Meh, you may as well mail the entire stock you have to one lucky Meh member as a prank. It would be worth more to get the laughs than the profit you will make out of these. Super Meh!
These “TrackR” tiles have most likely been sitting around, in various warehouse(s), for several years… so the batteries are most likely dead, at this point. This, plus the general low-quality of the tiles in their prime, makes me feel like these should be a push-product here in January 2020 ( e.g. Pay Me to Take these from you, Meh!!)
I bought TrackRs a few times before. Since then I bought 20 “BlueDot” batteries on eBay for $4.50. So each CR2016 set me back less than a quarter.
I only started using those batteries a month ago, but those TrackRs are still working as well as they ever did. The only features I use are to detect if a tool is in range, make it make noise, and occasionally, I use one to find my phone.
The function to make something complain if the TrackR gets too far from the phone got way too many false alarms. I gave up on that.
I bought the five pack a while back. I’ve only set up 2 of them and they both worked out of the box. I used one for real for the first time a few weeks ago to find my keys under papers on my desk. No complaints here.
These have worked well for me. I still have extras, so no sale today. One reported a low/dead battery when it was at the edge of the BT range, but when it was closer and refreshed it was fine.
Want more people to have the app with BT on so the Crowd Locate feature actually works, otherwise I’m happy with these.
I bought a package a couple of offers ago, never opened them, and they’re lost somewhere in the house. (A not uncommon situation here.) I wonder if I can buy another set, whisper sweet things in their ears, and let them listen to the lost set. You never know, miracles could happen.
Ok, how many of these have been on here in the past year? I’m starting to disbelieve the story that you guys are running this independently from Amazon. Meh, are you trying to push the up-and-coming (and in some ways, already-here) Orwellian surveillance state?
@mikeureko if you simply go to https://www.thetrackr.com/ and scroll to the bottom you’ll see that they are pretty tightly knit with Meh and the other checkout.org sites. Not exactly sure what the relationship is but there’s something to it.
@xterraguy Thanks for the info. I’m glad nobody blew up at my semi-sarcastic comment, lol. I like to create hyperbolic statements for a certain effect sometimes.
Bought and use these. To do so successfully you must:
Buy CR2016 batteries and PLEASE recycle the mostly dead ones in these responsibly, it is illegal where I live to put them in the trash
Search for ways to use duct tape to make opening these little buggers a breeze so you aren’t unnecessarily frustrated
Resign to the reality that ~10% of the devices you received will fail in the first 2 months, but know that this just means your cost per device is closer to $3 overall, sort of like accepting that there will be unpopped kernels in your microwave popcorn bag if you want the rest of what popped to be unscorched
Check the batteries (using the app) in your Pixels from time to time, mine tend to last about 6 months. Buy your own batteries from China instead of using the worthless replacement service
Turn off the false-alert-laden Device Separation feature, and just use the Find function, as this is all they are really good for anyway.
Stop whining that these are so meh. You paid less than $3 per device in the long run you cheap bastard, did you really expect anything more than pure mediocrity?
@hamjudo well, I have only had one fail out of the 15 I have, and that was just the beeper not beeping loud enough after a couple of months. All the rest are operating properly 5 months in.
@RedOak Good point! My original Pixel ownership occurred well before Meh started offering them (sometime early 2019), and I have had to replace batteries in those 3 units once since I turned them on. So I was guessing at the 6 month number.
Having said that, I also bought some from Meh in October that are all turned on and activated and are still operating, albeit with new batteries installed from the get-go, so that’s more like 3 months not 5 - time warp in my brain I guess. It was one of the original units that the beeper stopped working on (but was otherwise active and could signal my phone). I have had zero failures out of the box on the October Meh ones.
I also bought more from the November Meh offering, and have not turned them on (I gave several away to friends who have either not used them or have not had problems or have not told me about troubles), so I cannot claim a failure rate on those.
I now have enough of these and am getting what I consider good use of them given the current pricing.
@Jonas4321@RedOak I also used the ones I bought to give away as stocking stuffers since I hadn’t linked them yet. I bought batteries and included them with each pair I gave away.
I must reject your advice @unksol. I spend a lot of time each day looking for stuff.
It was even worse before my neurologist prescribed a CPAP machine for sleep issues. She hasn’t found any other treatable issues, so I must work with my brain as it is.
@hamjudo@unksol@Jonas4321@RedOak
Batteries on Amazon can be had for as little as 17 cents each if you buy them in bulk of 100 at a whack.
