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Monday, June 24th, 2024 1:24 PM

giving up

i’m getting ready to stop using the whole system all together it’s a piece of crap!  i tested the power supply to the doorbell and it’s fine i had my friend who is an electrician test it he said it is fine it’s the doorbell that’s not working and said also that simplisafe is unreliable and you should have asked me before you bought it, i’d have told you not to!! so i’m dead and they don’t have an easy way to contact the company without using the normal phone line with voice!  i mean how hard is it to get your staff to answer the online chat ? it took me 1 hour for an answer then it disconnected only for me to try again and it wouldn’t connect to an agent!  my internet speed was 650 mbps so it wasn’t my connection! 

Official Response

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2 months ago

@patrickp8 ,

We sincerely apologize for this less than stellar experience. It sounds like you may have encountered technical difficulties. Our Live Chat team normally responds very quickly, and we even recently expanded to 24/7!

Regarding your doorbell issue - could you let us know a bit more about what symptoms you're seeing? It would help to know at what part of the process you're getting stuck on, as that could point us to what has gone wrong, and how to resolve. Our Community here would be more than happy to help get to the bottom of it.

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3 months ago

deaf not dead! 

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@patrickp8 I know its a generational thing, but, your cell phone and speaking to a live agent, at least in my experience, beats chat most times for tech support. But, if you offer chat, a company should promptly be on the other end. That aside, my 35+ device sytem, including two OD cameras, 3 SA cameras and a doorbell pro work fine. Not that matters to you, as yours doesn't.  If you search the community, you should find my thread where a friend (former coworker) is a senior network engineer at a large national  IT vendor. SS shipped him 3 replacement doorbells, which none worked and ultimately got fried. After finally getting a tech specialist on the line (at my suggestion) the SS rep and my friend discovered the "old" bell striker was the culprit, replaced it and the 4th unit worked. Done.

Sure, it should have been addressed much quicker but as your friend would tell you not to buy SS, I would be on the flip side (and have been over 35+ times including my kids, daughter's inlaws, two brother in laws, neighbors, kides, coworkers etc etc).  All of their systems are fine, but I do hear from them when they are not....and then addressed by SS.

Before you throw in the towel, I suggest  you politely call SS and ask the agent to escalate your case and arrange a callback.  If you do give up, suggest you use anyone except ADT.  (You can find out why using a search of the community.

Goodluck and please post your outcome here if you do call. Thanks.

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