Re: FYI ADT fans

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 6, 5:31 pm, Frank Olson
<use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> tourman wrote:
> > RHC: Excellent ! It's about time that someone  brought these
> > phony"free alarm system" companies up to a minimum standard of
> > disclosure on the real costs of buying their systems.I know it is the
> > customer's responsibility to read and understand everything they sign,
> > but unfortunately most don't. In this market, no one seems to do any
> > sort of proper shopping research. That is the only reason that
> > companies like ADT and Alarmforce continue to survive in the "low end
> > residential market" - the inadequacies of the buying public (I'm
> > tempted to say the "stupidity" of the buying public but I won't.....)
>
> > If they are forced to lay out all the real costs properly, it will go
> > a long way in leveling the playing field with other more reputable
> > companies who do tell it like it really is, and then unfortunately
> > suffer the loss of the sale because of the customers incorrect cost
> > comparisons of the various systems quoted to him.
>
> Their website (adt.ca) doesn't offer much in the way of information.
> The "basic special internet package" price is $99.00 (no monitoring fees
> are listed but they're probably $35.99/month if I've correctly
> interpolated their fee structure).  Their "Family Package" is $599.99
> (installation) and $45.99 (monthly monitoring).  There's no mention that
> you won't "own" the equipment.  Then again there's no mention that
> you're "leasing" or "renting" it either.  Perhaps someone with better
> eyesight can peruse their website.  The "foin print" is so "foin" this
> old geezer is having a hard time readin' it.


RHC: Yup, this old geezer here can't see or hear too good anymore
either Frank, but I can still smell shit.

If it quacks like a duck,walks like a duck and shits like a duck, then
it likely IS a duck !!