Secure Your Valuables: Viking VS-20BLX Biometric Mini Safe with Fingerprint Access

Jack Russell: I haven't written many reviews on Amazon because just about everything I would say has been said by the buyers who have already posted their reviews. Well, ready or not, here I go. I felt I needed to post a review because this safe is everything the seller has said and more. The "and more" is the great customer service. They are prompt and courteous and willing to answer any question you may have. I needed a safe and did a lot of research and decided on the Viking. I loved the fact that it is idiot proof because there are three different ways to open this safe. The biometric finger tip scanner works flawlessly and opens quickly once your finger is on the reader. It also has a numeric key pad that works well but here is the idiot proof feature: if you are not watching your battery level (as you are instructed to in the manual) the biometric reader or numeric key pad may not work. Well, you are not left out in the cold unable to access your safe. Viking also provides a key that will open the safe and you can proceed normally and open the safe. You then change the batteries and swear to yourself that you won't be an idiot, at least like this again, and you are...

United States on Mar 25, 2018

Vince TVince T: Great little safe.....
I just love these safes.... and after looking around at numerous different brands, I always came back to Viking's safes as being the best value for the money... and also because of the quality of their build. Having 3 options to open them is a great feature. And because there is a key option, you won't ever get locked out of it, if the electronics ever fail. Being 64, I figured the fingerprint reader probably wouldn't work for me... but happily it did! I used my middle finger because my thumbs and index fingers always get cut, nicked, etc. working around the house. Sadly, it didn't work for my girlfriend, but it worked both for me, and my son.

The keys are 4-sided, and very robust... not the kind of lock just anyone could pick, maybe only a locksmith could do it. Keypad works great... and a very nice feature is the LED light inside, which comes on when the door opens.

They've generously supplied some hardware to anchor the safe to the floor or wall, but the idea didn't really appeal to me. You would either have to bolt it to the floor (which is not convenient) or to a wall stud which would not work very well. The small size...

United States on May 25, 2016

Jeff D.: I did a lot of research to try to get the best safe of this size at a reasonable price. Since it seems a lot of reviewers are compensated these days I will say definitively that I did NOT receive a discount or a free product for my review. I ordered it at the list price just like anyone else to store some "machined steel parts" that I'd prefer my kids didn't access without supervision.

1) This safe has a motorized actuator to retract the deadbolts rather than a knob that the user must twist. This obviously reduces the number of steps to open but more importantly limits vulnerability to "safe bumping" (look it up on YouTube) which many similar safes are vulnerable to. Since the person trying to bump can't load up the knob while bumping it that makes it impossible to bump, at least in the "traditional" manner. It's fast too. Should the mechanism fail the key can be used to retract the deadbolts manually.

2) The key mechanism seems very secure. It's a bit hard to get in (It only goes in one way even though it looks symmetrical) and you have to remove a plate to access the key hole but it's really just for access in a dead battery condition. It...

United States on Jan 12, 2016