Re: Honeywell LYNXR-EN Expansion?

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 8, 11:26=A0pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 10:39=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Dec 7, 8:48=A0pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Dec 5, 4:57=A0pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > RHC: Quite right of course...I said all that assuming he was free a=
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> > > > clear of any of the horrid "gotchas" that are often hidden in these
> > > > monitoring contracts through the large companies.=A0However, it als=
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> > > > begs the question as to why he would allow himself to be hooked in
> > > > that way to begin with, when there all sorts of far more "user
> > > > friendly" companies around.
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> > > Perhaps because many times those more "user friendly" small companies
> > > that you appear to think walk on water are more likely to go out of
> > > business
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> > RHC: Yeah, and that sounds like standard ADT internal corporate
> > propaganda! =A0
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> Not at all, look at all the alarm companies in a local phone book and
> compare them to what was around 15 years ago, I did that a couple of
> years ago and could only find 2 or 3 out of 50
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> > At least if the client is the customer of one of the
> > smaller guys, he has a better chance of not being locked into one of
> > the big company contracts with all their atrocious money grubbing,
> > restrictive, and limiting terms of service, he can shop elsewhere for
> > monitoring services. Size has nothing to do with longjevity; even the
> > dinosaurs eventually went extinct. Hopefully ADT, Brinks and others of
> > their kind will too.....but likely not before they screw another few
> > million unwary consumers.
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> The large companies don't go extinct, they get bought by larger
> companies. Small companies as well, I used to inspect accounts from a
> ton of small companies selling out and quitting the business. And I've
> seen the same "restrictive" contracts by small companies.
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> Your hatred of the big guys is becoming irrational.

RHC: Irrational ? Not hardly ! Facts speak for themselves !!

Let me tell you my latest horror story from just this week. Lady lived
in Toronto....all her neighbours got their "free" ADT systems. She
called in to corporate but no "freebees"  that day....$1600 for a new
system was the best they could do, so she took it (nothing like
treating everyone equally)...Two years later she moved to
Ottawa....they wouldn't reinstall a new system for her...her only
option was to buy out the contract  for megabucks.  To make a long
story short, I sold and installed her new system this week for LESS
than the extortion buyout fee from ADT, and I'm  giving her
monitoring, service and warranty for HALF of their monthly rate.
Notwithstanding the stupidity of anyone signing a contract like this,
I didn't have to sign anything anywhere nearly as onerous to lease
even an expensive vehicle

Like I said, I don't "hate" ADT, I just hate all companies large and
small that rip off consumers, giving them poor service and exhorbitant
pricing, and then gouging them for no fault of their own when they
move (even cell phone contracts have a reasonable buyout; alarm
contracts never do) . ADT and their ilk just happen to be better at it
than most......