Re: online DMP dealers?

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Barney" <spam@xxxxxx> writes:
> > "blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:m2wt2uqxxz.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Well, the installer/service company recommended the system. Also, when
I
> > > did a sanity check by googling for other peoples' experiences and even
> > > posting the proposal here on this newsgroup, the general response was
> > > that DMP was high end and one of the best...
> > >
> > > Nobody, however, mentioned the restrictive dealer situation...
> >
> > if you want to diy you picked the wrong system..  why not go through
your
> > dealer?  are you having problems with them?
>
> No. My dealer is actually very high quality and high service (and high
> price) -- in fact, they primarily target the high end/high income
> segment. Their ideal customer is one who would rather pay them to come
> change the battery in a smoke detector.
>
> They will certainly sell me a new keypad as long as I pay for them to
> install it. However, that would take all the fun out of it since I get
> a lot of pleasure of learning things and doing them myself. The money
> saved by diy is only secondary and relatively small.

How much money will be saved if you screw something up working on your
monitored system? Have you bothered to let them know you want to work on the
system?