AMP is a scam. The company is set up to get people locked into a five year contract that they can't break.Thats the only way the company makes money.The company's top selling rep is a drug addict that abuses aderal when he is knocking doors. The sales representatives often check people's credit without them knowing. The sales reps that go door to door make more money on the least amount of security equipment they give out. So they have an incentive to screw people by only giving them two door sensors and a motion detector and then charging them an activation fee of 99 dollars and charging them a ridiculous amount of 45 dollars a month for five years for the system to be monitored. The more equipment a sales rep gives out the less money he or she makes on the sale. NEVER BUY A SECURITY SYSTEM OFF YOUR DOOR STEP! These sales reps use tactics that pressure people into buying right then and there. Even the owner of this company is extremely shady when he sells. He tells people that the security system is free if they will help the company advertise by putting an AMP sign in there yard. Then when he gets inside their house and sits down to fill out the paper work he brings up the 45 dollar a month price and says its just a small fee to stay connected with the police so they respond when the alarm goes off, but he tells them that they are getting the equipment for free. Well, all alarm companies will give you the equipment for free, they make money by charging between 39 and 45 dollars a month for a five year term. So the owner goes around lying to people telling them they are getting a free alarm system to get inside their house where it is harder for the customer to say no to the monthly monitering fee.
As far as the sales reps go, alot of them don't know what they are getting into when they sign up to go sell security systems. They don't know that they are only paid on a sale if it is active for six months. Meaning that the customer has been making on time payments for six months, but the company still makes money on the account. This wouldn't be such a problem except the areas where you are sent to sell security systems are high crime areas, people only live in these areas because they can't afford to live anywhere else, meaning they can't always pay their bills, so if you sell them a system, there is a likely chance the customer won't pay the monitering bill for six months, meaning you don't get paid on it, and you just wasted your time and gas money to sell them a security system. The managers of the sale teams often take for themselves the fringe areas, meaning they give themselves the best areas where the people have more money but live close to a ghetto so there is alot of crime. So in the manager's areas there are far better credit scores per house, meaning more sales. The managers then send the reps that aren't their close buddies to the ghetto to sell to people that have bad credit and even if they get a sale, there is a greater chance of the account defaulting becuase they can't afford to pay their bills. Far more sales reps come home early than stay out selling for the whole summer.
And when you get out to the city you are going to sell in and find out that there are 8 to 9 other security companies in the same city competing for your area, it makes it alot harder to get sales. The security business is a scam, don't waste your time trying to sell it, you will get screwed. And at the end of the summer you will wish you would have listened to the random guy on the internet.
If the customer already has a security system the sales reps look at the bottom corner of the sign in the customer's yard if it is ADT to see the date of when their contract expires. If the security system has expired the rep tells the customer that he or she is with the customer's current company and is only there to give them an update on their security system. Then they have the customer sign another five year contract with AMP without the customer knowing. And switches them to AMP monitering. If this isn't fraud I don't know what is.
