Is anyone familiar with the tags that professional shops use on the backs of radios and batteries? Most of them include a phone number or website that says "for service call..." Does anyone know what type of material and the exact name these tags are? The higher-quality ones seem to be a flexible plastic with adhesive backing, while I've seen others that are just a paper sticker. I included a picture of two more durable plastic ones.
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I’m not an expert but this page might give you an idea of materials for product/compliance/ID labels. I’m sure there are others.
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Won't be hard to find with a bit of Google-fu. It's been a long time since I looked at the subject, but label companies are pretty common; I think many will help you with material, adhesive type, typeface, etc.
Nota bene: Don't put your asset tag on the radio's battery. That just makes an ultimately disposable/recyclable battery into an Asset, that CAN'T be disposed of/recycled easily without a guilt trip from Accounting Dept. And yes, I've seen this in multiple places.
Nota bene: Don't put your asset tag on the radio's battery. That just makes an ultimately disposable/recyclable battery into an Asset, that CAN'T be disposed of/recycled easily without a guilt trip from Accounting Dept. And yes, I've seen this in multiple places.
Thanks for the replies. I wanted to see if anyone had further info beyond "asset tags", as these don't look like traditional asset tags - they are thicker and more resilient to being removed, but I'm sure they are a good way for Comms shops to guarantee a customer will call them for future maintenance or sales.
I'll dig deeper on the various asset tag websites and see if I can find that thicker type of material in their stock,
I'll dig deeper on the various asset tag websites and see if I can find that thicker type of material in their stock,
I have a collection of these stickers from other shops on my wall. Most of them were under the battery on the portable and the customer had no idea it was there. They found us by other means. Some knew they used to take their radios there, but did not want to go back for other reasons (poor service, $ etc)
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Funny, many radios I see on E-Bay still have Bearcom tags on them, & Bearcom’s not selling them. Are people too lazy to peel the tag off the “missing” radio?
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Back when I was with Bearcom a customer who rented radios was short on his radio inventory after his event. He asked if he could buy used ones and send them in instead of paying the lost radio fee. Bearcom said yes but when he sent in the radios he got off ebay or somewhere similar the person putting them into inventory found out the serial numbers were already in the system.
It turned out someone at Bearcom was apparently stealing radios as they came back from events and selling them online.
