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I would like to sell my Garmin Colorado 400t, I bought this brand new and its in excellent, 10/10 condition. No scratches, scuffs, dings, etc. absolutely perfect. Never dropped, always babied, adult owned/cared for. Comes with the original box and packing materials (also perfect) - Colorado 400t - USB cord (never used/opened) - Carabiner clip (never used/opened) - MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager (never used/opened) - Manuals, etc (never used/opened) Also, comes with a (already installed) ZAGG Invisible shield. Installed perfectly (I'm a perfectionist). And a 4Gb Kingston SD Card (lifetime warranty) And *ALL OF* City Navigator 2009 NT installed to the SD card (sorry, no disks in included) and *ALL OF* U.S. Topo 24k National Parks v3 - Central installed to the SD card (again, sorry no disks included). But both mapsets are working perfectly. Of course since this is the 400t that means *ALL OF* TOPO 2008 is pre-installed on the unit as well, that's 3 mapsets! Finally I am including a Garmin brand car charger (Garmin #010-10723-06) I am looking to get $430 shipped via FedEx using paypal. p.s. I should also note I have not ever experienced any problems with this unit, ever. no drift, no freezes/hangs, etc, etc. nothing, unit has always worked perfect for me. I can also include a RAM cradle (RAM-HOL-GA27U) as well for an additional $6 pics available upon request; for any other questions you can e-mail me aberrix<at>gmail.com.

RAM Mounts, hands down.

Yeah, Full SD vs. Micro-SD is a moot point in my opinion. It's not like one is 'better' than the other, but yes it is a difference. Having handled both, and inspecting the Oregon's battery cover it almost seems like the Oregon would hold up better to being submerged in water? The way the Colorado's rear cover slides on/off makes me uneasy compared to the Oregon's clamp-down style. Since a lot of the differences so far seem to be software, I wonder if its just a matter of time before those things trickle down to the Colorado?

Okay, so the Colorado has the 'rock-n-roller' wheel and the Oregon has a touchscreen. Besides their apparent physical differences what else is different between the two?

Just a note that topo maps are non-routable. So if you want 'turn-by-turn' direction's you're going to want to get some sort of city maps.

Any idea if/when you'll do Minnesota?

My best advice is to think "Where would I hide it?" while looking for a difficult cache.

+1 for CacheStats, it's clean, simple and best of all FREE! (premium membership required of course)

Since there is a post already about this, I e-mailed Groundspeak (contact@Groundspeak.com) this morning with a username change request. Anyone have any idea of how long it takes for them to get around to it, or get a response? Thanks in advance.

Brand new, Factory Sealed, Never Opened! Includes gift receipt should you want to purchase an extended warranty from Best Buy. $510/shipped via USPS questions/paypal; aberrix<at>gmail.com

What are you doing with them? Using them to open coconuts? The Palm I bought back in 1999 still works. I only upgraded recently because of the old one's limited memory, and since it was time for a new phone I'd thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. There's no reason a palm shouldn't last as long as a GPS unit. Ok, it may be a bit of a stretch... but my point is palms were not designed to be in the outdoors like gpsr's were. Let me also elaborate also on why paperless caching is so important to me. I don't always know when I'm going to geocaching, so once a week I have my pocket queries e-mailed to me and I load them up in my GPSr (copy & paste .gpx files). I usually have my GPSr with me 80% of the time, you never know when you're going to need it (help I'm lost! or finding food/amenities in an unfamiliar town). Also, if myself or my family/friends should ever decide "hey, lets go geocaching!" on a whim I don't need to log on to my PC, find caches, print them off, load POI's to my GPSr, etc, etc. I have *all* the info (_full_ cache descriptions, difficulty rating, size of cache, hints and recent logs) in my GPSr ready to go so its power on GPSr and CACHE!! everything is always ready to go at a moments notice.

I would say generally geocacher's are pretty trustworthy people... For any person-to-person transaction online I generally try to only use something like Paypal where if I don't get the goods I pay for I have a course of action for getting my money back. Furthermore I tend to use my credit card along with using Paypal so that should Paypal be unable to recover my money then I can try and file a claim with my credit card company to get my money back. imho, everyone's definition of 'expensive geocoin' is different but I think anything > $25 is expensive (not to say they aren't worth it). That said don't release a coin into the wild you aren't prepared to lose...

I started off with a Garmin Venture I bought of Craigslist for $40, just a basic unit, no map sets or anything. It worked perfect for me, but I did have to print of cache info off the computer (or write it down) and manually enter cache coordinates by hand and also print off turn-by-turn directions to the cache to get there. But I think everyone should start off this way before they invest a lot of $$ into a GPSr. Not to mention it will give you an idea of what kinda features you'd want in a more expensive unit. Think about it while you're caching, "what does this unit not have that I would really like to have right now..." like a compass, turn-by-turn navigation/routing, tracklogs, detailed maps, paperless caching, etc, etc. Best of luck to you!

In my opinion another big consideration is paperless caching. If you figure in the cost of a used palm, lets say $25 and a copy of cachemate $10 and GASK $25 that's an additional $60 cost that you basically get for free with the Colorado/Oregon's built-in paperless caching function; which works phenomenally by the way! Not to mention the beauty of only having to carry one device vs. two. Also palms aren't exactly built very ruggedly so plan to replace it every year to sooner depending on your level of harshness. This is somewhat of a misconception here, to change the mini-SD card on the 60CSx you need to remove the back and remove the batteries to get to it. With the Colorado you simply just remove the back and you have access to the SD card slot without having to remove the batteries. This isn't exactly a quick and easy thing to do with either units. Here is another deal breaker consideration in my opinion. The 60CSx can only handle up to 2Gb mini-SD card (remember it doesn't come with *ANY* maps, except the bare/useless basemaps), the entire TOPO 2008 will not fit onto a 2Gb card without doing a map segment hack on it and even if you do get it to fit getting additional maps to fit won't be very easy or even possible either. Where the Colorado will take a 4Gb SD card and since it comes with built in TOPO 2008 that means that entire 4GB SD card is free for other maps, I personally have the *entire* City Navigator 2009 NT mapset AND the entire 24k National Parks map set as well as the built in entire TOPO 2008 mapset and I still have over 2Gb FREE!!! Never fuss with changing memory cards or reloading maps again! definitely something to consider... These are two very important features (to me at least) that seem to be neglected when people compare units. Sincerely, former 60CSx owner and now Colorado 400t convert

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I'm quite fond of CacheStats it's simple, easy to use and very clean looking. You can view my profile to see what it looks like.

can someone please link me to where I can buy some of these plastic 'blanks' to start with? I've seen them in a couple people's sig coins and would like to start with the same thing. thanks in advance.

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I've never had a problem with them, replaced my shield twice now without problems or hassle. I would most definitely recommend them to others, all the service reps I've spoke with were very helpful and nice (and spoke English!). Dunno what happened to you guys, but big thumbs up from me from my experiences.

Yes you can load more than one file at a time, what folder did you put the .gpx files into? make sure they are in the folder [Drive letter]:\Garmin\GPX\

sounds like PEBKAC...

$530 via paypal, shipped to your door.