20 packs are about 20 cents and up (delivered with Prime)
@hamjudo@Jonas4321@RedOak@unksol or you are giving them as gifts so you include a couple of years worth of batteries… (because you don’t want to be THAT guy that gives gifts without batteries…)
Bought a pack a while back, had to replace all the batteries before actually using them. But even then, after a month of using it, I was barely satisfied.
Then when a friend showed me his Tile and we compared the features in the real world my TrackR was like a beta product. Lower range, didn’t always work, low ring volume, problematic battery, and so on. Tile had none of these problems. I stopped using my TrackR shortly after.
bought a set of these for both my home and work keys. liked the idea, worked for a little bit. but i had no faith in the crowd search community. plus it kept asking me the same questions every time i opened the app.
these Trakrs are gateway drugs to Tiles. just buy the 4-pack for $34.99 and see what it’s like to have ones that actually work!
As I stated above, I also used the ones I bought as stocking stuffers since I hadn’t linked them yet. I bought batteries and included them with each pair I gave away.
Part of the reason I haven’t used any yet is that my BIL gave me a set of TILES for Christmas… which he paid WAY more for than these. But, that set came with a credit card sized unit that fits in a wallet, so that’s a plus.
I plan to link at least one of this set’s Trackers to the phone and leave the button on the baker’s rack where I normally charge my phone (by the front door), which will allow me to ping the phone when I can’t find it. I especially like the “rings even if the phone volume is turned off” feature, though my TicWatch has the same ability. (I don’t normally wear a watch when I am off, and certainly don’t wear that one if I am doing any work outside were it might get scratched etc. For that reason I will most likely leave one in the shop as well.)
I have plans for at least one other to be on the keys at work so I can maybe find them when others leave them in ‘non-standard’ locations.
I think I may also put one in each car, just for “shits-n-grins” to see if the crowd mapping can find it when we are out and about. If that works half way well I may squirrel one away on a public transit for the same reason. Seems like it could be an entertaining use of the few bucks it would cost for the several months til the battery dies.
Oh… and one in each suitcase… because that could be handy as well. (Plus having it start beeping on the carousel in the airport might be fun…) TL:DR Just get them… they are cheap.
BTW, any input on how using these impacts on the phone’s battery life? Not sure if it should matter, or if it will drain quicker as it tries to ping the ones that are not in range, such as if you leave one on your remote control, or if I leave one in my suitcase while I am not near it.
@chienfou The power drain should be negligible, given that these are BT LE. You’re probably plugging in your phone to charge at least once a day, so just having a TrackR connected likely is the difference of maaaaybe a minute or two between charges.
@Atomizer cool. I wasn’t sure if it searching for a BT item that was not available (away from home for instance) would take more juice that if it was local and connected. That’s why I’m a nurse and my son is the electrical engineer…
@chienfou Yeah, using the phone to try to locate the out-of-range BT device won’t draw a meaningful amount of power. At most, if you did the opposite and used the TrackR to locate your phone which caused it to ring/vibrate/light up, that would draw a little more power, but again I’d be surprised if it cost you more than something like a minute of normal operating time of the phone.
I bought a $10 pack of these last time and they seem to work pretty well to find our Roku/TV/DVD player remotes which the kids leave in or under random places in our house.
I also put them on our keychains but so far haven’t needed to use them yet. I’ve been pretty happy for $10.
@mrallen1 yeah, I wouldn’t count on them to find my lifesaving device (epi-pen etc.), but for normal “now-where-the-hell-did-I-leave-that” stuff seems like cheap insurance.
Well. That’s that. Can’t say I didn’t know what I was doing. All in all these should do just fine. Glitches and all I think they’ll do what I need. Pros and cons these are the right product for the right price. Will use only around the house. That should take care of a few of the cons. And help me waste less time looking for the remote controls after my girl gets drunk and “looses” them. I can handle the dryer eating a sock occasionally but not a $50 remote. We shall see. Thanks to all for the tips!
They work but…
You may need to replace the battery (2 were dead). This can be really hard to do since they aren’t easy to open.
The company does not support the product. Tried contacting 2x by email. No reply.
There aren’t enough people using them to make the cloud worthwhile.
Got mine today. Has the account verification email actually been sent to anyone just registered? Twice with separate emails and no verification email has been sent.
I’ve got a couple Trackrs with dead batteries but for $10, I can’t complain. Since so far I’m only using two of the ten of them, don’t think its gonna be a big deal.
