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Zoombak ZMBK200 Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator | 
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| Brand: Zoombak
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $165.00
You Save: $84.99 (34%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2048
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: Unknown
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 2.9 x 1.5 x 1
MPN: ZMBK200
Model: ZMBK200
UPC: 896227001018
EAN: 0896227001018
ASIN: B0014J61GI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Zoombak is portable but can also be installed permanently. 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 center 24 hours, 7 days a week. | | • | 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. | | • | In the box: Locator device, AC Wall Charger, Portable Car Charger, Installation Bracket, User Guide 30-Day Risk Free Guarantee, One-year Manufacturer's Warranty |
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Product Description
Are you worried about your teen or other loved one being behind the wheel? What if they get lost or your car gets stolen? Worry no more with Zoombak Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator. This water-resistant device installs permanently in your car or keep it portable for use in other vehicles such as motorcycles, ATVs, boats and bicycles. You can pinpoint your car's location on-demand via Zoombak.com, mobile phone or live customer care. Or use the continuous tracking option to find out where your car is in real time. Just log on to the website to view a map of its current location, as well as where it has been before. Create and activate your own customized safety zones and be notified if your car leaves a zone. This locator will provide you with the peace of mind you are looking for in auto safety.
Continuous Tracking - automatic update of your car's location every 5 minutes for up to 1 hour Location History - see where your car has traveled for the past hour, day or week. Device Alerts - have Zoombak notify you via email and/or text message when your Zoombak Locator has been powered off or has a low battery 24/7 Live Customer Care A-GPS Technology that uses both satellite & cellular technologies Comes with - Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator device Portable Car Charger AC Wall Charger Installation kit - 12V DC Charger for in-car charging and Installation Bracket User & Quick Start Guide 30-Day Risk Free Guarantee (in original packaging & condition with receipt) 1-year Manufacturers Warranty Device must be activated within 60 days of purchase
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The Zoombak uses a combination of GPS satellite and cellular technologies to more precisely and reliably determine the location of your car or loved ones at any time or place. Zoombak's Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator will help you locate your car, and your loved ones in it, and help bring them home safely. Great for monitoring teen drivers or other family members you worry about behind the wheel. In addition, the Zoombak locator will assist you in locating your car if it is stolen.
 | 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. Locate your car's whereabouts on-demand using Zoombak.com, your mobile phone, or live customer care. Track your car's location in real time, or view a map of your car's current location or location history. Create your own customized "safety zones", and get notified via text message and email when your car has left the zone. Unlimited on-demand location requests, an easy-to-use website, and a 24/7 toll-free phone number for live customer care and location support, will provide you with the peace of mind you are looking for in car safety. Please note that Zoombak requires a monthly service plan (Learn more) | Key Features
- Find the current location of your car online, via mobile phone text message, or via toll-free 24 hour customer service (Learn more)
- Track your car's location continuously (Learn more)
- Get your car's location history (Learn more)
- Get alerts whenever your car leaves custom "safety zones" that you define (Learn more)
- Low Battery and "Power Off" Alerts (Learn more)
- 24/7 Customer Service
- Just 2.5 ounces
- Long battery life (standby = up to 120 hours or 5 days; active use = up to 150 location requests)
- Water-resistant housing
- Low-cost service plan (Learn more)
How Zoombak Helps If Your Car is Stolen  |  |  |  | | Your car gets stolen or you want to pinpoint its location | You receive a text alert on your mobile phone or an email on your computer | You can see your car's location on your computer | Helps you find your car and bring it home safely |
 An on-demand locate helps you to find the current location of your car containing the Zoombak Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator. There are 3 easy ways to conduct an on-demand location request of your Zoombak Advanced GPS Car & Family Locator.
- Zoombak.com
- Log on and click "Find Now."
- See your car's real-time location displayed on a map, along with the closest street address.
- View your car's location in detail. Using our detailed map, you can easily zoom in and out or scroll in any direction.
- Send a text message via mobile phone
- Use your mobile phone to request the real-time location of your Zoombak locator.
- Send a text message to "ZMBAK" or "96225" with the name of your locator and your PIN number.
