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Always losing your keys?
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MSE_Jenny
Posts: 1,318 MSE Staff
For Londoners with a tendency to lock them themselves out, www.SpareKeys.com guarantees to deliver a spare set into your hands, within an hour (zones 1,2) or an hour and a half (anywhere else).
Membership costs £29 a year, plus a flat fee of £15 (Mon-Fri 8am-8pm) and £25 all other times. 10 keys max. There’s no limit to the number of times you call them out – ‘you can lose your keys 1,000 times a year as far as we’re concerned’ – cos they make money off it.
While this isn't that cheap, bear in mind that average cost of calling out a locksmith is £127.
They do anywhere within the M25, and will also deliver outside London by special arrangement, you have to ask them for a quote (prob expensive).
Does anyone know any similar services outside London or have any tips on how to avoid getting locked out (apart from leaving them under the mat!). I guess the alternative is to leave a set with a tolerant mate who doesn't mind being woken up.
Membership costs £29 a year, plus a flat fee of £15 (Mon-Fri 8am-8pm) and £25 all other times. 10 keys max. There’s no limit to the number of times you call them out – ‘you can lose your keys 1,000 times a year as far as we’re concerned’ – cos they make money off it.
While this isn't that cheap, bear in mind that average cost of calling out a locksmith is £127.
They do anywhere within the M25, and will also deliver outside London by special arrangement, you have to ask them for a quote (prob expensive).
Does anyone know any similar services outside London or have any tips on how to avoid getting locked out (apart from leaving them under the mat!). I guess the alternative is to leave a set with a tolerant mate who doesn't mind being woken up.
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I've not used it, but the person who lived here previously installed a small combination locked box the size of a single key. Even if they pried it off the wall, opening the box wouldn't be easy as it looks tough and is a bit small to get much leverage on.
It came from woolies originally, not sure if they (or somone else) still does that kind of thing....0 -
Halifax home insurance customers get a key fob offering a £10 reward from the Halifax if you call them if you find the keys.
You could also do this yourself with a clear key ring fob and put your mobile number and reward amount on the keys.
~Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.~:)
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Poppy9 wrote:Halifax home insurance customers get a key fob offering a £10 reward from the Halifax if you call them if you find the keys.
You could also do this yourself with a clear key ring fob and put your mobile number and reward amount on the keys.
Various insurers, and also gold credit cards, do this (I've got one of those with my car insurance) - but surely that doesn't really help when you want to get into your house as 2am (or thereabouts) and notice you lost your keys?0 -
innovate wrote:Various insurers, and also gold credit cards, do this (I've got one of those with my car insurance) - but surely that doesn't really help when you want to get into your house as 2am (or thereabouts) and notice you lost your keys?
No that doesn't realy help but its great when someone leaves keys in the shop you work in and you get a nice £10 cheque for phoning up the number
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Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold...But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow...0 -
It can work because you ring the Halifax, they take a contact number and ring their client who can then arrange to collect the keys (hopefully it's locally). ~Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.~:)
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Poppy9 wrote:It can work because you ring the Halifax, they take a contact number and ring their client who can then arrange to collect the keys (hopefully it's locally).
OK, picture this. Two in the morning. You ring Halifax, whose number you have, naturally, programmed into your mobile, and the mobile is charged, and you haven't left the mobile wherever you left the key. Halifax answer instantly (yeah! two in the morning). Your key has been found, and some honest folk, keen to earn a tenner, have rung Halifax already. You can go and pick up the key now, because the guys who found it really want to stay up until you arrive so they can pocket the tenner. So far all going great (despite the many happy coincidences).
But oops, you left the keys in a bar in town, you live in a nice quiet suburb, have had a few glasses too many and the last taxi has just driven off after they dropped you at your locked doorstep. Sounds like an overnighter in the porch or the garden shed to me........a great end to a night out!0 -
Bear in mind, you are handing your house keys over to a stranger, and also giving them your address. Insurance companies may not look to favourably if you are burgled.0
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coolio wrote:Bear in mind, you are handing your house keys over to a stranger, and also giving them your address. Insurance companies may not look to favourably if you are burgled.
Which scenario are you talking about, coolio?
If you loose your keys, nobody can say you handed them to a stranger.
On the key fobs, there's no record of your address or name, so I can't see why insurance companies would object (especially since it is insurance companies, usually, who provide those key fobs)0
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