Re: Yet another ADT sob story

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 18, 12:48=A0pm, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "tourman" <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Dec 18, 7:47 am, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Dec 17, 11:37 pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Dec 17, 11:08 pm, "Russell Brill" <russwbr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote=
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> > > > "nick markowitz" <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > >news:7bd138e5-b39e-4dac-8c99-688e595c17e7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=
om...
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> > > > >http://consumerist.com/2010/12/monitored-alarm-system-wont-stop-br=
eak...
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> > > > This sounds fishy.... The "please let me out of my contract song"
> > > > usually
> > > > means "I really want it FREE"... The alarm is junk, but she wants i=
t
> > > > moved
> > > > to another house??? I'm not trying to defend ADT, but their alarms
> > > > work a
> > > > lot better when turned ON...........
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> > > RHC: Yeah, I'm no fan of ADT either; however, not turning the alarm o=
n
> > > and then blaming the alarm for not doing it's job is a lot more commo=
n
> > > than most non-security people think. It never ceases to amaze me how
> > > many people will buy an alarm and then tell me at some point they
> > > never use it.
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> > I see this all the time they claim alarm did not work etc etc. because
> > there being stalked by a high tech jealous ex
> > husband/ boy friend who can enter and do things in the home like
> > Houdini .
> > In the end the victim in there own delusion has created and caused the
> > whole situation time and again never found one legitimate case .
> > A system properly installed is very hard to defeat and if it is
> > defeated it is detectable. No signs of tampering the victim is
> > imagining whole thing and doing it to them selves. Buy the book I
> > could write on this.
>
> RHC: Nick, had another one of these stories just the other day. =A0A
> person called me and asked me to put in a non-monitored alarm for him.
> I asked him why he wanted to waste money like this, and he told me his
> wife is =A0insisting that people are bypassing the heavy duty crank
> style windows and wandering around the home at night. He wanted to put
> in a system just to set off a horn and warn his wife when these people
> are supposedly wandering around. Well, right away I recognized his
> wife likely had a mental problem and needed the assistance of a mental
> health expert, and certainly not my assistance. As tactfully as I
> could, I told him this, and he didn't batt an eye, having recognized
> this himself long ago. He just thought the alarm would prove to her
> once and for all that no one was coming in at night.
>
> Well, I told him not to waste his money, since even with the alarm,
> she would find some excuse in her mind how they were able to somehow
> bypass the alarm. Poor guy saw the logic in it, thanked me and hung
> up.
>
> I sensed he was at the end of his rope....
>
> ************
>
> And then there was the one who's neighbor was coming in her doggy door an=
d
> using her cold cream.

There are some real loons out there. Had a sweet customer totally
loose it and is now in professional care what a shame.