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You can buy GPS cellular trackers. Then just get a really cheap or even free IOT sim.

Alternatively you could probably just walk to your nearest drug addict hangout with case of bottled water and ask them to stop breaking into your stuff.

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Can you though? Every time airtags come up here someone is like "you can get GPS trackers already! they're cheap!" but I actually looked and actual GPS trackers that don't require a subscription or have various other flaws seem to be very difficult to find.

If there's a GPS tracker that uses an eSIM and isn't sketchy af and has decent battery life and isn't £100 let me know! I would love that for my bikes.

Yup, usually $20-30 per month is what I found. It would be cheaper to just use an old phone and use a cheap pay as you go cell service

Do you have more info on free IOT sims? Are the plans just super low data rate?

Hologram used to have a free developer plan that gave you 1MB per month. I don't know if it still exists.

Doesn't sound like much, but it's a monstrous amount of data for a battery powered GNSS tracker.

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