Broadview Security
 

Do these commercials bother anyone else?

In every commercial, it has a man breaking down a door, and a woman home alone or home with a child. The alarm goes off the second the door is broken down, the man runs, and Broadview calls immediately, and the woman is right next to the phone.

Now, two of the commercials are presumably about potential robbers, I could see them getting scared off, unless they were there for something specific. One commercial is about a psycho ex-boyfriend, and one is about an ininvited party guest breaking back in (presumably to rape the single, attractive, female homeowner). More likely than not, the psycho ex-boyfriend would grab the woman, drag her off or kill her, and by the time the police showed up, she would be either gone or dead. The rapist could easily abduct the woman before the police arrive, or possibly even finish what he intended while the alarms are going off.

I guess to me, these commercials paint a false picture of security where every intruder is instantly scared off by an alarm. They also show a woman setting her alarm when she calls her son in for lunch on a summer day. I don't think that's realistic at all.

Do people really lock their doors and set the alarms when they are home during the day?

A realistic ad would never work. For example, how would you portray the twenty minute time lapse between the alarm trigger and the telephone call? In real time? Or time-elapse? And I don't think the target audience would be impressed with the minimum wage, who-gives-a-crap alarm company employee.

How many commercials are realistic? Do you think the Bud Light commercials are real?

Yep, the alarm commercials are BS. So are 90% of the other commercials.

My alarm is always loaded when I'm home.;)

These commercials are so insulting. How about the one where AJ breaks down the door of the woman's house, whose party he's just left. He didn't look drunk. Is anyone that stupid when they're sober? And the one where the guy is peeping through the fence at the lady and her kid kicking the ball in the backyard? He already knows they're home and still kicks the door in? And then he looks all surprised by the alarm. Such a joke. I will never ever use this silly service that takes its tv audience for such idiots.

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Huh. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Thanks, Chris.

We should make a commercial for some kind of car alarm and show a "psycho ex-girlfriend" keying her ex boyfriend's car and trying to let the air out of the tires; the car alarm goes off and the guy runs outside, she hits him with pepper spray, calls the cops and has him arrested.

Their alarms only work with white guys never wearing masks, in nice neighborhoods. They show them watching the house and when they break in the surprise on their face when someone screams. Then they run away. I always tell my wife, these aren't the people that will be breaking into our house. And, we will never deal with that company.

Commercials are generally insulting. Thank goodness for DVR.

Yes, I've seen the Brinks/Broadview commercials and thought "what crap".

Fear is a powerful selling tool. Brinks is just more blatant/insulting than other advertisers.

i thought the "trunk monkey" ads were funny
I'd love to have one of those

I get a kick out of the look on her face, she's so safe as soon as she talks to the retired tele-marketer on the phone

And don't forget, all the call center operators look like Chipendale's guys.

Dude, have you have drank Bud Light?

If you drink enough of it, you do think you are surrounded by beautiful women that all want you and you are the most popular, clever guy at the party...

I find the ads to be an extremely realistic representation of how a Bud Light drinker feels. ;)

I wouldn't drink Bud Light if you paid me to. And I'm also turned off by all these beer commercial gimmicks like a born-on date or a special kind of glass or a blue thing to show that it's been kept cold. Why don't good beers in Europe have to resort to such BS? If US breweries just made good beer, that would speak for itself. Can't remember the last time I saw a commercial for Czechvar or Pilsner Urquell. But they are amazing beers and sell very well.

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Alarms only give the homeowner a false sense of security and locks only keep honest people out.

I don't think so.... those alarms are real mood-killers.

When the alarm goes off it is a signal to grab your pistol or shotty and prepare to defend your household. The alarm signal ties up the phone line for a minute or 2 before the alarm co. can call to see if your alright

There are some good US beers, but they're all micros. With the possible exception of some regional stuff. Sierra Nevada isn't too bad, neither is Anchor Steam or several varieties of Sam Adams' stuff.

Stone & Rogue are two of my favorites - somewhere between "micro" and "regional" brews I think. There's a new one near here called Wachusett which isn't terrible either. Micro.

Home-brewed is ALWAYS best though. :)

Alarms have worked in protecting empty houses. Most break ins seem to be druggies who arent looking for any problems and have little skills. Case in point. My Aunt and Uncle live in a decent middle class neighbor hood. A couple of youths got hooked on heroin. Started breaking in to houses for cash. Aunt and Uncle left for dinner in mid day. Came home around 5:30. There were police on front of house. The kids must have seen them leave. Kicked in front door. The alarm went off they grabbed some cash off a table near door. The other houses that they broke into that had no alarms were trashed trying to find stuff. So they do have there benefits.

I do not have one. I live and work from home. So most of the time I am here. I have a deal with my neighbors. If they see someone breaking in and i am home. Give me a few minutes before calling the police. I want to have had my time with them first.

All the women i care about have .357 magnums that i bought them and taught them to shoot. Well except for one, but she has a P7 that i taught her to shoot. :)

That reminds me, I need to pick up some jacketed hollow points for my home security system.

Me too. I've got about 13 rounds of Golden Sabre left, and about 900 rounds of target ammo. I'd like to pick up about 200 rounds of defensive rounds.

I'd also like to get an alarm. I don't actually expect any problems here, and we have 2 dogs, but it would make my wife feel better, so I'm all for it.

I won't even be considering Comcast or Broadbrinksview.

I have some ideas for a home security system. I'm not going to discuss them online. No, no booby traps, I just don't want to expose potential weaknesses.

I have some ideas on how I can get people to send me money for nothing and be happy about it. I'm not going to discuss them online though.

I also have some ideas on how to turn your garbage into fuel for your car with common household chemicals. By weight, it'll create 125% fuel per pound of refuse. I'm not going to tell you guys though. ;)

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My aunt has a "Brinks" type alarm company. When the alarm gets triggered, the company is calling within 20 seconds or so. It has happened during the day and night with the same results. We accidently set off the fire alarm once changing the back up batteries...same call within seconds.
She has plenty of loaded "home protectors" within arms reach all over the house. If there were ever a real threat..you know, the psyco meth head, the guy better hope the phone rings to save his sorry a$$.

A much better Broadview Security commercial would depict a pyscho ex-girlfriend in a screaming fit of rage throwing things across the entryway of the house.

The control center operator would answer the automatic call from the alarm pad and begin laughing.

I don't understand the need for a call center (and the associated subscription).

With modern technology, it is possible to create your own home security system that can automatically call your cell phone, or even 911 directly.

We had the Brink's system a decade ago. Every time they called us for an alarm, the person barely spoke English. Seems they outsourced their dispatch staff to Mexico... It would take 5-10 minutes just to get the person to understand what we were saying...

Exactly...if my alarm goes off, plan #1 is to grab my dear friend Mr. Browning.