 | Zoombak ZMBK200 Advanced GPS Car and Family Locator Brand : Zoombak Model : ZMBK200 Overall Rating :  From : 154 Reviews Color : / Size : |
Technical Details
- Its portability allows you to use it in your car as well as in other vehicles such as motorcycles, ATVs, boats and bicycles.
- Pinpoint your car's real-time location on-demand anywhere within nationwide coverage area online or through a live, toll-free customer care
- Create up to 10 customized zones and get notified by text message and/or email when your car leaves or enters the zone.
- Gives you your car's current position and location history.
- Locator device, AC Wall Charger, Portable Car Charger, Installation Bracket, User Guide. 30-Day Risk -Free Guarantee, 1-year Manufacturer's Warranty
Product Description
Zoombak's Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator will help you find your car's real-time location on-demand 24 hours, 7 days a week. Great for monitoring teen drivers or other family members you worry about behind the wheel and for recovering your vehicle if it is stolen. Zoombak communicates its GPS position to you via the national network of a leading cellular carrier, so it can assist you in finding your car in this nationwide coverage area. Additionally, Zoombak uses Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS), which brings together both satellite and cellular technologies allowing for a more precise and reliable way to determine the location of your Zoombak Locator. Install the Zoombak car locator permanently in your car or keep it portable for use in other vehicles such as motorcycles, ATVs, boats and bicycles.[...]
Customer Reviews (see all-reviews)
Jennifer Terry ( Columbus, Ohio United States ) My husband bought one of these in town for $100 but I made him return it and found it for $39 w/free shipping online. Boy, am I glad I did! We put this little piece of junk in the back window of my son's car, (within full view of the sky, as the instructions will tell you) and it hardly works. The site is very slow to show you the location of the device, has a hard time finding it at all, can't track in real time, is extremely slow sending email alerts. By the time I get an alert, my son has long since arrived at his destination and I've spent way too long wondering where he is. It's even supposed to tell you how fast the device is moving, (say, in a car), but if it displays this information, it's too old to do anything about and it really only gives you a snapshot of what's going on, not ongoing information. Don't be thinking you'll be able to find a lost dog with it. You might eventually be shown a general location but by then the dog would have moved on. And all this wondrous information can be had for a monthly subscription fee! Yay! Oh, and by the way, I live in Columbus, Ohio, not the middle of nowhere.
Oh, and don't suppose you're going to buy one to give it a try, then sell to some other poor, unsuspecting sap. The only way to transfer it is to "authorize" someone to be a user on the account. THEY can then change the password and redirect the billing. But wait! What if they don't redirect it? Then you'll still get the bills AND be locked out of the account! Woo hoo! It had better be someone you really trust! So I guess this will go in the trash and be a $40 lesson.
What a great idea this seemed at the outset. Too bad the execution is so poor at this point. A more expensive device is probably the best idea. I'm sure the technology COULD be had cheaply, but will not be for a while. The companies stand to make too much money right now. I'm completely and utterly disappointed. Give this one a pass.
Oh, and don't suppose you're going to buy one to give it a try, then sell to some other poor, unsuspecting sap. The only way to transfer it is to "authorize" someone to be a user on the account. THEY can then change the password and redirect the billing. But wait! What if they don't redirect it? Then you'll still get the bills AND be locked out of the account! Woo hoo! It had better be someone you really trust! So I guess this will go in the trash and be a $40 lesson.
What a great idea this seemed at the outset. Too bad the execution is so poor at this point. A more expensive device is probably the best idea. I'm sure the technology COULD be had cheaply, but will not be for a while. The companies stand to make too much money right now. I'm completely and utterly disappointed. Give this one a pass.
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Paul ( Plantation, FL ) This product could use some work. The hardware itself is simple and well designed. It is rugged and simple. The issue is the online interface. It is almost too simple and lacks preferences or options. You are unable to check a log or bread crumb pattern. Sometimes information is unable to be acquired. Customer service though is very good and very responsive. This is used for vans in a service company and when it works it works very well. The whole idea of its use and presence is more as a deterrent rather then actually as a locator so it does work well for those purposes.
