Re: Ademco 216

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> On Mar 23, 9:21�pm, "Matthew Stanley" <mstan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> � � Anyone have an Ademco 216 laying around? I have a customer who has 2
>> Ademco 215 2 wire digital arming stations which dont work. I have tested the
>> stations on another system in the apartment building and they work...
>>
>> email me if you have any...
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> M
>>
>> mstan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I've got a few of them but I .... like you ..... have a dozen or so
> customers out there that have some of these still installed, so
> they're not for sale. I installed these systems 25 or more years ago
> and they've been working all these years. Most of the people are
> elderly and don't want to change, because from their point of view,
> they don't want to have to learn how to use some new fangled alarm
> keypad that does everything that they never wanted to do. They feel
> comfortable with what they've got, and that's OK with me. As long as
> nothing major goes wrong and/or I don't have the replacement part, I'm
> willing to do low cost service calls for these people and try to keep
> them happy. I keep their monitoring fee's low too.  I know that if I
> were to cancel their monitoring because they didn't want to upgrade
> their equipment, some "lick and stick" alarm company would come in and
> rip them off and force them to upgrade, and triple what I'm charging
> them for monitoring and I'd just rather not do that to these old, long
> time customers.
>
> It's not all about what makes business sense, all the time.
>


AWww...  Ya big gahloot...  You done brung a tear to ma eye.  And here I
always took ya for a strictly business type, cold hearted old curmudgeon.