How come two retired police officer's sell radar and jammers

[statusquo]

This has been nagging me for some time so I thought I'd ask.

I've noticed some others in law enforcement when they retire go into the bar business or liquor store business. One even owned a strip club.

I know all are legal, at least in some jurisdictions, but does anyone else find it a bit odd? Seems like they are feeding the frenzy, or at least, being counter-productive to the industry they served - if you get my drift.

Sort of like a minister retiring and opening an occult store.

No trying to be a S@ss, but just wanting some enlightenment.

[AirMoore]

Well, only Roy can tell you that... (and what I am going to say in this post is not Roys opinion in any context and I am not speaking for him.)


My question to you is why not be in a legit business?


He helped the economy (or government rather) by generating revenue for many years for them (tickets), now he is generating some for himself? Whats the problem with that?


As far as being counter-productive... trust me there are always enough speeders without RD's out there to get tickets... they are called rabbits.

Furthermore:
Roy probably also knows that wether or not people have RD's they speed, and they are going to speed no matter what (I am sure he had ticketed hundreds of RD users and non-RD users alike)... so its not really being counter-productive in that aspect either.

[MEM-TEK]

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[Radar Roy]

To answer some questions here, after I retired in 1997, I started my own web design company

I always had an interest in radar/laser and traffic enforcment so I created radarbusters.com in the begining as an informational website

After designing sites for other customers, charging them then only $500.00 and then they turning around and make a ton of money, I figured why not

So in 1998 I decided to make radarbusters the number one website in the industry.

We have over 1600 pages of content on radarbusters along with radardetector.net, radarjammer.com with a few others

In 2003 we started ranking #1 in Google for radar detectors and I have been working my butt off to provide outstanding customer support with in great product and information support.

Why? Because I love my job!

[Stealthcb]

After designing sites for other customers, charging them then only $500.00 and then they turning around and make a ton of money, I figured why not

LOL! Hey, I need a website....

[thestaton]

hearing Roy's whole story is amazing. in the end its all about knowing your product better than anyone else. who else than someone who was a radar instructor to say which rd is the best?

[Radar Roy]

After designing sites for other customers, charging them then only $500.00 and then they turning around and make a ton of money, I figured why not

LOL! Hey, I need a website....

Here is the funny part

One of my first clients was a guy that came to my house and said "Roy, I want a website that sells rocks" I looked him in the eye and thought he was crazy...

He explained that he was making fiberglass rocks in his garage for years use in landscaping. He sold local and figured why not go national.

I charged him $500.00 and six months later he got a contract with one of those "big box" retailers you see on every street corner to make rocks for them. He moved to Washington, got a large building and took in 75 new employees.

During this same period had a client come to me and say "Roy, I want to sell dirt". Now I knew she was crazy until she explained that her family owned a kitty litter mine and a bi product could be mixed with yogart and used as a skin cleaner. It took her eight months to sell her online company.

Two successful websites later and only having $1000.00 I said it was my turn.

Thus radarbusters.com was born.

Since I designed www.tirepressuremonitor.com for another client and then a new site launched last year, horsetrailermonitors.com. Both of those have been very successful for their owners too.

The key is to find your nitch, work hard and make it the best site in your industry. It will take time, took me four years with Radarbusters.com then 10 hours a day seven days a week after that.....

[happya$$]

After designing sites for other customers, charging them then only $500.00 and then they turning around and make a ton of money, I figured why not

LOL! Hey, I need a website....

Here is the funny part

One of my first clients was a guy that came to my house and said "Roy, I want a website that sells rocks" I looked him in the eye and thought he was crazy...

He explained that he was making fiberglass rocks in his garage for years use in landscaping. He sold local and figured why not go national.

I charged him $500.00 and six months later he got a contract with one of those "big box" retailers you see on every street corner to make rocks for them. He moved to Washington, got a large building and took in 75 new employees.

During this same period had a client come to me and say "Roy, I want to sell dirt". Now I knew she was crazy until she explained that her family owned a kitty litter mine and a bi product could be mixed with yogart and used as a skin cleaner. It took her eight months to sell her online company.

Two successful websites later and only having $1000.00 I said it was my turn.

Thus radarbusters.com was born.

Since I designed www.tirepressuremonitor.com for another client and then a new site launched last year, horsetrailermonitors.com. Both of those have been very successful for their owners too.

The key is to find your nitch, work hard and make it the best site in your industry. It will take time, took me four years with Radarbusters.com then 10 hours a day seven days a week after that.....

Roy your hard work shows. You forgot the part that having a heart of gold helps

[statusquo]

Thanks Roy for the explanation. Neat history lesson. It seems like the geek in you paid off.

Fwiw, I bought two gps units from an active sheriff in Fresno, CA working out of his house. His wife runs the business while he's out in the helicopter. He price-matched almost anyone out there and I was surprised he was close to me. Great service too. His closets were full of stuff! Local retail shop got really upset he was doing it out of his house and could discount like he was.

I'm not knocking it, it's just that it seems ironic to me, a layperson. I don't know how other Leo's feel about those who own detectors, but when I read that blog of theirs (link posted here some time ago) they seemed they hated them to the point where one was almost guaranteed to get a ticket if they saw it.

Maybe if you gave all your buyers an "Authorized and sold by Radar Roy, Retired badge #5555 from California Highway Patrol" sticker on the unit they'd get a better break since it was recommended by a fellow officer?

Personally, I'd like to be the cop who opened the strip club. :shock:

I'd worry about being a bar owner though, unless I could influence others on the beat to arrest patrons of the other bars. :wink: