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The Groove Wallet Trace is EXPENSIVE: but Works Well (Tested & Reviewed)
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Oct 31, 2024
We've used plenty of Groove Life's products here at Gear43! However, this is the brand's first trackable wallet. Adam has put it through the paces and shared exactly what we think (both good and bad) in this video. Thanks to Groove Life for gifting this to us to check out! - Get your Groove Wallet Trace direct from the brand here (Paid Link): https://www.groovelife.com/products/groove-wallet-trace-midnight-black?aff=5 - Read the full review here: https://gear43.com/groove-life-groove-wallet-trace-review
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hey everyone Adam here for gear 43 today
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we are looking at the groove life Trace
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wallet I've always been a big fan of
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leather billfolds and in fact I've never
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owned a minimalist wallet before this
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one right here however after Groove life
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gifted this to gear 4 3 I was able to
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take it for a spin and man it was
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awesome I love this wallet there is some
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great features that we're going to check
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out and put it through its Paces as I
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mentioned it has built-in tracking for
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iOS devices this can also Alo play a
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chime to help you find it if it ever
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Falls between couch cushion or into the
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black hole between your car seat and
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your car's console it also incorporates
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RFID tracking built in to help ease any
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kind of uh security issues that you may
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have so the groove live Trace wallet is
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an ejector style front
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sliding aluminum card holding wallet it
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does have tracking built in you can see
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it kind of right there find my and the
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little power button that's how you turn
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it on it works works very well and is
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super easy to set up with the provided
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instructions this little instruction
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book they give you is really really
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great there's instructions but there's
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also a video so if you have any hiccups
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or can't get out Tor they have a great
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video to go along with it it took me
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about a minute or two to get it hooked
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up and available on my phone it is
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available only in black with a brushed
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finish hopefully you can see that it
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does have some scratches I've dropped it
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a few times and just normal wear and
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tear it does it does scratch but it's
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not really visible I don't know if you
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can see any of those there's a pretty
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good one right there right there it does
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only come in black is kind of a not a
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drawback but just if you want any other
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colors this is the only one uh it's a
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bit different from other wallets that
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Groove life offers in their inventory
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and that the tray slides up and the
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tracking card is actually inserted back
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here this plate comes off and then the
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tracking card is actually built in and
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it's nice because it only carries six
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cards which we'll get into and you don't
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have to dedicate one of those six card
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slots to a tracking card which is really
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nice at first I thought well I don't
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know if I'm actually going to like this
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that much but it turns out that I really
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enjoy it for the simple fact that I do
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not have a bunch of junk cards floating
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around in my wallet there's a card from
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you know 15 years ago that you never use
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but you're like oh I'll keep it in case
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I never need it gone you only need six
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cards if you need more you can look to
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get the groove life go which is a cash
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strap and you can also use that for
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cards as well we'll get into that later
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it keeps you from hauling around a bunch
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of extra cards you can also use the
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money
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clip I don't like money
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clips you can also use the money clip if
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you so desired to hold like gift cards
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or anything like that something you're
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not worried about getting damaged the
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wallet is fully trackable as we talked
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about so the find my feature built into
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this is super super great one of the
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really cool things is it always has the
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Loc on so you can always see where your
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wallet's at if you left it on your desk
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at work if you left it at home anything
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like that another really interesting
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thing is you can actually invite people
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to see where this item is and find mine
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for me I have my wife you can see where
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my wallet's at in case I leave it at
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home or anything like that she can
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actually connect to it and chime it
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which is the third thing we really like
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about this wallet is that it produces a
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chime it's not the loudest thing ever
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but it does work pretty well it is much
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Slimmer than than most other wallets it
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can be even Slimmer if you take the
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money clip off so now we have the money
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clip removed as you can see it makes it
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quite small and very very Nimble I love
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that aspect this is how I usually run it
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uh without the money clip it is just so
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streamlined Groove life makes connecting
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to this as I mentioned earlier uh super
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super easy literally just this card is
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in the wallet when you receive it and
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you just pop it out and scan the QR code
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it takes you right to groove life's
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website and they have instructions on
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there they also have them on the back it
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shows you also the uh card capacity six
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cards non- embossed five with two
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embossed and then four with three
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embossed and if you need more room scan
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this and you can go by uh the groove
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light well it Go the attachment that I
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mentioned earlier as well they have a
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video if you run into anything with the
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instructions and as I said before it
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takes
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about two to 3 minutes to have this
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fully uh working and operating on your
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iOS device so let's get into some things
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I don't necessarily love about this
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groove life Trace wallet it's
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$125 it's a pricey fella for what it is
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I get that it's aluminum I get that it's
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got tracking I I I I get it but man $125
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it seems a little steep for me it's kind
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of expensive just to hold six cards you
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know we talk about the go extension for
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it that's kind of beside the point
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that's more money after spend the 125 is
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buying you six card capacity Max and
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tracking I feel like if you're the one
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that doesn't lose your wallet often you
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can just buy a Jor style wallet for $25
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and then maybe just put $100 cash on the
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outside and you probably won't lose that
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as readily I don't care for the money
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clip uh like I said I usually run
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without the money clip on it does attach
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just right here with these two screws
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hopefully that you can see that those
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two screws there you can see you just
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you take those out Groove life gives you
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a little little Allen key and you just
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take those out and then put this on you
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know when I have it
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on so the money clip this thing is a
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Bruiser you have to literally make sure
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that you lift this up and this is just
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with one bill
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um it is extremely extremely tight it
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does not not love to get bills in there
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they and they don't really they're kind
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of in there but if you have more than
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just one bill put together it becomes
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almost impossible you have to kind of do
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this whole lift the tab put it under and
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then squeak it in type thing it is too
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strong for my liking uh like I said I
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usually just run with the money clip off
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well I haven't tested it personally
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there's the the the go wallet option for
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accessories a cash strap instead of a
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money clip so who should buy this Groove
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life Trace wallet well if you're
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somebody that loses their wallet maybe
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more often than you'd like to admit or
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maybe you just really love the Sleek
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almost all black design the little bit
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of machine on the front here and you
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really enjoy having fine my maybe you
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have air tags or anything like that and
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the fine my is just allinone app maybe
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that's for you I'm not sure if I'd buy
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this wallet it is nice to not sacrifice
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a card slot to have tracking in your
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wallet that's that is very nice but
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that's about it if I were to be
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purchasing this I don't think I would go
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for it at this point the price is just
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too high for what you're getting I do
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like it it's not awful uh but the price
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is just a little too much for my liking
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but if you need to keep track of your
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wallet and you lose your wallet on the
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regular like I mentioned before then
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this might just be worth the money for
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you alternatively if you're worried
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about the price and you may think that
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the groove life Groove wallet is a
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better option than you can watch Austin
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review it over here or in the pin
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comment down below hey thanks for
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watching and we'll see you guys on the
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next one