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The story below is a comment left for the YouTube video below by someone called Ian Moone, it is well worth reading.
Having sold GPS tracking alarms a decade ago, what I know from hard won experience is no one who hasn’t already had a expensive car boat or bobcat etc stolen before ever buys them! Everyone thinks “It will never happen to me” - until it does! A fair %age of idiots believe the myth, “that’s what I pay insurance for & my insurer will make me whole again”, until it happens and they only get market value less excess etc and end up $10k out of pocket once (if) they get a payout! I recall one old lady had her car stolen and THEN bought a gps tracker off us for her replacement car, which not long afterwards was also stolen. She couldn’t remember what to do since the tracker had only been in the car for a couple weeks so rang us, & we tracked it, to barely 50 yards around the corner from her house in a side street! She took her key and walked around the corner, got in and started it up & drove back home pleased as punch. No real visible damage to the car, trip meter showed around 150kms had been put on it, and about half a tank of petrol gone. Lady said she wasn’t going to ring police because there was no damage to need to claim insurance, and the Police might think she was losing her mind and just forgot where she parked it!
So we downloaded it’s entire “black box” memory of everywhere it had been in the previous 24 hours, and asked if she would object if WE contacted police about it having been stolen? She said no objection, so we made a report about all the places it had stopped during its stolen journey! Turned out Police had 2 burglary reports from the first to addresses reported that morning! 3rd address, belonged to someone convicted previously of receiving stolen goods (ie a “fence”). 4 th place it stopped was a petrol service station, & when Police obtained video footage from the servo at the time date stamped - they got footage of the driver getting out of the stolen car & buying cigarettes! Next place it stopped was a rental address & the tenants drivers license photo matched the servo video images of the driver of the stolen car! Last place it stopped was around the corner from where he stole it, which is where we had tracked it to, for its owner! So in essence this burglar was in the habit of stealing a car, going out and doing a couple of break & enter burglaries, drop past his fences house and sell the stolen gear, go past a servo & buy smokes, drop past his rental house & give his spouse his nights “earnings”, dump the car around the corner from where he stole it and walk back home puffing on a smoke! He got jailed for his efforts, the fence likewise also got convicted, the 2 burglary victims got their stolen gear back, & the old lady got her replacement vehicle back, all due to the gps tracker & it’s little aeroplane like black box memory! But no one who hasn’t had a car stolen at least once and learned the lesson the hard way will outlay $ to buy & install them! It’s human nature, not only can’t you sell the gps trackers, you can’t give the bloody things away.
People are too stupid, I demonstrated the trackers to millionaires even who all reckoned they were terrific but not one of them actually bought one! People deserve to have their sh!t stolen, it’s the only way they learn the hard lessons in life. You can’t help people who don’t want to be helped! Criminals these days have developed a system for theft of expensive vehicles & equipment these days, they steal it then go park it in a dead end cull de sac industrial area on a Friday night, and they sit inside their mates factory unit drinking beer, and eating pizza & watching to see if anyone shows up to recover the vehicle for 24 - 48 hours in case it has gps tracking fitted! If no one shows up to recover it THEN, they go and strip it to sell for parts or truck it interstate to “ re- birth” it and license & sell it!
Having sold GPS tracking alarms a decade ago, what I know from hard won experience is no one who hasn’t already had a expensive car boat or bobcat etc stolen before ever buys them! Everyone thinks “It will never happen to me” - until it does! A fair %age of idiots believe the myth, “that’s what I pay insurance for & my insurer will make me whole again”, until it happens and they only get market value less excess etc and end up $10k out of pocket once (if) they get a payout! I recall one old lady had her car stolen and THEN bought a gps tracker off us for her replacement car, which not long afterwards was also stolen. She couldn’t remember what to do since the tracker had only been in the car for a couple weeks so rang us, & we tracked it, to barely 50 yards around the corner from her house in a side street! She took her key and walked around the corner, got in and started it up & drove back home pleased as punch. No real visible damage to the car, trip meter showed around 150kms had been put on it, and about half a tank of petrol gone. Lady said she wasn’t going to ring police because there was no damage to need to claim insurance, and the Police might think she was losing her mind and just forgot where she parked it!
So we downloaded it’s entire “black box” memory of everywhere it had been in the previous 24 hours, and asked if she would object if WE contacted police about it having been stolen? She said no objection, so we made a report about all the places it had stopped during its stolen journey! Turned out Police had 2 burglary reports from the first to addresses reported that morning! 3rd address, belonged to someone convicted previously of receiving stolen goods (ie a “fence”). 4 th place it stopped was a petrol service station, & when Police obtained video footage from the servo at the time date stamped - they got footage of the driver getting out of the stolen car & buying cigarettes! Next place it stopped was a rental address & the tenants drivers license photo matched the servo video images of the driver of the stolen car! Last place it stopped was around the corner from where he stole it, which is where we had tracked it to, for its owner! So in essence this burglar was in the habit of stealing a car, going out and doing a couple of break & enter burglaries, drop past his fences house and sell the stolen gear, go past a servo & buy smokes, drop past his rental house & give his spouse his nights “earnings”, dump the car around the corner from where he stole it and walk back home puffing on a smoke! He got jailed for his efforts, the fence likewise also got convicted, the 2 burglary victims got their stolen gear back, & the old lady got her replacement vehicle back, all due to the gps tracker & it’s little aeroplane like black box memory! But no one who hasn’t had a car stolen at least once and learned the lesson the hard way will outlay $ to buy & install them! It’s human nature, not only can’t you sell the gps trackers, you can’t give the bloody things away.
People are too stupid, I demonstrated the trackers to millionaires even who all reckoned they were terrific but not one of them actually bought one! People deserve to have their sh!t stolen, it’s the only way they learn the hard lessons in life. You can’t help people who don’t want to be helped! Criminals these days have developed a system for theft of expensive vehicles & equipment these days, they steal it then go park it in a dead end cull de sac industrial area on a Friday night, and they sit inside their mates factory unit drinking beer, and eating pizza & watching to see if anyone shows up to recover the vehicle for 24 - 48 hours in case it has gps tracking fitted! If no one shows up to recover it THEN, they go and strip it to sell for parts or truck it interstate to “ re- birth” it and license & sell it!
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I would know in seconds if our van moved without me (or if any sensors were triggered but they are alarm features), the tracking company could then follow it in real time, plus I can see it on a map.
