I just joined the
list since a fellow geo-cacher noticed a thread regarding Bronco
One.
I had a similar
experience - I was trying to purchase a Garmin 76CS? last summer and looked at
all the different web sites and was actually bidding on units on E-Bay, but the
prices were around 325.00. Then a friend told me about Bronco One. I
always took my CB problems there and had no problems so I thought I'd stop
by.
Although Bronco One
had the 76CS priced about the same as what was going on Ebay and a little
cheaper then the Internet stores, I was steered to and did purchase a Garmin
EMap. I had a 64MB memory card installed and was out the door spending
just a little less. Although the unit was new, I realized that when
I got it home, it was made in 97 (1st 2 digits of the s/n). So I went to
Garmin's site (should have done that first, but being a newbee - live and
learn) and noticed the unit was discontinued.
Now for what's it's
worth, I really like the Emap. It's small enough, doesn't use much power
and I have a lot of street information loaded - Most of Arizona, part of Nevada
and southern California. The only thing that I don't like is that the unit
isn't really water resistant.
I did notice that
Bronco One charged a little under retail for the accessories, so I went to Ebay
and bought a magnetic antenna and car adapter for 1/4 the price at Bronco
One. The antenna is awesome. I went from 3 or 4 sats at 30-50% out
of 12 sats while in the car to 8 sats at 100% - all for less then
$25.00.
All in all, I really
like the EMap.
BTW, the owner of
Bronco One supposedly closed shop, sold all his land investments for 35 million
and moved to France. Now that could have been a bunch of @!@#%@!! for all
I know. He may have sold the store to someone else because I drove by
there a week ago and although the fence was closed, people were still buying
propane.
Sonic
Warthog