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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not purchase from these scammers, they do not deliver, they do not contact you, they do not update. They are a useless scam. DO NOT PURCHASE, I deeply question the validity of any positive... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I received the product without any problem but it just didn't work with any degree of accuracy. Waste of money, so I returned it. Product was sent back on the 10th March and they received it on the 30... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very quick delivery. However the unit doesn’t work doesn’t even switch on so can’t comment on the product itself. What I can comment is the appalling customer service. They are refusing to refund my p... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The tail it pet collar is smaller and lighter than traktive, I own both. Unfortunately the performance just not good enough. It is extremely slow to respond to the app commands, the map location... See more

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Tail it technologies' test winning GPS tracking devices with global range. Tracking devices specially made for Cats, dogs, bikes, cars, kids and much more.


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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Tailit Pet

I have three Tailit Pet. The units work if there is good mobile coverage. They don't seem to have super-good reception and lose the net frequently - making them a bit unreliable. Rebooting them at least once every day seems to help a bit. They also consume power quite fast. They need to be recharged every 2-3 days, much more often than specified. So quite often our cats are running around with no working tracker because they are either out of battery or unable to communicate with the cellular net.

When they work the updates are very slow. It usually takes well over a minute to gat a GPS-position. So you can't track in "real-time". But we do find our cats. I'd say it's good enough but could have been a lot better. I'll give it a 3.

Support and customer service is excellent in my opinion - always very helpful.

June 12, 2020
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hello.

Thank you for your feedback on our product and services.
We are always happy to hear that our customers are pleased with our customer service and we strive to make that experience of having to contact them in the first place be as pleasureable as possible.

We also do appriciate the constructive feedback as this helps us improve. By gathering valuable constructive feedback from our customers and looking into what is achieveable we are now in the process of devloping the secound generation of trackers for our four legged friends. The new generation will contain a lot more than just your standard tracking. We have seen the rapid deacrease from 2g wich our current devices are running and we are now looking at new solutions to this issue.

Once again we thank you for your honesty and constructive feedback and we want you to know that we do hear you and your pet's desire. We will continue to work hard to make sure that you and your cats can feel safe and bond even more.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely the worst service ever.

Absolutely the worst service ever.
I ordered a tag on the 12th of April and still don’t have it. The excuse is Covid, but the response and customer service is terrible. They don’t bother to update you unless you chase them and even then I have had to go back numerous times.
Last update was that the item would be sent 6 June. Now it’s moved to 12 June
I hope they read this and get their act into gear because this is a REALLY bad start!!

June 9, 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We are really happy with the Dog…

We are really happy with the Dog tracker and have already used to find our dog several times over the last two month, and recommend it to every one we know

June 3, 2020
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hello.

We are extremly happy to hear that you are enjoying our product and services. We constantly strive to ensure that the members of the Tail It family have the best experience they can and be a assistance in making the bond between human and pet just a little stronger.

It warms our hearts to see that people get enjoyment and safety from what we are doing and it gives us motivation to keep striving to become even better.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL - really slow to respond, uncaring and use standard responses to questions - do not understand simple questions.

AVOID

May 21, 2020
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hello.

We are sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with the assistance you recieved from us in your inquries. We however feel that this might be slightly unjustified. Based on the Internal investigation conducted in this regard we can see that you recieved a E-mail response from our support team within 24 hours. This also being in these recent times of the Covid-19 situation, we are not able to see the response time you have had as unreasonable.

The matter of our chat represenetative not being able to respond properly to your inquiry has been brought up to our atention and we will take apropriate meassures going forward to make sure that our represenentatives on all platform should have the adequit abilities to reply to these questions.

We do also see that you currently are not a active user of our products and services today and we are more than willing to assist you in whatever way we can in order to make sure that you have the proper information in order to decide wether you would like to become a user and member of our family. Should you have any further questions or issues we urge you to reach out to our support team.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Extremely Rude Customer Service

Originally ordered the tracker and the payment was pending in the credit card account, I had to contact them to find out where our tracker was and was told it was unavailable. The pending payment was not taken.
April 28th the payment for the tracker was taken from the account with no correspondence regarding delivery of the tracker. Spoke to customer service over email who told me they were out of stock and I advised that payment should not of been taken in the first place then. The customer service agent was extremely rude to me and I am still waiting for a managers email so I can escalate this.

DO NOT USE

May 5, 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Criminals do not deal with them

Criminals! Do not buy from tail it. I paid my money but they couldn’t deliver the product, they repeatedly lied about refunding me. I had to get PayPal involved to get a refund but they have since somehow accessed my account and taken the money again. They now refuse to speak to me. These are some dodgy cowboys.

April 25, 2020
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hello.

