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Apex Alarm System review: My alarm system starting having false alarms on a regular basis 2

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7:25 am EDT

My alarm system starting having false alarms on a regular basis. It would randomly go off in the middle of the night. I contacted Apex for service. A technical support person walked me through several tests on the keypad. He said everything was testing okay. That very night I set the alarm again and it went off, not registering a zone or anything. I contacted Apex again and they sent a technical support person to my home to check it all out. He was unable to find a problem and adjusted the sensitivity level of the sensors. I am not sure that was the brightest thing to do. Again I set the alarm and again it would go off as a false alarm. I then began to call continuously to inform them my alarm was not working properly and I was not able to use it. That is when I began being put on hold for an unreasonable amount of time and transfered from one person to another. After several months of trying to resolve the problem (and them continously withdrawing funds from my account) I requested they cancel my service. They would not because they said I was under contract or they would have to charge my bank account $1200.00. I tried and tried to speak to a manager about this and I was put on hold, transferred around and hung up on. I finally got a manager who informed me my contract was sold to SAI. I spoke with SAI and they said I would have to go through the whole technical support route again. I have been trying to resolve this for 4 months now and am not going back to square one with a new company.

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michaerlcohen
orlando, US
Jun 30, 2011 2:52 pm EDT

I have false alarms as well.. this is such a horrible company.. nothing but a headache.

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jctc
Philadelphia, US
Dec 08, 2010 6:07 pm EST
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I've heard of all kinds of service & contract problems with APX/SAI (none as bad as yours however) not to mention their rates keep creeping over $40-50/mth. It seems no other company is using APX's/SAI's equipment to switch. My co-worker found a company online (ALARM SVC CO OF AMERICA) that claims they can use the equip (they switched him from APX/SAI for free) then reduced his rate to $25/mth...Likely he's into another agreement. I saw their ad saying if you refer a new customer they credit you 2 months free, refer 7 total and they give you free monitoring for life; asked him whether he's had any success with this to date, said he received 2months credit so far (he got his daughter to switch). He's seems very happy with them, needless to say he's urging me & his neighbors to switch over.. here's their page: www.asca-us.com