Alarmax Distributors just screwed every Small Alarm Dealer in Pittsburgh

 I have been a loyal Alarmax distributors customer from day they opened after Rodger Graff started it after Triangle Electronics  which he worked at went out of business in late 80s.

There location on Liberty ave  in Pittsburgh not always the easiest to get into but they always where able to get me the parts I needed for alarm and camera systems.

 Since I am a smaller company I always paid cash and what ever the price was like all the little company's who buy there. averaging 50 to 100 K+ in Purchases every year .

It was the little guys like us who helped keep Alarmax flush with cash   when they ventured into providing the Big Regional company's   with hundreds of alarm systems etc. and adding more branch locations .

The Big Company's dictating what they would pay and when they paid it.

Rodger knew this and always took care of us little guys. 

Unfortunately Rodger passed away and things started changing and it was getting harder to get Parts we needed especially special order items .

Now going to the supply house was always a good networking thing you got to see other dealers  and talk shop over what was going on in the industry over a cup of coffee and manufacturers reps would come in and show latest new products , and some times offered a nice simple lunch . and training classes .

BUT NOW THAT'S ALL GONE 

Alarmax now has changed the branch to the Big Dealers only and they expect us to order everything from their Cleveland Branch which has had a bad reputation  for years  and now  have our product orders  dropped shipped to our home office. 

No more just walk in and get what you need when you need it. no more seeing other dealers who I will probably never see again unless I bump across them in the field 

The Corporate Suits who decided to go with the big money and screw the little guys have taken over and

Rodger has got to be turning in his grave.

Needless to say I will no longer purchase from Alarmax  . There are plenty of alternatives available.

Why they would take such a risky chance and deal with large alarm company's that are highly leveraged and a house of cards financially and have little to no real assets other than locked in contracts which people will break if economy goes south  I will never understand . But I can see the coming down fall of Alarmax. Every Electrical Distributor who played this game failed in 5 to10 years in this area. 

 

Was David Croyle Framed on a Child Molestation Charge ?

 

 I meet Rev. David Croyle  back in the early 20s when he was interested in purchasing  the then WAVL 910 AM Radio station in Apollo Pa. 

He asked me if I could stay on and engineer for him  while he was under a LMA agreement with the current owner and he eventually asked me to do some engineering and security work for him at his location in Kittaning where he owned WTYM 1380 AM.

Unfortunately the agreement with WAVL fell thru and station was sold to some one else but stayed on their as engineer and for David.

 David owned several joined buildings in downtown Kittaning  on N Jefferson Street .One store front was his community Newspaper operations and also served as an small entertainment venue in the rear 

 

the next store front was the family life chapel where he was minster the next store front was the Radio station Operations which included a low power TV studio and finally the last storefront was his apartment and storage

 

I took care of station engineering and also did minor electrical work for David in the buildings and  fixed minor computer networking issues when he had them on a casual as needed basis.

Many in the community did not like David they saw him as a grifter and conman and a little on the weird side.  

But David was a good man who did a lot to help his community.

He Ran for and became a Armstrong County Commissioner and that's when the problems started .

Including several break ins and having to update his security alarms and cameras.  Some one was not happy he had become commissioner and was determined to see him done in.

 

But Davids world would come crashing down 2 days before he was ready to launch his new FM translator  when he and a Fire Marshal from community across river from his where Arrested

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/church-pastor-fire-marshal-teen-boy-sexual-assault/

 

David had little money for defense and a friend put up most of the money to defend him. 

While he was out on bail David came to my fathers funeral and swore to me he was innocent and was being set up by those who he had dirt on who where corrupt and stealing from the public. including  high ranking Armstrong  politicians and Judges .

Davids attorney asked for and was denied a change of venue this should have been automatic grounds for appeal due to fact David was a commissioner.but appeals judge ignored Davids appeal after his conviction.

After reading the trail transcripts I saw many legal challenges which where missed and should have been explored including the Grinder Account a gay meet up site  on Davids computer which I never saw when working on them for him. 

Plus knowing there had been several small break-ins that as far as I know David reported  to police  it would have been easy to plant  evidence.

The 14 year old in the case also had a history of lying and false accusations according to David who hired him to deliver copy's of the paper he printed.  

 David claimed photos of him supposedly having sex with the kid where not true and he had marks on him he could prove that it was not him. 

But despite all the questionable stuff to the case David was convicted and served his sentence of 5 years  and was denied an appeal ..The fire Chief was convicted and committed suicide while on bail.

 Davids friend who paid for his defense and kept his apartment paid for called me and said he had He developed cancer while in prison and asked for compassionate release again he was denied and he died just a few days after release.

David swore  the truth would come out by Gods own hand when he was  released ,and who knows Karma is one of those strange things. 

Was David lying to me the whole time ? who knows and now we will never know . Hopefully some group or person in the years to come who has the time and money to take a hard look at the case come along and prove or disprove Davids Accusations .

In the mean time I hope David and the victim have found peace.