I’m looking for recommendations on combination locks at the wine storage facility. What are you using to protect your wine? Anyone using the Master Lock bluetooth indoor smart lock model #4400D? Any others? Thanks in advance.
If you are spending that kind of money on a lock, perhaps you are storing at the wrong place, or at least putting your trust in something that doesn’t deserve it. You can spend any amount you want, but a lock is only a deterrent, not a solution.
With all due respect I’m not locking up two buck chuck here. You may be but I’m not. Why does anyone buy a car alarm or lock their doors when they leave for that matter? Sure if a criminal wants your stuff bad enough it’s not gonna matter but it might just be a big enough deterrent for someone to think it’s not worth it and move on to a cheaper, easily cracked locked. Who cares how much I spend on a lock.
Well, that went snarky pretty quickly. I’m not sure why you thought Chuck stores two buck chuck, but you might want to check out his signature line; he’s in the wine storage business.
The most important question is what kind of security they have at your facility; not what kind of lock you have on your individual locker. After that, do you
have a locker that is open to view the contents (e.g., wire on the sides) or is your locker’s contents completely non-viewable from the hallway? While any locker can be broken into in case you have valuable wine, the best protection is selecting a locker where people can’t see into it to see what’s inside.
If you put some uber-fancy massive lock on your locker, that’s a not-so-subtle way of signaling you have very valuable wine inside. Go with a high-quality Master lock (or the equivalent) that doesn’t look out of place compared to the locks on other lockers.
Bruce
True enough. Just a few weeks ago I got off-site storage. I went with a place twice the price as another. Why? The cheaper place allowed 24h access (more convenient for me, but also theives) and was visually hidden from anyone driving by which would allow hidden access. The more expensive place you must be let through the first locked door by staff, access is visible from the street and they have over 100 security cameras on-site. So I have to plan my access during their hours, but don’t need to be concerned it will still be there.
What the others said. Even a moderate lock is really the strongest part of that wine locker. Almost all locks can easily be cut off with bolt cutters or a cordless cutter. If the lock looks like too much trouble just go through the door or exposed hinges, much easier to remove it if need be.
If you are that worried about a lock either don’t store offsite or find a better off site storage place.
Know your audience Preston. Know your audience.
This security issue worries me as well (although a combo lock on the locker is not the way to address it). My storage facility has great security doors but allows pretty much 24 hour access with a key card. I’m pretty sure there’s at least $5-10 million worth of wine in there. If someone could get hold of a key card it certainly seems worth it to rent a truck and spend an evening pulling seven figures worth of wine out of there. It’s got to be hard to fence wine (although I guess Acker would help you out), but given the trouble people go through to rob a few thousand dollars from a bank this has got to be more than worth it.
I worry that it will take a high profile wine robbery to get people to be more serious about this.