Re: Want to move Brinks keypad

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

heheeee.

I am a wise-ass when some stranger calls me in the middle of the night =
and tells me that YOUR alarm is going off. No, it's not...but it does =
sound like your alarm IS (siren in background on his side of phone =
call). WHO are you? Oh...I'm *MR.* Smith...we don't have a monitored =
system. We "just" moved into this house in 1998 and YOUR alarm is going =
off so I cut some wires, now the keypad thing is beeping. No..your =
keypad is beeping BECAUSE you cut some wires...so put them back =
together...or you can pay me to come and do it. How much? Well, if you =
want me to come right now (3am on Christmas eve) it will be 125.00 per =
hour. If you can wait till normal business day it's less. But it's =
beeping. So enter your code. I don't have a code to your, erh,,,my =
system. So like maybe you shoulda called us when you bought the house =
like 7 years ago right?

Yes, the big boys have whored the industry, now many people believe: =
free systems, and free service, when in fact nothing really is free if =
you're charging 42.95 a month for monitoring...forever.


"Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
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> "Crash Gordon=AE" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>  So, the next illogical event is; wife arms alarm system goes out of =
town,
> hubby (who hardly ever uses the system all by himself) comes home and =
cannot
> disarm the system, siren blaring, of course he doesn't remember his =
password
> or his code...but he does freeking remember; where his wire cutters,
> screwdriver, and ladder are. He opens the panel box and proceeds, not =
to
> just disconnect one or two wires, but to cut every freeking wire in =
the box.
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> I was dealing with a multiplexing type system where there was a =
connecting
> block in the AC space in the apartment. The resident couldn't get the =
system
> off and knowing where the technician was working during the install,
> proceded to take a pair of scissors ( all metal) and start cutting any =
and
> all wires in sight. Unfortunately when he got into a 110v line he =
ended up
> on his ars being knocked off the metal step stool he was standing on.
> Luckily his ego was the only thing that was hurt. I am just glad no =
one
> instructed him to disconnect or cut any wires.
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> Then the phone call to me; YOUR alarm is screwed up YOU need to come =
and fix
> YOUR alarm! (Implying: FOR FREE).
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> There must have been a class in school about that. It seems everyone =
has the
> same idea nation wide.
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> Actually, sir, my alarm is fine...you bought the one you chopped up, =
you
> will have to pay for repairs.
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> "What are you a smart ars? I'm calling my attorney!"
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> You can give them all the analogies in the world and they refuse to =
accept
> the fact that they need to pay for service.
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>  Yep..estimated repair time 3 hrs + parts.
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> The problem is that they cannot understand, even though deep seeded in =
that
> walnut of theirs they really do understand, why they got the system =
for
> "free" (not necessarily in your example but what the industry has =
educated
> the public to believe) and yet they have to pay for service.
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> Moral?....fxxk if I know.
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> I don't either
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> "Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Crash Gordon=AE" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > You didn't notice the smiley at the end of my sentence.
> >
> > I don't like my clients tampering with system either...and I =
certainly
> > wouldn't want to get sued because it didn't report or work properly =
after
> > THEY mucked it up.
> >
> >
> >
> > Heh...  Oh please, "Mr. Alarm Guy".  Come out and fix my system for =
free
> > after I screwed it up.  After all I've been a good customer for four =
years
> > now...
> >
> >
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