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Kind of funny. Invisible Screen refunded my money back into my PayPal account and sent me a link to get 25% off my next purchase. So I go back onto the website and order the same thing as before and the price comes out to about 50% higher than my order that got lost. I came back to this thread and clicked the sale link http://www.shieldzone.com/showspecial and it went back to the same price I had the first time. So far so good.

After I ordered these, I got an email saying that due to a problem with their server my order never went through. They still took my money though. They said that they would credit my paypal account back for the money but they still have not done that. The gave me a link to go to so I could re-order with a discount, but I'm not ordering anything from them until they credit my account back. I hope I didn't get screwed by them, and they come through with the credit. I'll post back on what happens.

Thanks for this link. I just ordered two of these for my GPS and my camera.

I had just the opposite problem. I got a Garmin Geko201 for X-mas and had nothing but problems with it. It may have just been the individual unit that I received was bad, but I could never get decent reception on it. I tried for about 3 or 4 days and even in the middle of a football field I was only able get it working once for any length of time. I received lots of good advice from people on this forum and finally decided to take it back. When I did take it back they didn't have the same model and I ended up getting a Magellan eXplorist 210. It has functioned perfectly from the moment I turned it on. I had no trouble at all connecting to the computer and I used the Magellan Cache Manager to upload to the gps with no problem at all. I would suggest you purchase what ever you choose from some place with a good return policy. If you have problems or decide you think something else would be better it's good to be able to take it back with out too much of a hassle.

How about making it a multi cache. In the first cache you could put one of those really cheap key chain mp3 players. Ask people to listen to the song for the clue then put the player back in the cache (or attach it to the cache some way). link

The price of gas sucks, but luckily there are thousands of caches within a few miles of my house (some better than others). The 45min drive to work sucks too. I used to have to do that. It worked out to almost 500miles a week on my old car and it would probably cost about $3600/year now. A big part of the oil price has to do with the fact the the U.S. dollar is in the tank (no pun intended) so that $100/brl is worth about $75 of last years money (and most oil is traded in U.S. dollars). At least in Europe a large chunk of the price at the pump goes to taxes to fix the roads. In the U.S. we have to pay at the pump and then pay again in local taxes to fix the roads. Where I live the price has been averaging about $3.17 at the cheapest stations, but jumped to $3.21 yesterday. Going to have to see if I can finagle working from home once or twice a week

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SUCCESS I took the Geko back and picked up a Magellan eXplorist 210. I was going to exchange it but they didn't have any of the same model, but it seems like the eXplorist is a better deal anyway. I put it out on the back porch and within a min or two it had several satellites and a map to my house! I took it out for a try to the same baseball fields. It turns out there is a cache their that I didn't know about yesterday. So I found my first cache. It was called "ROAD WARRIOR SERIES CT I-84 Cache 2 EXIT 15 " (GCPG3Y) I took a sticker and left this smiley face poker chip. I also left a note in the log book. Thanks again for everybody's help and advice!

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I took the Geko to a baseball/soccer field and let it sit for 15min. In that time I had several (maybe 10) satellites tracked. I picked it up (after the 15min) and walked around the field. The compass seemed to work well (while walking) and it showed my MPH. It responded very quickly when I changed direction. At this point it was getting dark so I got in the car and headed for home. I put the Geko on the dash and for the first few miles it seemed to still be tracking several satellites, but as I got closer to home it gave me the 'Weak Signal' again. I got home and put it back out on the porch and it couldn't track a single satellite. After about 10min of this I shut the unit off and back on again. It instantly found one satellite and then one more after about a minute but it still said tracking, not 'ready to navigate'. After about 15min after turning off and on again it has several satellites and sometimes they have a 'D' over the signal and the display says 'Diff' accuracy. I took it for a walk around the house and watched the compass/mph. It seemed to work for the most part but is very sluggish.

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OK, still having troubles. Responding to the above posts. When I had it in the car I would put it up on the dash, flat on its back facing up. The time is set for local time. I have always held it flat, face up to the sky when trying to get a signal. ----- Today I turned it on at 2:30 and put it out on the back porch in the same location where it sat for hours the other day. Here is a pic from the Geko's point of view After 1min it asked me if I was inside. I told it no and it kept on trying to track. After 15min still not a single satellite. After 45 min it did find three or four satellites. I picked the unit up to check to see if the time and timezone were correctly set (question from above post) and after seeing that everything was set correctly I went back to the tracking screen. It had lost all satellites and a box popped up saying 'Weak Signal' and asking me to press OK. I can try taking it to a ball field and seeing if that will help, but I'm not holding out much hope for that. Unless someone can come up with something else to try I think I'm going to have to take it back. I think I could try exchanging it for another just to see if it is a bad unit and I just got unlucky getting this particular one. This was a Christmas present and it was bought at Walmart so I doubt anyone behind the counter will be any help, unfortunately. Thanks for all the replies and advice. I'll post back if I get it to work or exchange it.

Well, I tried what you said. I left it out on the back porch for a couple of hours. At one point I saw it had a strong signal and 4 satellites tracked. By the time the two hours or so were up it had shut itself off because the batteries were weak (down to one bar). I replaced the batteries with new ones and took it for a drive in a loop around my house. By the time I got back it had a warning saying Weak signal and asking me to press OK. I put it back out on the porch in the same place it had sat before and it can only find one satellite and very weakly sometimes it can't even find that one. After about 10min it can find all 4 sat's again with strong signal. Does this sound normal?

I just got a Garmin Geko201 for Christmas. I put two brand new batteries in it. The instructions said the first time you use it to put it out doors for 15-30min. I did this. After 15 min it had not been able to track any satellites. I came back in another 15min and it had found two satellites. I took it to a nature center where I like to go hiking today. When I got there I put the unit on top of the car and turned it on. in 15min it was not able to find a single satellite. I the drive home I turned it on again and at one point it found one satellite but only for a minute. It never found another one the whole trip home. I've also driven to the store with it on my dash and left it on while I was in the store and it never finds any satellites. Every time I turn it on now it tries to track but ends up asking me if I'm indoors or hundreds of mile from my last location. Am I doing something wrong? So far this thing seems to be completely useless. I have read many peoples reviews of this unit who say they use it with no problems at all. So why can't I get this to work anywhere? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.