How many have bought GPS'rs as gifts?

I really like the reconditioned 660 in my car and use it a lot. My son started dropping hints during the summer that he'd like one as well.

So I got another reconditioned 660 on eBay, but they sent me a 680 instead!

After playing with it for a while, my son is getting the 660, and I'm keeping the 680.

And I've had great luck with the reconditioned units; the 680 arrived with the older 2008 maps, but a brief e-mail exchange with Garmin Support resulted in a free 2009 map update arriving in yesterday's mail.

I bought a Garmin 200 for myself on Black Friday. I bought my son a Garmin 255W. I can hardly wait to give it to him. I opened mine right away and have been playing with it. My sister used a Garmin earlier in the year to caravan my family in NC to our brother's wedding in PA. I was so impressed. My son keeps the road hot so he definitely needed one. My father wants one even though he doesn't drive far. We're afraid he will pay less attention to the road than he does now. We may go in together and get him one. I'd recommend it as a gift to anyone.

got a 265wt going to two sets of parents!

I would like to give my wife one. She is horrible with directions and when there's a new place she needs to go to, I have to physically drive with her and show her.

However she refuses to use a GPS saying it's too complicated. I have tried to show her how easy a Garmin is to use, but to no avail. I guess I will stay the "designated navigator" for awhile!

Once my wife was riding with me and I had to make two tricky turns in an area we did not know very well. My wife is now sold on it and wants one of her own.

I liked my nuvi 660 so much I purchased a nuvi 680 for my son.

Thanks, PCPro! I'll try to convince her.

Last year I bought a 660 in September. I was so impressed, we bought a 650 for each of the kids and their families. At the time both were living in Pittsburgh. If you've ever been, you'll know a GPS is an essential tool there if you weren't born there.

This year I got the wife a 750. She's a knitter and I've been able to assemble a poi file with over 2000 yarn and knitting shops and I'm preloading it. She'll be the envy of her knitting friends.

I bought one for my mom. That woman gets lost everywhere.

We're planning on getting one for my in-laws. Don't want anything expensive but it has to be super simple to use as they live in the technological dark ages. Our main requirement is text-to-speech and <$200. Just looked at Costco and they have the Magellan 1412 and 1212 on-hand. Not sure what we'll go with yet as I'm very familiar with Garmin but haven't tried any of the others out.

Costco's web site has the Garmin 750 for 199.99 and Newegg has a recertified 750 for 169.99

Any chance you'd be willing to share?

I hadn't been thinking about the new GPSs for autos (I had a handheld at the time), when my wife said she wanted one for Christmas 2007, because her work causes her to travel to many places she hasn't been before. Got her a TomTom XL One; she was very happy with the wide screen because she was expecting a less expensive square screen unit. I set it up with Home and some favorites. She uses it several times a month. She'd let me use it occasionally, and of course we've taken several trips together.

(Since, I decided I wanted to use a GPS daily for the traffic info, so I got a Garmin to see how it compares with TomTom).

Being currently unemployed (and supported by the wifey), since my bro-in-law gave me a 765T for Christmas, I "gave" the wife use of my 200W.

.. Does that count?

My head MUST be in the gutter, I thought as I was reading it, that you were going to say, you gave your Bro-in-law the use of your wife.

That's the way I read it!! lol

I took one of my friends out Geocaching for his first time and showed him how to use my GPS Map60CSx and he was hooked. As a suprise I bought him one for himself. Cache on!!

Fluxuated .. an auto guy. I understand.

kennethammar .. your avatar .. I understand.

and plan on giving it to her shortly. She's an avid hiker and outdoors person,
and figure she'll put it to great use.

GC

I bought my daughter a 76CSx for hiking and horseback riding and automobile navigation in Montana. Put the latest maps on it. Her ex-fiance has it. He took it right away and she never got it back

I bought a Legend HCx with latest maps for a kid (okay, he's 34) who used to live with us for 5 or 6 years when he was younger. It's for him and his son to use geocaching.

I got a free nüvi 200 last summer during a credit card promotion and gave it to my wife for her car. It was "sort of" like buying one as a gift.