Re: Removing a phone line on Napco ERROR

["Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> they'll arrange to have the
>>> communicator disabled.
>>
>> Be careful.
>
> I'm always careful.

Actually, I was addressing that to your potential victim.

>> Some alarm companies have been known to disable
>> the entire alarm when told the homeowner wants to
>> discontinue the monitoring service.
>
> I seriously doubt that.

You're probably one of the ones who do it.

>> This isn't too common but it does happen.
>
> A lot of things happen (sunspots, coffee spills,
> snow storms, assaults with simulated guns)...

.=2E. rip-off "professional" alarm installers, automatically renewing,
multi-year monitoring contracts that cost 3-5 times what they should,
etc.  The list goes on and on.

>> One strong indication that the alarm company
>> is less than honorable is if they don't offer to
>> give you the programming access code without
>> a fee.
>
> So charging for a service call to disconnect the
> monitoring, defaulting the panel's communications
> parameters...

All of that takes a clerk like Leuck less than 10 minutes by modem.

> and probably instructing the new homeowner into
> how to program his own user codes, etc...

Heh, heh, heh.  The vast majority never do any of that on disconnect.
They just disable reporting by modem and then refuse to do anything,
even for pay, unless the victim signs a 3-5 year, over-priced
monitoring contract.

> is, in your opinion, "less than honourable".

You spell remarkably like a certain dishonest, expatriate who abandoned
the USA we all know.  Snap-rolled any 737's this week?

> Right.

Wrong.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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