| 11/30/2006 10:59 PM |
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I found this under the [u]welcome topic[/u]. If you did not make a $100,000 this year this person can tell you what you did wrong. I thoughht Cletus died but I got it from a good source he is alive and well. Check this web site out!!!
www.adjustercindy.com
What are your thoughts on a web site like this.
What are your thoughts on the image this projects on us as professional adjusters?
I just got my license what do I do next. |
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MedulusModerator  Veteran Member Posts:786  
| 12/01/2006 12:59 AM |
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It's a totally outrageous ad. I kept reading, looking for the punchline. When it appeared that it was serious, I was just embarrassed that anyone in our profession is pawning catadjusting off as the equivalent of a get rich quick scheme on a late night infomercial.
Steve Ebner CPCU AIC AMIM
"With great power comes great responsibility." (Stanley Martin Lieber, Amazing Fantasy # 15 August 1962)
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| 12/01/2006 9:18 AM |
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first off why would anyone come on here and brag about their income. i would hope everyone is professional enough not to discuss income. but i also quess in certain circles the sharks do still circle.i am an independant auto adjuster currently working for five different companies . i would honestly tell people look at it in this order.first after you sit down and figure out your income for the year say 100,000.00 how much did you spend to make that amount of income . honestly probably in the thirty thousand range. second then you figure that twenty five to thirty five percent go to uncle for your taxes (social security,income and various others) now you down to the realistic number of your income which based on a 100,000. leaves you with approx 30-35 thousand after taxes and expenses. so in the end ,nothing to be onilne bragging about.i know some adjusters whom work like crazy ,gone from home almost all year lnog and YES make some decent money ,but also give seriuos consideration to this thought now ,at what price did they achieve this . how many things went on at home that they missed or scarificed in the name of earning a living? this is the reality of adjusting . the final price you pay for it personally. in easy to understand terms it has a huge effect on families and lives and sometimes is extremely costly doing this work.i for one salute all of the CAT ADJUSTERS for the daily sacrifices they make in order to do this job . the 18 hours days and the long amounts of time from home. i broke into the home side of this last year with katrina and honestly enjoyed doing all of the automotive cliams i did , but also discovered that the home side is enormous amounts of work compared to autos. just my own personal opinion on this. but honestly people the ones doing this i have met in life do enjoy what they are doing and were really damn good at doing it . this slow year is going to thin out the weeds .and eliminate the get rich quick artists.
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| 12/01/2006 9:24 AM |
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AN JUST HOW MUCH IS ADJUSTER CINDY CHARGING THESE PEOPLE TO SEND THIS THIS SO CALLED WONDER BOOK? AN ONE MORE THING IF MY POST ABOVE OFFENDED ANYONE ON THIS FORUM I PERSONALLY APOLOGIZE NOT MY INTENTION.
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Tom TollModerator & Life Member  Senior Member Posts:1865 
| 12/01/2006 10:43 AM |
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I have some property for sale in Arkansas with an ocean view. 3 acre lot with large home. Send $5.00 for information. (joke of course)
You're all correct. This type of ad is not allowed in CADO, unless she pays for it, however, it is HYPE. Yes, a good living can be had being a Cat Adjuster, working 18 hours per day, 7 days per week, IF WORK IS AVAILABLE. Expenses play heck with the gross and then enters Uncle Sam with his hand out. The ad is not being truthful at all.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Janice R. Martin-TollLife Member  Guest Posts:35 
| 12/01/2006 10:46 AM |
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Can we all say "Ron Propiel"? Isn't there a rule against advertising within the forum. Hopefully "adjustercindy" will delete her website address from her posts.
Janice R. Martin-Toll
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| 12/01/2006 11:03 AM |
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This must be some kind of joke, I wonder without this scam, how much MS. CINDY made this past year. Another black eye on us honest non-working adjusters everywhere.
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| 12/01/2006 1:30 PM |
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As an oldtimer I find this type of ad unprofessional. first of all no book can teach you how to do our job. It takes years of actual experiance and knowledge. This is just one more example of a get rich scheme to pray on others. Just my 2 cents.
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HuskerCatVeteran Member Posts:762
| 12/01/2006 2:40 PM |
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Posted By Janice R. Martin-Toll on 12/01/2006 10:46 AM
Can we all say "Ron Propiel"? Isn't there a rule against advertising within the forum. Hopefully "adjustercindy" will delete her website address from her posts.
It might not be fair to lump Ron in here...he had some very functional products. 'Course that Pocket Fisherman wasn't the best thing if you were trying to catch big fish! 
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Gale HawkinsPowerClaim.com  Member Posts:386
| 12/01/2006 6:49 PM |
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While I have not read the book I will say the promo showed someone had experience writing copy or used a good piece as an illustration. It would be interesting to know what the content is like. I guess getting picked up on CADO can be like getting picked up on You Tube since both can offer a lot of exposure. |
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| 12/01/2006 10:44 PM |
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Tom,
Even though you edited out the web site and people can still get there by clicking on your edit. I feel this renders my thread senseless.
(Edited to remove unpaid advertising) Tom Toll, Moderator
This is adverse unpaid advertising at best. Articles of this nature should be revealed to our community in order to expose unscrupulous individuals who are doing harm to our profession. This also shows the general public(which should not be here in my opinion) that we as a community of professionals do not condone this type of behavior. Cletus was not up to professional standards and he is no longer around. |
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MedulusModerator Veteran Member Posts:786
| 12/01/2006 10:46 PM |
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This one's for you, Huskercat.
This may be strike one for me.
Dogs Can Do It Too!
