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On Apr 17, 1:20 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:18:39 -0700, Josh Assing penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|for years; I've been a garmin fan -- I've liked their UI and
generally;
I've
|been really pleased with their products. I sitll have a working
12xl...
|
|2 years ago I bought, what I thought was, a nice system (Garmin 498
sounder) --
|however, I soon found out it was discontinued.
|
|I began to have problems with it. So I hauled and replaced the
tranducer as
|that's what their tech support said it was... Same issues remained.
|
|I have been told "no more software updates for it" -- but they'll take
$175 from
|me to "look at it and fix it if they can"
|
|I thought I'd update to a non-discontinued model so I can get software
updates
|as they come out -- however, I need to use an external antenna. |I
wanted their G2 Vision cards --- but the jump from 498 cost to a 4xxxx
series
|is 3x the cost ($2000 for a cheap 4xxxx series) . Apparently that's
the
|cheapest unit that uses an external atenna according to their tech
support; the
|rest are internal antennas.
|
|Is it time to move on to something different? I've been responsible
for
close
|to $10,000 in garmin purchases and feel like they've always been
helpful; but
|now that it's just little old me, "thanks for your money send us more"
is their
|attitude.... |They won't say if the issues I'm having are 'fixable' --
so Im stuck with
|sending my unit for a month or more + 175 or putting that 175 towards
towards a
|new (non-garmin) unit.
|
|Anyone have any helpful thoughts?
|
|Thanks
|-josh

I presently have a Garmin 225 GPS. When it dies, it will NOT be
replaced by another Garmin unit. I'll probably go Raymarine, like
SWS...

Hmmm. I have an almost new Garmin 4000 series chart plotter that works
well for me. I "borrowed" a G2 Vision card for it, and decided it wasn't
worth the effort it takes to use it. Over the years, I've had a number
of
Garmin products, starting with a Model 75 GPS many years ago. On the few
occasions I've had to interact with Garmin tech support, I found the
company's people to be competent.

I do own a bit of Garmin stock. Not much.

I thought you said you own no stock these days.- Hide quoted text -

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And Harry's caught in yet ANOTHER lie............

This isn't news anymore. Let us know when you catch him telling the truth.
That would be news.