So your first 1 or 2 checks you have shirts and licensing taken out, so yes your check is the amount they say, minus shirts and licensing so they can recoup some cost in case you decide to quit. All summer selling companies like Pinnacl charge you for shirts, and other expenses because as said before it is a high turnover business, door to door selling is not for everyone.

I currently work for Pinnacle Security, I have the system in my home and could not be happier, not only do I own the system, I also am an employee of this company. I have never been promised money that wasn't delivered. My manager does a great job of training every guy under him, and YES my manager does make money off of me, BUT it doesnt take money away from me. He makes money off of me because I make money for his office, that is how a manager of any company works, of course if you are a manager of a sales rep you are going to make money off of your employees that is how it is in ANY sales job.

Of course you are a 1099 contractor, and you know upfront that you will not have taxes taken out. We do get to play alot with this company but only if you work hard, of course we get rewarded for the hard work and long hours we put in. I reccommend pinnacle security for anyone, and yes that means I would reccommend it for my own mother, in fact I pay for her to have our security system in her house! I will continue to work for this company, I am making more money than I ever have before. My manager not only encourages me to stay in school, but also I am a MARKETING student and my manager actually got this job to count towards internship hours.

Travis

I worked for pinnacle for over 2 years, I can't see how people think were a scam, we have great product with General Electric, who has a great reputation! We don't scam people, maybe twist things around, but that per salesreps and tech, if there caught they get fired right on the spot... If you work hard you will make alot of money. I sold i got great money never lied, I installed, I got great money.

So is ADT, Monitronics, APX, and AMP Scammers to? well if we are sure as heck they are to.

Don't say things if you havent actually worked for the company.