Dec 30, 2013
Group of Israeli mercenaries run 7 of 8 solar installation branch offices under the name of A1 Solar Power and feed their one-call-close sales crews the leads they get from these telemarketing efforts, based out of the back rooms of their Van Nuys headquarters in a telemarketing sweat shop staffed by tattooed junkies, and other desperadoes.
A1 denies any affiliation with the telemarketing business, which is not only literally hidden behind their corporate offices, but also legally hidden behind a different corporate name.
Very sleazy operation in the round.
Works like this: they get in the house by promising free systems, or huge rebates, or both, then pressure people not familiar with solar into highly overpriced contracts with bogus discounts and worthless 'rebates.' Then they hope their marks don't talk to other companies before the 3 day cancellation period expires. About 50% of everything they sign, the lucky ones, cancel the next day or as soon as the sales person leaves the house, which us often 4 or 5 hours after they arrive. This is considered the cost of doing business this way, and they don't care except for the obey thet don't get from these folks. The rest of their customers get substandard installs do eBay untrained, sometimes unlicensed, subcontractors, who routinely work within routines rife with permitting, leakage, labor, and material problems. For their part, the sales person are told to never look back, and the person answering the customer service line purposely knows even less about what us going on. This is all part of the plan.
They don't plan on being around longer than it takes to fleece most of the sheep, so they don't care that they are giving solar a bad name.
Too bad for solar, and A1's customer.
I hope they can be put out of business.