This is a 'novel' toy, the kind of cool factor that transcends use case. 'Aspirational Utility' it's called. Dude's can spend $300 on it 'because it's useful' they will tell themselves.
For the record, I would never allow this in my house. A dog is a much better deterrent than any alarm.
I find them extremely common in the hyper-safe suburbs where every kid is in a safety bubble, probably the lowest crime areas going. They're sold for inflated prices.
Probably way over used, but there's legit utility there.
But what nerd can honestly not say they're not having to actively resist from buying a flying 'home monitor drone'. I mean, I'm 100% sure that I don't need one and I still want to buy it!
It's actually a smart move by Amazon, it's important to imbue their otherwise 'Warehouse of Crap' brand with aspirational things.
I foresee a million dudes 'checking to see if they locked the door' ... just because.
>I find them extremely common in the hyper-safe suburbs where every kid is in a safety bubble, probably the lowest crime areas going. They're sold for inflated prices.
Alarms are definitely useful. Mostly because in many places, having an alarm system installed will lower your homeowner's insurance premium.
As long as the ROI is less than how long you intend to live in that residence, it makes lots of sense.
Beyond that? Not much value.
That being said, I will never buy this because Ring is untrustworthy.
There are auto switch off devices for both gas and electric stoves by the way.
And like I said in my comment: Ring is untrustworthy. As such, there is no way I would ever purchase this from them.
I would also not purchase it from a different large corp.