Re: Help after break-in Brinks system

["mikelewis1971@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <mikelewis1971@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Crash Gordon wrote:
> Except you can't takeover a Brinks system, so he'd  have to buy new
> equipment...panel & keypad(s) at least. The new company will have to spend
> time figuring out the Brinks wiring as well.
>
> I've never heard of any company basing the price of radio backup upon how
> many keypads you have installed...seems weird.


Yeah, I agree that is weird but they make up all sorts of abitrary
costs.  One company I worked for used to charge additional money for
every contact monitored.  Biggest rip-off I've ever seen.

But, he shouldn't have to buy new equipment.  Dealers for the larger
companies usually absorb the cost for the installation, new control
panel and new keypad and then incorporate all the contacts.  As long as
the contacts are N.O. or N.C., there should be no problem.  It's all in
the resistance, after all.  But even if the sensors need to be
replaced, unless it's a large system with lots of
contacts/motions/sensors, it shouldn't cost more than an activation fee
and the first months monitoring.

The cell back-up will cost but because the price has dropped so
substantially, he shouldn't have to pay more than $200 for the unit and
maybe a few dollars more a month but the company I work for now doesn't
charge anything for the additional monitoring.  I think cell back-up is
the new plan for the future of alarm monitoring anyway.  Phone lines
are just too damn hard to protect and for just a few dollars you can
get better coverage; so why not.  I don't know what the prices for all
this stuff is countrywide but in the northeast, we're begging for
clients whenever we can find them.  You'd be amazed at  all the stuff
we throw in just to get a deal.  Maybe other cities and states operate
differently but I'm just going by what I know.