Anyone uses Vivint home security systems?

I didn't have time to talk to him tonight. Said he could come back tomorrow. Sounds like they are persistent.

I rarely trust stuff sold by d2d salesman

He described it as very cool but consider me skeptical

Buy local

Same thing happened to us a few weeks back. Three different sales people came by over 4 days. Woke up my 4 month old all three times. I was very unhappy about it the third time. Took to Social Media and complained, haven't had them back since.

They were banned from doing business in Louisiana and also paid some serious fines in Arkansas. They say that "we're the last state they've come to," to do work because we outlawed from doing so due to misrepresenting and pushy sales tactics.

Just FYI - They take kids about to go on their Mormon Mission or just back from their Mormon Mission and train the heck out of them to be aggressive door-to-door types. You can purchase the products on your own and using YouTube install and have them up and running for free for only the cost of the products. They charge $59.99 for their bare minimum service.

They used some really shopworn sales techniques but they're persistent. I had to sort've escort the guy out of my home after he invited himself in. Then he said he'd be there until 9pm and wanted to come back by if I had any questions. I asked for literature that had prices on it and he didn't even have any.

Did some Googling and they're a crap company.

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I asked for literature that had prices on it and he didn't even have any.

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i had similar experience. young guy caught my wife when i wasn't home. she said to come back later and when he did, i told the guy i would need to review some literature and consider it. he had none and never came back.

my friends down the street got it and were stuck paying the bill after they moved. the contract was 2 years and it was very expensive.

fyi i pay $25/mo to a local company. that includes an app that controls my alarm and alerts me if anything happens around the house.

Got their services as an upgrade from my old ADT. Sales tactics were pushy and annoying. The tech arrived at 10pm to install the hardware so I told them I'd set up an appointment to have it installed. Once installed everything worked for 3 hours before the doorbell camera stopped working. I immediately called customer assistance and they tried to set me up with an appointment a month later to have it fixed and only gave me one for the next day when I refused and told the lady I'd use the "3 business days to cancel" clause at the bottom of the contract if I couldn't get service immediately. The tech never showed up. Service cancelled, three phone conversations with the sales rep later I finally had a tech out a week later to get the equipment back.

This was in May, and from what I hear is pretty typical for them.

Thanks for all the replies. I will tell him I'm not interested. I really don't want to be locked into a contract for 4 or 5 years.
Will check the wink hub thread. Hopefully will get some good do it yourself advice.

I know for me, it was the doorbell camera. That and being able to unlock my house remotely from my phone would be nice.