GeoBobC Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I've been clicking this link for several weeks since I heard of someone else getting one for $159. Today I did also. It's usually $274. http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-GPSMap-60CSx-...5537&sr=8-1 Quote Link to comment
+supertbone Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I've been clicking this link for several weeks since I heard of someone else getting one for $159. Today I did also. It's usually $274. http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-GPSMap-60CSx-...5537&sr=8-1 I guess I am too late. It is showing for $290 now, Quote Link to comment
+Dusty Roads and Cheyenne Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Price went back up when I looked this afternoon after reading the post. I checked back a little later in the afternoon. Was back again at 159 and said hurry only 1 left. I didn't hesitate and got it! I have one already purchased several years ago at a much higher price and it's great. Hope to keep this one as a backup. I did as the original poster and bookmarked the link to make checking on the price easier. I think I just got lucky. Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 The $159 units were actually coming from Target. I imagine it was an inventory sell-off. Quote Link to comment
ZeMartelo Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) Bah, it figures it would happen when I was at work with no internet access... It makes it hard to justify to pay anything else for the 60Csx or even consider buying an ETrex... Edited January 15, 2009 by ZeMartelo Quote Link to comment
ZeMartelo Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) Double post. Edited January 15, 2009 by ZeMartelo Quote Link to comment
ubern000b Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'm expecting a lot more of these sudden sales. Gamin has high inventory levels and the channel is probably stuffed. Anything slower moving will hopefully get slashed from time to time. Quote Link to comment
+scuba dude Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Thanks for the link, I will check it periodically as well. As a side note, my wife found the complete RockBand (new in box) for $98 before Christmas on Amazon. She still doesnt know how she got so lucky, never seen it so cheap since then. Quote Link to comment
GeoBobC Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 It seems like there should be a bot that can check prices automatically and call or text your cell phone when a certain price is available. Quote Link to comment
GeoBobC Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) Ooops hit reply twice. It seems like there should be a bot that can check prices automatically and call or text your cell phone when a certain price is available. Edited January 15, 2009 by GeoBobC Quote Link to comment
bigcanoe Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Its back, get one, I did!!! 60CSX Quote Link to comment
+tjf00420 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Its back, get one, I did!!! 60CSX Woohoo, me too! (I wrote a script to check the price every 5 mins and text message me if it dropped) :-) Thx for the heads up, OP! Quote Link to comment
roguenode Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Its back, get one, I did!!! 60CSX Woohoo, me too! (I wrote a script to check the price every 5 mins and text message me if it dropped) :-) Thx for the heads up, OP! W00T! Also, just got one... price didn't show on main amazon page, but showed source was target. Added to cart - $159... it still seems to be available at that price. Quote Link to comment
+buster71 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Awesome. I just ordered mine. Grab them while they're hot! Thanks to the OP for the heads up on this great deal!!! Quote Link to comment
+tjf00420 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Price back up to $291.. thanks for playing! Quote Link to comment
+supertbone Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Price back up to $291.. thanks for playing! Dang!!!! I missed it again! Quote Link to comment
roguenode Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Price back up to $291.. thanks for playing! Dang!!!! I missed it again! FWIW, I tried to buy two, thinking I could pass the 2nd to someone here, but it said only one was available, even though others were able to buy after I did. Also, there is a website that will email you when prices change on an item and it does scan Amazon. It's Pricespider.com, however, it may not work for this as when I bought mine the Amazon page did not have a price listed like it normally would. I had to add to cart to see the price. Best wishes for those still trying. Quote Link to comment
+tjf00420 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 (edited) It seems like there should be a bot that can check prices automatically and call or text your cell phone when a certain price is available. Wellll... if you or someone you know knows UNIX (Linux, MacOSX, etc) and knows how to setup a 'crontab' .. just run this script from cron every 5 minutes. It will send an email to you when the price is under a certain threshold (Make sure to edit the email addresses to your own and/or your cell phone!) This is the script I used.. got a text message this morning at 7:15 and jumped out of bed and purchased it. :-) Script below: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; my $url = "http://www.amazon.com/60CSx/dp/B000CSOXTO/"; # Amazon item URL my $threshold = 200; # Low price threshold my $date = `date`; chomp($date); my $content = get $url; die "Couldn't get URL" unless $content; if ( $content =~ m/buyingPrices\[0\].*?(\d+.\d+);/ ) { my $price = $1; send_alert($price) if $price < $threshold; } sub send_alert { my $price = shift; open( MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t " ); print MAIL "From: your\@email.com\n"; print MAIL "To: 8885551212\@tmomail.net\n"; print MAIL "Content-Type: text/plain\n"; print MAIL "Subject: Price Alert!\n\n"; print MAIL "$price"; close(MAIL); } Edited January 16, 2009 by tjf00420 Quote Link to comment
+medicineturtle Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Thanks for the link Quote Link to comment
bigcanoe Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 It seems like there should be a bot that can check prices automatically and call or text your cell phone when a certain price is available. Wellll... if you or someone you know knows UNIX (Linux, MacOSX, etc) and knows how to setup a 'crontab' .. just run this script from cron every 5 minutes. It will send an email to you when the price is under a certain threshold (Make sure to edit the email addresses to your own and/or your cell phone!) This is the script I used.. got a text message this morning at 7:15 and jumped out of bed and purchased it. :-) very cool! Quote Link to comment