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Dixie Normus ( Texas ) I have tried several low-cost options for vehicles and this seems to be the best there is right now for the price. Hardwiring kit is probably required as the battery life is only a day or so, and if installed out of site it won't be disabled "by accident" or on purpose.
Once permanently installed I am happy with the unit and recommend it. It can lag on the zone updates from time-to-time, but in my area the position tracking is very accurate.
The zoombak web site has recently been updated and is much better than the prior version.
Phone and email support is done from Costa Rica and is eager, but not very good frankly, but they did resolve one problem for me without mishap.
To anyone out there in Amazon land: If anyone has any real or first hand experience, I would like to know whether the pet version, which is physically and electronically identical, can be set up to operate online as the vehicle/family unit. The pet version seems to be less expensive when you find it. I would like a 2nd one for another vehicle.
Once permanently installed I am happy with the unit and recommend it. It can lag on the zone updates from time-to-time, but in my area the position tracking is very accurate.
The zoombak web site has recently been updated and is much better than the prior version.
Phone and email support is done from Costa Rica and is eager, but not very good frankly, but they did resolve one problem for me without mishap.
To anyone out there in Amazon land: If anyone has any real or first hand experience, I would like to know whether the pet version, which is physically and electronically identical, can be set up to operate online as the vehicle/family unit. The pet version seems to be less expensive when you find it. I would like a 2nd one for another vehicle.
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J. Hale ( USA USA USA ) We bought this along with a year's service hoping to use it with our children. Our first real trial was a camping trip in which we pinned the locator inside a jacket. No tracks at all. It was well within all the Tampa metro cell footprints, and was clearly on outdoors for over 12 hours. Later, it went into the back window of a car, and got better results. I estimate that I can get a car location about half the time at best. The safe zones features was a big selling point for use, we were hoping to get emails/calls if our kids wandered away from school, etc. As it is now, I can't imagine it working in that capacity. It seems to be *okay* as a car tracking device. Maybe my individual device is at fault, but then maybe it's not.
Bottom Line:
IF... this thing could be counted on to get a location at least 75% of the time, I would highly recommend it, but since it doesn't seem to for me, I cannot in good conscience.
Bottom Line:
IF... this thing could be counted on to get a location at least 75% of the time, I would highly recommend it, but since it doesn't seem to for me, I cannot in good conscience.
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Amazon fan I tried to activate this device multiple times without any luck in the area I live.
I purchased the 3 month initial service discount from zoombak.
I was busy, and figured I would discontinue the service when I had more time, since the device doesn't work for me. Shame on me.
Fair warning:
You have a 30 day trial with zoombak.
If it doesn't work the way you want it to, you need to discontinue your service by phone and return the device within 30 days.
Be prepared the Zoombak rep will try again and again to talk you out of discontinuing your service. (They told me service in my area is good...haha)
In section 9.3 of the consumer agreement, there is a statement buried amongst the 21 other major headings that they will charge you $100 if you terminate after the initial 30 days within 1 year.
I mentioned to the rep that the website should be more clear about an early termination fee when signing up, but she mentioned that Zoombak doesn't want you to see the early termination fee when you activate.
I purchased the 3 month initial service discount from zoombak.
I was busy, and figured I would discontinue the service when I had more time, since the device doesn't work for me. Shame on me.
Fair warning:
You have a 30 day trial with zoombak.
If it doesn't work the way you want it to, you need to discontinue your service by phone and return the device within 30 days.
Be prepared the Zoombak rep will try again and again to talk you out of discontinuing your service. (They told me service in my area is good...haha)
In section 9.3 of the consumer agreement, there is a statement buried amongst the 21 other major headings that they will charge you $100 if you terminate after the initial 30 days within 1 year.
I mentioned to the rep that the website should be more clear about an early termination fee when signing up, but she mentioned that Zoombak doesn't want you to see the early termination fee when you activate.
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