Re: Help after break-in Brinks system

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They may absorb the cost of panel/keypads, but not without a 2-3 year
contract...I wouldn't either.

<mikelewis1971@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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