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This Locksmith services, gives 24/7 emergency home & car lockouts, locks installations and key duplications. All emergency locksmith calls are treated quickly and efficiently, with an approximate response time of 15 minutes in most cases and they provide services at reasonable cost.This topic has been closed to new posts due to inactivity. We hope you'll join the conversation by posting to an open topic or starting a new one.
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Legitimate locksmiths are required to have two licenses: (1) Locksmith License, and (2) Contractor License. The majority of the time the scammers will have neither of these licenses. A locksmith who is caught working without these licenses are liable for over a thousand dollars in fines. I would like to create a sting operation for these scummy criminals and catch them on video, just as several news crews around the country have already done. After seeing James Randi's fiery take-down of charlatans,
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I want to see the same thing done to these scammers+. If we can step up and make it costly for them to perform these scams, then it won't be worth their while to scam people and they'll be forced to quit or to go legitimate.Please consider that scammers often use the names of legitimate businesses. This is just a list of common aliases, many of them stolen.
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I'm not a locksmith, I'm a landlord, which led me to learning enough to change my own locks, and re key between tenants. But, my wife is an amateur safecracker.And locksmithing falls in the "don't compete against hobbyists or retirees" category. Everything you want to know is on the internet, presented by the locksmiths who are dancing on the grave of their profession.
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Locksmithing used to be a profession with a solid barrier to entry. You need a locksmith to teach, and to tool up, and to get supplies. So apprentice for a while, move and start up your shop.Now the internet will teach you, supply you, and why would you open a shop, again? Lowe's has key copying by $3 vending machine, better than the pros do.
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Safe cracking can take some special tooling, and more special knowledge, but when I spent an hour or so going over lock theory on the internet, then showed my wife, she just went downstairs, and came up 10 minutes later with the combinations. This isn't far behind on the road to nowhere.
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We will always have locks, and safes, but this is nothing I would be interested in selling or servicing. It's fun, if it's your thing, but service calls are never at convenient times, and dealing with customers who discovered that they were locked out at midnight, finally call you at one am, and then get pissy because it's 2 am before you get to them, no thanks. There are retirees who need that money, and will make that trade. I plan to not be one of them.