DsquaredMsquared Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Almost blew the chance to get one this AM, but recovered. See post #20 in related thread http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=210248 Quote Link to comment
+Dusty Roads and Cheyenne Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Mine is scheduled for delivery today via ups. Can't wait. Thanks again for the link! Quote Link to comment
+SkellyCA Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Hope it comes around again! Quote Link to comment
+Tek_guy and Countrygirl48 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 (edited) Maybe not quite AS hot, but still a great price, they currently have the Garmin Vista HCx for $165 (also from Target). LINK Edited January 16, 2009 by bdev Quote Link to comment
ZeMartelo Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I just can't believe. I am usually not lucky at this and this time I got one!!! WOW this is an incredible deal. When I tried this morning it said that there was two available, tried to get them both (one would be for my in-law) and because I only have dial up I was only able to order one or maybe it was limited to one per person I dont know. But I got one... Cant wait to get it. Thanks for the OP to post the link. For the others keep persisting, sooner or later you will strike out. Good luck to all. Quote Link to comment
ZeMartelo Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 What the Frak?? How on earth does UPS need 12 days to ship a box from Pennsylvania to Maine? Quote Link to comment
+Team CowboyPapa Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 What the Frak?? How on earth does UPS need 12 days to ship a box from Pennsylvania to Maine? Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it's one of those hub and spoke deals and all ground transported things go through that UPS hub in Hodgkins, IL? Like all FedEx air packages go through Memphis, even those from Seattle to San Francisco. Quote Link to comment
+martybauer31 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 What the Frak?? How on earth does UPS need 12 days to ship a box from Pennsylvania to Maine? It certainly shouldn't.... I ordered my PN-40 from Amazon and it took them 9 days to ship from Phoenix to Seattle. Maybe they are trying to tell me to not be so cheap and pay for shipping? Quote Link to comment
+tjf00420 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 What the Frak?? How on earth does UPS need 12 days to ship a box from Pennsylvania to Maine? I was _just_ questioning this myself. I received a shipping confirmation last night, and did the tracking on UPS this morning. I am noticing that the estimated delivery date is set by Amazon, and not by UPS (UPS doesn't have an estimated delivery date listed yet... they will as the pkg moves along the system) I'm still stoked about the deal I got though and I can use my Nuvi 500 in the interim :-) Quote Link to comment
+supertbone Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Did anybody get theirs yet? Quote Link to comment
+g-o-cashers Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I ordered two, but I didn't get them yet Quote Link to comment
+vwaldoguy Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Just ordered one this morning as a backup. Will be interesting to see how long it takes to ship. Quote Link to comment
DsquaredMsquared Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Just bought a 2nd one for $159.99. Got it directly from Target, with free shipping. Seems the stock lasted about 30 minutes today. The one ordered last Friday already arrived in Augusta, GA. Looks like it missed the truck this AM. Maybe I'll get it tomorrow? Quote Link to comment
+tjf00420 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Did anybody get theirs yet? Got mine! Quote Link to comment
+Muggs Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Just got mine! Thanks OP! Now I need to sell my Vista Hcx. Quote Link to comment
+supertbone Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I just checked again and it looks like the deal is back for the second time today. Quote Link to comment
+JP1995 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Ordered mine too !!!! from a nuvi 200w to a 60 CSX !!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
bigcanoe Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Mines on the truck for delivery! Quote Link to comment
+JP1995 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I really was back and forth with the Vista hcx/ 60csx debate and had decided on the Vista. But when this popped up one more time I pulled the triger......Now I am re reading all of the posts with the hopes of proving to myself that I got the right unit instead of reading them trying to make me want the vista!!! Like many of you I want the Oregon....when its ready but I think either of these two units will be great until the new units are truely ready. Quote Link to comment
+wd4kaq Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Guess i missed out on this one, rats. Great deal. Been watching all day today and still upper 200's. Jim Quote Link to comment
+Muggs Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I not trying to rub it in, but I just received mine from the UPS guy after lunch and are loading maps as we speak. Quote Link to comment
+bunkerdave Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Like many of you I want the Oregon....when its ready but I think either of these two units will be great until the new units are truely ready. I have the Oregon, and I agree with you (for the most part). I went "from" a 60CSx to a 400T, and there are a few things that I wish the Oregon did. I use (still) the Custom POIs in the CSx because it allows me to search and filter caches by type, and by search for "nearest containing" can even filter the caches IN the GPS according to cache size, so I am able to do additional filtering in the field. The Oregon can't do this with the caches that are loaded, but it CAN do it with the Custom POIs. Also, there is the question of waypoint averaging. CSx does it, Oregon doesn't. Not a huge issue, but I am a stickler about averaging coordinates when a cache is placed. I routinely use three or more units when placing a cache, so that's important to me. The last thing I wish the Oregon had is a screen like the 60 series units have that have a button to take me to the hint, the description, and the compass. It's a PAIN to go from the compass screen to the hint or description pages while on a hunt. I am sure this is something that will come, but no telling when. The CSx is the more robust, more powerful unit for all around caching. If I were only to have ONE, it would be the CSx. The Oregon is my primary caching GPS tho, and when I need the more advanced features that only the CSx provides, it is always handy. Love them both. Quote Link to comment
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