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TrackItBack Helps You Recover Lost Gear

If you're not a fan of carving your name, phone number, and address on the back of your RAZR like your mom did to your elementary school lunchbox, then TrackItBack may be the sticker for you. TrackItBack is basically a set of stickers for your camera, cellphone or MP3 player labelled with a confidential ID tha only you and they know. If you lose your gadget—and someone nice picks it up—the guy who finds it calls the 800 number on the back and uses the ID to get a set of instructions on how to device back to you.

Stickers cost around $12.99, and are sold in various packs and sizes depending on what you want to protect. You could, of course, print out your own stickers with your info on it. But then how would TrackItBack's employees feed their children?

Product Page [TrackItBack via Chip Chick]

8:00 PM on Thu Sep 28 2006
By Jason Chen
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  • Kinda spiffy. Being a cheap-ass bastard, I dunno if I'd use it or not. If I don't, and I lose something, I'll probably wish I had...

  • If you don't buy the stickers then they get fed to the employee's children.

  • If it's very difficult to remove... then I definitely could have used this on a few electronic gizmos I was careless with in the past.

  • Okay, you find a laptop - you have 2 choices:
    1. call trackitback, get a $30 gift pack and maybe some cash reward from the owner, or
    2. sell on eBay for $1500+

    - tough choice, eh?

    Don't get me wrong, there are honest people out there...somewhere

  • Umm ... so this is the same as StuffBak.com which has been doing the same thing (on the backside of my iBook) for years?

  • Yeah it is the same as stuffbak.com. I used to use another service from this singapore company bak2u.com but later changed to their anti theft software replaccing the sticker instead for my Qtek pocket pc phone.

    This software rocks! It do not depend on the person to return but track down the person who stole it! :)

  • But they're super grippy! Anything super grippy gets my vote.

  • I second meadorg, I have Stuffbak stickers on all of my stuff, how is this any different?

  • SUPER GRIPPPY!#$

  • i just called and gave them number 1234567 in order to try and get my hideous lime green VW Golf with a hoodscoop and hideous body kit back... no dice.

  • psshh, people dont have a concience.

  • I want to know if you sell whatever you are using, if the ownership can be transfered.

  • A label with your name on it will work just as well. If you're on a covert mission to a third world country and can't blow your cover when your razr is left in the lounge, then these are perfect for you...

  • Is it super Grippy on the sticky side, or on the outside, as in to stop it sliding off my dashboard and out the window??

    As for "There are good people out there... somewhere," I lose stuff all the time, but I always get it back...
    People aren't as bad as they seem. Or maybe I have good Karma... :P

  • This is so weird that this is now being written. I just lost my bag last week at a bus depot in BC..it had my laptop in it among other things. For sure thought everything was gone, got home 3 hrs away and there was a msg saying they had recovered my laptop and it was going to be shipped to me. Was glad but too bad i didnt have tags on my other things. But i was totally shocked and even forgot i had a tag on it. So somebody was a good person. You may think you won't return it, but are all of you thieves? If you saw a pretty girl drop her purse and didnt notice. I am sure 8 out of 10 of you would tell her she dropped it....

  • the stickers have crappy glue i put one on my ipod keeped the ipod in the case and then like 12 months later the corner is pealing

    i would rather trust lojack to my laptop

  • Have you check their warranty. I am sure that these guys guarantee there products. Most people are honest. The site claims that they have an 80% recovery rate for registered items.

  • Last two companies I knew of that did this went under. My Casio Cassiopeia E-115 Pocket PC came with just such a sticker for one of those companies, but by the time mine was lost they no longer existed. Makes me nervous to invest any hope in this one.

  • As the owner of Trackitback, I can tell you that we're not going under and that we have a very solid balance sheet. In other words, things are "uber cool" and we're having lots of fun!

  • This has been out for years now - at least two years or so I've been seeing it on store shelves. What's with all this old stuff?

  • How about an Avery label with your e-mail address. Duh. "Reward if found - e-mail me."

  • It's all about the service!

  • ...or scratch or tape your "Substantial reward if this xxxx is found at xxx-xxx-xxxx" inside the battery cover?

  • Ladies and Gents...you're missing the point, Trackitback returns your items (when found) for free.

  • There' also Boomerangit.com They recently returned the cell phone of a realtor friend of mine, he's been raving about it since as all his contacts, basically his business, was stored in the phone. So I guess it works. I'm seriously considering it, even though I haven't lost anything of value, but I do travel and it may come in handy some day.


  • There is also Boomerangit.com They recently returned the cell phone of a realtor friend of mine, he's been raving about it since as all his contacts, basically his business, was stored in the phone. So I guess it works. I'm seriously considering it, even though I haven't lost anything of value, but I do travel and it may come in handy some day. Sarah, Orinda, CA

  • I can confirm that boomerangit.com is in fact a good competitor to Trackitback!

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