Re: removing zones from ADT system

["FIRETEK" <firetech-aka-"bug"(change-the-ch-to-k-and-drop-aka-"bug")@telus.net>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jul 1, 8:18?pm, "Robert L Bass" <Sa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> "JoeRaisin" wrote:
>
> > If I were you, I would save my pennies and pick up a
> > new alarm panel (the new Vista 20PS is pretty much
> > the same thing you got now - only better) and alpha
> > keypad on ebay....
>
> Joe is right about the Vista-20P and the 6160 alphanumeric keypad.
?Without
> those and the documentation, the procedure can be a royal pain. ?However,
some
> eBay sellers have sold used, locked Vista systems as new. ?Only after
> installing and powering up the system does the victim realize the panel
can't
> be programmed. ?A few unscrupulous alarm dealers have done this
repeatedly,
> selling off used boards which they swapped out when taking over
competitors'
> systems. ?The problem isn't too common but it does happen all too often.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Robert L Bass
>
Unless you're lying again and just trying to badmouth installing
dealers as you always do, why don't you show some evidence that what
you say is true.

Whoooooops! Can't do it .... huh?

Well then, we'll just put it into that bottomless pit of your lies.


I read about a sales technique like this years ago, although I've never seen
it practiced before.  He's very elegantly adopted many of the precepts to
fit his business.  Perhaps some of you are familiar with "The Art/Science of
Selling Alarm Systems" by Norman Eisenstat.  "Beware of the big bad
burglars!" only with Bass it's "Beware of the big bad alarm companies and
all those highly paid technicians that are just out to gouge you!"  The
trick is to make sure he establishes a big enough "fear index" to make the
customer _want_ to "do-it-yourself".

I figure Bass has you all beat.  I'd advise to retire now before you get
that pink slip.  ;)