What A Person Should Know Before Employing A Locksmith?

Perley Lindon
3 min readSep 16, 2018

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Any man or women has or will get locked out of car, lost car keys want to modify their home or business security, broke their car remote or lose their house keys at one point or another. Sometimes it just occurs fortuitously when a person locks the car door and then realize that the keys where left on the front seat generally in older warn out locks and many times owners merely want to customize the security structure in their office, vehicle or home. The meeting with a lock smith one day is unavoidable and when it does happen, most of us don’t know which lock smith company to call.

In today’s world online reputation is the king. The best method to fend off scam locksmiths intimidating and overcharges tactics:

Don’t do

  1. Don’t contact a whole lot of locksmiths to get an accurate price! Timing and quality of services and products are vital factors which in general can’t be studied by the representative on the phone.
  2. Don’t hand your name unless you actually want to book a service! Many fabricated companies will store your information and transmit it to several random companies and you will be clueless from which lock smith company the tech is coming in from.
  3. Don’t choose a company by the location of it’s headquarter! Even though Okey DoKey Locksmith is a local company in Houston Texas, we presume that reputation have nothing to do with location. Few of our strongest competition are first rate nation wide companies.
  4. Dont choose a company by the agent who answer the phone — If the customer representative greet you with a blanket greeting as “locksmith services,” alternatively to a company-certain name, don’t worry. Occasionally a small or busy lock smith company might out source their main office intermittently since the workers are occupied on the road and they cannot maintain a 24/7 dispatch center.
  5. Dont negotiate quotes over the telephone! Negotiating estimates is useless.

To do

  1. Do a quick on line research in regard to the company name prior to the actual call. Search for the company name and check their rating, reputation and reviews on Yelp, Google Map, Home Advisor, BBB and others to validate they have positive ranking of not less than 4.5/5 stars.
  2. Search for coupons on line preior to the actual call the company and tell the representative that you got a discount coupon.
  3. Verify that the service call fee is cost-effective (19–29$) to minimize your accountability to be overcharged onsite. We suggest not to order a service with a company that ask for more then 29$ service call fee.
  4. Tell the representative over the telephone how you found the company and suggest to benefit them with a review and rating in exchange for promotions and discounts.
  5. If you are in a lock-out situation, but can wait for some time, tell it to the representative over the telephone and ask if they can furnish a discount for a non emergency lock out.
  6. Negotiate (be timid) with the locksmith tech on-site for better price — The locksmith tech on premises is generally is an assignee of the company and responsible for majority of the preferential regarding the complete price. Occasionally the locksmith tech can furnish promotions to help kind people.

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