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<br />Nevada Appeal - News <br /> <br />Page 1 of 1 <br /> <br /> <br />All doors are shut to alarm company sales people <br /> <br />Sales representatives accused of 'persistently trying to get into homes' <br /> <br />Becky Bosshart <br />Appeal Staff Writer <br />June 10, 2006 <br /> <br />A security system company that sells door-to-door no longer has a market in Carson City, after residents complained to <br />the sheriff that sales people were a little too pushy to enter homes. <br /> <br />The solicitation permits for APX Alarm, of Provo, Utah, were denied Friday after residents flooded the sheriffs office <br />with complaints this week. <br /> <br />Sheriff Kenny Furlong said Friday that 18 alarm sales people were working in Carson City this week before their <br />solicitation permits and business permit had cleared. <br /> <br />"I think they were falsely representing their company," he said. "They were being overly aggressive with our residents, <br />and I chose to revoke all the solicitors' permits, which causes them to lose their ability to go door-to-door." <br /> <br />Furlong said callers complained the sale people were "overly persistent" to get inside homes. He said the office received <br />15 complaints on Thursday. An APX official said it was his sales people that were harassed by the sheriffs department. <br /> <br />"It seems the only people harassed here are our employees, most of whom are college students working their way through <br />school," said Alex Dunn, APX Alarm vice president of business development. <br /> <br />Furlong said his name was even brought into the sales pitch. <br /> <br />"There was a complaint that they were representing that I had purchased the product, which is not true," the sheriff said. <br /> <br />Furlong said it's unusual to deny solicitation permits even before they've been issued. If any APX sales people continue to <br />operate in Carson City, they will be cited. <br /> <br />Dunn said all company sales people were pulled from Carson City after receiving the sheriffs call Friday afternoon. <br /> <br />"We're happy to remedy any situations we hear about, but the sheriff wouldn't allow that," he said. <br /> <br />APX operates in 37 states and is expected to install 100,000 home security systems nationwide. Dunn said the company <br />has about 60 customers in Carson City and the sheriffs action is denying more Carson City residents access to its security <br />system. <br /> <br />· Contact reporter Becky Bosshart at PPQsshart@l1evadaappealcQm or 881-1212. <br /> <br />BACK .. <br /> <br />http://wwW.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/2006061 O/NEWS/1 061 00059/0/FRONT... 6/21/2007 <br />