Allstate still offers a discount for certain alarms.
Placebo effect? What the hell is that?
Evidently, you live-work in a safer area than I do.
I didn't pay anything extra for my auto alarm and cut-off switch. I spent three hours negotiating the price on my car and the dealer threw in that stuff at no extra charge. I am not rationalizing anything. Its simple. My previous car had no alarm. It was broken into probably about 15 times. My current car has an alarm and it has never been broken into. I work in the same location now as I did when I had my previous car and auto vandalism-theft is as much a problem now as it was when I owned my previous car. How else do you explain the lack of break-ins in my car?
Strange how every cop I have ever discussed this with recommends an auto alarm and an engine cutoff switch, but I guess you know more than the experts, huh?
Your guess couldn't have been more wrong. Believe what you want, but I had already negotiated the price of my car before the idea of an alarm entered the equation. I brought up the subject of the alarm, not the dealer. I even got the recent college graduate discount and Chrysler's 1.9% interest deal on my car. The dealer asked me if the deal was enough to get me to buy the car right than and there. I replied that it was not enough, but installing an alarm with keyless entry would cement the deal. After a couple of hours of negotiating with a regular saleman, the dealership's manager got involved. The manager almost fainted when I requested those extra options, but he agreed. The salesman who originally greeted me just sat their dumfounded. I negotiate large technology deals for my employer worth many times more than a car, so I have gotten quite good at dealing with high pressure salesmen. In retrospect, I should have at least tried to get the dealer to put in a system where I could open the trunk via my key fob, but that idea didn't occur to me when I bought my car, which I have grown to regret.
