Re: Devcon Buys Out Coastal Security, Adelphia, & Guardian

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should see what they bring to the trade shows!!

"Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sonicquack wrote:
> >  Emergency24 in Chicago for $4.50 per month per account. I charged
> > $14.95 per
> > month with 30 day written cancellation notice at anytime. I never had a
> > customer leave who wasn't moving.
> >
> > *****************************************************************
> >
> > There's a new supposedly up and coming monitoring center in Syracuse,
> > New York called "Rapid Response Monitoring", or http://www.rrms.com/
>
>
> You obviously haven't visited their website.  I wouldn't call being
> founded in 1992 either "new" or "supposedly up and coming".  They're
> employing a slick new webmaster though...  If they used a "bent" instead
> of a motorcycle in their "Shockwave" opening page, you'd see Mark L.
> posting from somewhere in NY in no time.  :-)
>
> "Serving Dealers who want to exceed the expectations of their own
> subscribers and being the best provider of monitoring services,
> protecting lives and property, anywhere."
(http://www.rrms.com/history.html)
>
>
> >
> > I wonder what they are charging....and Stanley, I realize you have to
> > make money to stay in business....and I don't want anyone dropping dead
> > by me saying this...but to be fair to the small business owners
> > here....
> >
> > It is probably LESS expensive for a huge company like ADT, or Bell
> > South Security from Protection One, or BRINKS (that has only ONE
> > monitoring center, and whose own Brinks Armored Guard Division has been
> > said to be monitored by ADT) to monitor customers, than small business
> > owners, many of whom are posting here.
>
> The cost of monitoring your account base goes down with each customer
> you have.  That's simple mathematics.  There's always fixed costs for
> equipment, building, staff, etc.  The more customers you have means you
> can divide these costs over a larger base.  What school did you graduate
> from??  The Donald Duck Academy??
>
>
> >
> > So, why pay a huge conglomerate for monitoring, when you can have
> > essentially the same exact services provided, for LESS money in most
> > cases, by a smaller dealer?
>
> Because the smaller dealer can't (in most cases) front the cost of
> equipment and installation like ADT (or the bigger conglomerates) can...
>   If you purchase your system from ADT, the monitoring fees will be a
> lot lower too.  I know of several customers that did that and are paying
> $18.95/mo.  Get your head out of the weeds and have a *real* look around
> there "Ducky"...
>
>
> >
> > Name branding does LESS for your money, rather than more.  If the huge
> > conglomerate screws up, they have deeper pockets to pay he lawyers to
> > get them out of a jam.  The smaller guys HAVE to do a better job in the
> > beginning, during install, in order to KNOW that everything is OK, and
> > no one has to worry.
>
> Are you inferring that ADT just "slaps-in" equipment and "goes"??
> "Ducky", you've gotta fly to a new pond.  The one you're floating in is
> so full of shit it's a wonder you can breathe normally...
>
>
> >
> > The bottom line is the small print, and in it, you will find so many
> > exclusions that absolutely NO SECURITY COMPANY out there will be found
> > liable if you get broken into  while being monitored.  Otherwise, you
> > would find hundreds, if not thousands of lawsuits yearly.
>
>
> Hmmmm...  In your previous "quack" you said that the huge conglomerates
> have "deeper pockets to pay he lawyers to get them out of a jam".  Now
> you're saying that the "fine print" excludes that possibility.  Last I
> heard there *were* hundreds (if not thousands) of lawsuits against
> alarmco's filed every year.  It's the reason responsible alarm dealers
> maintain an insurance policy that includes "failure to perform".
>
>
> >
> > THAT is why I say security systems are a rip off, at least monitored
> > ones.  Hell, put a few signs in your yard, and ten stickers or so on
> > your windows.  No one in their right mind (not that crooks are anyways)
> > would try to break in.  They don't know (other than the signs) what you
> > have or don't have.
>
> The burg part of a security system is only a component of a total
> security package.  There's smoke/fire and gas detection as well.
> Stickers are going to do you a whole world of good when it comes to a
> fire...  Sho-nuff!!  Yep...  My house is entirely protected by stickers.
>     They're the foil kind that'll survive any fire.  I'm sure that if I
> put enough of 'em on my house, I could even upgrade its fire rating!
>
>
> >
> > Signs and Stickers are your first line of defense.
>
> Are you sure you haven't immigrated from Europe??  Ever sold any vacuums
> or wireless headphones in Belgium by chance??
>
>
> >
> > Or....sign up for a year or two, get the signs and stickers, get new
> > ones as your contract nears the end, and then cancel.
>
>
> How about scanning some in and printing 'em on your colour bubble-jet??