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

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A DIYer moves into a house that used to be monitored and messes around with
programming that's how...of course given the numbers it's more likely some
idiot installer somewhere else misprogrammed something.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage





"Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|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
| news:tQBqi.283$Ya1.162@xxxxxxxxxxx
| >> 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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| > 4883 Fallcrest Circle
| > Sarasota · Florida · 34233
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| >
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