It is sad to hear that you have encountered a quite unfortunate situation with this.
We can however assure you that we under no circumstances will or have atempted to access your PayPal account in order to produce any Fraudulent actions as you are currently describing.

This situation have been brought up internaly within the company and we are more than open to communicate with you about this situation. Based on the internal investigation into this particular matter it seems to be a situation where our support team has not recieved confident information in order to process the matter in the direction in wich you have hoped.

We would like to extend our appologies for the inconviniences you have experienced in this regard and hope that you will reach out to our support group once more in order to have this situation resolved in a correct and propper manner.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The Tracker didn't work

The Tracker didn't work Right - it constantly said "no Info". Customer Service was not helpful either and when I said, I'll return it, if Things don't get resolved, I got: Do what you want to do! Wow!!!

February 28, 2020
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hello.

It is a shame that you have had to experience this type of communication. We always try to make sure that our Customer Service representatives treat all our customers with respect and kindness, and we will take this matter internally in order to figure out why this happened.

We can however see that you were indeed refunded your product and we assume that went of wtihout any further complications.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is not 'the worlds smallest pet…

This is not 'the worlds smallest pet tracker'! Our cat is 8 years old about medium height and build. 1. this tracker is too big and sticks out from collar. 2. because of the size it would be very easy for a cat to catch it when scrambling through fences and bushes and possibly be strangled, even with a fast release collar. I'm sure it is fine for dogs but not cats.

January 23, 2020
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hi Frances,

Thank you for the feedback, we are constantly working on improving both the functionality and the size on our pet trackers. Unfortunately in your experience, this time the Pet tracker was too large for your cat. Our experience is that most cats can wear this comfortably, but ofcourse all cats are unique both in size and how comfortable they are wearing a device on their collar, the current dimensions are very small compared to the market standard. We have never heard about a situation where a cat has been strangled or got in trouble because of wearing a GPS tracker from Tail it.
Dimension: 41 × 29 x 12mm
Weight: 23g

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

WARNING! Do not buy pet tracker from Tailit's website. You will not receive it!

WARNING! Do not buy pet trackers from this company through their website. I bought two pet trackers in the beginning of December directly online from Tailit Technologies' website. Paid at once by credit card and received order confirmation, and then... nothing. No information, no shipping/tracking number, although I had specified on my order that it was for a Christmas present. When I called them on 20 December to hear where the items are, the reply was "We have not shipped any items in December, as we have a problem with our supplier". All it would have taken was an e-mail to say that the items could not be delivered in time, and then give the customer a chance to go elsewhere to buy a similar product. But for Tailit just to do nothing and then not deliver. Shockingly bad - or rather - non-existing customer care!!!

December 20, 2019
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Really Sad and Amateurish Support.

When you buy a product to track valuable things, then you expect them to work. The entire tracking system has been down since Friday morning with the message that it will be up in a matter of a few hours... it isn’t !

I read in some of the comments below that they claim to have 24/7 support.. well the telephone number only works Monday to Friday in business hours, and the support bot only tells you that the team only works within the same hours and there is nothing the support bot can do to help... so on the whole completely useless.

When a company that you pay to ensure that your valuables are secure and they have a complete system failure on a weekday morning, then it would I assume be everyone's expectations that they work overtime until the problem is solved... not them, they just assume that they can have the weekend off whilst you continue to pay for a service you don’t get ! By the way, the service message about a complete systemic failure is in such small writing at the bottom of the service page, I guess they are hoping that no-one will notice. As a new user - I am definitely NOT impressed.

I am sure they will come back with loads of plausible excuses on Monday, but I actually needed my tracker working TODAY ! And by the way, the service bot did not help whatsoever other than to tell me that the team doesn’t do anything at the weekend even though they are aware that the entire system is down before they gave up and went home for the weekend.

December 7, 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I purchased a Tail it Pet along with 2…

I purchased a Tail it Pet along with 2 years of cell phone coverage. It has never worked. I have installed and deleted the app to my phone three times. I have used two other SIM cards in the device. The initial 'Owners Manual' was very poor. Customer Support is very poor. They finally sent me a PDF owners manual. I have tried everything to get the device to work and it still does not work. Customer Support does not always reply to your email. I am sorry I wasted my money on this device.

