Re: online DMP dealers?

["Steve" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steve wrote:
>> "alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Steve wrote:
>>>> "blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>> West Alarm <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:29:55 GMT, blueman <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Is it impossible for a consumer to buy DMP parts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow - I wish I knew that 2 years ago before I committed to a DMP
>>>>> system...
>>>>
>>>> DMP is an over rated closed system.  Make sure your monitoring
>>>> contract does not automatically renew and terminate it.  Get a
>>>> several more ethical company to come in and give you bids on
>>>> replacing it with a more open system with better support, pricing,
>>>> and features.
>>>
>>> Wow, great advice. Time to get rid of that crappy DMP system. What
>>> would you suggest, Radio Shack?
>>
>> The OP has indicated a DYI bent so Napco or DSC would be a better
>> place for him to be than DMP.
>
> Perhaps, but you inferred that his alarmco was unethical for using DMP,
> and was somehow cheaing him by using proprietary equipment.

Clearly the OP had no idea he was buying a closed system that he could not
touch.  It is clearly the responsibility of the installer to make that clear
to the purchaser.