SPOTReviews of findmespot.com

Biggest thieves out there - Advised that you can cancel on their web page - Surprise you cant!! Do not sign up or buy their products - There is much better supported products out there and with SPOT you get ZERO customer support or service! DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM!!!!!

I got an email today from Spot stating that my invoice was ready for review. They charged my credit card $247.00 with out my consent. My service with this company expired quite some time ago. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. THEY WILL TAKE YOUR CREDIT CARD, AND RUN WITH IT! THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

I read all the Trustpilot reviews and decided to take action immediately after paying for a full year. I reacted to the contract email and got another email saying to call them - they are not willing to deal with email -they state. I made sure my email was clear, and Spot sent me this email: " Dear Customer, Thank you for taking time to email SPOT. This email address is no longer in use. Please forward all inquiries to one of our live agents by calling our Customer relations team To get access to device settings, payments, invoices and more, please access your online account at our website " I called Spot and got a French and English speaking professional woman. I started the conversation by stating that I read their Trustpilot reputation and that I wanted a smooth termination of the contract after one year without automatic renewal. I wanted an email confirmation. She helped me smoothly to terminate the contract at the end of twelve months. Thank you, Spot. But then the confirmation email was extremely tough to obtain, and we did not agree when the phone conversation ended. Why was this important? Because the only thing Spot wanted to give as a sort of confirmation was: A Ticket number (Jira00000) - no email copy. On my findmespot.com account page, a status: pending deactivation. The contract renewal date and the contract billing date on the same page remained visible and active for renewal in a year. I told her that I respected her as a professional but that this business procedure was unacceptable because of: Their Trustpilot rating. That this is not a termination of the contract on a specific date without automatic renewal. She was so kind as to tell me that they would try and resell me 30 days in advance. But I wanted clarity now. So I asked for email confirmation now, and she would not give it. Then I had to say that would do the following: To consider reversing the pending MasterCard transaction, I probably wouldn't because I wanted a 1-year service. I would terminate the Mastercard after a few business days to solve it. I would have no means of payment. I would talk to ICSCards and Mastercard to recommend not doing business with their Irish Company anymore. [ On credit card: "SPOT EURO CARRICKMINES IRL" description: "Cable and other PayTV" ] I told them this business practice might be legal in the US but not in Europe (not confirming the end of the contract). I would hand them over to legal services. I left it there ended the phone conversation, and was fully prepared to execute the above. I had dinner, and then - unexpectedly, they sent me an email. [From customerloyalty at their domain ] "As per request, your SPOT account has been scheduled to be deactivated on xx-xx-xxxx and will not renew automatically. Your confirmation number is Jira-xxxxxx. Thank you, SPOT" So they did it, ONLY after MAXIMUM pressure. What to make all this? I do not know.

I bought a Spot Gen 3 on Amazon (sold out on REI) for my first overnight 4-day backpacking trip on the Timberline Trail. A couple things about the device itself: the construction is flimsy. The "waterproof" USB cap barely stays in place, which would likely result in the device being destroyed in rain, a fall into a river-crossing, or any other liquid-involved accident. Imagine falling into a river, breaking a bone, and your only way to let someone off the trail know you're hurt if via this shoddily-built device. Message sending is SLOW. Don't plan on sending a quick message to the family letting them know you're okay. This thing takes 10-15+ minutes to send a message and it must be left face up, not moving in order to send reliably. Now let's talk about customer service. My experience with SPOT has been one of, if not the worst experiences I have ever had with any company. Ever. What SPOT doesn't make clear is that when you activate your device, not only do you have to pay a one-time activation fee of $20, but you also have to sign up for a 12-month, non-cancellable subscription plan. If you go backpacking every month or so, that might be fine for you. But if you're someone like me who goes once or twice a year, that really isn't a great option. Basically, for your first backpacking trip, SPOT has you on the hook for the price of the device ($150), an activation fee ($20), and a year of subscription fees ($120). $290! The worst part is that when you call them to explain that you needed to use the device for a month only, they basically tell you "too bad, you should have read our 150-page agreement that states you'd be on the hook for 12 months." Legally, that's all fair and good, but it doesn't earn you loyal customers. Now I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to return the device and cancel by subscription via my credit card company. SPOT could have said to me "not problem, just reactive your subscription when you need it again." I would have been a happy, satisfied customer. Instead, they chose to irritate me to the point that I'm here, writing a 4-paragraph essay on why you should avoid this product like the plague. I'm absolutely disgusted that SPOT has choose such an anti-consumer business model, especially for products that are literally meant to save lives in the event of an emergency. If you enjoy being nickle-and-dimed by a big corporation, then consider getting a SPOT gen 3. If not, look elsewhere. Thanks for reading!

The review from Chris in June regarding their billing practices reflects my own experience. Same thing happened that they bill you automatically. I did not catch it either and just spend over an hour trying to cancel. No way to e-mail. They put you on hold and I never got to a live person. Good product but clearly make it next to impossible to cancel the service . I will never buy one of their products again.

I have a SPOT Legend and have had it for many years. A truly wonderful machine, does all that it says on the box. So why only 1 star rating? My device is working perfectly well after many, many years and still receives satelite signals. However, after many years of great service I let my yearly licence expire. I have spent the best part of three days, on the internet, phoning distributors and trying all the telephone numbers given on the SPOT website. Unfortunately those who write their website obviously don't do much international telephoning. All the telephone numbers begin with a + then the numbers but if you don't know the country how do you put in the country code? The website site is akin to reading double dutch. I can't telephone and got no reply to my email. A great device let down by an abominable website & customer service.

So, apparently my Spot tracker service got renewed each year for over 6 years (my mistake that I didn't check my credit card bills more thoroughly). I am certain that I tried to cancel the service back in 2014 after using it for a very narrowly defined purpose. No notification via mail, almost impossible to cancel now. I will blacklist them with my CC company and suggest to my outdoor shop to at least warn people when selling that product.

Well I have finally managed to obtain a cancellation number. It took 25 minutes for a lady to answer the phone, she wanted my ESN, my account number, my address, my phone number, my email address, and I guess you could throw in my blood group and DNA as well! After going through all that she said that she could not cancel it, I would now be put through to customer service (did I say SERVICE???). After another 10 minutes my call was answered by someone with a very slurred voice who explained that the had been having some bad feed back and offered to lower the cost down to circa $140 from $260!!! I told him that I wanted to cancel because I do not stay with rip of merchants! After 12 years they have lost a customer who would have paid $140 but as they tried to rip me off I would rather go with Garmin even if they charge more. Spot leaves a very bad taste in your mouth! I am going to do a You Tube video of my disgust by destroying my Gen 3 Spot with a sledge hammer!!! Lets hope I can at least lose Spot a few customers along with all of the other people who think likewise!!!!!!