- Receive a prompt location alert via text message containing the nearest cross streets, along with the city and state information.
- 24/7 Toll-Free Live Customer Care
- Contact Zoombak live customer care toll-free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 1-866-951-0101.
- Receive friendly, knowledgeable support and our staff will help you find your car.
 A safety zone is a personalized virtual boundary around a location that you've chosen. When your car enters or leaves an active safety zone, you can be alerted via email and/or text message (your choice.) You can create up to 10 safety zones, 5 of which can be active simultaneously at any given time. Safety zones can be quickly and easily turned on and off via Zoombak.com.
Safety zones can be quickly set up on Zoombak.com in 4 easy steps:
- Name your safety zone and enter an address or use the current location of your Zoombak Locator to create your virtual boundary.
- Select a boundary radius from as small as 110 yards to as large as 880 yards or a 1/2 mile.
- Create a schedule for when you would like your safety zone to be active. For example, Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Select how and when you wish to be notified. For example, you can be notified via text message and email when your car enters and leaves the safety zone.
When your car enters or leaves your safety zone, you can receive a text message and/or email notifying you of the date and time of activity. The Zoombak Car & Family Locator automatically keeps track of your car's location while the device remains active.
Zoombak's continuous tracking feature provides you with an automatic update of your car's location every 5 minutes for up to 1 hour. Your car's location, with time and date, will be shown on a map on Zoombak.com. Upon activating this feature, Zoombak will:
- Determine your car's real-time location.
- Display its location on a map.
- Provide location updates every 5 minutes. After 1 hour, you can easily extend continuous tracking for an additional hour
Zoombak's location history allows you to see where your car has traveled for the past hour, day or week. Your location history will be available for your review on Zoombak.com for up to 7 days.
As part of your service, you can opt-in to have Zoombak notify you via email and/or text message (your choice) when your Zoombak Locator has been powered off or has a low battery. You can add multiple email addresses and mobile phone numbers to receive device alerts. -
With "Power OFF" alerts, you can opt-in to be notified promptly when your device has been turned off along with the current or last known location information. With low battery alerts, you can opt-in to be notified when your device battery is at 25% capacity. If your Zoombak locator powers off due to a low battery, you can receive a second alert advising you that your Zoombak locator has been powered off, along with the last known location of the device
What's In The Box - Zoombak Advanced GPS Car and Family Locator device
- AC Wall Charger
- Portable 12 Volt DC Car Charger
- Installation Bracket which holds your device securely in place when mounted in your vehicle
- User Guide
- One-year Manufacturers Warranty
Zoombak requires a monthly service plan. See www.zoombak.com for details on service plan pricing and coverage.
Service Plan Includes:
- No activation fee
- No hidden fees
- Unlimited on-demand location requests via the Internet and customer service
- On-demand location requests via mobile phone
- Unlimited continuous tracking via web and customer care
- Unlimited safety zone alerts
- Opt-in for "Power Off" and low battery alerts via email and text message
- Location history via Zoombak.com and customer care
- 24/7 live customer care and location support
Service Plan Requirements: - One-year customer agreement required for all service plans
- Convenient, paperless online billing and account maintenance
- Credit or debit card
- Early termination fee applies
Talking To Your Teenagers and Loved Ones Zoombak is proud that our Advanced GPS Car and Family Locator can help to provide a greater sense of safety and peace of mind for the entire family. We understand that this peace of mind is invaluable. We also understand that it is important have a conversation with your teen driver before installing Zoombak in the family car. Speak with your family about how Zoombak can help the entire family feel safer and more connected. There are many situations on the road over which neither you nor your loved one have control. Flat tires, inclement weather, aggressive drivers, or simply getting lost - all are situations to avoid. Zoombak can enable you to locate your teen driver and provide the necessary assistance if these situations should arise. - Let your teen driver know that Zoombak is an A-GPS locator, not a surveillance device. It is a tool that can help locate a loved one in case of an emergency. Zoombak also provides parents with peace of mind by simply alerting you via text message or email when the car and the loved ones in it leaves or arrives at a safety zone. Knowing where to find your loved ones can make the whole family feel safer. Zoombak can also help teen drivers to be more independent. Safety zones are customizable, and can be expanded as the teen driver becomes more experienced. As a parent, you can explain that Zoombak is there to allow your family to feel more connected, safe and protected.
