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Unication breaks the silence on PII timeline
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JPSan
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Dead horse still has to be beaten....
To ALL the whining crybabies over the charge for the PII upgrade.....
1). Your PAGER is NOT one of the HOBBY RADIO SCANNERS. It was designed primarily as a public safety pager.
2). Unication rep CLEARLY stated WHY the reason for the pricing for the upgrade...GO BACK AND REREAD the post in this thread. LICENSING FEES AND THE PER UNIT FEES that is required by the licensing agreement.
WHAT PART DON'T YOU PEOPLE CAN'T COMPREHEND??? Yeah, yeah you paid for a commercial pager and you demand hobby prices. SORRY. That world doesn't have to cater to you. Plus that laughable comment, I JUST WON'T RECOMMEND UNICATION to ANYONE...I bet there shaking in there boots over your lame threat.
Some of you feel you are owed everything you want because you demand it and expect it.
Thanks!
PS. Can always smash your high priced pager if you're still highly incensed. That will show them...lol. AND...
There are quite a few of us out here who are have a really good laugh at you whiners.
To ALL the whining crybabies over the charge for the PII upgrade.....
1). Your PAGER is NOT one of the HOBBY RADIO SCANNERS. It was designed primarily as a public safety pager.
2). Unication rep CLEARLY stated WHY the reason for the pricing for the upgrade...GO BACK AND REREAD the post in this thread. LICENSING FEES AND THE PER UNIT FEES that is required by the licensing agreement.
WHAT PART DON'T YOU PEOPLE CAN'T COMPREHEND??? Yeah, yeah you paid for a commercial pager and you demand hobby prices. SORRY. That world doesn't have to cater to you. Plus that laughable comment, I JUST WON'T RECOMMEND UNICATION to ANYONE...I bet there shaking in there boots over your lame threat.
Some of you feel you are owed everything you want because you demand it and expect it.
Thanks!
PS. Can always smash your high priced pager if you're still highly incensed. That will show them...lol. AND...
There are quite a few of us out here who are have a really good laugh at you whiners.
phirephoto
Member
To ALL the whining crybabies over the charge for the PII upgrade.....
1). Your PAGER is NOT one of the HOBBY RADIO SCANNERS. It was designed primarily as a public safety pager.
2). Unication rep CLEARLY stated WHY the reason for the pricing for the upgrade...GO BACK AND REREAD the post in this thread. LICENSING FEES AND THE PER UNIT FEES that is required by the licensing agreement.
WHAT PART DON'T YOU PEOPLE CAN'T COMPREHEND??? Yeah, yeah you paid for a commercial pager and you demand hobby prices. SORRY. That world doesn't have to cater to you. Plus that laughable comment, I JUST WON'T RECOMMEND UNICATION to ANYONE...I bet there shaking in there boots over your lame threat.
Some of you feel you are owed everything you want because you demand it and expect it.
Thanks!
PS. Can always smash your high priced pager if you're still highly incensed. That will show them...lol. AND...
There are quite a few of us out here who are have a really good laugh at you whiners.
Not to be rude, but maybe you should reread some of these posts: A lot of people were promised the upgrade would be free.
milcom_chaser
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You mean the good stuff is Mute.
milcom_chaser
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To ALL the whining crybabies over the charge for the PII upgrade.....
1). Your PAGER is NOT one of the HOBBY RADIO SCANNERS. It was designed primarily as a public safety pager.
2). Unication rep CLEARLY stated WHY the reason for the pricing for the upgrade...GO BACK AND REREAD the post in this thread. LICENSING FEES AND THE PER UNIT FEES that is required by the licensing agreement.
WHAT PART DON'T YOU PEOPLE CAN'T COMPREHEND??? Yeah, yeah you paid for a commercial pager and you demand hobby prices. SORRY. That world doesn't have to cater to you. Plus that laughable comment, I JUST WON'T RECOMMEND UNICATION to ANYONE...I bet there shaking in there boots over your lame threat.
Some of you feel you are owed everything you want because you demand it and expect it.
Thanks!
PS. Can always smash your high priced pager if you're still highly incensed. That will show them...lol. AND...
There are quite a few of us out here who are have a really good laugh at you whiners.
There's probably a handful of hobbyists who would like to smash their high priced scanners...
he means "moot". .....as in a "moot point"
JPSan
Member
BUT, do they have it writing???
