Apr 30, 2025

Sloppy work

In April 2022, I reached out to All City Locksmith to obtain the combination for a safe that came with my house when I bought it, as the prior owner had failed to provide it. The proprietor of All City, Yossi, charged me 100 dollars and said he would reach out to the company that manufactured the safe to obtain the default combination based on the serial number. I received a combination from All City. After a lot of back and forth, where I double-checked the numbers and sent over a video of myself trying to open the safe using those numbers, the combination sent by All City failed to open the safe. Yossi explained that the combination had probably been changed by the prior owner, which sounded plausible. Yossi offered to charge me several hundred dollars to drill the safe open, or would pay me a small sum to take it away so he could resell it. I ended up doing neither. Recently, I grew tired of having a non-working safe, so I reached out to the manufacturer directly as a last reso