Dave
Reno,#2Author of original report
Sat, February 19, 2005
Regarding my original RipOff report of February 18, 2005, on the home security firm doing business in the State of Nevada as A-1 Security, I have additional information which I beleive important to file herewith. According to the letter I received from my attorney (but who is no longer representing me in this matter), A-1 informed him via two verbal conversations - and my attorney relayed the information to me in a letter dated February 14, 2005 - that my initial deposit of $2,007.00 is being used to pay monthly service charges for alarm monitoring in my home. Using their figures, they have taken from that deposit a total of $372.00 as of February 2005. Considering A-1 says my contract with them - a contract I never received a copy of - is for 5 years duration, that means I will be giving A-1 Security a total $1, 920.00. Also, bare in mind that this is only for monitoring services - services for which my alarm system installed by A-1 Security has NOT been in operational order since the latter half of October, 2004. As for the total owing A-1 Security - again this can be determined only through their figures supplied to my attorney - it would appear that I owe them $3,350.00. Considering the fact that I have not paid any monthly monitoring fees since the alarm system ceased to function, and have no intentions of doing so, A-1 Security will continue to deduct from the deposit of $2,007.00 for those "services" - that is, $2,007.00 minus $1,920.00, which leaves $87.00. Since A-1 says I owe them $3,350.00 for the "Locks Bill", that means after 5 years I will still owe them $3,263.00. Because no business lets a customer go five years without paying the bill - and most allow only 90 days before filling a report to credit agencies - I can only assume that A-1 Security has every intention of turning me over to a credit bureau; and probably they also intend to sue me. Here is where I stand on this whole mess: I contend, and always have, giving A-1 Security the money they are requesting (and that amount, according to what my attorney relayed to me) appears to be $1,650.12 (Locks Woek), plus $1,204.15(for contract buy out), for a total of $ 2,854.27, is strictly speaking, REWARDING A-1 Security for their fraudulent business practices, incompetence, and shoddy workmanship. Anyone who reads this, I ask you: Why would any sane, common sense person AWARD a business (or person) for doing them an injustice finacially and otherwise ? For some reason, I was never able to get this thought across to my attorney - who, after five months and many dollars - failed to bring this issue to a satisfactory close. But this very thought and statement that I have related above, is the essence of what all persons doing business with ANY company must eventually hold true as the ultimate test of any company's worth - whether that "worth" be their business practices in general, their integrity (or lack of it), and their willingness to meet their customers with respect and fair play. Any attorney, organization, citizens group, Senator, et al,who may or may not come forth to help me in this matter, had better re-read the above two paragraphs before approaching me, because this is where I stand, and I take this stand because it is the stand of what is right vs. what is wrong. And from what my experiences with capitalistic entrepreneus over the last 40 years has been,there is MUCH that is WRONG with businesses and those who oversee those businesses in the United States !