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reni10 wrote: »

I bought when it was £60 from the seller "Your Highstreet Outlet" which has nearly 600 reviews and been trading for 5 years so I think should be ok and all is covered by Amazon anyway if not...

Looks like scam to me, that retailer normally sells clothes, ladies underwear! Why are they selling Nest suddenly!

What happens is that real retailers accounts get hacked and fake, too good to be true deals get added by the hacker. So the 600 reviews and 5 years is irrelevant.

I almost fell for his once, a NAS at almost half the price. Fortunately Amazon noticed and refunded the money.

However whatever you do, make sure you don't respond to any emails from the merchant and agree to send money outside of amazon.

Also another way this scam works is that Amazon drops their price as a result of the third party seller being so much cheaper and the hacker and/or third party seller can then buy it from Amazon at the cheaper price.

Anyway, I hope I'm wrong, just be careful and let us know how it goes.

ted1 wrote: »

The main advantage is that if it senses CO it'll shut off your boiler, on the basis you have a NEST

You could also do the same with Netatmo via IFTTT.

flangemeistro wrote: »

Is this a really expensive fire/carbon monoxide alarm or am I missing something?

It has a lot of other advantages over a basic smoke and CO alarm:

- Remote monitoring, if a fire starts in your home while you are out you will know about it and can call the fire brigade, neighbour, etc. Might be the difference between a burned kitchen and a burned down house!

- Connected smoke alarms, if you have multiple alarms, when one goes off, they all go off. Could give you more time to safely evacuate your home. If you have a big house and the smoke alarm goes off in your kitchen, you might not hear it in the bedroom while sleeping. But if you have two nests one in your kitchen and one in the hallway outside your bedrooms, then both go off, thus giving you more time to respond. BTW this is often a feature of more advanced "dumb" smoke alarms, but not the cheap ones most people have.

- It combines two sensors, ones for detecting both fast and slow burning fires.
Once I read up about this one, I found it to be quite shocking. Basically the most commonly installed smoke alarms will quickly detect fast burning fires, but can take up to 40 minutes (if at all) to detect slow burning smouldering type fires. That delay can be deadly as slow burning fires produce lots of smoke which is actually the most common way people die in fires.

So ideally at each location you want three alarms, a slow burning one, a fast burning one and a co alarm. Nest Protect integrates all three types into one.

- It self tests. It constantly monitors that the alarm is working and even regularly tests that the bell is working. When was the last time you tested your smoke alarms?

I'm sure like most regular people without OCD, probably rarely if at all. So how do you know they are still working? If you test it toady, how do you know it is still working next week?

Nest Protects self test and send you a notification if they fail. This gives you much greater protection as you know the alarm is actually working.

- Nest Protects can detect what is likely just smoke from burnt toast/cooking and they don't immediately go off. Instead they give you just a spoken warning, which you can then mute with the phone app as you deal with the problem.

Can be handy if your OH is always burning things in the kitchen and ends up waking the baby with a blaring alarm :rolleyes:

I would say these are the main benefits of Nest Protect, rather then integration with other Nest products, which are handy, but not that important IMO.

BTW, however you might consider if buying 5 photoelectric alarms would give you greater protection then just one Nest protect.