Re: Off contract soon with Apex, I'm looking for cheaper monitoring

["Mark Leuck" <mleuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is Apex hasn't owned that account in a year or so, Monitronics does

"DK1000" <dke3591@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks much everyone for their replies. Looks like I have some options
> to check out. I really didn't post this to escalate tensions between
> posters, so please everyone should have their say without getting
> flamed.
>
> To Beeno who posted "they replaced it for free and now you want to
> dump them. whatta guy! "
>
> If Apex can re-negotiate a fair deal, fine, I'll keep them, but as
> just about everyone knows here, they were charging me a much bigger
> premium than some other monitoring places may have been even with
> Cellular, and I'm sure their investment in equipment is pretty much
> paid off by the higher fees. The changeover to GSM isn't my fault, and
> maybe it isn't Apex's, maybe the FCC's?
> Yes, I kind of feel bad that they just replaced that part of the
> system not long ago, but what if they would have replaced it two years
> ago or so instead, would that change things? Did Apex know about the
> upcoming change when they first installed me? Who knows? That's part
> of doing business. Needs change. Companies change. The company who set
> up my system changed once if not twice, from Monitronics to Apex, and
> now seemingly to APX (without the E). Customer's financial situations
> change also. I'm sure APX looks at their bottom line, and when your
> personal financial situation takes a turn for the worst, you better be
> looking at your own bottom line. I have fulfilled their contract (in
> another month), so I'll do some research that everyone posted leads,
> and run it by APX if they are playing hardball on the rates when I
> call.
>
> I'm about to get rid of my cable to save some money, that keeps going
> up and up and up. I just got two converter coupons in the mail, and I
> will see what I can do with the OTA digital offerings, as I only
> really watch local channels. I know this is a bit off topic, but just
> showing how someone has to cut back sometimes and take better or
> different deals. Ditching cable will save me almost $50 a month. Too
> bad I can't ditch the damn gas pump, that's where a big part of the
> headaches lie, and everything else going up in price. Not to mention
> an ARM mortgage. So you see I have a bottom line to take care of also.
> Cheers.
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