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I received a Garmin 76CSX from Amazon that I had ordered as a brand new item, only to find out that it was already registered to a previous owner. This is actionable misrepresentation, legally similar to the case of the BMW buyer who won $3 million in damages for receiving a supposedly brand new BMW only to find out it had been scratched and repainted, then passed off as brand new. My 76CSX is also scratched and the manuals came in a sandwich bag. But rather than sue, I will be satisfied if the unit is replaced with a brand new Garmin 60CSX which is of equivalent value, since I no longer trust the 76CSX. I want to deal directly with Garmin because Amazon simply wants to refund my money but will not address the issue of damages I suffered. I also ordered the Forarm case which I can no longer use, and I paid a high shipping cost for it. I believe that my request is fair and reasonable. The question is: what is the best way to get Garmin's attention and resolve this issue in my favor? Do they monitor this forum? Should I write the VA Attorney General's office? Do they have a hotline for customer complaints? Has anyone suffered the same fate? Should I sue them? BTW, I know we are not popular folks, but I am a lawyer, and this kind of shenanigan makes me mad. Sorry.

O Timóquio também? Parabéns pá. Coincidência do caraças, man Olha lá, diz aí ao owner para arquivar essa cache, que andava lá um gajo num BMW a lavar o carro na ribeira... mas espera, deixa-me lá ir primeiro. O BMW não era deles. Só arquivo se for lavagem de um 'Lata Reciclada'. Altamente poluente... Aquilo não é de Lata, é de Alumínio, toma toma. E mudei os filtros todos há duas semanas. E só gasta 9Litros aos 100, e ainda tem as panelas todas e o catalisador e tudo. Toma toma...

O Timóquio também? Parabéns pá. Coincidência do caraças, man Olha lá, diz aí ao owner para arquivar essa cache, que andava lá um gajo num BMW a lavar o carro na ribeira... mas espera, deixa-me lá ir primeiro. O BMW não era deles. Só arquivo se for lavagem de um 'Lata Reciclada'. Altamente poluente...

I own a Mini. I had heard about Mini's long before the new BMW ones. They used to race them on the ice tracks during Minnesota winters. The center of gravity is so low they do not roll over... ever. Your big high center of gravity, "safe" SUVs can be rolled very very easily. Only if you try to drive it like a little car. I've taken SUVs for a ride and they don't tip over nearly as easily as all the urban myths purport. Even the Suzuki that Consumer's Guide purported to be easily rolled a few years back was forced into the roll by wreckless driving that no sane person would do. What I do know is an SUV can turn a little BMW into a VW.

Cant be as bad as getting shot at by a bb gun! Harmon! I think I found your kid! Dang that kid, I tol' him and I tol' him t' quit th'owin' rocks. Wondered where that brat ran off to. Here's another odd twist on this incident. Snake & Rooster roughed me up one time for not going into that canyon for a find. Maybe they hired th' rock-throwin' perp' to ambush me but wound up ambushing y'all. So here's the part I have trouble with, well, the two parts - A. "... one of SDPD's finest happened ... by on his BMW." B. "Together the professionals entered the canyon ...." Y'all makin' this stuff up? Cop on a BMW and SuperDave is a professional? Shazam! B'sides, where's th' pictures? p.s. Being shot with a BB gun isn't much fun. Like I once said, one of my half-uncles held me down while the other one put their BB gun against my thumbnail and pulled the trigger. Me at about age five no less. The one that pulled the trigger is now dead and I'm waiting on the other one to go find him. Thanks for rememberiing my story and thanks to the Claustro- phobic Canyon team for putting some life into this Forum thread. Sure tops FlagMan's little pratfall.

Two (2) new really cool coins: (English version)>> bubble car and hammer The BMW Bubble Car (Isetta) ---------------------------- and 6 versions of The Hammer ----------------------------

My first find was a LPC in a BMW dealership lot..... My daughter and I were going nuts trying to find it. I kept saying "No way would they put it on one of these new cars" lol Finally I said to my daughter, see if that lamp thing will lift up... Sure enough it did BUT we didn't lift it high enough so we didn't see it. We ran in circles for about 10 more minutes before we lifted it again, high enough this time, and made the find.... From that point on I was hooked........ Edited to add my log... LOL "My first find!!! Log has been wet though and kinda wadded up, didnt sign cuz I was afraid it would fall apart, needs replaced. TYFC!!! We were so excited to find it!!!" My first find so I knew nothing about replacing logs, etc..... Edited again to add... I enjoy all my cache finds the easy ones make up for the hard ones... I enjoy them ALL (LPC, rebarb, key holders, micros, pill bottles, film canisters & even amo boxes!!) and totally appreciate that there are other geocachers out there that take the time to hide them so I can find them!!! THANKS!!!!

