Saw a story in the business section of the Tribune today. It appears the owner of the Gormet Market, Jeffrey Beckles had his TAMPER-PROOF box for his arlarm system tampered with!! Broken from the outside wall of his home and his home burglarised.

The alarm company recorded the that the alarm was triggered but put it down as an 'accidental trip" and did not notify Beckles or the police.

Beckles had another company remove the TAMPER PROOF box and install another, but it took two days for the previous company to phone to ask him if he had a problem with the system.

He had asked the previous company for compensation but they refused, telling him to apply to his home owners insurance.

Be carefull which company you deal with.

I know I know...its ALARM, not ARLARM!!:footmouth

Saw a story in the business section of the Tribune today. It appears the owner of the Gormet Market, Jeffrey Beckles had his TAMPER-PROOF box for his arlarm system tampered with!! Broken from the outside wall of his home and his home burglarised.
The alarm company recorded the that the alarm was triggered but put it down as an 'accidental trip" and did not notify Beckles or the police.
Beckles had another company remove the TAMPER PROOF box and install another, but it took two days for the previous company to phone to ask him if he had a problem with the system.
He had asked the previous company for compensation but they refused, telling him to apply to his home owners insurance.
Be carefull which company you deal with.
Spam will give us the low down on this directly. :)
facts could read and da bidnez section, fox is ovwerwellum. :angel::angel::angel:

Spam will give us the low down on this directly. :)
facts could read and da bidnez section, fox is ovwerwellum. :angel::angel::angel:


OR!! You thought I does only read the grapevine aye?

I hope Ro..I mean Spamma een the one who swing this man!!:footmouth

OR!! You thought I does only read the grapevine aye?
I hope Ro..I mean Spamma een the one who swing this man!!:footmouth

Well by dayum, das wot he is be chappin down ma tree for, to lick dem Alarm offa people wall.


fox see da wibe Spam!!!! :hammer::hammer::hammer:

There are lots of persons who feel as if once they have an alarm they are 100% safe. This is not so and offers a false sense of security to the owner. First of all your alarm goes through a central station and the time and type of response you get depends soley on the central station operator. say for example if your alarm goes of 2am in the morning and the person is sleeping, don't blame the police for not getting there on time. Every alarm activation is timed from the minute it comes in and it tells you how long the person took to respond.also never be afraid to request a print out from your alarm company. it is your right after all you are paying to be monitored. also, test your alarm.call the alarm company before hand and ask them to call you the minute they get the signal.Also keep in mind that 95% of all alarms are tied into a phone line, hence you are at the mercy of batelco.I say no more. There are devices that can be used where you don't have to use a phone line.once installed properly and provided that there is no faulty equipment, it works like a charm.also keep in mind that because of the recent crime wave, alarm companies are now becoming like the 99 cent breakfast.everybody is opening up shop and saying they can do it. and their are lots of unsavory characters installing alarm.So be careful and very selective.

Just checked, SpamStoppper can gladly say that he has no affiliations with the alarm monitoring company that handled that account. Apparently they used to be monitored by a company that SpamStopper deals with, but a few years back the owner switched over (for unknown reasons) to the other company in question, both of which names will be withheld.

As far as SpamStopper and him doing alarm monitoring, never have and never will.

There are lots of persons who feel as if once they have an alarm they are 100% safe. This is not so and offers a false sense of security to the owner. First of all your alarm goes through a central station and the time and type of response you get depends soley on the central station operator. say for example if your alarm goes of 2am in the morning and the person is sleeping, don't blame the police for not getting there on time. Every alarm activation is timed from the minute it comes in and it tells you how long the person took to respond.also never be afraid to request a print out from your alarm company. it is your right after all you are paying to be monitored. also, test your alarm.call the alarm company before hand and ask them to call you the minute they get the signal.Also keep in mind that 95% of all alarms are tied into a phone line, hence you are at the mercy of batelco.I say no more. There are devices that can be used where you don't have to use a phone line.once installed properly and provided that there is no faulty equipment, it works like a charm.also keep in mind that because of the recent crime wave, alarm companies are now becoming like the 99 cent breakfast.everybody is opening up shop and saying they can do it. and their are lots of unsavory characters installing alarm.So be careful and very selective.

Thats why SpamStopper prefers his 3 siren approach, 1 indoor siren and 2 x 30 watters outside to blast the neighborhood with noise !! (along with a stockpile of weapons ofcourse) GenX knows how it goes ... what yah say A.. ye .. :D

OR!! You thought I does only read the grapevine aye?
I hope Ro..I mean Spamma een the one who swing this man!!:footmouth

say swing .. if they are relying on an alarm to save they business, they need to think twice. There's alot more to security than just an alarm, yes it certainly CAN help to have one (properly installed, if they aint cheap if you catch SpamStopper's drift), but one thing should not go without the other. If they really cared they would have a professional company monitor it from day 1, check out the monitoring station, find out about their staff, their shifts, the software they use, any extras like Radio transmission, anything else they implement, ask alot of questions, as mentioned get reports. Anyone can setup shop in they garage with a $170 PC and a second hand CMS receiver off Ebay, and call it a monitoring station (not saying that is what the CMS in question is, just an example) .. but there's alot more to it than that.

Well, how are we to know which are good and which are not? I am sure that time will tell, but it maybe too late.

I was using a company that was very good at keeping the system up and working, but their response time (calling after the alarms went off) was often an hour, sometimes never! They never asked for a password or nothing!

The company I use now it not so good at repairs (I have had to learn how to do some of them myself!) But they are first class when it comes to responding - minutes! And they always ask for a password.

Well, how are we to know which are good and which are not? I am sure that time will tell, but it maybe too late.
I was using a company that was very good at keeping the system up and working, but their response time (calling after the alarms went off) was often an hour, sometimes never! They never asked for a password or nothing!
The company I use now it not so good at repairs (I have had to learn how to do some of them myself!) But they are first class when it comes to responding - minutes! And they always ask for a password.


Nassau is only 21x7. Fortunately, everything that is done, the companies reputation will proceed them. You are bound to know someone who has a monitored system and ask them before you purchase a security system how they feel about the company.Foget the salesperson in the company telling you they sheets is top of da line, ya know a fisherman don't call his fish stink.Also like i said test your alarm atleast biweekly and make sure call to let the alarm company know you are testing it. Or else you would end up like the boy who cried wolf.

You are bound to know someone who has a monitored system and ask them before you purchase a security system how they feel about the company...
Well, I did ask around and the company I am using now had a good report! Better than most!

It is not as if the company is bad, bad! Just a bit off when it comes to repairs.

Well, I did ask around and the company I am using now had a good report! Better than most!
It is not as if the company is bad, bad! Just a bit off when it comes to repairs.

Too many clients?

Thats why SpamStopper prefers his 3 siren approach, 1 indoor siren and 2 x 30 watters outside to blast the neighborhood with noise !! (along with a stockpile of weapons ofcourse) GenX knows how it goes ... what yah say A.. ye .. :D
Listen to Rorr...... I mean Spam Stopper, he knows what he speaks

Too many clients?
Possible, but when I call for a repair they come very quickly. The only trouble is they don’t always fix it right the first time. Sometimes, if it is something simply like a broken contact they fix it but really difficult stuff, not so good. Example - I had a motion detector that kept going off. They came and turned down the sensitivity setting. They did it three times. The fourth time I was told that wireless motion detectors don’t work well in a hot room (the room is very hot in the summer) so they took it out! I wondered why they put it in, in the first place. The wired ones work OK.