Do you see the picture? Do you see the look of canine delight? It's so easy my dog can do it. Do you see my dog on a roof? All it needs is a tape measure and it can make $100,000.00 a year! Steve Ebner CPCU AIC AMIM
"With great power comes great responsibility." (Stanley Martin Lieber, Amazing Fantasy # 15 August 1962)
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| 12/01/2006 11:17 PM |
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Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!! I laughed so hard I cried.
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Tom TollModerator & Life Member Senior Member Posts:1865
| 12/01/2006 11:41 PM |
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Larry, I accomplished that which I sought. I note your remarks on another web sight.
You are correct. The type of offer she is making is a discredit to our profession, commodity, or whatever you wish to call it. She or he who speaks from both sides of mouth usually slobbers.
I am in hopes that adjuster cindy will voluntarily remove her web sight from CADO. Most with experience realize this to be a ludicrous attempt to promote something of useless value. You cannot learn to make a bunch of money by reading a book. If you could, I would buy one of those books to sell property and start driving a Ferrari and buy a new Cessna Citation. I know several of us here on CADO that have in excess of 40 years and I can assure you, the knowledge we have did not come only from books, seminars, and schooling, but from tried and true field experience, also known as the school of hard knocks. This job requires knowledge, and field experience.
Adjuster Cindy has accomplished, with your help Larry, that which she wished to accomplish. As said above, I am in hopes she will remove her WWW from CADO.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Gale HawkinsPowerClaim.com Member Posts:386
| 12/02/2006 1:37 AM |
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Steve, maybe you should just quit adjusting and breed “adjusting” dogs then. Your how to book would sell like hotcakes. : ) |
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| 12/02/2006 2:11 AM |
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Posted By Tom Toll on 12/01/2006 11:41 PM
Larry, I accomplished that which I sought. I note your remarks on another web sight.
You are correct. The type of offer she is making is a discredit to our profession, commodity, or whatever you wish to call it. She or he who speaks from both sides of mouth usually slobbers.
Most with experience realize this to be a ludicrous attempt to promote something of useless value. I know several of us here on CADO that have in excess of 40 years and I can assure you, the knowledge we have did not come only from books, seminars, and schooling, but from tried and true field experience, also known as the school of hard knocks. This job requires knowledge, and field experience.
Adjuster Cindy has accomplished, with your help Larry, that which she wished to accomplish.
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Tom,
I concede you have purged more than I will retain in the next ten years. If I sought the answer to a question I could not find the answer to on my on accord, I would value you opinion.
I take exception to this censorship on CADO and all wannabe adjusters with no initiative of their own.
I am curious as to what you accomplished.
I am curious as to what you think adjustercindy has accomplished and attribute my help. I think she is receiving adverse publicity which I do not see benefiting her as she is not getting paid for hits to her website and if there is an idiot out there willing to send her $169 so be it. Who would pay that? Maybe a dumb as dirt wannabe. Break my heart. I would like to see her have the same notoriety Cletus received.
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HuskerCatVeteran Member Posts:762
| 12/02/2006 3:26 AM |
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Ah, ha...Medulus & Canton! There for a moment, I was a little confused after viewing the Gorrila site. Then came over here, and see that the Med Man can be a little ornery too. I was kinda slow picking up on that after being a kinder & gentler form of old Racko.
Yep, gotta give you a foul ball on that one Med..but no strike! Oh, wait I guess a foul ball is a strike! |
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texascatadjusterGuest Posts:27
| 12/02/2006 5:41 AM |
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ROFLOL.....TOO funny, this is such a joke maybe it could be a skit on a Geico commercial, The mass amount of knowledge of a good adjuster would fill more than one book. The skills and knowledge to be a successful adjuster cannot be learned only in a book. If you can teach all this is one book I will buy it......I found this on what a adjuster is........Not sure who to credit....but I did not write it but wanted to pass on
To be an adjuster, one must be courteous, diplomatic, shrewd, an expert humorist, of an equitable temper, slow to anger, a Sherlock Holmes, up-to-date, good looking (with honest eyes and a glad hand), a good memory, good cigars, business judgment, the embodiment of virtue and with a good working knowledge of evil; an adjuster must understand bookkeeping, banking, law, medicine, and human nature. He must be a mind-reader, a hypnotist and an athlete. He must be acquainted with machinery of all types and materials of all kinds and he must know the prices of everything from shoestrings to a skyscraper. He must know all, see all, and tell nothing, and be everything at the same time. He must satisfy the Home office, the local agent, the lawyer, the claimant, the Insurance department, and his family.
It is really hard to find a person of such qualifications, as he was crucified nineteen centuries ago, but we just keep trying." . |
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ChuckDeatonLife Member Senior Member Posts:1110 
| 12/02/2006 4:51 PM |
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Just for me, I don't see what Cindy has done that entitles her to the "bad" stamp. Somebody out there wants to work in the insurance industry and Cindy sells them her version of how to. But a start is a start no matter how you get it, ditto for information.
My opinion is that Cindy's information would assist someone wanting to get on their first storm, but there might be one sentence, just one sentence that would help me make money and if there is then Cindy's information is worth the price.
"Prattling on and on about being an ass with experience doesn't make someone experienced. It just makes you an ass." Rod Buvens, Pilot grunt
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| 12/02/2006 7:43 PM |
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Chuck, I agree with your statement. I don't think anyone is against her product. I think a well written book or course could be an alternative to some of the 3-day mills. It is her approach and presentation that is "bad." The ad is disrespectful to the profession.
Gimme a bottle of anything and a glazed donut ... to go! (DLR)
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