Re: online DMP dealers?

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve wrote:
> "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.

Clear to whom? In your world maybe, but not in the real world. The
installing dealer has a responsibility to provide the product/service
contracted for. The dealer is under no ethical obligation to make the system
DIY friendly, unless that is specifically provided for in the contract. And
if the system is monitored by the dealer, then that dealer has a
responsibility to himself to see that Mr. DIY can not fiddle with the
system.
js