Too Good To Be True??

[boxer]

Have I got this right?

To buy City Select V6 it'd cost me $350 [£200+] - price from Garmin.com.

I can buy a Garmin V Delux with City Select V5 for £200 from Staples, wait till after 5th Jan 04 before registering/unlocking City Select V5 and get a free up grade to V6 with full detail of Norway.

Russ.

 

[MikeO]

Yep, that's how it worked with V5...

Mike

 

[AndyT]

IS that all V5 software??

I've just taken advantage of Costco's offer on a SP3 deluxe. I havn't registered the V5 software so will the upgrade apply to me if I wait until 5th Jan 04???

Have Fun

AndyT

 

[MikeO]

Errrm - isn't that the same question?

Mike

 

[AndyT]

Just testing.............5 points

Then I guess it's the same answer.....!!! I've just been watching Finding Nemo with a bottle of Port by my side so anything could happen..

Have Fun

AndyT

 

[Howard Millichap]

Er, no actually!

I think someone is getting confused.

The V6 that is being released is the mapping. NOT the software in your SP3.
New software can be downloaded from the Garmin website for FREE! I think they are up to 5.4 now.
The new mapping CD-ROMs cost too much.

 

[MikeO]

Re: Er, no actually!

I think someone is getting confused.

Yep, & I think it's you Howard.

This time last year Mapsource V5 was released. Anyone purchasing a SPIII with V4.* could upgrade to V5 for free, so long as they hadn't registered the unit at Garmins Website before a given date (the date being the official release date for V5 - sometime in Jan 03, as I recall). This allowed dealers to sell SPIII outfits with the old mapping software without the customer being disadvantaged. IIRC Garmin would send anyone the V5 disks free of charge, they just charged for the unlock codes if you didn't qualify for the upgrade.

Another good deal was (as Judge found out), even if you had only one unlocked sector (ie you'd not bought the de-luxe version with all the unlock codes) on your SPIII, paying the (£100ish) upgrade fee to V5 would allow you to both update your maps and unlock all of Europe....

Even if you have registered with Garmin, it might be worth trying it on - their record keeping wasn't brilliant last year and I believe a few people ended up getting upgrades they weren't strictly entitled to.

Mike