These were one of the only items that are absolutely a waste of money. First, in your excitement, you take the time to place them everywhere…on your lanyard your keys, your other keys, your other phone, your main phone and so on.They are flimsy, they break off and then the dog tries to eat the battery, they do not make a sound besides a bug farting, which can only be heard by other farting bugs, then you have to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to remove the cheap sticker crap off the keys. so you end up with the skeletons of these flimsy pixel things stuck on all your keys and phones looking like someone who got crap stuck on your lanyard your keys, your other keys, your other phone, your main phone and so on. Plus, I bought a second set and gave them to my daughter, so she is stuck prying them off her keys as well. USELESS.
@mtdlv1 yup these are total trash. I bought bunch months ago with high hopes and plenty of intended uses. Got a single pink one in last irk…just to taunt me i think!
Specs
What’s in the Box?
10x TrackR Pixel Bluetooth Tracking Devices
10x Key loops and double-sided 3M adhesives (One Per Pixel)
10x User-replaceable CR2016 batteries (Installed In Each Pixel)
2x Setup guide
Price Comparison
$29.38 (for 10 black) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Meh, you may as well mail the entire stock you have to one lucky Meh member as a prank. It would be worth more to get the laughs than the profit you will make out of these. Super Meh!
God, I have a few dozen of these, and haven’t used any of them. Bring on the Tiles!
Trackrs must work; you keep finding them in your warehouse to sell.
Bought a 5-pack… One worked briefly. Hot garbage
@CraigDanger Agree. These are worthless.
These “TrackR” tiles have most likely been sitting around, in various warehouse(s), for several years… so the batteries are most likely dead, at this point. This, plus the general low-quality of the tiles in their prime, makes me feel like these should be a push-product here in January 2020 ( e.g. Pay Me to Take these from you, Meh!!)
Yeah the batteries are basically dead. Got five of them. Same issue and the problem was remedied by sending me ONE replacement with a dead battery
@m05ch I’ve replaced the batteries with new batteries I bought and they still don’t work - I would stay away from these.
@m05ch @mensachick
with 10 batteries in each pixel I would think you could hardly lose the things they’d be so big…
Could have been worse - they could have sent you 10.
I got one of these a while back, just now tried to use it and the battery was dead. How is the battery life on them normally?
/image raunchy-lavender-van
I bought TrackRs a few times before. Since then I bought 20 “BlueDot” batteries on eBay for $4.50. So each CR2016 set me back less than a quarter.
I only started using those batteries a month ago, but those TrackRs are still working as well as they ever did. The only features I use are to detect if a tool is in range, make it make noise, and occasionally, I use one to find my phone.
The function to make something complain if the TrackR gets too far from the phone got way too many false alarms. I gave up on that.
Absolute trash, they break when you look at them wrong
Can you find a woman’s physiological pleasure center with this?
@Dolemite Gee I doubt it
@bgammill @Dolemite Someone needs more practice.
@Dolemite Depends on where you place it.
@Dolemite @mehgrl mmm I think you should just know where that is. If not you fail as a man.
@Dolemite @mehgrl @unksol
How very un-PC to make that assumption… maybe the person in question self identifies as one of myriad letters/symbols other than male…
/giphy shrug
The “new” Candy Corn. Without the sugar high.
I bought the five pack a while back. I’ve only set up 2 of them and they both worked out of the box. I used one for real for the first time a few weeks ago to find my keys under papers on my desk. No complaints here.
Can these TrackRs find other lost TrackRs? Otherwise, I may never find my heart, brain, and courage again.
@hchavers check with the Wiz. I think he can help you find those…
These have worked well for me. I still have extras, so no sale today. One reported a low/dead battery when it was at the edge of the BT range, but when it was closer and refreshed it was fine.
Want more people to have the app with BT on so the Crowd Locate feature actually works, otherwise I’m happy with these.
I’m convinced Meh is pulling these things out of a wormhole hidden somewhere in the warehouse. They have a seemingly endless supply of them.
I bought a package a couple of offers ago, never opened them, and they’re lost somewhere in the house. (A not uncommon situation here.) I wonder if I can buy another set, whisper sweet things in their ears, and let them listen to the lost set. You never know, miracles could happen.
Ok, how many of these have been on here in the past year? I’m starting to disbelieve the story that you guys are running this independently from Amazon. Meh, are you trying to push the up-and-coming (and in some ways, already-here) Orwellian surveillance state?
@mikeureko Wait. Amazon owns Mediocre Corp. now?
@mikeureko @therealjrn no, that’s Woot.
@mikeureko if you simply go to https://www.thetrackr.com/ and scroll to the bottom you’ll see that they are pretty tightly knit with Meh and the other checkout.org sites. Not exactly sure what the relationship is but there’s something to it.
