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My electric scooter was taken from the house of a friend of mine one night. We eventually got it back, because we posted notes around town with a picture of the
by codetrotter 3y ago
My electric scooter was taken from the house of a friend of mine one night. We eventually got it back, because we posted notes around town with a picture of the electric scooter urging anyone who’d seen it to contact us by phone.
Anyways, as a result of that I went on AliExpress and bought a small device which is supposed to be able to be mounted on things and track their location. You put a SIM card and an SD-card in it and it will report its location.
I didn’t get around to mounting it on the electric scooter yet. But something that stood out to me when it came in the mail is that it was declared as being something else and I was like, is this because people buy this thing and they don’t want their spouse to know what they bought or something. That’s a bit creepy, considering it’s a GPS tracking device.
- sargun 3y agoProbably more likely to get around customs / export restrictions.
- Scoundreller 3y agoBeen a while since I actually looked at one of my aliexpress customs labels, but they tend to arrive as “electronic gadget - $5” or something very generic and undervalued like that. Definitely a “they can’t inspect them all” aspect to it.
- codetrotter 3y agoThe thing that was weird and creepy in this case was that the label was very specific. But claimed that the contents of the package was another kind of product entirely. Seemed suspiciously like they want to make people able to order it without others in their family knowing what had been bought.
- Gibbon1 3y agoThat and It's not FCC licensed so illegal to sell. Not carrier approved either so they'll get pissy if they figure that out. And likely the hardware design itself is stolen.
- foota 3y agoPro: you'll be able to find your things. Con: The FCC will also be able to find your things!