Bottom line - nobody knows why features get implemented except for the product manager responsible. Good, glad we see eye-to-eye because those features are really baseline features that should have been in the first release Seriously. Yes i do agree the developers dont pay attention. I hope this clears up the subject of where can i find the serial wrote: This is a unique ID associated with your trackers Bluetooth radio and is sent to Fitbit during a sync This is the number Fitbit uses to identify the Account to send the Associated syncing data to. A lot of stores scan this bar code also durring a sale Is found to the right under that weird looking bar code. Here is the FCC ID for the Alta HR sorry i don't have a Blaze BoxįCC ID = XRA-FB408 and may be found on page 28 of the Alta HR manual The FCC ID is not the serial number, but only the product number that only identifies the model of the device Then with Fitbits it is followed by a 5 digit product - in the case of the Blaze it is FB502īlaze FCC ID code is XRA-FB502 and may be found on page 34 of the Fitbit Manual for the Blaze. Lets look at an Fitbit FCC ID number it is compsed of a Grantee code of XRA - this is the FCC registered Company code for Fitbit It boggles the mind that Fitbit has not addressed this issue. Go to Ebay and see how many Blazes are for sale without the original packaging (which is the only place you will find a serial number) and ask yourself how many were probably stolen. Ebay doesn't allow the sale of such items, but something that never had one is apparently fair game.
It is illegal in most states to sell an item from which the serial number was removed. It should be illegal to sell a $200.00 device without a serial number. The most Fitbit will do is offer 25% off a new one.
Anyone can take it and create a new account and start using it. There is no identifying information on it or in it. Since the bit is tiny, it can easily be slipped into a sock or the pocket of a pair of track shorts. My son's Blaze was stolen at a track meet - the watch band and charger were left behind. not making it possible to deactivate a lost or stolen device, allowing anyone to activate it as if it were their own.
not putting serial numbers on the bits so that lost or stolen ones can never be returned to their rightful owners, even if recovered by police (learned this when I went to file a police report) and 2.
Fitbit sets its customers up to be victims of theft by 1.