We used to be with OAR, and I can honestly say they are a pathetic bunch of pretend security guards. They call themselves Observatory Armed Response - when we were last with them around 2 years ago, they were NOT armed , none of them, because no one had a gun license. ( We got told that by one of there own guys). We were with them for a few years. One day a guy rang our door bell, completely down and out, drunk and out of it asking us for money - turned out he was one of their guards AND the guy who had installed our alarm! - but he had gotten fired in the meantime. They never had a good response time. At some point we needed to hire a night guard for two weeks (we shared with a neighbour, there was cause for it), and they promised us the earth and said the guard will come at 7 pm. Turned out Sharon - their admin- control centre- fee collecting- girl for everything pitched up herself! She said the guard had not come in and she was going to sit outside all night herself! Needless to say I declined and sent her home. We hired a different company then. If you talk to their own guys they will tell you, that nothing is right in their company - DON'T trust them with your security. We certainly didn't anymore. I am very surprised they are still around, because they are not a proper security company. Oh, and they did try to tell me that I had signed up with them for 2 years with a 100 years automatic renewal, but pity for them they couldn't find the original sign up contract - which I had! and there was NO such clause. So they eventually gave up hassling me for fees. ( I never gave them a debit order, I never do, with no one)
Sorry this is so long, but OAR just gets me started... Melanie On Jul 27, 2:12 pm, Peter Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, one way is to > upgrade my alarm system. > > I've got quotes from both ADT and Obs Armed Response. They've slightly > different approaches, but ADT is quite a bit more expensive. So I'm > inclined to go for Obs Armed Respons - they've given pretty good > response times in the past. > > Is there any good reason why I should, instead, go for ADT?? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