@xterraguy What’s Woot?
@therealjrn @xterraguy More like what WAS Woot! It used to be great. It’s close to nothing now. TYVM Amazon.
@xterraguy Thanks for the info. I’m glad nobody blew up at my semi-sarcastic comment, lol. I like to create hyperbolic statements for a certain effect sometimes.
Bought and use these. To do so successfully you must:
@Jonas4321
Yeah, I’d be happier just losing whatever it is these are supposed to help me find
@Jonas4321 Excellent advice.
How do you figure $3 each. My eBay batteries were $4.50 for 20.
At $9 for 9 working units, that is $1.23 each with VMP, or $1.80 each without.
Also, 9 out of 10 working is optimistic. 6 out of 10 is more accurate.
@hamjudo well, I have only had one fail out of the 15 I have, and that was just the beeper not beeping loud enough after a couple of months. All the rest are operating properly 5 months in.
@Jonas4321 Thanks for the experience report.
How do you reconcile:
@Jonas4321
7 remember where you put your shit and don’t buy pointless trash
@RedOak Good point! My original Pixel ownership occurred well before Meh started offering them (sometime early 2019), and I have had to replace batteries in those 3 units once since I turned them on. So I was guessing at the 6 month number.
Having said that, I also bought some from Meh in October that are all turned on and activated and are still operating, albeit with new batteries installed from the get-go, so that’s more like 3 months not 5 - time warp in my brain I guess. It was one of the original units that the beeper stopped working on (but was otherwise active and could signal my phone). I have had zero failures out of the box on the October Meh ones.
I also bought more from the November Meh offering, and have not turned them on (I gave several away to friends who have either not used them or have not had problems or have not told me about troubles), so I cannot claim a failure rate on those.
I now have enough of these and am getting what I consider good use of them given the current pricing.
@Jonas4321 @RedOak I also used the ones I bought to give away as stocking stuffers since I hadn’t linked them yet. I bought batteries and included them with each pair I gave away.
I must reject your advice @unksol. I spend a lot of time each day looking for stuff.
It was even worse before my neurologist prescribed a CPAP machine for sleep issues. She hasn’t found any other treatable issues, so I must work with my brain as it is.
@hamjudo @unksol @Jonas4321 @RedOak
Batteries on Amazon can be had for as little as 17 cents each if you buy them in bulk of 100 at a whack.
20 packs are about 20 cents and up (delivered with Prime)
@chienfou @hamjudo @Jonas4321 @unksol
Something might be very wrong if one has to resort to buying 100 packs of these batteries and does not own a party store.
Like either the tracker is a battery-eater or that person has too many things they regularly lose.
@hamjudo @Jonas4321 @RedOak @unksol or you are giving them as gifts so you include a couple of years worth of batteries… (because you don’t want to be THAT guy that gives gifts without batteries…)
@chienfou @RedOak you’re a nice person.
@chienfou @hamjudo @Jonas4321 @unksol
What if one doesn’t wish to be THAT guy who gives compromised-performance gifts?
@hamjudo @Jonas4321 @RedOak @unksol …you make friends that have lower expectations!
/giphy duh…
Bought a pack a while back, had to replace all the batteries before actually using them. But even then, after a month of using it, I was barely satisfied.
Then when a friend showed me his Tile and we compared the features in the real world my TrackR was like a beta product. Lower range, didn’t always work, low ring volume, problematic battery, and so on. Tile had none of these problems. I stopped using my TrackR shortly after.
@theonlybuster My friend uses Tiles and likes them a lot. He has more discretionary money than I do, too.
Is it possible that meh has more of these than the original amount of speaker docks ???
@somf69 quite. Especially since these are sold in multi-packs.
@RedOak
/giphy LeeLoo Dallas multipass
KuoH
bought a set of these for both my home and work keys. liked the idea, worked for a little bit. but i had no faith in the crowd search community. plus it kept asking me the same questions every time i opened the app.
these Trakrs are gateway drugs to Tiles. just buy the 4-pack for $34.99 and see what it’s like to have ones that actually work!
Oh my…
/image sexy-vigorous-raven
/giphy sexy-vigorous-raven
As I stated above, I also used the ones I bought as stocking stuffers since I hadn’t linked them yet. I bought batteries and included them with each pair I gave away.
Part of the reason I haven’t used any yet is that my BIL gave me a set of TILES for Christmas… which he paid WAY more for than these. But, that set came with a credit card sized unit that fits in a wallet, so that’s a plus.
