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If you think that a fat wallet is a sign of affluence, you're not going to like the slim and chic Ekster Parliament wallet. Then again, if you have a sense of style and want something sleek to carry your essentials while out and about, the Parliament might be a great choice. But that's not all. Are you the kind of person who loses your wallet all the time? Then you're going to love the Ekster Tracker that can slip into the Parliament wallet too.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked out the premium leather Ekster Parliament and found it a very nice alternative to his thicker wallet. But the Tracker? That was a bit more of a dicey proposition...
Check out the Parliament at https://amzn.to/2Rx9Dp2
and the Ekster Tracker at https://ekster.com/products/ekster-tracker-card
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a premium leather wallet with a
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quick-release card system let's check it
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out
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Dave tail here and my wallet is a pretty
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basic buy fold it's just straight ahead
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you open it up you lift it up there's
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various things in various pockets but
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it's pretty big and honestly it's not
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very sophisticated which is why I was
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interested when extre sent me their
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Parliament wallet
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that's this guy and it's made out of a
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luxurious leather and it's a bifold so
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similar sort of design you open it up
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you have some pockets on the side you
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see I'm storing some cash in there and
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then you have this little slot on the
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top for your cards and just so you know
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they don't fall out but there's a little
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quick release on the bottom so you get
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this quick access slider system and the
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cards actually come out staggered so you
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can get to whichever one you want so if
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you need this one you got it so then you
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push them all back and you're ready to
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go
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super simple now here's what's also cool
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is that this compartment has RFID
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protection and that's pretty important
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with your smart cards and the cards with
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chips in them you don't want people
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checking that out so this part itself
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they say it has space for six cards but
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I have four cards in there and it's
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looking pretty cozy already you can put
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six in maybe five would work better it's
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up to you and then you have the two
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pockets on this side that you can use
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for money or other cards or whatever
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honestly we're getting two almost to a
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cashless society so at some point we
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won't need to carry cash anymore
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that'll be nice so comes in brown that's
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this color or black or blue or a very
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nice cognac color which is I would look
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at and I would say it's a tan but you
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can call it cognac now what also makes
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this really interesting is that it also
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comes with this and this is a tracker
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wallet card system that's rebranded by
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extre so this is actually a tracking
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device sort of so the idea is that we
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will toss some money and instead I will
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put this little
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tracker in here and again it's still
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nice and small and easy to put in my
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pocket but now I have this Bluetooth
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tracking system and so here's how this
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works is that the tracker actually pairs
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with your phone you register this device
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and then whenever it's near any
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Bluetooth phone that has the tracker
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software on it it will actually say Here
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I am so you lose it and as long as
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someone else wanders by and sees it then
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they'll report the location
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automatically they don't even do
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anything the software will report the
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location and then you'll be able to find
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your wallet so that's the theory
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crowdsourcing all this stuff super cool
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in reality I find that it doesn't work
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very well so for example I had this
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wallet for a week and I was going all to
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heck over the place and when I went into
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the app and I wanted to double check its
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location you can see here it thought
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that I was somewhere in Delaware I'm
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based in Boulder Colorado I am a hundred
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percent confident that my wallet was not
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in Delaware any time in the neck in the
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last few weeks so you know your mileage
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may vary
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extra tells me that over half the people
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that buy this parliment wallet get the
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tracker - and people that lose their
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wallets love this thing now of course
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let's be honest it is designed it has a
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form factor to fit in a wallet but you
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could put this in anything there's
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nothing to stop you putting this in a
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computer bag or your luggage and again
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assuming that the tracker system will
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work for you you have that same benefit
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of if it gets lost or sidetracked as
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long as someone wanders by who has the
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tracker software on their smartphone
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then you will actually get notification
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of where your devices or where this is
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at least so if this is in something
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obviously it would actually tell you
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where that is - so pretty neat it's a
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crowd GPS tracking system and it's
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solar-powered so you put this in the Sun
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for three hours and it'll run for a
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month so that's a really good ratio of
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oh my Apple watch work that way holy cow
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that'd be nice
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so it also has a two-way ringer so from
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the app on your smartphone you can
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actually have this ring it's more of a
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little beeping sound but
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they can help you find your wallet in
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your house so maybe that by itself makes
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it a win for some people but again I
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really like their wallet I think it's a
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very nice design and of course this
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whole quick access slider system is
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pretty cool actually but the tracker
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your mileage may vary I'm less enthused
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about that now
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before I tell you the price let me ask
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if you can go ahead and click on that
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subscribe button I really appreciate
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when you subscribe to my channel and
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give me some feedback if you have one of
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these and you love this thing or you
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have anything from tracker they'd make a
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variety of different tags tell me what
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your experience has been like because
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I've not had good experience but maybe
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I'm an outlier I don't know tell me what
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your experience is like which leads us
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to the price so the extra parliment
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wallet by itself is 79 bucks you can
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pick it up at extra calm and if you want
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to get it with the tracking device too
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then that adds twenty dollars so that's
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actually a pretty minimal additional
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outlay so for 99 dollars you can get
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this cool parliment wallet and a
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tracking device that'll make sure you
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never lose it maybe and that's all I got
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so it means I'll catch you in my next
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video
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