October 15, 2019
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hi Tim. You say that you have placed two other SIM cards in the device, the devices are APN encrypted and will only work with the SIM-cards that are pre-installed. After reviewing your conversation with our support department we cant justify your harsh review of their work. You asked us for a manual to the Tail it Pet which you received no more than half a day after, to which you then informed us of your device not working. You received an answer from support with steps you could try to resolve the issue you were experiencing, after this we never heard back from you, until this review now, which was coupled with an angry message to support. It is unfortunate that you have had troubles with your device, support will do their best to assist you further Tim, I am sure the issue can be resolved.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Exceptionally poor product

Exceptionally poor product, didn't do what it said from delivery. Wild GPS locations (when it works), poor support as they didn't reply answering all questions and upon loss off the animal with no GPS location in open view, told to spend more for a replacement after waiting 3 days for them to reply and another reminder sent. The battery went dead within the 3 days I was desperate for their help in retrieving it. They refused refund. AVOID at all costs, this product does not do what it says it will do with any level of accuracy, nor do you get a track as to where the animal has been nor do you get notification of whether the light and sound have been turned on. This also doesn't work every time you turn it on in the app. This is a fair review even after the owner saying it isn't. £100 better spent elsewhere.

October 9, 2019
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hi Steve, it is unfortunate to hear that you had this experience with our product. You have talked with our Support department about your cat coming home without the tracker and the tracker is gone, Support offered you a discount on a new tracker but you did not find this offer interesting. There was not much support could do regarding helping you locate your lost tracker and we feel that saying the service you received was poor is not a fair evaluation of their work.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is not a good product

This is not a good product. I bought two, which I deeply regret. None of them worked as expected.
Every position update takes 3-5 minutes and many times it doesn't find it at all. Very frustrating.

The cat could be right beside me in an open yard and it still would take 3-5 minutes to update.
When it finally updated it was not accurate at all. Like 50 meters away, when the cat was next to me.

They did offer a replace of the units. Bbut as far as I can see, I really don't think that would work, since none of the two I recieved was working correctly.

They did have a few suggestion to try and I tried them all. Still no good. Their final suggestion was to keep trying. Well, I have and still the same.

Also, the shipping time was 1 month and not three days. I also had to remind the, twice.

I also regret that I paid for a whole year in advance for the service for one of the units. Don't do that before you try it! Choose a month instead!

Too bad though, the size wasn't too big for my cat and it wasn't heavy.

I'm going for radio frequency units instead. Smaller and more accurate and no service fees. Not the same range, but my cats tend to stay not to far away. And you can walk around with it to cover a larger area. Also, better battery time.

September 26, 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I bought the Tail It pet

I bought the Tail It pet. Terrible design. It was heavy around my cat's collar. I paid for a year's subscription and the thing never works. I contacted customer support and was told to restart it. So I have to do this every day? Terrible product, unreliable, inconsistent, and bulky.

September 6, 2019
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My tail it

Thank you so much!
I am delighted with my tail it.
Very easy to active the device.
Wishing a very nice day to everybody Indahouse.

August 15, 2019
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Thank you Luis for this feedback! We really appreciate it!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bit of an odd one this

Bit of an odd one this. I brought the pet tracker and had problems with the battery charging from the off, spoke to the support guys and this was rectified...all good, or so I thought. The tracking on the device seemed very erratic showing in one location then moving about to other locations sometimes over a mile away when my cat was in sight at the end of the garden!!

Then unfortunately, the cats collar came off thus losing the tracker, ok I get this is not tailit's fault, however if I got a good enough location I could use the sound setting and locate the device....apart from no matter how many times I tried to activate the sounds nothing happened even though the app was telling me I was VERY close to it.

I spoke to support and they seemed not to really care. I know it's not their problem that the device was lost, but I should have been able to activate the sound thus find the tracker, that’s the whole point if it right??

All in all I feel very let down after spending nearly $100 on a device that lasted less than a week then to have the support guys say 'it's not my problem!!'

I do believe this device was faulty due to the sounder not working even though I was standing less than a couple of feet away from it according to the app!!

Not impressed!!

August 8, 2019
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Reply from Tail it Technologies

Hi Rob. We've offered you a brand new product for free, something you haven't replied to. Your device updated on Wi-Fi and not GPS. This means that your cat has been somewhere without GPS coverage and will then show an address based on the router it came in contact with. This is not as accurate as GPS, but gives you an indication of what address the device is at when it is not visible to the sky where the satellites are located.

It is important to understand that GPS technology does not work indoors where there are no satellites. Where we have chosen to show you the address of the wifi router instead of no location. Furthermore, if the cat is out climbing into a tube or under an object, it will receive neither satellite signals nor Wi-Fi signals. Then we have a third way of updating location which is updating location using telecom base stations. Which shows the area in which the unit is located. Therefore, standing in just one location pressing sound does not help, you have to move around the area as the unit has not received GPS signals.

Therefore, we feel the criticism is unfair, as we cannot guarantee that your cat will always be in areas with full GPS coverage. We believe that we do our utmost to help you, where we work around the clock to deliver a product that also shows location indoors, in pipes and other places where there is no GPS coverage. We're online 24/7 so please contact us again so that we can sort the problems.

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