My wife and I live in a rough neighborhood, and I can’t always pick her up in the evenings, so we tried Detectico’s phone tracking service to keep tabs on her location. I paid $0.89 for a trial day, but they charged me nearly $50 without warning—support called it an auto-renewal I didn’t sign up for. Worse, it didn’t even work: she had to open a link from an SMS, which wasn’t practical in a pinch. Has anyone else had issues with them not delivering on promises like this?
Why didn’t Detectico meet my expectations for phone tracking?
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> I paid $0.89 for a trial day, but they charged me nearly $50 without warning—support called it an auto-renewal I didn’t sign up for.
Guess you are a sucker for free trials then huh… you will have signed up for an auto-renewal… accidentally… it was somewhere in the smalltext when you signed up for the trial day.
For your wife’s safety, maybe try a GPS app instead?
The SMS-link thing means it’s not actual tracking – it’s just pinging a phone’s IP if they click. Sounds like false advertising
A lot of these ‘cheap trial’ services pull the same auto-renewal stunt.
Why don’t you just use Google Map. It has this feature. Just go to setting and Location sharing.
Definitely need to stay away from that app.