TRUETEXAN
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I was thinking about this the other day, and I thought it might be interesting to hear what everyone thought.
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I fully agree that too many people think "SUE!" the second something bad happens, but they really have no idea how much money, time, and stress are involved in lawsuit. Nonetheless, you can't take that right away. I'm not sure how much suits affect prices out there anyway.. remember that's what insurance is for .Somehow, some way, someone devise a waiver that would make it impossible for lawsuits to be brought...
The competition between LDS and Online stores has benefitted all of us. Prices have gone down and LDSs are forced to improve customer service, because thats all they can do to bring us in. People complain all the time on this board about poor service at their LDS... well competition might help improve that.Make it a level playing field for stores, online brokers and consistency amongst training agencies...