Dish Network Retailer Chat (3/17/05)

[SimpleSimon]

I'm guessing that they will not be selling them long once the department of agriculture gets wind of it. You must be a licensed pest control reseller to sell products like that to the public and that's a license in every state which is maintained by update credit's. Maybe they are licensed but I doubt it.

Wrong. You can buy pest strips, etc. in a grocery store. No reason similar chemicals couldn't be packaged to fit in the shroud, and sold under the same (non-)restrictions.

 

[Stargazer]

They should make them included in every system since there is such an issue with this, not charge extra for it.

 

[Darkman]

Iceberg,

Is this really you on that Picture (and Tank) .. also in your avatar?
Just wondering....

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Wrong. You can buy pest strips, etc. in a grocery store. No reason similar chemicals couldn't be packaged to fit in the shroud, and sold under the same (non-)restrictions.

Actually not correct (sorry Simon) here in Connecticut if a Satellite Installer installs a pest strip as part of their installation they are required to have a pest control license.

I found this out yesterday, it was the first I have heard of it.

 

[SimpleSimon]

Ah - I stand corrected.

This proves my past posts about so much of this stuff being locally regulated, tho - and also my point about some of these places being a bunch of frelling dictatorships (like the People's Republic of Boulder).

So, in Conn. a customer can install something they buy in the supermarket, but the tech can't - without PAYING for a license he'll never use for anything else. Ridiculous.

I'll bet there's even a law against letting the customer climb the tech's ladder to do it himself.