If they have it in WRITING on the receipt or on a letterhead from Unication
then there not a legal leg to stand on. A promise means nothing in business when
money is involved. Somebody "implied" it would be free probably not realizing they were going to have to pay a per unit fee and other expenses.
A verbal contract won't cut it in a court of law.
Again, screaming, making idle threats and crying about it won't make it so.
If Unication would do a goodwill gesture and "grandfather" the upgrade that would be cool. Again, how many units would that involve and Unication would have to "eat" the loss.
But, they would lose as they would STILL have to pay for the per unit cost that they agreed to in the licensing agreement.
E'nuff said about that.
If they have it in WRITING on the receipt or on a letterhead from Unication
then there not a legal leg to stand on. A promise means nothing in business when
money is involved. Somebody "implied" it would be free probably not realizing they were going to have to pay a per unit fee and other expenses.
A verbal contract won't cut it in a court of law.
Again, screaming, making idle threats and crying about it won't make it so.
If Unication would do a goodwill gesture and "grandfather" the upgrade that would be cool. Again, how many units would that involve and Unication would have to "eat" the loss.
But, they would lose as they would STILL have to pay for the per unit cost that they agreed to in the licensing agreement.
E'nuff said about that.
davidzimmerman
Member
Why Can't people just be HAPPY this works better than a scanner even if it's a Pager?
Because most of todays people think the world owes the everything for free. They may have thought that they could do it and found out BIG M and the Lawyers had their hands tied and they would have to pay a per pager fee for the way the encoder fee works. If you look at KENWOOD P25 add on fees Radio $825 P25 Conventional $575 P25 Phase 1 $520 P25 Phase 2 $400 That brings the price to $2330.00 with no battery or charger and you still have to have a system key to follow P25 Trunking P1 or P2.
APX8000
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It's funny how people jumped all over that paid Provoice upgrade for something that is end of life but won't dish out the $$$ for what a majority of public safety is migrating to in the near future.
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troymail
Silent Key
It's all about marketing -- Uniden pushed ProVoice (just like the hyped marketing for the host scanners themselves) with interactive color maps and like it was a big deal (as I will admit that it is to some who live where they can't hear anything without that upgrade).
Funny thing is in the Uniden case, I still see people shelling out money for something (ProVoice then DMR and maybe one day NXDN) and then wondering "what can I do with this?"....not really understanding what they bought. You think you'd know that before you give them your credit card number....
In this case, people who need it ill get it (just like the pager itself) and those who want everything for free will just continue to complain.
If you don't need it or want it and/or don't want to pay for it, don't buy it.
captaincab
Member
So how can Uniden do it for a 50.00 charge to customers and whislter do it for free? I think this will seriously hurt your business and it should. You kept dragging and dragging out his update and charging crazy money for your pagers and people kept buying them well if you charge the crazy price of 150.00 for an update to something promise over a year ago I think your gravy train might just derail
We dont know the details.
Perhaps uniden has higher volume so smaller per unit fee.
There are lots of details. Why does Kenwood charge so much?
If you feel you have been betrayed and lied to take them to court if it matters that much to you.
I like the product, was an early adapter and was also led to believe it was included, but i got mine used from an individual who may or may not have had the wrong info from where he got it from.
Plus i own scanners and Motorola and Realm gear so this is still cheaper and it works. So ill pay.
Id like it to be closer to 50-100 but oh well ill deal with it.
Perhaps uniden has higher volume so smaller per unit fee.
There are lots of details. Why does Kenwood charge so much?
If you feel you have been betrayed and lied to take them to court if it matters that much to you.
I like the product, was an early adapter and was also led to believe it was included, but i got mine used from an individual who may or may not have had the wrong info from where he got it from.
Plus i own scanners and Motorola and Realm gear so this is still cheaper and it works. So ill pay.
Id like it to be closer to 50-100 but oh well ill deal with it.
Uniden $50 is for PROVOICE and DMR
please guys stop comparing the G5 with Uniden/Whistler scanners. unless you were given a written statement you could get free phase 2 upgrades you have nothing to go by. If unication asks me for 200 USD to upgrade id still pay. if you can't afford it or think is too much then don't upgrade...
god this is annoying
god this is annoying
cpetraglia
Member
Then don't read it. Same analogy. I based my purchase on a promise from Unication that it would be free and soon. It is neither. That's all. I solved my problem with two KNG BK radios.
davidzimmerman
Member
i say its time to close this post down lol
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