AMB transponder ownership issue

[jjjanos]

What's not GCR-compliant about it? Mylaps shows every bit of information that is on our printed results at the track (including cars, hometowns, and race notes.)

I have no idea what needs to be there to be GCR-compliant. I'm just saying what our chief of T&S said.

You're telling me the $350+ for a little chunck of plastic isn't paying for it???

That's exactly what I'm saying. If you buy that $350+ chunk of plastic that will take the heat/bouncing/dampness/vibration of being on a racecar and mylaps went dark the very next day... you cannot return the transponder because I'm pretty certain that AMB never said that the website service was part of purchasing the transponder.

[dickita15]

I have no idea what needs to be there to be GCR-compliant. I'm just saying what our chief of T&S said.

I think one of the things missing is your membership number.

[bonespec]

Do your AMB Transponders have a seven digit number on them?

I race RC cars and there is a company in the UK that can make a "copy" if you send them your transponder.

With the car units, it seems you should not include it with the sale, but it would be nice if AMB would have warned of this and allowed a 3-6 month grace period.

I do know that our RC lap times, even if using house transponders had correct driver info once uploaded to MyLaps.com

I hope even ground is found here. Maybe a $50 tranfer fee of ownership????

[BruceG]

I gave the guy at mylaps.com the URL for this website so that they can see that people are pissed off by this change. Hopefully they will be smart enough to do something about it. This was prompted by my recent purchase of a spec miata with a hardwired AMB transponder included in the selling price. Obviously, my seller didn't know about the recent rule change.

Bruce

[924Guy]

Very interested to hear the outcome; hoping to sell my car, has a hardwire tx, want to be able to sell it with and buy a new one for the new car, but that won't be possible to do if the policy isn't improved...

I do think a modest transfer fee would be reasonable.

[downingracing]

...I do think a modest transfer fee would be reasonable.

+1

Charge me $20 to unregister it and add it to my account. That would involve setting up a payment link from the screens they ALREADY have for this process. Of course, now that sales of new units are down (most of us already have at least one...), this is a great way to force a new purchase on customers......