Re: the police was dispatched to ... the wrong house

["Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see how this could be a DIY problem. Most professional alarm
companies that use contract central stations have their own block of
accounts on their own phone number and their own receiver. I don't know of
any central stations in our area that accepts DIY accounts directly. I know
there are national companies that solicit that sort of business, but mixing
the two business models doesn't seem like a good idea.

"Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Why? This could very easily be CAUSED
>> by fat fingered DIYer programming as well.
>> Number one reason for locking a panel imo.
>
> From what I've been told by various distributors,
> DIY represents about 2% of the industry. That
> means the odds are almost 50 to 1 that the job
> was done by a paid installer.  Paid installers
> make the vast majority of the mistakes and
> install systems which cause the vast majority
> of false alarms.  While paid installers might like
> us to think otherwise, the truth (there's that
> word again, Leuck) is that there is no reason
> to believe that DIY installs are responsible for
> a significant portion of the problems which
> alarm systems create.
>
> As to the number one reason for locking a
> panel, you're way off.  We all know that the
> primary reason for locking a panel is to make
> it more difficult and/or costly for a consumer
> to switch providers.  All the "liability"
> nonsense is just a smoke screen.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Robert L Bass
>
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