Aldi's Has Garmin E-trex Yellow For $79.99

[+Team Snoopy]

Just wanted to give a heads up for those looking to purchase a new GPS unit. Aldi's (the store) has one on sale this week. It's the Garmin E-Trex yellow for $79.99.

[liberrygrrl]

Thanks! I picked one up on Monday afternoon and got the 2nd to the last one! I'm glad I didn't wait.

[+BubbaGrump]

is that a good unit? Im new here and really dont know what to look for when i do go out to buy.

[+tands]

Probably too late to help anybody, but... First, the Etrex is a great super-basic unit. No bells or whistle, no mapping, etc. But it gets and keeps a lock very quickly. Second, we'd been wanting a Yellow even tho we have a 60cs. The local Aldi didn't have them, so we took the ad to Wally-World and they price-matched.

 

- T of TandS

[+welch]

The way Aldi's around here usually run these special purchase items is that they get a certain number of them on a certain date. They do not give rainchecks or reorder, and keep them around till they sell.

My point being its techically possiable a store could still have these, Or they could have sold out in the first day. Never know.

[shovellady1]

I would not advise buying a etrex personal navigater the yellow one for geocaching. The numbers dont roll with you when your moving so you got to keep marking waypoints to see where your at its a real pain, i had 1 so i went and bought a garmin 100 and it works great. Now i want the 200. but dont really need it as the 100 does a great job.

[+tands]

I have no idea what you're talking about concerning the etrex yellow not being good for geocaching. I put batteries in it and went out and found a cache right away. Not only does my 79.95 yellow etrex have waas, but the manual even references it having waas. Folks, the new yellows have waas on purpose now. That's why the price went up $10 or so, unless you go score a yellow for cheap right now.

 

- T of TandS

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

I would not advise buying a etrex personal navigater the yellow one for geocaching. The numbers dont roll with you when your moving so you got to keep marking waypoints to see where your at its a real pain

I'm not sure what problems you were having, but the eTrex is a great little unit. I found nearly 200 caches with it (some if *deep* cover) before I upgraded to a unit with more features.

 

And I checked the Garmin website, and the new eTrex's do have WAAS.

[+welch]

I would not advise buying a etrex personal navigater the yellow one for geocaching. The numbers dont roll with you when your moving so you got to keep marking waypoints to see where your at its a real pain, i had 1 so i went and bought a garmin 100 and it works great. Now i want the 200. but dont really need it as the 100 does a great job.

Thats incorrect.

To see your current locaion on the Etrex (base model, 'yellow') go to the page with the compass on it and use the arrows on the left side to change the bottom field. You can see trip odometer, sunrise, sunset, speed(s), heading, bearing, elvation, and LOCATION. Location is always calculated when the unit has at least 3 good signals.

Of course, where you are wouldn't really matter if you'd mark and edit a waypoint to where you want to go. then used th goto function and just followed the arrow...

Its a very basic model, but the yellow Etrex works fine for geocaching. I had one for a while when I first started caching. Found over 100 caches, and hid a couple dozen with it!

 

Ok, now my turn to learn something, What is this 100, 200 business you speak of?

I've never heard of Garmin 100s or Etrex 100s , I've heard of a Geko 101 and 201 (also theres a 301), is that what your talking about??

[+-{LoS}-Xile]

I went out and picked up an ad from ADli's this morning, met my mom, got $85 from her then went and price matched it at Wally this afternoon so Thanks for posting this thread!