Why not? I have a BMW (John Deere) outlet on my Guzzi for electric gear and such, and if I need to run something with an SAE lighter plug I have an adapter. Same for the BMW, and when I had a Concours I had an SAE lighter outlet on the dash. Most people who tour add lighter outlets so they can use a compressor, GPS, radar detector or whatever. Because - my bike is a KTM dirt bike and the sockets eventually would come loose.....thus, I choose to hard wire directly to the battery. So, only a blown fuse or broken wire would shut down the gpsr. Rider

Why not? I have a BMW (John Deere) outlet on my Guzzi for electric gear and such, and if I need to run something with an SAE lighter plug I have an adapter. Same for the BMW, and when I had a Concours I had an SAE lighter outlet on the dash. Most people who tour add lighter outlets so they can use a compressor, GPS, radar detector or whatever.

Ja tam wyznaję zasadę: jeden pojemnik jeden FTF... Nie zaliczam sobie jako ftf-a znalezienia pojemnika, którego już wcześniej ktoś w innym serwisie znalazł. A mam takie. (Niekoniecznie zresztą w serwisie "lokalnym", bo i takie które miały Okrągły Xylofon się zdarzają.) Przychodzi facet do salonu BMW i pyta o porównanie jednego z modeli z pewnym modelem Audi. A sprzedawca: "Audi? Nie istnieje coś takiego! Nigdy nie istniało i istnieć nie będzie!"

Spider, porównanie trochę nietrafione. Raczej: przychodzi ktoś do salonu BMW, mówi, że wybrał sobie model i chce go kupić. Sprzedawca nie kieruje go do konkurencji (nawet nie musi wymieniać nazwy), tylko mówi, że w salonie BWM po drugiej stronie ulicy jest ten sam model, w tej samej cenie z pakietem ubezpieczeń gratis. A co z drugiej strony? Moim zdaniem z drugiej strony powinna być weryfikacja każdego kesza, również pod kątem obecności "sąsiada". W żaden sposób wpływu nie mam na wprowadzenie takiej zmiany. Jeśli masz chwilę czasu, chęci i regulamin api gc tego nie zabrania, podeślij kawałek kodu, który na podstawie współrzędnych + zadanego promienia przeszuka gc i zwróci info czy w tym obszarze znajduje się jakaś skrytka, ew. odległość do niej. Fragment dodam do formularza zakładania skrzynki i systemowo użytkownik otrzyma stosowną informację.

Twoja prośba jest z cyklu przychodzi facet do salonu BMW, a sprzedawca mówi: "Panie, tam za rogiem jest salon Audi, niech Pan tam też pójdzie zobaczyć samochody." BTW, StrykerPL, a jakie rozwiązanie proponujesz w drugą stronę? W szczególności w przypadku gdy na OC skrzynka w ogóle nie jest weryfikowana? Ja przy weryfikacji sprawdzałem sąsiadów i sugerowałem zmiany, ale z nieweryfikowanymi to nie mam pomysłu...

Twoja prośba jest z cyklu przychodzi facet do salonu BMW, a sprzedawca mówi: "Panie, tam za rogiem jest salon Audi, niech Pan tam też pójdzie zobaczyć samochody." BTW, StrykerPL, a jakie rozwiązanie proponujesz w drugą stronę? W szczególności w przypadku gdy na OC skrzynka w ogóle nie jest weryfikowana?

From what I've read I thought GPS usage in China isn't a commonly allowed thing especially for foreigners. Kinda the same like in Cuba. Nothing I've heard of before. I usually have one in my carry on and have been search. You see automotive ones quite a bit. My wife bought me a DVD about a couple of Canadians on BMW motorcycles doing a ride around China and in the first episode they mention how difficult it was for them to get anything to do with GPS there. Google "The Middle Kingdom Ride".

There is an old abondoned railway stop in the middle of the forest, and there is a cachesomewhere there. So I once stopped by form my work trip and thought I'd search the can. First thing I noticed was a BMW parked a few meters from the cache. I quickle checked that no one was around, thought they were picking berries or mushrooms somewhere. So I started searching. I poked the roots of the nearby tree with a stick to find the cache. When I turned around, I saw a young couple in the backseat of the BMW staring at me. (Should propably have peeked inside in the first place.) I bowed deep in my black tie and glossy shoes and left the place. returned later for the cache...

Thanks for your feedback all. Keep it coming. I have been on 2 Motocaching tours these past days, trying to fine tune for the best distance in between 2 caches for me. 10 km seems to near from each other still to really enjoy the driving. 20km starts to be OK to manage both pleasure of motorbiking and geocaching. And indeed, a big advantage of Motocaching is the parking (we have less problems about parking on sidewalk as long as it does not hinder pedestrians/handicaped) which is easier, and often free. And for some non-paved path, it allows me sometimes to drive closer if allowed to motorized vehicles, even if I drive a BMW RT... Thom_101

I've been riding for years (mostly on the track), but have only just started caching. I've done both only once. On that outing I selected 4 or 5 caches a few miles apart so that I could grab them as I rode along. That was a mistake. The whole process of parking the bike, taking off the helmet, hunt for the cache while carrying my gear, gear back up and repeat was exhausting to me ( I currently ride a BMW s1000rr and it doesn't seem "right" to put bags on it). Okay, not exactly exhausting, but way more laborious than I was willing to do. I may try again once the weather gets a bit cooler. But this time I'll choose caches much further away and further apart so that I can plot all the twisty roads in between them, although I'd have to bring a cable lock to lock my helmet to the bike... while I go hunt in my one piece leathers and boots.

