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That way, no monthly fees, they still get the money....]]>Jan 9th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/
"...no monthly fees? Sure..we will cater to your pocket book! ...oh! You ACTUALLY want to track it? That's going to cost you..please place your leg on the table...".

You see this all over the place. You'll pay a minimal fee to get into the game, but once you're in, you're paying so many individual fees (NOT monthly) and confused by them that it makes trying to solve Maxwell's Equations in 3 dimensions seem like 2nd grade Math.

No thanks.

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If they do nickel and dime you though - this obviously isn't a practical solution for... say... a stalker.

Which I'm totally not.]]>Jan 9th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/
No monthly fee might be true...but I feel like I'm going to pay for it one way or another. ]]>Jan 9th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/You're gonna pay for it in one way or another even if you won't buy the goddam thing.]]>Jan 9th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/
The MSRP for XACT|Trax is around $250 - and once registered at the online portal, the user is up and running. If after some use they realize that they are accessing the device more frequently than expected, a monthly service agreement is available. ]]>Jan 9th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/
And most likely trading in your service for basically allowing them to better geo-target you as a customer to their advertisers.
And it should be completely free at that point for YOU to get your own location.

Heck YouMail.com does it and but still charges you to transcribe your vmail, which they already do themselves for advertising purposes - similar model.]]>Jan 9th 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 9th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/xact-trax-personal-tracking-device-requires-no-monthly-subscri/Jan 11th 2009 1:44PM