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

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hear the bad guys have cars now.



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**Crash Gordon**







"Dave" <dave.harper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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