Viking Security Safe VS-14BL Heavy Duty Top Opening Drawer Biometric Fingerprint LCD Keypad Safe

Great safe. I looked at all of the reviews before purchase and was skeptical because of the complaints regarding programming. You have to follow the instructions exactly. At first I had some issues with the keypad. Once I went back through and paid attention to detail within the instructions I had no issues. The keypad works flawless with only the new code I entered. The fingerprint worked just as well. Follow the instructions and add your fingerprint multiple times at different angles. It allows 32 fingerprints. This allows for quick access if your fingerprint is at a different angle. I entered my keypad code and fingerprint more than 100 times to test for errors. I received no errors with 100 percent accuracy. I believe people who have had issues did not follow the instructions. I would suggest adding small led motion lights from Amazon and placing one or two on the side rails. The internal led light is not very bright.

Great 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.

Great safe. I looked at all of the reviews before purchase and was skeptical because of the complaints regarding programming. You have to follow the instructions exactly. At first I had some issues with the keypad. Once I went back through and paid attention to detail within the instructions I had no issues. The keypad works flawless with only the new code I entered. The fingerprint worked just as well. Follow the instructions and add your fingerprint multiple times at different angles. It allows 32 fingerprints. This allows for quick access if your fingerprint is at a different angle. I entered my keypad code and fingerprint more than 100 times to test for errors. I received no errors with 100 percent accuracy. I believe people who have had issues did not follow the instructions. I would suggest adding small led motion lights from Amazon and placing one or two on the side rails. The internal led light is not very bright.

This safe is excellent. LED lighting when opened, a shelf to store on different levels, VERY convenient fingerprint recognition that opens very quickly when needed and multiple prints can be stored for ease of use for family. Highly recommend for safe storage. Safe also can be bolted to floor.

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 great. 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 nice. 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.

Had this safe for 10 years. Never had a single problem with it. Great product.