I keep seeing this argument as some sort of justification for making a distinction between country based souvenirs and date based ones. I have no doubt that there are some geocachers who plan trips solely to go geocaching in a area they haven't found geocaches in before. It's possible that they select these areas in part based on whether there is a souvenir available, but more likely they are looking for places based on what caches they can find there. I suspect that most of the people who make a big deal about the country souvenirs they are simply traveling on work or vacation and were able to grab a quick P&G near there hotel. That fills in their map and maybe gets a souvenir, but they were in the country for some reason other than primarily geocaching. Often the date based souvenirs take more planning. For many people getting all 31 days of August will be a considerable effort - as would any streak of 31 days. But even many special days may fall on a day when the geocacher has other commitments. Either they are like the traveler and squeeze in a quick P&G sometime in the day or they have to pass on the souvenir. Unlike the traveler, who may someday return to the country for another chance, the person who misses out on a special day souvenir can't get it (at least without mis-dating a find). I'll grant that getting a souvenir for country far from home probably means you have more money (and probably more time) than some who doesn't. So I suppose that could be view some kind of status symbol - like driving a BMW or a Lexus.

At 290,000+ miles I sold my last Jeep Cherokee, 16 mpg, instead of fixing it; it still ran good but was pretty worn out. I sold my custom 1-ton Suburban 454 Dualie. 8 mpg, because it didn't make economic sense to keep driving it after I sold my travel trailer. I camp a lot and usually slept in the back of it, so the cost of driving it was somewhat offset by having a comfy bed on the road. Best all-around cachemobile I've ever had though! I bought an '06 Tahoe to replace it, 16 mpg, no way to get the advertised 21 mpg. I sold it and bought a Kia Sportage, 31 mpg, but my son wanted it. Traded him for his BMW 525i, 30 mpg but not much passenger or trunk room. I will soon trade the BMW for another Jeep Cherokee... I have had 5 over the years and it is simply the best all-around highway and off-road combination... newer ones get 18 mpg, 4WD that takes me anywhere I will want to go, plenty of passenger room, decent cargo room, and will pull any size trailer I am likely to need. I looked at the Subaru and Volvo 4WDs and just don't see them as a viable alternatives.

To prawda, ten EC to... ok, nie mówmy o tym. Owner nie chce go poprawić (albo mu się nie chce albo nie ma żadnych materiałów, choć raczej o nie nie trudno). Dał mi znać, że można go skasować. Obecnie przygotowuję wersję rzeczywiście geologiczną. Myślałem o tym by gotowy listing podesłać właścicielowi (żeby uratować obecne wpisy, logi i fav pointy), choć trochę się czuję jakbym odrabiał za kogoś zadanie domowe. Przeciwne temu są reviewerowe EC-wymogi, które raczej rządają archiwizacji i postawienia nowego listingu i eartha na nogi. Zobaczymy. Nie martwcie się, na Pomorzu earthy nie znikną. W razie poprawy/archiwizacji staram się znaleźć rozwiązanie by taki podbramkowy kesz pojawiał się w lepszej formie, a okolica tym samym nie ubożała. Jestem jednak zdania, że to miejsce jest tak mocno odwiedzane, iż nie musi przynosić naszej społeczności wstydu. Dlaczego polskie kesze/earthcache nie miałyby być "BMW dopieszczonymi w tunelu aerodynamicznym"?

Hallo Radioscaout, ne ne das ist er nicht das ist von einigen der werbebanner, aber wie gesagt ich ahbe ja entsprechend diese geblockt, nur mein Browser (Opera) informiert mich ja über alles was er blockierd hat durch eine einblednung am rechten Rand. das ist allen voran diese komische BMW-Werbung in dne letzten tagen gewesen.

Hallo, habe das gleiche Problem und habe mich bei BMW schon mit einer Kauf Verweigerung gemeldet. Die Bedauerung habe ich auch schon und das ich mich noch bei einer bestimmten Stelle melden sollte. Das fällt bei mir unter negativ Reklame. Je mehr sich beschweren je besser die Reklame. .

Update... I just had a pop-up ad jump up on screen as I was back-paging. Not an ad for BMW, but an ad for dining experience. It had nothing to do with geocaching.com... it did display a top-line banner stating Mozilla Firefox. Obviously, Firefox is the "culprit" in this instance. Perhaps this is what the OP is seeing....

There's another thread about the pop-up BMW ads, written in German. It seems to be more than an isolated event.

Hi, maybe this ad is something that happens unintentionally because of the use of the google ads. The ad is a German ad - so this might only happen to German customers. (BMW) I don't think it's malware. They typically send you porn ads. Nevertheless it's a problem over here. Regards Atti