ISLAND SECURITY SYSTEMS INC
About us
We install Burglar Alarms Systems, Camera Systems and Fire Alarm Systems
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Services we offer
ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS, CABLE TV WIRING, COMPUTER WIRING, FIRE ALARMS SYSTEMS, INTERCOM SYSTEMS, LOCAL 24 ALARM MONITORING, PHONE WIRING, RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL.EXECUTIVE PROTECTION SERVICES, SECURITY (BURGLAR ALARM) SYSTEMS, SERVICE FOR ALL LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS, STEREO AND SURROUND SOUND WIRING, TRIP SECURITY PLANNING.ORIGINAL OWNER 30 YEARS., VIDEO SYSTEMS(CCTV)
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
Number of Stars | Image of Distribution | Number of Ratings |
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"The contract says that this customer needed to cancel the agreement by sending a certified letter as the agreement requires. (Our insurance requires this as proof that the customer really cancelled so our liability ends.) He to this day has not done that. In an e-mail to us Mrs. [Member Name Removed] says we verbally let them out of their contract at the end of 2019. So we made an exception for them and used their e-mail instead of a certified letter. Now they are complaining that we made it a hassle for them. We didn't threaten Mr. [Member Name Removed], we PROMISED him we would inform the city of Mercer island that his sprinkler system was out of compliance with city code (due to his failure to continue monitoring). We PROMISED him we would inform his insurance company that he no longer had fire monitoring as they require this to insure his home. So on top of what we have to do legally we were also protecting the [Member Name Removed] residence as they would not be covered in the event of a fire or just the flood of water from a false tripping of the sprinklers filling his house with water and no notification. MR [Member Name Removed] IS WILLING TO JEOPARDIZE FIREMAN'S LIFE SAFETY WITH NO NOTIFICATION IF THERE IS A FIRE. ( As well as the neighbors house too.) This complaint has nothing to do with the service we provided or the work we did. As a matter of fact it is all false. Mean spirited people picking on a small caring company. Read our reviews. Island Security will continue being the great caring company, providing good service and requiring people to do as they have agreed. Give us a call and see. 206-232-0842"
"10/1/2015 [Member Name Removed] C. became a customer of ours in 2005. In that period of time we never had to go make a repair at his house. That is ten years of no service problems. He says he can't believe he stayed with us. After over a decade of no problems and then a matter of following a simple policy of paper work [Member Name Removed] says "I cannot believe I stayed with them". Just that context shows how irrational [Member Name Removed] was in solving a simple paperwork issue. If you had no problems for that long why would you leave a company like that? In our monitoring agreement it says to cancel the monitoring service you must send a return receipt requested, letter by certified mail, in which is a request to have this done. We do this because of liability. This is so we don't cancel a customer by mistake or have a crook who says they are the customer cancel and then rob them or even worse knowing no police will be sent. As well, a customer who cancels in any other way can say they never cancelled and we would have no legal proof. ( e-mails can be hacked as we all know.) [Member Name Removed] C. was well aware of this from reading the agreement with us as well as the fact that he was told to simply do this and there would be no problem to cancel. [Member Name Removed] C. also did not want to pay for the service Island Security has provided until now. His wife called recently and paid us by credit card for the monitoring provided up until his letter dated August 28, 2015. There is no more modern service than what we or Comcast provide and [Member Name Removed] C. is on a bundle with Comcast. When it expires his rate will go up significantly. (If he ever does have a problem good luck getting a quick response from Comcast. (Some of you have experienced that.) We have never told [Member Name Removed] C.anything but, to cancel, he has to follow policy, then it's no problem. Now that Island Security received that letter, ( I am the owner and I always review the certified letters to make sure everything is correct so the customers security is safe as well as personally calling them to verify this.) After a decade of being a customer we owe [Member Name Removed] C. the same security as customers we have had for a week. No certified letter no cancel. [Member Name Removed] C. sent a certified letter cancelling his monitoring on August 28, 2015. That is all we required in the first place. He says use anybody else. SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS. #1. He has had no problems with his alarm requiring our service for the ten years he has been with us. #2. If he had just sent the certified letter in the first place we would have cancelled him and that would be that. He didn't! If we have a problem we make it right immediately! So that's really a reason to use Island Security. Call Island Security and ask for the owner (me). See how long it takes for me to call you back. Now try calling Comcast. We all know somebody who just doesn't want to follow the rules, right?. That's [Member Name Removed]. Mention [Member Name Removed] after we give you a bid and we will give you a 25% discount on that product."
But the biggest trouble came when we tried to notify them that we were moving. Our intent was to cancel service at our home so the new owners would be able to start service in their name (we had one year left on our contract but it had already been paid). We also wanted to install a new system and begin monitoring at our new home once we moved. I must have left over 7 messages, during normal business hours and never received a return call. And all of the calls I made just went to their answering service - who admitted to me after call #3 they were getting a lot of calls from customers during the day and weren't sure why Island Security wasn't answering their phone. Then I tried to email them. I even did a return receipt on the email. Two days later I received an automated message from Outlook that my email had been deleted without being read. After all of this, we decided that it would be better to contact another company for the install at our new home. So, I sent them a certified cancellation letter with return receipt to their PO Box address (as per the contract for cancellations). They never picked up the letter and according to the post office where the PO Box is located, they refuse to. I can only assume that they saw the word "cancellation" in my messages and decided they didn't want to deal with me. Ironically, they would have made much more money from us on the new home if they had just returned my call. My recommendation: use another company!!
"This is totally not true. Call us and see for yourself. 206-232-0842. This customer constantly called us and went on and on over many matters that were simple things she could have solved by operating her system correctly. Yet we spent the time to help her We get all our mail and accept all certified letters. The post office would never say a company refused to get a letter. This is just more of Mrs. [Member Name Removed]'s non truth. We could never get a word in edgewise. Kinda like the review. Many of the conversations were hard to understand though we tried hard. Sorry that Mrs. [Member Name Removed] felt this way. It had nothing to do with our service and we always let our customers cancel with a valid reason. Unlike any other company with a contract who hold their customers to it strictly."
We had an alarm system and video cameras installed. The job from start to finish was done great. It only took a few days from the time I called to have them come out and look at our home until we had finished Alarm and Video systems installed in our home.
The installation went great, and the installer was very professional and took great care in hiding all of the wires. My house was cleaner when the technician left, did not even know they had been there. They even came back a second time to instruct us again on using the systems and gave us extra signs and stickers , at no charge.
Would recommend this company to all my family and friends.
"[Member Name Removed] G. was paid by a competitor to post this. This competitor has done this on other sites and to other alarm companies. [Member Name Removed] G. is a total scam. Everything in this review is a total lie. Call me at 206-232-0842 and I will explain. The owner."
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