Bob Harvey
Gold Member
California, Central Coast
Posts:388
 | | 07/14/2008 10:20 PM |
| Posted By Larry Hardin on 07/14/2008 10:03 PM
...some consideration should be afforded to the poor schmuck that has to pay for it. Yeah, I don't like the cost either - but it is about the same as the fee for IntegraClaim. I just look at it as one of the costs of doing business, and then I don't have a lot of internal friction. The ability to get Email on my Blackberry while I am on the road is also expensive, with service plans, but if it gets me an assignment while I am in that region without having to fire up my lap top it eventually pays for itself. I realize there are less expensive estimating programs out there. | | | |
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Larry Hardin
Adjuster
Oklahoma City, OK
Posts:325
| | 07/15/2008 10:42 PM |
| After the day that I've had today, ......................
I'm just makin' lemonade.
If you're stuck with using Xactimate and don't like it, ............ make some lemonade.
Happy Trails | |
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Mike Kunze
Nebr
Posts:379
| | 07/15/2008 11:26 PM |
| Posted By Larry Hardin on 07/15/2008 10:42 PM
After the day that I've had today, ......................
I'm just makin' lemonade.
If you're stuck with using Xactimate and don't like it, ............ make some lemonade.
Happy Trails Been there, done that.. Hope you had some sugar on hand, or other fitting additives that will cut the sourness of it. Heard the lemons aren't quite in season yet in Oklahoma. | | | |
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Larry Hardin
Adjuster
Oklahoma City, OK
Posts:325
| | 07/16/2008 11:07 PM |
| Ahhh, yes.
The additives.
Life gets better by the minute. | |
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Mike Kunze
Nebr
Posts:379
| | 07/17/2008 2:45 AM |
| Additives??....I think my Mom's great- uncle on my sister's side called them "squeezins". Life just keeps getting better & better, don't it!. | | | |
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Larry Hardin
Adjuster
Oklahoma City, OK
Posts:325
| | 07/17/2008 8:25 PM |
| It does, Mike. It really does.
Happy Trails | |
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Ray Hall
Adjuster
Houston, TX
Posts:804
| | 08/03/2008 2:06 PM |
| You have read my rants about the smoke ,fire and water suckers. I thought they just got togather in a penthouse in Vegas at Christmas Time and invented the contents clean codes and cost. But when I printed out my xmate sheets I found all the cleaning codes. I am still disapointed in xmate for this fraud. Thats why I do not have a Homeowners Policy too expensive with the package concept. | | | |
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Brian Dear
Posts:3
| | 08/15/2008 11:42 PM |
| The crying about how expensive Xactimate is seems ridiculous. It's a tool of the trade and it works well. Have you priced golf clubs lately? People spend thousands on clubs and that's just a hobby. This is our business and tools can be expensive. I find it interesting that no one complains about cashing the checks earned while using Xactimate.
Regarding the original poster's claim that "no one over 60 need apply," unless there is some proof of discrimination, it's irresponsible, not to mention childish (a little irony here) to complain about alleged discrimintation. It is possible that those companies just didn't want to hire you for any number of reasons. Perhaps you were whining about Xactimate too much and they didn't want to have to teach an stubborn dog new tricks. Xactimate is not perfect, but no system is perfect. But, it's efficient and it isn't hard to learn. Like any new skill, it takes some concentrated practice. The Xactware.com scenario training is about six hours long for the Basic and Intermediate level and it will get you up to speed. Additional resources are available. Perhaps the closed-mind is the discrimination criteria, not the age. I have my frustrations with Xactimate just like everyone, but I also get angry standing in line at the Post Office.. that doesn't mean that we should stop using the Postal Service any more than we should complain that particular companies choose to use a particular brand of software. If you don't like the software, then you're free to work for a company that doesn't use it. The free market is great. | | | |
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Bryan Hines
Posts:96
| | 08/18/2008 10:03 PM |
| | "If you don't like the software, then you're free to work for a company that doesn't use it. The free market is great." after your entire post you finally get to his point, although I'm not sureyou get it. Thats his point, almost every carrier requires it. | | | |
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Tom Toll
Life Member
Moderator
Posts:916
| | 08/19/2008 9:20 AM |
| Bryan, come on, almost every carrier requires it. Apparently you don't work with many carriers. None of the companies I handle local claims for requires exatimate, in fact, they don't like it. I use Integraclaim and am using Simsol on a 30 day trial. If Simsol is what I think it is, I will be using it instead of Integraclaim. One reason I don't like it is because I had a contractor years ago tell me that they like it because they could hide fluff in it and many adjusters with little experience could not find it. Exactimate may be required by a few carriers, but your right, we don't have to work for those carriers. | |
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