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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1354649, member: 13650"]What is commercial grade supposed to mean? If you were talking about some kind of bank here, I might want to know more. Why would you assume that anybody at blockbuster is a safe expert? I doubt the kids working there have any clue about it or if the guy who ordered it would even know anything. 250 lbs isn't a big safe. </p><p><br /></p><p> I think there's a couple problems involved when people get into these discussions. We need to compare apples to apples and make sure we have the same goal in mind for one thing. Is the only goal to keep employees and kids from easily being able to grab something valuable? That safe may be able to do that. You can block the first wave.</p><p> But is the goal also to try to prevent professional robbers with tools from breaking into something while you're out of town? Can it do that? Because the safe becomes a magnet and they are going to be very determined to get in? I'd guess probably not. The better the safe, the more the difficulty increases in preventing a theft. </p><p> </p><p> It boils down to what you are going to be satisfied with. I don't know why anybody would want to store thousands worth of valuables in the cheapest safe they can find. It doesn't make sense. The best safes cost money. You get what you pay for. It's hard to escape that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1354649, member: 13650"]What is commercial grade supposed to mean? If you were talking about some kind of bank here, I might want to know more. Why would you assume that anybody at blockbuster is a safe expert? I doubt the kids working there have any clue about it or if the guy who ordered it would even know anything. 250 lbs isn't a big safe. I think there's a couple problems involved when people get into these discussions. We need to compare apples to apples and make sure we have the same goal in mind for one thing. Is the only goal to keep employees and kids from easily being able to grab something valuable? That safe may be able to do that. You can block the first wave. But is the goal also to try to prevent professional robbers with tools from breaking into something while you're out of town? Can it do that? Because the safe becomes a magnet and they are going to be very determined to get in? I'd guess probably not. The better the safe, the more the difficulty increases in preventing a theft. It boils down to what you are going to be satisfied with. I don't know why anybody would want to store thousands worth of valuables in the cheapest safe they can find. It doesn't make sense. The best safes cost money. You get what you pay for. It's hard to escape that.[/QUOTE]
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