Verisure or?

[infinityleague]

Afternoon all.

Moved into a new house this morning, 2 hours go by - bang rings the door bell and out pops MR VERISURE. Pleasantries done and it’s business time. Quick demo and the price comes down to £498 from about £1747 because of the FREE items included as part of the Black Friday deal.

£498 instead of £1747
Monthly £44.80

Deploys smoke like a James Bond film for 20 seconds to prevent stealing, call the cops, fire and ambulance services, Verisure patrol comes home in under a minute and patrols the houses every day and some random bla bla.

Is Verisure still good with their home security services or are there better options out there?

Any private CC recommendations?

 

[Drago]

Thets more than I pay for my proper ADT subscription, although my up front costs were higher.

I steered clear of Verisure. Their kit is installed by salesmen and not an engineer.

Sensors are held on with sticky pads or something that looks suspiciously like clear silicone, and a couple of years back they lost their NSI accreditation.

Also their sensors aren't frequency agile so are relatively straightforward to signal block.

If it helps you sleep at night then go for it, but if you can afford to do so a proper system from a professional and accredited outfit is a much safer bet all round, and probably no more expensive overall.

 

[Alex321]

Quite apart from what Drago says, I would always be wary of going with proposals from an unsolicited caller like that.

 

[ianrauk]

Verisure as a business are spot on. I deal with them through our business account. It was all installed by a Verisure engineer not a salesman. We have direct phone contact with our local engineer if there is ever a problem with the system and they visit within a couple of days.

We've had a couple of break in's over the years. The alarms did their job and smoke bomb did it's job, but.. it does stink and the smell will linger. Verisure were on the blower as soon as the alarm was triggered also contacting the police. The day after they got an engineer in to replace the smoke bomb and to give the system a once over.

The app interface is also very good. Able to switch the alarm on and off remotely. See who's using what keys and when. If you lose a key fob you can switch it off. And if you ask nicely they will send a free replacement that day.

Yes, there may be cheaper options out there but my experience over the last 5 years is that their business is worth every penny for the piece of mind as it all just works.

 

[a.twiddler]

Never buy off a doorstepper. Do some research first. Maybe you get a cooling off period, but it's easier to find out before you take the cap off the toothpaste than have to push it back in again.

 

[Drago]

Verisure as a business are spot on. I deal with them through our business account. It was all installed by a Verisure engineer not a salesman.

Must be different up your end. Round here the guy that sells the system is the one that installs it (if you can call sticky pads 'installing'), including 3 of my 4 neighbours.

Thats why they lost their NSI accreditation, hence the installers aren't actually qualified as they no longer have an industry standard to be qualified against.

 

[markemark]

What @Drago said is right. See below
https://www.alarm-monitoring.co.uk/Verisure_alarm_NSI_insurance.html

Doesn't necessarily make it a bad choice but it is worth noting

 

[a.twiddler]

I wonder if the guy rang his "manager" and got a one day only deal that he doesn't do for everyone 'cos it comes off his commission? (sob, sob).

Next, the Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen who claim you've won a fabulous holiday (you haven't) no purchase necessary (there is) and they come in pairs so it's very difficult to get rid of them until many hours later.

The unsolicited phone calls claiming you've won a reduction on a Florida holiday. All you need to do is give them your bank details. A new kitchen for a fraction of the normal cost? All you need to do is let it be used as a show kitchen, and you get £XX of the total cost off for each successful sale the company makes, unless the managing director legs it with the company's funds, and HQ stops answering your phone calls.

Ah, the joys of home ownership, so many bullets to dodge once you're on the electoral roll, and can answer the unsolicited question, "are you the home owner?" with "yes". Though you soon learn that the correct answer to that is, "who wants to know, mush, and why?"

At least nowadays there is the internet to be able to get some backround information from but in days gone by that learning curve was where the cheats and chisellers and chancers made their money, and still will do if you give them an inch.

 

[Drago]

What @Drago said is right. See below
https://www.alarm-monitoring.co.uk/Verisure_alarm_NSI_insurance.html

Doesn't necessarily make it a bad choice but it is worth noting

Indeed.

I'm not saying it's not worth having, but why put up with sticky pads, no industry accreditation, unqualified engineers, and basic wireless sensors that are easy to block when similar money gets a proper professional grade set up?

You'd get much the same (except for a fog system) from Ring and fitting it yourself and saving a fortune if you self adhesive pads and basic protection are what you're after.

Edit - there are firms that do ring compatible fog systems, so why pay many times more for Verisure? If youre going for a low end set up then why pay premium prices?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just employ this guy

 

[infinityleague]

I did ask him a very simple question - why are you selling yourself out of business and he said, it’s come from the main office so he has no clue.

Before leaving he wanted to make sure that if I do say yes right then and there, he will have it up and running in an hour. That’s when I said to him, let’s wait until Monday as something about this entire thing seems sketchy.

Let me look at ADT. Not that I have anything valuable at home other than my PS5, Xbox One, Fire tv stick, 43’ TV, my bmw 2 series and my mountain bike. I was thinking nothing is worth having an alarm but the catch was the house insurance comes down with protection.

Question is which house insurance should I choose now along with the alarm system? Hehehee.

*faints in disbelief with all the nonsense that comes with moving into a new house.*

 

[Jameshow]

With all these things the price they say is a sale price, or the price you can knock then down to is the real price....
The original price is for grannies or vulnerable...