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discomania

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Thinking of getting this from Paddocks.

There was a success story on here not that long ago where a guy got his LR back after it was located by his SkyTag.

What I am interested in is exactly what happens with the various subscriptions.

Let's say I come back to where I have parked my LR and it's gone. Can I phone them and find out where my car is or will they only tell the police?
 
discomania said:
Thinking of getting this from Paddocks.

There was a success story on here not that long ago where a guy got his LR back after it was located by his SkyTag.

What I am interested in is exactly what happens with the various subscriptions.

Let's say I come back to where I have parked my LR and it's gone. Can I phone them and find out where my car is or will they only tell the police?
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There's different levels of cover. The basic one is you tell them your Landys gone, then phone the police. They liase with the police - they don't tell you the location.
 
No experience with Skytag but my experience with tracking, is you call the company's central station whom u have a tracking contract with and yes they report to the loss plus the location to the police, bearing mind most police forces have tracking equipped vehicles, all depends on the contact level have maybe, what do u pay PA for your service mine was £240.
 
The Paddocks price is less that half of that on the Skytag website.
What is so special about subscription services? Are their devices so good they can't be blocked? You have to have a crime number before they will do anything. With a SIM card tracker, if you look out the window and your Landy is gone, you can text it and find out where it is, unless the thieves have blocked it! Or, is my understanding wrong? I'd like to install a tracker, but there is a lot of smoke and mirrors to try and see through.
 
discomania said:
So if I want to go round and talk to them... is there an option for that?
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Yes the Active monitoring one allows the user to see and track the car but once reported to police i believe its temporarily disabled so take note of the location before calling if you wish to greet them in person.
 
I'm the successful one:D (if only it were true in real life). I pay seven quid a month I think.
1 ring the rozzers to get a crime number.
2 ring skytag with said number.
3 they lock down vehicle and call rozzers with the location.
4 once the rozzers are with your vehicle skytag call you and give you the location to go and meet the rozzers.

It took 25 minutes from me discovering my tratter nicked to me standing by the side of it in a public carpark. :D
 
Pretty good. So I read their site and for £12.00 you can look yourself on a map.

The basic subscription would probably work.
 
discomania said:
Pretty good. So I read their site and for £12.00 you can look yourself on a map.

The basic subscription would probably work.
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I'd rather the rozzers turn up before me, especially as I'd have the keys in my hand. If you go on holiday and leave your tratter at home you can pay a pound a day and if your vehicle leaves your premises they'll automatically call the police
 
I have Skytag, think I pay £12/month. I have their app on my iPhone and can bring up a map showing where my LR is at any time. I also have two Geofence zones set up (work & home) where if my LR moves out of those locations between certain times (set by me) I get a phone call and text alerts.
 
discomania said:
Thinking of getting this from Paddocks.

There was a success story on here not that long ago where a guy got his LR back after it was located by his SkyTag.

What I am interested in is exactly what happens with the various subscriptions.

Let's say I come back to where I have parked my LR and it's gone. Can I phone them and find out where my car is or will they only tell the police?
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Had it, didn't work for me.... service failure not device failure... Time after TIME I tested it using LR at night outside of the GEOFENCE zone and never did I get an alert. Each time there was a reason or an odd setting which was causing it not to work. None of which could have been my fault. They also had a habit of when "trying" to prove it was working tracking my LR movement without me knowing and emailing to me in a google earth file which I took as a great invasion of privacy as they hadn't asked.
 
John03 said:
What about this, easy to hide in the vehicle, harder for the thief's to find and disable no subscription, just have to remember to keep it charged up

https://buy.thetrackr.co/gu/special...60&creat_id=321&clk_id=25460244&sub_id=135949
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Nah, get TileTags. same system and far more users I believe, meaning a better chance of finding it. They work like ml bluetooth keyring, which alerts me that it is lost even when keys are sat next to the damn phone.

El- heapo TK102 or similar, prepay asda sim, done. Less than 30quid initial outlay, barely a fiver a month to run.
 
Seffy said:
Nah, get TileTags. same system and far more users I believe, meaning a better chance of finding it. They work like ml bluetooth keyring, which alerts me that it is lost even when keys are sat next to the damn phone.

El- heapo TK102 or similar, prepay asda sim, done. Less than 30quid initial outlay, barely a fiver a month to run.
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Scrap that both the TileTags and the tracker work by bluetooth not much cope unless your very near the tags or if your tags happens to pass an other user of the same type tags so very sorry for my rubbish idea and wasting your time better off with a GSM system. My only issue with GSM is the delay in receiving messages you dont always receive a text the minute after someone sends it to you. So if your vehicle gets stolen it could be hours before you receive the text message telling you so.
 
John03 said:
Scrap that both the TileTags and the tracker work by bluetooth not much cope unless your very near the tags or if your tags happens to pass an other user of the same type tags
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Hence my suggestion that tile tag may be better.
Most of the GSM ones can also be real-time mapped via GPRS/3G, and personally, I have never had to wait for more than a few seconds for a response except when I have known the vehicle was not in cell range. The only time I have ever really encountered sms delay of what could be critical length is those few minutes around midnight on 31st dec, or when MTPAS was functional in parts of London on 7/7.
 
Seffy said:
Hence my suggestion that tile tag may be better.
Most of the GSM ones can also be real-time mapped via GPRS/3G, and personally, I have never had to wait for more than a few seconds for a response except when I have known the vehicle was not in cell range. The only time I have ever really encountered sms delay of what could be critical length is those few minutes around midnight on 31st dec, or when MTPAS was functional in parts of London on 7/7.
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Which one have you got, Seffy?
 
I have a rather aged TK102 glued to an alpine light and a power feed from the courtesy lights, and an asda prepay sim, £7 a month gets 500mb data and unlimited sms, I barely come close to 500mb data a month on my smartphone.

Looking to upgrade to one of the newer TK103s with decent external antennas so I can also use those feeds for my tablet and phone. Even those can be obtained for less than 20 tokens of beer with a little shopping around, under 10 if you dont mind waiting a month for shipping and potential import/VAT charges

TK102
TK103
 
Cheers, mate. Interesting to know. I've already got the TK103 open on a tab in my browser from other investigations. :)
 
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