Re: Garmin City Select 6.0 to 7.0 not a free update

I agree that it's a real pain. I just went to their "contact us" part and
basically wrote a message to every place I thought would help. They sent me
the unlock code. Yeah. I went to that area you mentioned and that's where it
said I had to pay $75. I said, "I don't think so, buddy."

Well, I'm happy now.

Nathan

"Colin Wilson" <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I purchased, installed, and unlocked my Garmin City Select 6.0 on July
>> 13th,
>> 2005. I got the 7.0 update that had a release date of June 1, 2005 and
>> painfully installed it. I checked and double-checked and from what was on
>> Garmin's site I was entitled to a free upgrade. However, when going
>> through
>> the process to unlock the maps on version 7.0 I was told that I had to
>> pay
>> $75 again. So, I'm really confused now because the Garmin site states:
>> "If you purchased a locked MapSource product ON or AFTER the release date
>> of
>> an update, you are entitled to an unlock on the newer version of that
>> product for free. Please see details."
>> http://www.garmin.com/unlock/update.jsp
>
> Did you get the updated code from their site to enable you to unlock
> it ? - I had a tw*t of a time doing the upgrade too, and eventually
> managed it after about 6 hours...
>
> IIRC at the part of the install process where it asks for the key
> there`s a hyperlink that will take you to the Garmin site from within
> the installer - purely by chance I hit that, it said I was entitled to a
> free upgrade, then took me to a page where it gave me a new key.
>
>> And now I'm being told to pay. What's wrong with this picture?
>
> Their installation / registration system is a twat.
>
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