- Let your elder family member know that Zoombak is an A-GPS locator, not a surveillance device. Gently approaching your loved one is important - let them know that it is not your intention to "parent" them, but rather to provide you with reassurance that they are safe. Zoombak also provides you with peace of mind by alerting you when a car enters or leaves a safety zone. Zoombak is the most advanced way to allow your elder loved one to remain independent longer, giving you both reassurance and peace of mind.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Works as advertised with minor caveats November 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Installed this product in trunk of car. Installation was painless and only difficulty was finding an "always on" electrical line. Product came with sufficient material and wire length for installation into most locations. Product seemed real inconsistent first 24 hours it was turned on, I was almost to the point of considering returning it when it suddenly seemed to "sync up" and has been rock steady since. Not sure why this is but power cycling it a couple times may have done the trick. Otherwise works exactly as advertised but purchasers should be aware:
Notification of entry or exit from a custom zone may be up to 15 minutes delayed, since product only polls location every 15 minutes. When you do get notification it does report location of unit as of that moment.
Due to this delay its possible for vehicle to leave and return from a zone in the 15 minute window and not get notified, but the timing would have to be exact for that to happen.
Web site is aggravatingly slow (capacity issues?). Much easier/faster and more convenient to do text message request of location.
Text message response of location is nearest set of cross streets.
Auto battery drain notification is nice, it warned me on one occasion I had not fully plugged in power cord.
Continous tracking works nicely but it only updates location every 5 min for up to an hour, you then have to re-request (but apparently you can do this over and over as needed)
For "where is the car at this exact moment" requests and slightly delayed notification of zone transitions, works perfectly.
Good product, needs better Web site, SMS scheme September 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been testing the Zoombak in a car for three days and it works well within the limits of T-Mobile's coverage, which is something you have to understand. They probably should have chosen AT&T as a GSM partner although T-Mobile performed pretty comparably in my test.
The Web site is slow and needs work. It was down at least once for some period of time (tech support reported that they had an outage). If you were in a panic to find your teen driver, I imagine this could be incredibly annoying. The Web session times out after some period of time without warning you. Once you've signed in as a user, the site should never take you back to the general commercial web site, it should just say your session has expired and please log back in. Why they need to expire the session that quickly is beyond me.
The most annoying choice they've made is the two step SMS process. You have to text "find" to 96225 from a registered cell phone, wait for the system to respond, and then text your pin number and device name to get a location. Why would you need to do that? Since your phone number is registered, you should just be able to text the device name from a registered phone and get back the location. Dumb.
Tracking is also poorly thought out. It's clearly set up just for the pet product, not cars, since it only allows you to set a border that's a half mile from a particular address. That's not useful in warning you when your driver goes more than, say, 5 miles away which is more realistic.
 Zoombak Advanced GPS September 3, 2008
I bought this to able to track my son, whom is a new driver. I was/am so satisfied with the product that I have told friends that whom themselves have since bought one. I would recommend a zoombak to anyone that wants to keep an eye on their new teen driver. It is awesome and reliable. Thanks to Zoombak!
 "Not Quite Ready For Prime Time" September 1, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought the Pet version of the Zoombak about a month ago and I'm sorry to say after a week of testing and multiple consultations with the Zoombak Technical Staff I did not have enough confidence in it to place it on my dog. I returned the unit to Amazon and received prompt credit.I also received an immediate credit from Zoombak for the year service that I had signed up for upon registering my unit because it was within their 30 day risk free period. The Zoombak staff was very courteous, and I'm sure they would be of assistance in locating your dog if you requested, however it wasn't until I asked to speak to a Technical Supervisors did I feel comfortable that someone understood the difficulties I was experiencing with the unit. As most of you probably know the Zoombak uses a combination of a Cellular Phone and GPS service to provide you informationn on your pet. The cellular portion of the system worked fine. I received immediate notifications when I turned the unit off or when the battery was low. Both of these options, which you can select upon setup, use the cellular portion of the unit. Another function that uses the cellular portion in combination with the GPS is the mobile locate function capability. It worked fairly well.
