Garmin Edge 800 Trail great deal

camerauk

Hi
just to point anyone after a Garmin Edge 800 trail pack have a look at Halfords online

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165741

works out at £259 with £25 online discount just ordered mine been after one for a while and at this price could not say no

apreading

Has yours been despatched yet?

Mine is in picking and has been all day - and I notice they arent taking orders anymore. So I just hope they actually had some stock and it wasnt a glitch, because that was a brilliant price...!

Fingers crossed for both of us.

delcol

dont worry if it aint gone through.. you can it cheaper bu it aint got maps.

from here
http://www.simplyelectronics.net/mainpr ... ?pid=12910

or here
http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/35 ... -edge-800-

apreading

Not quite - this will work out £249 (with Quidco) including the maps - so cheaper AND much better package.

Just gotta keep everything crossed...

camerauk

apreading wrote:

Has yours been despatched yet?

Mine is in picking and has been all day - and I notice they arent taking orders anymore. So I just hope they actually had some stock and it wasnt a glitch, because that was a brilliant price...!

Fingers crossed for both of us.

Mine was the same but it now says dispatched and is onway
Will let you know when it arrives good luck with yours

camerauk

Just a quick update my Garmin 800 arrived this morning

ddraver

NOOO!!!! STOP TELLING EVERYONE ABOUT IT UNTIL I VE GOT MINE!!!

blablablacksheep

DO NOT BUY FROM SIMPLE ELECTRONICS!!

They are known for being VERY VERY bad at customer service and they are in China!

I was probably the luckiest bastard ever as i ordered a Garmin 205 forerunner from them instead of using handtec, once i relized how bad simpleelectronics.net was i was very worried about not getting my garmin....lucky for me it finally turned up about 1 week after due and it worked first time and still is

Though im one of the 1% the other 99% get fualty products and bad service.

stay clear of them as their site is a .net so you kind of screwed if anything goes wrong given their address details are AWOL

apreading

Mine is still 'being picked'...

Wish I had paid for 24hr delivery as I am sure they have run out of stock before picking mine, and just waiting until I get the dreaded email... I can only hope that this is not the case and that their stock level system is working properly!

camerauk

ddraver wrote:

NOOO!!!! STOP TELLING EVERYONE ABOUT IT UNTIL I VE GOT MINE!!!

lol sorry bud
I do know they are not allowing you to buy then now on the website
just says Product cannot be purchased at this time!!!

camerauk

apreading wrote:

Mine is still 'being picked'...

Wish I had paid for 24hr delivery as I am sure they have run out of stock before picking mine, and just waiting until I get the dreaded email... I can only hope that this is not the case and that their stock level system is working properly!

yeah I thought what the hell and paid the extra £3 glad I did
I am sure they will have yours sent out to you

agg25

Bah you greedy buggers bought them all! >:(

apreading

Wohoo - despatched a couple of hours ago, apparently.

I am a very happy man now - this is an awesome deal.

Thanks Camerauk - I may have missed this without you as they were out of stock when I did a search a couple of weeks ago, and was thinking I would have to pay a fair bit more than this.

ddraver

Hmm, well I hope Santa got in there when I told him about it then....fingers crossed!

camerauk

apreading wrote:

Thanks Camerauk - I may have missed this without you as they were out of stock when I did a search a couple of weeks ago, and was thinking I would have to pay a fair bit more than this.

No problem glad to help

apreading

Been out with it a couple of times now, and starting to get used to it. Was really dissapointed when I first played with it at home - the OS maps are quite a low res, so when you zoom in they go all blurry. Seemed to be a real faff getting it set up and getting extra OSM maps and GPX courses on it. The OSM maps are pretty poor from what I can see too.

However when I got out on the road with it I really liked it and am now really happy with it. Still wish the OS maps didnt go all blurry when zoomed in though - especially because when you set auto-zoom on when following a course it zooms in at junctions and its so blurry you cant tell what you are looking at - would be better not zoomed in so far. I am sure now that I will like it more and more as time goes on.

Useful tidbit of information - everywhere on the web tells you that you can only have one map on the SD card but that is wrong - the 705 only allows 1 but the 800 can have as many as you want if you just name them uniquely.

Even better - got £9.71 quidco back too, making it less than £250...!!!

I owe you a pint or two camerauk, if I ever meet you!

camerauk

Glad you like it
it's a bit of a learning curve getting used to it

I to am loving the unit I do agree about the maps when in very close but I don't have them zoomed in that far
think mine are always on about 800ft which is all i seem to need when following a trail

cheers for the offer of a few beers will take you up on that if our paths ever cross
enjoy

apreading

Back in stock for anyone who missed out last time - and a couple of quid cheaper still!

Cant understand why they are selling them this cheap but glad they are.