Dear FP,

I understand your concern.  We are asking for people’s fees to be entered into our new system, as we have just created an application to track jobs better.  This is a proprietary application for us, in our company only.  Vendor info, client info, etc. would never be shared or sold. It’s a totally secure system. This is a high-powered WHOLE office application.  Only our staff has access, and this is not a directory or clearing-house type of site.  This is strictly a portal where our title searcher vendors can get into our system and add in their information, fees, coverage, products, and upload W9s, E&O, licensing, etc.  We want to go live using our new super-tool soon.  Just wanted to give searchers the opportunity to get their info into the system so we could pick them for our work.  We don’t do anything with our vendor fees other than use the fees when we assign work.  We don’t get your fees and review them and then change our fees or try to undersell you, or anything like that.  I understand that you may be able to tell who some of our clients are because you may recognize search instructions, but we don’t know who your clients are, so we can’t go to your clients and do anything as a result of having your fees.  We don’t know who any of our vendors’ other clients are; we don’t know what fees they give to other people—we don’t know anything other than, our vendors tell us how much we have to pay them when we send them a job.  If you want us to send you jobs, we have to know how much to pay you.  That’s the only reason we are asking for fees.

Sincerely,

Angela