Re: Brinks Home Security Fraud

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, when you sell 5 amphr batteries for 39.95 + 100.00 service call ...
then that is a GREAT place to put the panel ain't it?

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**Crash Gordon**







"Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Czm4k.28582$gc5.3535@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> failur_drill wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 10:11 pm, Anonymous Sender
>> <anonym...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> If you ever want to get really screwed - sign up with this horrible
>>> company. their sales representatives, tell you you can terminate at any
>>> time with no problems, just notify them. that is totally false. i signed
>>> up my office building with them, it was sold two years later. when we
>>> moved they told us we had to sell their service to the next buyer of our
>>> building or we could not terminate the service. not likely.
>>
>> I just moved in to a house with a Brinks system already in it. My
>> uncle is a professional alarm installer, so I had him look at it. He
>> said the system wasn't very good, and he put in a real nice one for
>> me. I helped him do it, and really learned a lot. Brinks commercials
>> make it seem they are the best, but my uncle says they really don't do
>> a very good installation. He showed me some reasons, and we took some
>> pictures of our installation, and of the Brinks wiring that we
>> removed. You can see the pictures at
>> http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk41/computorman/
>> Wow, I guess my uncle was right. He said it looked like the Brinks
>> guys were in a big hurry, or maybe they just didn't care about their
>> system.
>
>
> Nice pics.  The Brinks install sucks.  They take the time to run that much
> wire in the attic and they've never heard of "drive rings" or staples?
> And mounting the can there???  What's with that??  It's a service
> nightmare.  You've got to get your ladder out every time you want to get
> into the panel...  Yech!!!  If *any* of my guys did an installation like
> that, I'd kick their skinny asses out the door.
>
> It looks to me like your uncle knows what he's doing.  And it's great that
> he's showing you the ropes.  I just hope he spells better than you...
> "computorman".  :-)
>