{"id":83643,"date":"2018-03-24T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alarm-bells-ring-as-adt-charges-513-for-a-nine-minute-visit\/"},"modified":"2018-03-24T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T08:03:37","slug":"alarm-bells-ring-as-adt-charges-513-for-a-nine-minute-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alarm-bells-ring-as-adt-charges-513-for-a-nine-minute-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm bells ring as ADT charges \u00a3513 for a nine-minute visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nQuoted call-out fee more than doubled after engineer replaced \u00a320 batteryMiles Brignall Security company ADT billed a couple for \u00a3513 for an engineer\u2019s visit that lasted just nine minutes. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/mar\/24\/adt-security-alarm-repair-cost-engineer\" target=\"_blank\">Alarm bells ring as ADT charges \u00a3513 for a nine-minute visit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Quoted call-out fee more than doubled after engineer replaced \u00a320 batteryMiles Brignall Security company ADT&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-lL5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87355,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/adt-charged-me-2000-to-replace-nine-batteries\/","url_meta":{"origin":83643,"position":0},"title":"\u2018ADT charged me \u00a32,000 to replace nine batteries\u2019","date":"May 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Why did the security firm issue such an alarming bill for a simple 33-minute job?You recently ran a story about a couple who were charged \u00a3513 by the alarm company ADT for an engineer\u2019s visit that lasted just nine minutes. 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