“I purchased a NIMB ring for both myself and for my sister. Our town had a number of abductions in a very short period of time (including the Sherri Papini abduction), and my sister walked alone. In addition, I have safety concerns surrounding my ex-husband, so this looked like a great opportunity to increase safety for both myself and my sister.
In the beginning, it worked for a couple of weeks and then all kinds of bugs occurred with the app. I followed the prompts, visited the FAQs, tried the recommended troubleshooting, as well as updated the app and MANY FAILED attempts at updating the firmware, but to no avail. Right now it sits on my desk useless. My sister has had the same experience with hers. Hers has been rendered useless as well.
Great concept, however it does not work anymore despite all of the many attempts to follow recommended troubleshoots, and updates.
Maybe in a few years they'll get the bugs worked out. For now, I recommend staying clear of the NIMB ring.”
“Nimb inc itself is incredible. The ring itself ended up being too glitchy and I had to return it. The 1st ring cracked at the base and the 2nd wouldn't charge or connect.”
“loved the concept and the look but overall didn't really work well, sync well and you have to build a network with other people who dont have it to really be effective. Still needs work.”
“Nimb is a fantastic concept, but my first ring arrived damaged and my replacement deteriorated within two months of light use. Nimb handled my cases great. As an early backer of the project I was happy to find the team behind the ring is great, but the product didn't meet my expectations.”
“The ring is beautifully designed and the concept is great. The button is in a good place and the ring generally works. The biggest flaw and the reason why I haven't worn it the last few months is that it connects and disconnects to my phone constantly, even if they are both on me. This seems to defeat the point if I needed to use it but it wasn't connected. It was very expensive for it not to work some of the time.
The help service is also very pricey. Would there be a way to add a case-by-case service to it instead? I can't afford yet another subscription.
I really want this to work...it's a great idea.”
“It has NEVER worked. On days that it gets an ‘update’ it buzzes every minute and disconnects from my phone all the time. And I’m too busy to call customer support. I put it away thinking I’ll try it again later when I find time, and then it needs another update that takes all day to establish and then it still doesn’t work. I bought two on the Kickstarter campaign but I will NEVER give the second one to my husband if this first one is this buggy. He has less patience than than me and would toss it in the trash... which is where they both might end up anyways.”
“It’s a pretty ring and the concept is great which is why I purchased this ...but I remember no monthly fee when I backed you from the very beginning. You don’t supply the police service and after 6 months it ends...My daughter has this ring in a drawer and doesn’t use it. She is at school and we thought it would be helpful. What a waste of time and money. It’s very confusing. So your welcome for the backing, hopefully this will get better. I think it’s a terrible idea to get help from another nimb member. You don’t know them and what good is it to call me? Those are precious minutes of down time since I am a state away. Plus after looking a your reviews who ever was responding to them was a total ASS. Not the way you do business.”
“I was very disappointed because after a very long wait for the ring it turns out it won’t work unless you subscribe to a tracking system. I would not recommend this. I feel it should work without having to pay a monthly subscription.”
