Re: Need Advice For Packaged Home Alarm Purchase

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No contract I have ever read claimed a hold on a rate for longer than ONE
year. Of course it's the perogative of any company to raise rates if they
want, most contracts will give a optout to the client with a 30 day warning.
I've only lost ONE client in 20+ years due to rate increase of 6.00 PER year
(50 cents per month).

My lead salesman was a local manager of a big three letter corporate type
alarmco for many years before he came to work for me and he told me of
routine rate hikes of up to 7% at the time. If you have enough clients and
you raise their rates a few percent - sure you may lose a few but the rmr
goes up much more to justify it.

And most companies will make compromises on a one-to-one basis if someone
complains or threathens to cancel anyway.



"Mr.Double-sided tape" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1138391375.867360.158920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|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
| > | >
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| > |
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| > |
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