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Subject: Re: MasterGuard Author: Consumer Advocate [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12/ 5/05 9:48am In reply to: 's message, "Re: MasterGuard" on 12/ 4/05 6:18pm Yes, I too went to one of the meetings. I believe these detectors are probably the best, but I can't find evidence to prove it! I can find evidence that the very same manufacturer makes another identical model under the Responsive label that can be bought for about $80. Now I don't get a fish dinner with it, but saving $250 per detector is pretty serious. Of course your going say "my family's safety is worth it!" Did it strike you odd that the Masterguard agent quickly mounted all your detectors for you at that moment you said yes when he was in your house? I'll tell you, it was to keep you from getting cold feet! I can buy them online and then I can call my local fire department and tip one of the guys "after hours" $100 for telling me where I should put them. I bet you, he'll grab your drill and screwdriver, and do it for you in less than 20 minutes. They deserve whatever you pay them far more than the Masterguard agent does!!! Now the problem with the whole thing is that the dinner I went to was filled primarily with retired citizens. It's pretty easy to instill fear in our older citizens. Sure, some are very well off financially, but most can't afford to be ripped off! The $250 difference per detector, times how-ever-many are suggested, translates to a huge rip-off!!! Oh, and I'll buy my own Kidde Carbon Monoxide detector and Fire Extinguisher (laid on its side, of course)! Just thank them for the meal! If you bought their deal, you need to be happy with it! Whether it's Masterguard or somebody else, there will always be another scam out there! When anybody asks you to buy "now," always say you're going to wait and then walk to the door. I bet the deal gets better at the door! Unless you're armed with the right information up front, patience and the power of a good proper search on the internet is your best weapon! Also, if you like your friends, don't put their names on anybodys' list!!! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: MasterGuard Author: No name [Edit] Date Posted: 03/ 7/07 11:16pm >Yes, I too went to one of the meetings. I believe >these detectors are probably the best, but I can't >find evidence to prove it! I can find evidence that >the very same manufacturer makes another identical >model under the Responsive label that can be bought >for about $80. Now I don't get a fish dinner with it, >but saving $250 per detector is pretty serious. > >Of course your going say "my family's safety is worth >it!" Did it strike you odd that the Masterguard agent >quickly mounted all your detectors for you at that >moment you said yes when he was in your house? I'll >tell you, it was to keep you from getting cold feet! > >I can buy them online and then I can call my local >fire department and tip one of the guys "after hours" >$100 for telling me where I should put them. I bet >you, he'll grab your drill and screwdriver, and do it >for you in less than 20 minutes. They deserve >whatever you pay them far more than the Masterguard >agent does!!! > >Now the problem with the whole thing is that the >dinner I went to was filled primarily with retired >citizens. It's pretty easy to instill fear in our >older citizens. Sure, some are very well off >financially, but most can't afford to be ripped off! >The $250 difference per detector, times how-ever-many >are suggested, translates to a huge rip-off!!! Oh, >and I'll buy my own Kidde Carbon Monoxide detector and >Fire Extinguisher (laid on its side, of course)! Just >thank them for the meal! > >If you bought their deal, you need to be happy with >it! Whether it's Masterguard or somebody else, there >will always be another scam out there! When anybody >asks you to buy "now," always say you're going to wait >and then walk to the door. I bet the deal gets better >at the door! Unless you're armed with the right >information up front, patience and the power of a good >proper search on the internet is your best weapon! > >Also, if you like your friends, don't put their names >on anybodys' list!!! Let me put a stop to this ridiculas bickering...First of all, I do not know where you saw the responsive alarm for $80.00 probably on E-bay. I am a responsive dealer in nc and we, just like every other dealer, sell the alarms for $278.00 each. We educate the public, fire departments, schools, and local civic organizations about fire safety(at no charge) We teach them far more than they have ever learned from local fire departments,schools,our federal government, You say you attended the dinner? You learned something in that dinner that could save you or your family's life, and got a free dinner in the process, how much is that worth to you??? If YOU....decided that learning more about a product (that since 1971 has not had a fatality much less a serious injury from a fire where it is installed) then that decision was made on your own. When a fire safety advisor goes into someones home it is because they were invited. If you buy from them it is because you decided to buy. we do not pressure sale anyone, now knowing what this product can do (save your life) I am very frustrated and disappointed when I enter someones home and they honestly cannot afford it. But I have either financed their system myself or given them one or two units out of compassion. But you probably wont see those things mentioned here. We donate money to the shriners burn institute, we donate money to the fallen firemens fund, we donate money to the Firemens education fund. So not only are you buying a quality alarm(that is going to save your life) you are helping to fund continued education about the very back bone of the problem, which is an epidemic in this country, called FIRE. By the way, as mentioned earlier on, this product has a 25 year warranty, a life time fire warranty, and yea a level one, full protection system costs between $1200.00-$3000.00 depending on the layout and size of your home. Now folks, how much do you pay a year for fire insurance?( to protect your furniture and other material things) Well here in NC I pay $600.00 a year/in 25 years that is $15,000.00. So what your telling me is your furniture and other belongings is worth more than your life? I think what we have here is a litttle problem with priorities. Get your priorities straight and then come back here and post something a little more on the mature side.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: MasterGuard Author: Cornville Mom ("just like every other dealer $278 each??) [Edit] Date Posted: 08/21/08 2:09pm Unfortunately that is NOT true!! If it were then why are there so many complaints regarding what people were quoted? We were 'persuaded' by a cousin who is an authorized dealer to get into the MasterGuard business. We put our last savings from the sale of our home into it at a cost of $20,000. We got all the stuff, the alarms, training materials, videos, we even gave dinners to sell them. The agent trained my husband to do this. We were given a price list of how much to sell them for at a cost of $400 each. And yes the dinner is designed as a scare tactic. My husband did not like the fact that he was scaring people into buying these alarms and after about 4 dinners (and little sales) he didn't want to do it anymore. MasterGuard says they have a buy back policy but his cousin only bought back at half price. We figured out he pocketed about $8,000 off of us. He bought the alarms and training materials from the company and then sold them to us. Now we are stuck with them. He told us if we sold all the units and needed more we would have to get them from him (which in turn he gets them from the company) see where I am going with this? A MLM. We were so brainwashed by the training and selling techniques we couldn't see it for what it was. If we always had to get the products from him and he in turn gets them from the company he will profit off of us. He also had another person he was doing this with and we found out later that that person also has all his alarms sitting in his garage because he can't sell them for $400 each. I wish I would have investigated it more before I handed over our savings. We have sold a few of the units on the internet but I was recently threatened by "a masterguard VP" that I was in violation of my contract and I was causing hard working agents/dealers to lose their customers and therefore I could be held liable for people cancelling their contracts if I did not stop selling them in the internet. So where does that leave me? I could only protect my home so much with the units....