Now for the problems I experienced. After repeatedly setting up Safety Zones per the instructions that came with the unit, per the information I found on the Zoombak Website and finally the instructions I received from the Zoombak Technical staff I could not get the GPS side of the unit to recognize that the unit had left the Safety Zones I had established. I tested the unit by placing it on the windshied of my car where I normally place my other GPS units and leaving the established Safety Zone for a minimum of 15 minutes. Most time I stayed out of the Zone for 30 minutes or longer. On 3 occassions I called the Zoombak Technical Support Staff to verify that the unit was operating properly. They assured me that it was. On one occassion they had to re-sync the unit. At their instructions I increased the radius of my safety Zone. The minimum Safety Zone is 110 yds. I increased it 4 times out to a radius of 700 yds. the maximum I would would accept. On all 4 tests at these distances I received no mobile of E-mail alerts that the unit had left the zone.
I own 2 Garmin GPS units and both of them work perfectly up to 10 ft of my home so I see no reason why the GPS unit packaged in the Zoombak couldn't lock onto the require 3 GPS satellites and recognize that it had left or re-entered the safety zone. On one occassion I had the unit in an open area 20 miles from my home and received no alerts.
Given that Zoombak assured me that my unit was working perfectly I can only assume that they are either using an unreliable GPS Receiver in the unit or that the software program they are using to provide the alerts is not perfected.
A couple of other observations. If you watch the Zoombak video or the Martha Stewart Show video clip you might get the impression, as I did, that once your dog leaves your yard or premises you'll get an immediate notification that it has left. This is not the case. Your dog must physically leave your established Safety Zone and stay out of that zone for 15 minutes. If it wanders back in and out of the Safety Zone within the 15 minutes you get no alerts. I was concerned that my dog would be long gone before I knew about it. My other concern was that if someone took my dog and placed it in a car I would not be able to track it.The GPS instruction that accompany the unit clearly state that the Zoombak unit must have a clear line of sight to the GPS satellites in order to track it. This is the case with most GPS units. Unless you can train your dog to sit in the front seat you might have problems.
The bottom line folks is that if you love and care as much as we do about our dogs you should be wary of this product at this time. It's a great idea but not one that I want to be a Beta tester for especially with the cost of the unit, monthly service charges and concerns for my dogs. If you purchase it I stongly suggest that you test it extensively within the 30 day risk free period and by all means before you place it on your dog. Good Luck.
Peace of Mind August 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We purchased our zoombak locator shortly after they became available in the US and were not available for purchase anywhere but through the company directly. We have a rescued puppy mill dog who got spooked one night and ran off in the snow and ice. We had only had him for 2 months and at that point would not approach people, even us. He returned on his own after 2 days, but we did not sleep looking for him. It happened again a week later. Having the zoombak allows us to relax and know that we will be able to find him if it happens again, which we have decided is unlikely as he has bonded with us much more. We purchased the zoombak for the peace of mind we would have instead of worrying whether or not he would run away again, even if we never had to use it. Initially, we had some issues such as receiving text messages for the wrong dog (1x) and messages that he had left the zone when he was in the house (2x). Zoombak made several software updates and has since solved all of these problems. We eventually turned off the text messaging services to conserve battery life and have gone from 2 days per charge to 5 days per charge. We still receive low battery messages and power off messages. We are on a routine where we plug it in at night when we go to bed and put it back on when we get up in the morning. This has made the process much less of a hassle as when we first purchased it. We tested it while walking the neighborhood and it updates his location every 5 minutes, which is not ideal, but certainly meets our needs. The dog initially scratched at the backpack, but after 2-3 days became accustomed to it and it no longer bothers him. It survived a swimming trip in the lake after fireworks caused him to jump in, so the durability seems to be pretty good. It was and I think still is the least expensive option for this purpose and we are very happy with the product.
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