Re: Call setup... does it have to go to a monitoring company?

[Dave <dave.harper@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 18, 7:14 pm, JoeRaisin <joerai...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A 'beef' against you?  I wouldn't put it that way.
>
> But, some of us do take it a little personally.  We make our living
> selling peace of mind and we truly believe in the products and services
> we provide.
>
> We believe in monitoring because we have seen it work to help catch
> thieves, save property from fire or frozen water lines and even, from
> time to time, save lives.

And I think y'all do provide a valuable service.  And it does save
lives.  I never said otherwise!  But does that mean everyone that
doesn't have monitoring is evil?  Or that they even need monitoring?

> Because we understand the gravity of what is at stake, the industry has
> spent a lot of time and money on technology that ensures we are there
> when you need us there, can notify the appropriate responders quickly
> and with as much information as we possibly can.
>
> When you claim that you can do the same thing with your cell phone it
> really discounts what we do, and shows (at least in our opinion) that
> you don't fully understand the difference between what we provide and
> what you would be able to do.

No, I just claimed that getting a monitoring service for what I wanted
provided marginal benefits.  What I want is to make sure I'm alerted
if someone enters the house while my family and I are asleep.

<extreme example clipped>

That is an extreme example, but again, my goal is to alert me if
someone enters the house while we're asleep.  Should I buy a CO
detector and get monitoring when I don't have a furnace or anything
that burns fuel or gas in the house?  Probably not.  I could come up
with a long list of services and items I could buy that add some
additional protection.  But if I try to purchase everything on that
list, I'd easily go broke.

> You do NOT want to find yourself sitting at a funeral KNOWING you could
> have prevented it if only you had...

Anyone could end up at a funeral and be asking themselves "Why didn't
I spend the $80,000 to install a panic room?".  I don't need CO
monitoring, I'm not worried about frozen pipes here in the south, and
anything that happens to the house while we're gone is secondary.

According to our homeowner's association's records, the last house
break-in in my neighborhood (which has 400+ units) occurred in the
late 80s when my neighborhood was being built.  Only one of my
neighbors (out of the 8 in our cul-de-sac) even have an alarm (which
has had 2 false alarms in the past year at like 4am).  So the fact
that I'm installing an alarm system at all would be considered by some
overly cautious.  IF I lived in a more dangerous area, I would
certainly consider a more thorough system with monitoring.

Dave