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britishtrident - 27/6/09 at 12:42 PM

Has anybody tried any of the sub £80 trackers that are now being sold on ebay ?

Guinness - 27/6/09 at 04:16 PM

Do you have a link?

For what purpose?

Mike

RichardK - 27/6/09 at 04:44 PM

Yes, I've got one, works great but you must take out the sim and put it in a phone and make a call every 3 months to keep the pay as you go sim active.

It seems to be accurate to about a couple of miles depends on how close the masts are to triaglate the signal and has a battery back up, so it still works for up to 30 days if they remove the car battery or kill switch.

My thinking is it better than nothing and I'll know roughly where it is, not sure if the coppers could get a better plot than the www.followme.co.uk website.

Cheers

Rich

britishtrident - 27/6/09 at 06:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
Do you have a link?

For what purpose?

Mike


ebay item 270402080674

ebay item 320388134945

britishtrident - 27/6/09 at 06:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RichardK
Yes, I've got one, works great but you must take out the sim and put it in a phone and make a call every 3 months to keep the pay as you go sim active.

It seems to be accurate to about a couple of miles depends on how close the masts are to triaglate the signal and has a battery back up, so it still works for up to 30 days if they remove the car battery or kill switch.

My thinking is it better than nothing and I'll know roughly where it is, not sure if the coppers could get a better plot than the www.followme.co.uk website.

Cheers

Rich


Hopefully the latest one should be more accurate has they use GPS as the main location finder.

[Edited on 27/6/09 by britishtrident]