Re: Any tips for a consumer about to purchase a system & contract?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"...Or insist they install everything and
you pick your own monitoring company."

ROFL




"Bill" <bill190nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Some "big" alarm companies can be bigger crooks than the crooks they are
| protecting you from! Beware!
|
| You can get monitoring here for $8.95 a month for example...
| http://www.alarmrelay.com
|
| Read *everything* in any contract they want you to sign. You can be stick
| with an expensive monitoring contact for years which has automatic
renewal.
|
| You can be stick with a system where they only have the key to the box,
they
| have the installation/programming codes, and they will disable it if you
| cancel your contract.
|
| I would get a system where you have the key to the box, you have the
| installation programming codes, you have the programming instructions, and
| you can program it yourself. Also where you can select which company will
| monitor your alarm and switch to another monitoring company as you wish.
|
| Don't go by what the salesman tells you. Go by what is written in the
| contract. Read it - every line. Might be better to have no contract, buy
| your own equipment on the internet, and have an off-duty alarm company
| employee do the installation for you. Or insist they install everything
and
| you pick your own monitoring company. Smaller companies are better if you
| ask me.
|
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