I've sent my thoughts on this to Garmin's customer service, I suggest you all do the same. You want to take away my second unlock code? Fine, where's my rebate check for the difference in cost? To apply this new policy retroactively is unforgaivable. Fat lot of good that does those of us that bought at the old price. They apparently try to justify this policy change by lowering the price on the software. As for a new GPS for the wife, I'm looking closely at the new Delorme. I'm considering going on the Garage Sale forum and sell my second unlock codes to some deserving cacher before I lose it.
I was saving the second unlock code for that unit, but now it looks like it will be useless. I have City Nav installed on my 60CSx, and was planning on getting my wife either a 60CSx or Vista CX this year. If they do this after the purchase then they clearly cannot be trusted to live up to any of our expectations about their products and software. Nobody reads the End User License Agreements that come with software, but even if there is some sort of legal loophole allowing them to do this it's still a breach of faith. When we purchased the product, it was clearly stated that it came with two unlock codesĪgreed, this does seem to be a clear violation of the terms we bought this software under. I'm no lawyer (got a "D" in my one business law course), but this would seem to me to be clearly illegal. I could not get an exact date but the indication was these reductions would go into effect by summer. It was recommended that all concerns about these changes be sent to only good new was that Garmin willbe doing an across the board price reduction of $75-100 on all units in the very near future. The resaon for the changes, according to Garmin, was due to policy changes with their mapping distributor. Now I will have to buy another GPS by June 1 or lose my second unlock code. Having just bought a 76CSx and a full version of CN8 I was counting on using the second code at a later date if I decided to buy another 76 for the wife.
The example I have is buying a copy of City Navigator 7 on E-Bay if you want to upgrade to CN8 you will have to pay the upgrade cost.Įven more disturbing, effective June 1 there will be no free second unlock code this includes people who have already purchased the programs with the understanding the second unlock was available. According to tech support if you buy an older copy of a mapping software Garmin will no longer upgrade for free. The first change went into effect May 1 when a new policy eliminating free updates went into effect. Spoke to a very nice lady in tech support who confirmed that changes were in fact in place with regards to City Navigator and unlock codes. After reading in another post that Garmin is changing thier policy with regards to unlock codes I called Garmin to verify.
0 kommentar(er)