I plan to link at least one of this set’s Trackers to the phone and leave the button on the baker’s rack where I normally charge my phone (by the front door), which will allow me to ping the phone when I can’t find it. I especially like the “rings even if the phone volume is turned off” feature, though my TicWatch has the same ability. (I don’t normally wear a watch when I am off, and certainly don’t wear that one if I am doing any work outside were it might get scratched etc. For that reason I will most likely leave one in the shop as well.)
I have plans for at least one other to be on the keys at work so I can maybe find them when others leave them in ‘non-standard’ locations.
I think I may also put one in each car, just for “shits-n-grins” to see if the crowd mapping can find it when we are out and about. If that works half way well I may squirrel one away on a public transit for the same reason. Seems like it could be an entertaining use of the few bucks it would cost for the several months til the battery dies.
Oh… and one in each suitcase… because that could be handy as well. (Plus having it start beeping on the carousel in the airport might be fun…)
TL:DR Just get them… they are cheap.
@chienfou I don’t think the beeping is loud enough to hear at the luggage carousel. Especially inside of a suitcase.
BTW, any input on how using these impacts on the phone’s battery life? Not sure if it should matter, or if it will drain quicker as it tries to ping the ones that are not in range, such as if you leave one on your remote control, or if I leave one in my suitcase while I am not near it.
@chienfou The power drain should be negligible, given that these are BT LE. You’re probably plugging in your phone to charge at least once a day, so just having a TrackR connected likely is the difference of maaaaybe a minute or two between charges.
@Atomizer cool. I wasn’t sure if it searching for a BT item that was not available (away from home for instance) would take more juice that if it was local and connected. That’s why I’m a nurse and my son is the electrical engineer…
@chienfou Yeah, using the phone to try to locate the out-of-range BT device won’t draw a meaningful amount of power. At most, if you did the opposite and used the TrackR to locate your phone which caused it to ring/vibrate/light up, that would draw a little more power, but again I’d be surprised if it cost you more than something like a minute of normal operating time of the phone.
I bought a $10 pack of these last time and they seem to work pretty well to find our Roku/TV/DVD player remotes which the kids leave in or under random places in our house.
I also put them on our keychains but so far haven’t needed to use them yet. I’ve been pretty happy for $10.
@mrallen1 yeah, I wouldn’t count on them to find my lifesaving device (epi-pen etc.), but for normal “now-where-the-hell-did-I-leave-that” stuff seems like cheap insurance.
I bought these last time they were on here and they arrived with shitty batteries. Basically never worked.
@Jasonallers you do realize the batteries are replaceable, right?
(and they basically told us up front the batteries were crapped out…)
Well. That’s that. Can’t say I didn’t know what I was doing. All in all these should do just fine. Glitches and all I think they’ll do what I need. Pros and cons these are the right product for the right price. Will use only around the house. That should take care of a few of the cons. And help me waste less time looking for the remote controls after my girl gets drunk and “looses” them. I can handle the dryer eating a sock occasionally but not a $50 remote. We shall see. Thanks to all for the tips!
Don’t ask me why.
/giphy statuesque-tedious-land
@blaineg
Why not?
/giphy the devil made me do it
They work but…
You may need to replace the battery (2 were dead). This can be really hard to do since they aren’t easy to open.
The company does not support the product. Tried contacting 2x by email. No reply.
There aren’t enough people using them to make the cloud worthwhile.
Got mine today. Has the account verification email actually been sent to anyone just registered? Twice with separate emails and no verification email has been sent.
@mz I never got a verification, but was able to login to the account I created just fine.
Most of the batteries lasted a day. Not happy.
I’ve got a couple Trackrs with dead batteries but for $10, I can’t complain. Since so far I’m only using two of the ten of them, don’t think its gonna be a big deal.
These were one of the only items that are absolutely a waste of money. First, in your excitement, you take the time to place them everywhere…on your lanyard your keys, your other keys, your other phone, your main phone and so on.They are flimsy, they break off and then the dog tries to eat the battery, they do not make a sound besides a bug farting, which can only be heard by other farting bugs, then you have to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to remove the cheap sticker crap off the keys. so you end up with the skeletons of these flimsy pixel things stuck on all your keys and phones looking like someone who got crap stuck on your lanyard your keys, your other keys, your other phone, your main phone and so on. Plus, I bought a second set and gave them to my daughter, so she is stuck prying them off her keys as well. USELESS.
Zero range, too quiet. These suck
@mtdlv1 yup these are total trash. I bought bunch months ago with high hopes and plenty of intended uses. Got a single pink one in last irk…just to taunt me i think!