ADT Alarm

theshed

My Daughter has had a call from someone purporting to be from ADT 'MSE Recommended' offering cut price alarm installation.
I am not convinced but she is sure it is genuine. Anyone had similar 'offers' ?

68ComebackSpecial

Why doesn't she call ADT and ask them? From personal experience ADT are very far from "cut price", though their monitored alarm service is excellent.

theshed

Yes, that is not a bad idea. I may persuade her to try that.

OceanSound

theshed said:

Yes, that is not a bad idea. I may persuade her to try that.

Realise op hasn't been active since May this year, but I'm having a go nevertheless.

@OP: did your daughter call them? Did she have the installation done with them?

My parents have been offered an alarm system by ADT at 75% discounted rate. Sounds too good to be true to be honest.

To top it, they've offered this price for 24 hours only. Suffice to say, we've not bitten. 

JJ_Egan

ADT have always been in the phone book .

OceanSound

JJ_Egan said:

ADT have always been in the phone book .

Pretty low bar

JJ_Egan

Confused are you not able to ring ADT .

OceanSound

JJ_Egan said:

Confused are you not able to ring ADT .

Ring and ask some pushy salesperson if their offer is too good to be true?

OceanSound

I'll be advising my parents not to go ahead. 

These experiences by customers don't do ADT any favours:

https://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/aspit-query-relates-adt-bullying-contract-though.html

https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/adt

Not one good review in the last 6 months on link above. 

Anyone interested about time-limited offers and how they can affect the market, have a gander at this.

68ComebackSpecial

OceanSound said:

I'll be advising my parents not to go ahead. 

These experiences by customers don't do ADT any favours:

https://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/aspit-query-relates-adt-bullying-contract-though.html

https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/adt

Not one good review in the last 6 months on link above. 

Anyone interested about time-limited offers and how they can affect the market, have a gander at this.

17 years with an ADT system and very happy with the service. Typically customers post when they have issues - not when they are satisfied.

OceanSound

68ComebackSpecial said:

OceanSound said:

I'll be advising my parents not to go ahead. 

These experiences by customers don't do ADT any favours:

https://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/aspit-query-relates-adt-bullying-contract-though.html

https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/adt

Not one good review in the last 6 months on link above. 

Anyone interested about time-limited offers and how they can affect the market, have a gander at this.

17 years with an ADT system and very happy with the service. Typically customers post when they have issues - not when they are satisfied.

You may have been lucky.

Btw, I'm well aware of the 'customers only post only when they have issues' phenomenon.

If you read my previous post properly and comprehend it, you would see that it's the bad reviews in combination with the time limited offer and cheap as chips price that is my cause for concern.

My parents are both in their eighties and I wouldn't want them experiencing bad customer service if or when they phone ADT with an issue (Seems the latest time limited marketing offer is a cunning plan to woo customers from the competition - without a plan on how to service those customers).

Btw, we will probably go with a local company, instead of one of the big names.