Garmin GPS - Least expensive place to purchase Europe map for Nuvi 360?

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Least expensive place to purchase Europe map for Nuvi 360?

Ken

2007-04-29, 10:33 pm

Hi. We purchased a Nuvi 360 for our daughter, which she loves. She
will be in Europe this summer and we thought about purchasing the
European maps for her until we saw the price tag of $299.99 which is 3/4
the cost of what we paid for the 360! (special at Fry's.com)

Anyone know of a place to purchase the maps at discount?

Thanks
Ken K

Kent Friis

2007-04-29, 10:33 pm

Den Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:07:53 -0700 skrev Ken:
> Hi. We purchased a Nuvi 360 for our daughter, which she loves. She
> will be in Europe this summer and we thought about purchasing the
> European maps for her until we saw the price tag of $299.99 which is 3/4
> the cost of what we paid for the 360! (special at Fry's.com)
>
> Anyone know of a place to purchase the maps at discount?

Try in Europe... Current price for CN EU v9 seems to be around
half that.

/Kent
--
"So there I was surrounded by all these scary creatures
They were even scarier than what Microsoft call features"
- C64Mafia: Forbidden Forest (Don't Go Walking Slow).

Colin Wilson

2007-04-29, 10:33 pm

> Anyone know of a place to purchase the maps at discount?

I can't read flemish, but someone pointed out this place a while ago -=20
at the time it worked out to about =A372 which is around $144

I know this links to the "old" version, but if they shipped that,=20
you'd get the free upgrade out of Garmin anyway.

<http://www.thansen.dk/product.asp?c...32933808&pn=3D-
2140122123>

Colin Wilson

2007-04-29, 10:33 pm

> I can't read flemish

Oops, Danish sorry :-}

Colin Wilson

2007-04-29, 10:33 pm

> Try in Europe... Current price for CN EU v9 seems to be around
> half that.

Mind if I ask where, as Garmin don't normally allow sales of CN:EU in
europe without having to buy hardware you don't need (obviously the
site I linked to is an exception, not sure how they got that through!)

Gaga Baba

2007-04-30, 7:33 am

You might want to look into purchasing another GPS unit in Europe
itself which might cost you less than the European Garmin maps:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Navman-F20-...77934831&sr=8-2

If you look harder, you can find other "no-name" European units for
even more attractive prices.

Kent Friis

2007-04-30, 3:33 pm

Den Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:08:02 +0100 skrev Colin Wilson:
>
> Mind if I ask where, as Garmin don't normally allow sales of CN:EU in
> europe without having to buy hardware you don't need (obviously the
> site I linked to is an exception, not sure how they got that through!)

Huh? How on earth would us 60/76 series owners get a map for our GPS,
if we couldn't buy CN EU?

Most (if not every) Garmin dealers that sell the handhelds which have
only the basemap also sell CN EU.

Besides, laws around here tend to be rather tough about bundling.

/Kent
--
"So there I was surrounded by all these scary creatures
They were even scarier than what Microsoft call features"
- C64Mafia: Forbidden Forest (Don't Go Walking Slow).

Colin Wilson

2007-04-30, 3:33 pm

> > Mind if I ask where, as Garmin don't normally allow sales of CN:EU in=
=20
> Huh? How on earth would us 60/76 series owners get a map for our GPS,
> if we couldn't buy CN EU?

As part of "automotive bundles" - which included a beanbag mount or=20
mounting brackets.

> Most (if not every) Garmin dealers that sell the handhelds which have
> only the basemap also sell CN EU.

It's certainly changed from when I tried a couple of years ago then,=20
although I see little evidence from the likes of aspidshop who were=20
forced to withdraw the maps within a couple of days from when they=20
started to sell them on their own. Aspidshop still don't list it,=20
unless they've added it in the last 36 hours or so.

A couple of quotes from a Garmin email are:

"We DO NOT sell MapSource City Select Europe as stand-alone package
here in Europe. We never had. City Select Europe ONLY comes bundled=20
with units or in Automotive kits for some units, such as the GPSMAP=20
60C, 76C, etc."

"NAVTEQ has nothing to do with the decision to sell the City Navigator=20
Europe only bundled with the GPS units in Europe. This decision is a=20
Garmin decision to protect our wide network of very supportive=20
distributors and dealers in Europe."

Note that these are direct quotes from Laura Tomei, International=20
Cartography Manager, Garmin Europe, from December 2004.

I ended up having to buy a GPS18 to get the maps to use on my 2620, as=20
the only other option was to import them from the US or somewhere else=20
outside the EU (the GPS18 with maps was cheaper than the autmotive=20
bundles).

As a result, I bought the domain garminsuck.com and published some of=20
the correspondence - they even tried to sell me CS:EU maps on their=20
own for almost =A350 more than the same bloody maps with a GPS18.

I actually "saved" money by buying hardware I didn't want (which has=20
never been used and is still on a shelf behind me) and the domain so I=20
could XXXXX about them, rather than taking up their "offer" of more=20
expensive maps.

> Besides, laws around here tend to be rather tough about bundling.

Where is "here" in your instance, because they seem very thin on the=20
ground in the UK.

Kent Friis

2007-04-30, 3:33 pm

Den Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:55:18 +0100 skrev Colin Wilson:
>
> As part of "automotive bundles" - which included a beanbag mount or
> mounting brackets.

I ended up buying a mounting bracket and CN EU, because that was
much cheaper than the bundle including both.

>
> Where is "here" in your instance, because they seem very thin on the
> ground in the UK.

Denmark or EU (just ask Microsoft).

/Kent
--
"So there I was surrounded by all these scary creatures
They were even scarier than what Microsoft call features"
- C64Mafia: Forbidden Forest (Don't Go Walking Slow).

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