intellectualist
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Re: Re: garmin
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Originally posted by Mike_Flores
Or you could be just a regular guy like me with three broken Garmin devices at my house and feel that I just cant give any more money to a company who produces products that break after a year of well cared for use. Think about it, 100% of my Garmins have broken and are no longer able to be used. I'd have to be a complete idiot to go buy another Garmin product. If you bought three pair of boots that fell apart on you...would you go buy yet another pair? Be careful about who you call stupid on here. If you like a product that's fine, but nobody is stupid just because they dont like what you do. I cant believe I have to even type that to another adult. My 3 year old son, maybe...but an adult? Wow. All I'm giving is my accurate description of what my experience is...and it does follow what I've heard and read from others so my experience is hardly rare.
I will add, and this is to the people starting out and trying to decide between Telemetry and the Astro. The GPS units are still brand new with a lot of people having dependability problems with them. Telemetry equipment has been available for probably 30 years and I've never heard any complaining about how bad it is. With my Johnson system, I've never lost a dog ever. I hunt in NH so we have a good mix of open corn, heavy swamp, high ridges, and thick hemlock forests. I've never, ever had my telemetry equipment fail me, and I've always been able to get a beep on my dog. With practice, you'll learn how to use the gain on one...or unplug the coax cable from your antenna or fold the arms down to get a very good read on just how far your dog is. If as someone just starting out you only have access to telemetry...you still have great equipment that will help you find your dog with little to no problem. For some reason people are all of a sudden claiming Telemetry doesn't work and this just isn't true.
I say use what you want...nobody has to be happy with it except you.
I have never met a "regular guy" who had three Garmins that were broken after a years worth of use! I am not saying you don't but you make it sound like the typical thing is for a Garmin to be broken after a year.I believe that is abnormal!
The only Garmin I own I have had for about 10 years and it still works great. The only reason I have not switched to an Astro is because my telemetry system still works great and I hate to retire it. You can bet, if I was going to buy a system tomorrow it would be an astro because the telemetry systems now are such a poor financial endeavor. Spend $600 today and it is worth $250 tomorrow! I do not care what the product is, I am not going to take that kind of a beating on it!
Why do you think Garmins are holding their resale so much better than telemetry units? It is simply because the problems reported are not normal and really only a small percentage of folks have problems.
If I sold 100,000 units of something and there were problems with say, 1500 of them, you would probably hear 1475 complaints compared to a much smaller number of non-complaints even though there were 98,500 sold that had no failures!!!
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