VS-14BL Biometric Top Opening Drawer Safe

It works easily enough and is solidly built…that being said I did have a problem with it cycling correctly so they sent me instructions on how to fix it myself. Let me put a caveat in there though, they also did say that they would pay for shipping to send it back to them so they could fix it, but the fix was so easy that I deemed it unnecessary.

The only reason I did not give this 5 stars is because his was SUPPOSED to be a NEW unit. The LCD screen was scratched when I took the safe out of the box. When I opened the box, 3 sets of AA batteries fell to the floor. They were wrapped in the factory cellophane, but were not kept together by additional packaging. The allen wrench, a pretty important tool, was also just loose in the box. The instructions were pretty sad to tell you where and how to get to the lights so you can put in the set of AA’s for it. There was no additional shipping protection for the safe except for a fairly flimsy styrofoam cover for the LCD/Touchpad. They did however put a “FRAGILE’ sticker on the box.Now we go to the nitty gritty about the item. It looked good until I took the styrofoam off the LCD screen. I am still not convinced that this is not a used safe. Everything else looked ok, so I went on to trying to do the programming. The book clearly tells you that the key hole is behind the ID plate. Well, it took me a while to find it, because who needs instructions anyway, right? So, read the instructions. I am glad that the allen Wrench did not fall out during shipping, made it a little easier to remove the ID plate. So, after I read the instructions, I removed the ID plate, and the key worked well. This is where I found out how to get to the batteries. The 4 for the touch pad were pretty easy to find. Like I said earlier, the finding the place to put the LED batteries was like an Easter Egg Hunt…EVEN WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS! Alas, I found it and all the batteries are in. Now we go to the programming. I decided it was a good idea to read the instructions. This was actually the easiest part to do. I programmed 4 prints, 2 for my wife and 2 for me. Everything worked fine, so I erased them, and programmed them 3 additional times. Everything work exactly as I thought it should each of the 4 times. Now we go to programming in the touch pad. I thought since the LCD pad seems easy to scratch, I better program in a touch pad pin in case the finger print pad gets scratched. As you can tell, I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. It took a while to get this thing to accept the pin. Quite honestly, the pin worked fine. It was all a series of operator errors. The LCD even said err! Well, I finally got the touch pad programmed. The safe is on a shelf in my closet. I have not bolted it in anywhere yet because it is too tall on the shelf to pull things out of it, so it needs to be mounted a little lower. But if someone was to come in and try and steal it, I think the weight of it and the contents may be a bit of a surprise to them. It weighs about 20 pounds empty. Put some things in it and it weighs good. Not handled properly, like dropping it, it could break a foot or an ankle.Knowing what I know now, I would buy this again. I would hope that after this review however that they seller will package it better for shipping, and examine the keypad a little closer. If I had ONE complaint, in addition to the scratched keypad and poor packaging, I would have shipped it back. It just looked like used merchandise, and I don’t like paying full price for used merchandise.

researched quite a few of these safes. Many are simple to break into, some are easy as using a straw!! This viking seemed to be immune to all of the tricks found on youtube. biometric scanner once setup works flawlessly. It asks you to do 7-10 different positions of each finger. Then it has multiple users.We use it to hold a compact 9mm 1911 style and a full size 1911. still have room for flashlights and 1-2 magazines. I would buy this again, or recommend this to family..

I don’t normally write reviews because in most cases what I get is exactly what I expected and there isn’t much I have to say, but this is a rare exception and I thing worth reading for anybody interested in buying this safe. Yesterday, after about 6 months of use, my safe started to have an issue locking, a perfectly usually problem for a mechanical product to have which I bought because it was the cheapest professional safe I could find (with actual security and not something a 15yr old could get into with a screw driver or bolt cutters like 90% of the “safes” i looked at.). I called the number on the manual (first good clue: they actually list contact info) and the message asked me to leave my problem in an e-mail. I sent one out half expecting to never hear from anybody in response but what actually happened was surprising:They responded to me within a *only few hours*. It was a real person. With real expertise (not some customer service center telling me my issue was very important to them, blah blah blah). With a real solution. And they promised to help me no matter what because they stood by their products, regardless of if the 1yr warranty was in effect or expired… What??!I followed the guide they sent me (with easy to understand pictures) and the issue was solved, but they had made it really clear that if it hadn’t been they would take it back and replace it, so i wasn’t even worried. This doesn’t happen anymore.So why am I giving it 5 stars if it had an issue?Because besides that issue it has performed perfectly for me and certainly exceeded my expectations for being like half the cost of other professional quality safes. It does everything it is supposed to and feels solid and solid. It reads my fingerprints better then my iphone 7s did (which isn’t saying *that* much, but i havent had to use the combination in so long i may have forgotten it, which is a good thing.). It doesn’t open when i use other fingers then the one it scanned (showing that it actually *reads* fingerprints and isn’t just opening for fingers.). And because if it has any mechanical failures I know that the company cares and will solve the problem. Especially that last part is more then i can say about most companies, so this gets my recommendation and i felt like was worth my time reviewing.

I installed this safe in a desk draw in my basement and it fit perfectly, went in in under 15 minutes and works perfectly. The biometric scanner is excellent!

I have had this safe for 4 years and never had a problem with it. I store it in my desk drawer and it is perfect to conceal my firearm.

Excellent product, so easy to use, I just open my drawer and I put my passport, jewerly and all the things that I need to find in the same place. After I bouth it, I don’t loose any of my stuff because I used to hide my things and there where difficult to find again.

Amazing safe. Very durable.