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

["Sonicduck" <jones1019@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 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.

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There's a new supposedly up and coming monitoring center in Syracuse,
New York called "Rapid Response Monitoring", or http://www.rrms.com/

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Signs and Stickers are your first line of defense.

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.