"Roger Long" wrote in message
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I feel a little better. My adventure into Garmin world left me with two
GPS units registered. One was a ghost with a unit ID matching the serial
number of the real one and a serial number that came from God knows where.
Since you can only get the charts to unlock with two units, this meant that
I wouldn't be able to load them into a back up GPS when I purchase one.

I wrote and email to technical support asking them to please kill the
ghost GPS. Immediately after, I went back to the Garmin site and my
account to look around some more. The ghost GPS had already disappeared!
It clearly wasn't a case of the fastest technical support response on the
plant becaust it was less than a minute since hitting the sent button.
The Garmin system must have automatically checked, figured out that
something was bogus, and killed the record.

Cool.

(I'd still buy something else though)

--
Roger Long

FWIW, I have two Garmin GPS units -- one on Essie, one on the Trophy 180,
and they both set up easy as pie. I don't recall ever having to "register"
either unit to get them working, and I have a bluechip card that I use in
both of them, depending upon which boat is going out. Never a problem.