Camera install shaming at Sams Club

[looney2ns]

So my local Sams Club just spent the past 8 months remodeling. They installed probably in the neighborhood of 200 new cameras. They all look like a decent job, until you get to this one.
There is space above this cam inside the building that they could have dropped the cable to the cam.

 

[mat200]

So my local Sams Club just spent the past 8 months remodeling. They installed probably in the neighborhood of 200 new cameras. They all look like a decent job, until you get to this one.
There is space above this cam inside the building that they could have dropped the cable to the cam.
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Welcome to outsourcing to the lowest fixed price bidder.

( I must say I have seen some really crappy work with fixed priced outsourced work... really crappy work )

 

[crw030]

I feel like that camera was originally supposed to go where the box is (per quote), but once installed the 30-degree field of view only "saw" the pillar, and some chap was like "well this makes me look like a complete idiot", but being a fixed price quote this was all the vendor was willing to absorb cost-wise to move it.

 

[blake]

Didn't even use emt. What a hot mess!

 

[looney2ns]

Welcome to outsourcing to the lowest fixed price bidder.

( I must say I have seen some really crappy work with fixed priced outsourced work... really crappy work )

I hear about such work at our local schools from a friend that has recently taken over their IT duties lately...instead of the dumb-ass contractors.

Yeah, EMT would have been cheaper.

Of course, then there is the new whole building paint job. Within 2 weeks, it was peeling off in large slabs all over the building.

 

[TonyR]

Yeah...you're on their watch list now!

 

[bob2701]

Didn't even use emt. What a hot mess!

He probably didn't have a clue how to bend the emt.

 

[blake]

Probably. I remember as an electrician's apprentice learning how to bend conduit, it was tough. Now I can do it in my sleep. Especially with all the homes around me having a brick lower and siding upper.

 

[fenderman]

$500 Bosch camera...50 dollar install..

 

[blake]

I don't even understand why these contractors are still using these overpriced garbage cams anyways.

 

[tangent]

I don't even understand why these contractors are still using these overpriced garbage cams anyways.

A couple reasons i think:
-There are a lot of jobs in various industries that are billed at roughly materials times 2. People are kind of used to this, if you bid a job where labor is 4x materials... good luck
-Companies like bosch, Avigilon, etc, do a better job of standing behind their products and a better job of pretending to care about cyber security.
-They aren't blacklisted from government contracts.
-They are better at writing software interfaces and manuals in English. Leaving a customer with a product with a chinglish interface doesn't inspire confidence.

 

[looney2ns]

Yeah...you're on their watch list now!

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Ha! That's ok, I know how to salute them.

 

[gpower07]

A couple reasons i think:
-There are a lot of jobs in various industries that are billed at roughly materials times 2. People are kind of used to this, if you bid a job where labor is 4x materials... good luck
-Companies like bosch, Avigilon, etc, do a better job of standing behind their products and a better job of pretending to care about cyber security.
-They aren't blacklisted from government contracts.
-They are better at writing software interfaces and manuals in English. Leaving a customer with a product with a chinglish interface doesn't inspire confidence.

I wish I can bill my labor 4X materials!!!

 

[blake]

I had similar install at a neighborhood store. They had at least 5 different types of analog cameras hanging from the ceiling to include a bullet cam half the size of a cinderblocks. They asked me to do a quote to convert their system to all IP and do a proper Installation. They didn't like the cost of the upgrade and are going to continue to deal with that mess.