National Theft Search & Recovery

This service is as useful as a Gerber's life insurance for healthy babies. Maybe not an official SCAM, but surely another inventive way to hustle money from consumers for a totally UNNECESSARY service. First hint of a hustle: correspondence warns recipient "IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE REQUESTED". Or else what? For me, correspondence with all bold caps is an automatic toss-in-the-garbage solicitation mail, but I decided to read on and learn about this strange offer I wasn't familiarized with so I can warn others. Second hint it is a hustle: they offer an anti-theft "Police Traceable Labels and Decals" that if I do not get for my new vehicle, the Police and Law Enforcement Agencies will not have access to track my vehicle back to me through the "National Theft Search & Recovery Database". There's that word "National" that wants to make me think it's a useful and important government agency but surely it is as worthless as the National Do Not Call Registry. The correspondence also warned me that if I didn't stick the decals and the vehicle is stolen, I would be putting my vehicle "AT RISK". This business tactic is plain fear mongering. The probability that my vehicle will get stolen does not warrant the cost of the offered surveillance. Third hint it is a hustle (bordering on deceit): they tell consumer they are waiving the $399 cost of the decals (probably laced with 14 carat gold for that price) but they don't tell them the service requires $129 activation fee plus $20 per year. In the event my alarmed and smart-key required SUV gets stolen, I would simply call the police and my insurance company. They won't cost me a dime. If I don't recuperate it, I'll buy another one with the insurance money.

Scam
Scare tactic
Hidden fees
Bogus service

The correspondence arrived in yesterday's mail. The company name is vague, and there is no street address. At the same time, there are several demands that are made in bold, enlarged capital letters:

IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE REQUESTED
Registration is REQUIRED...
ANTI-THEFT TRACKING EXPIRATION NOTICE
ANTI-THEFT EXPIRATION NOTICE

There are specific references to the vehicle I just purchased. The message is falsely presented as a follow-up to that transaction. There is no reference to an "opportunity," an "offer," an "available service," or any other terms commonly found in a solicitation. Rather, the message is presented as a warning to the recipient that a previously agreed upon transaction must be completed before a rapidly approaching deadline.

As I did avail myself of a similar service from another source offered by the dealer, the confusion and uncertainty caused by this "official looking" document was particularly disturbing.

The $399 fee waiver is a ruse that is old and tired. They could just as easily waive a $1,000 or even a $1,000,000 fee. A waived fee has absolutely no value. What are you asking me to PAY for this service? A couple of stickers and a database entry are worth $25 - tops.

This solicitation is an unpolished, unrefined attempt to deceive.

Im a veteran of the United States Army. Upon seeing your correspondence and the eye catching Bald Eagle stamp I agree with all the reviews in this forum as they are all negative. I see through your trick and deceitfulness. False advertisment stems exactly from your mailer... ANTI THEFT EXPIRATION NOTICE. Your company was not affiliated with zero of our purchases of new cars regardless of location. NPI and HIPA laws are there for our protection however they can be compromised. I nor has anyone else in the forums I read ever had a binding contract for your fictional EXPIRATION NOTICE as such an agreement was obviously never executed or consummated. An EXPIRATION NOTICE implies we have a binding contract with said Comany NTSR. I copied this response and forum to the Revdex.com and FACEBOOK.

SCAM!!!!
I too bought a new vehicle and received this notice a month after. Glad I researched it and found nothing but bad reviews on Revdex.com.

It's amazing to me how we deceptively take advantage of each other. There's no doubt the "official" looking piece of mail that comes to the house of new car buyers is designed to catch people off guard. I'm as skeptical as anyone it even had me for a few minutes. C'mon guys, really? As technologically advanced as modern vehicles are today - decals are going to make it safer somehow? And you're going to identify my stolen vehicle in parts and pieces at a chop shop, and that's good news? This is deceptive advertising plain and simple - and thousands will fall for it, and the fact that thousands will fall for it legitimizes the business model.