Re: Need Advice For Packaged Home Alarm Purchase

["Mr.Double-sided tape" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx>]

I have NEVER seen one case where a monitoring rate increased with any
alarmco big or small. I know for fact that ADT, Brinks, and Monitronics
(to name a few) still have customers paying $20 per month. I have
serviced accounts for all 3 of these companies. Jim Rojas has more than
likely seen the same when he was doing service for these companies. I
can still recall one Monitronics customer paying $15 per month which
included warranty and cell backup.
This constant misinformation about rate increases is just another scare
tactic, and it's based on war stories from small dealers who look for
anything to bash a national with.
Look at the back of a local dealer's monitoring contract and nine times
out of ten they have the same clause. It's a clause dealing with cost
of living increases/inflation and it's never enforced. If alarm co's
attempted to enforce it they'd lose their clients at the end of the
original term, and with nationals they are looking for a retention rate
of around 8 years so rate increases on existing clients would be
suicide.

Crash Gordon wrote:
> Until you read the back of the contract...at least the old contracts I have
> on file state you don't own the panel.
> Also, the bigger companies will escalate the monitoring fees almost
> yearly...and some even base your monthly on your credit rating.
>
>
> "Mike" <wxyz09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:BUfCf.12447$zh2.7618@xxxxxxxxxxx
> |I called ADT.  They tell me I own the alarm system but I need to sign a
> | three year contract at $32.00 a month.
> | The two independent contractors I called didn't call me back.
> |
> | Mike
> | "Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | news:437bt1hsu9g8458foqbtfckrjhtphh9sue@xxxxxxxxxx
> | >> Brinks uses proprietary equipment...
> | >
> | > Correct.  Allow me to elaborate on what Crash said.  By using
> | > proprietary equipment Brinks makes it impossible for you to ever
> | > switch to a different provider when (not if) you become disgusted
> | > with their service and angry over excessive charges for routine
> | > service.
> | >
> | > Not only can you not have the Brinks system monitored by anyone
> | > other than Brinks.  No one can repair it when (not if) it breaks
> | > down.
> | >
> | > Lastly, and this is something the Brinks salesmen almost never
> | > tell anyone during the con... er, sales call, when you decide to
> | > stop paying for monitoring Brinks will not allow you to change
> | > the system to a local only (non-monitored) system.  If you don't
> | > keep paying for it from now until Jesus comes back, you're
> | > totally jiminexed.
> | >
> | > --
> | >
> | > Regards,
> | > Robert L Bass
> | >
> | > Bass Burglar Alarms
> | > The Online DIY Store
> | > http://www.BassBurglarAlarms.com
> |
> |
> |