jacobconroy
Hillbilly of Leisure
For the last several years, I've suspended my basic Delorme plan for the winter at no charge. There was no charge to activate it in the spring. I thought, "It's nice to do business with a company that isn't always trying to nickle-and-dime me to death.". I pay about $12.00 per month for service and pay extra for texts #11 and up.
When Garmin bought Delorme my first thought was, "Ah hell! There goes the neighborhood."
It took a while, but Garmin has finally started to implement their infamous profiteering methods in the InReach division. Today I went to their site to suspend my InReach and found that I have to change to a "Freedom Plan" if I want to be able to suspend, that the monthly cost of the "Freedom Plan" is roughly double what I'm paying now, that Garmin will charge me a fee to change my plan, and Garmin will charge me a cancellation fee if I suspend.
Not exactly sure about the price changes though...because it's very hard to determine exactly what will change and how much it will cost. Of course, this obfuscation is intentional. Typical Garmin behavior.
It sounds like our good friend Garmin is happy to help me by charging twice as much for my monthly service and magnanimously allowing me to turn it off for half of the year. Oh, and there will be a couple of $25.00 fees for the privilege.
No.
Garmin is the most despicable and irritating company that I have ever dealt with. Everything they touch turns to crapola. There is a reason why I get my maps through "creative" sources for my Garmin GPS units. After purchasing maps from Garmin exactly one time, they later told me that these maps couldn't be transferred to a new device (because of the specific type of download that I used initially) and that I had to pay for these maps again if I want to use them on a different device.
No.
Oh, I have maps on all my Garmin devices these days. Don't worry your pretty little head about how it happened Mr. Garmin.
Anyway, what a shame. /EndRant
Who offers a comparable service to the InReach? All I need is two-way text communication while out of cell service. Anything that has not been poopied by Garmin would probably be a better choice.
When Garmin bought Delorme my first thought was, "Ah hell! There goes the neighborhood."
It took a while, but Garmin has finally started to implement their infamous profiteering methods in the InReach division. Today I went to their site to suspend my InReach and found that I have to change to a "Freedom Plan" if I want to be able to suspend, that the monthly cost of the "Freedom Plan" is roughly double what I'm paying now, that Garmin will charge me a fee to change my plan, and Garmin will charge me a cancellation fee if I suspend.
Not exactly sure about the price changes though...because it's very hard to determine exactly what will change and how much it will cost. Of course, this obfuscation is intentional. Typical Garmin behavior.
It sounds like our good friend Garmin is happy to help me by charging twice as much for my monthly service and magnanimously allowing me to turn it off for half of the year. Oh, and there will be a couple of $25.00 fees for the privilege.
No.
Garmin is the most despicable and irritating company that I have ever dealt with. Everything they touch turns to crapola. There is a reason why I get my maps through "creative" sources for my Garmin GPS units. After purchasing maps from Garmin exactly one time, they later told me that these maps couldn't be transferred to a new device (because of the specific type of download that I used initially) and that I had to pay for these maps again if I want to use them on a different device.
No.
Oh, I have maps on all my Garmin devices these days. Don't worry your pretty little head about how it happened Mr. Garmin.
Anyway, what a shame. /EndRant
Who offers a comparable service to the InReach? All I need is two-way text communication while out of cell service. Anything that has not been poopied by Garmin would probably be a better choice.