Garmin email - numaps price cut on 21 Sep 2010

I just got the same e-mail notice. Makes you wonder how low the others will be droping in price.

I got the same email from Garmin today too. I figured it was a new, additional price drop over the one they instituted several weeks ago. It isn't. It;s actually the announcement for that price drop, which I took advantage of nearly two months ago.

Don't understand why it took them so long though, you'd think a price drop announcement would PROCEED the drop, not follow it more than a month after it went into effect.

hehe, i've received the same email, have just purchased my US lifetime updates at $89.99
was waiting for it for a long time

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Amazon has it for $75.95 and if you search other threads you'll see other retailers have it for even less.

If you can cancel your order, you should.

Yesterday, I received an email from Garmin, that new maps were available. I thought 'Wow, that's ahead of schedule'! Went to the site with no update in sight, aside from an unknown 'Software' update. Went to the web updater, and nothing new was at the top of the list.

Anyone know what the mystery update(s) are?

LOL, too late, I lost $10 hehe, ... happens, too quick decision ... usually quick decisions turn out like that.

Thanks for the updates

I bet before long the maps will be free on all units when you purchase them.

Take a look at the Garmin site. There are a NUMBER of units that have free maps for life, and others that have free traffic for life. As a Nuvi 885T owner, I'm a bit skeptical about "for life" but am not willing to abandon Garmin for my automotive uses - yet.

Joe

I am registered with Garmin and do not get any emails. Is there something more that I have to do to get on the email list?

Once registered at myGarmin:

https://my.garmin.com/mygarmin/customers/myGarminHome.faces

go to Manage Your Account and click Manage Email Notifications:

https://my.garmin.com/mygarmin/customers/accountSettings.htm

nüMaps Lifetime™

This one-time purchase, now as low as $89.99, lets you download the most up-to-date map information available...for the lifetime of your Garmin device. No monthly fees, no maintenance costs. You can update every time a quarterly map update is released and not pay again. Visit our nüMaps Lifetime page for applicable terms and plan details.
http://tiny.cc/s52zb

Also:
nüMaps Onetime™

Just want the most recent update available? Now you'll pay less for nüMaps Onetime™ that lets you buy only the most current update for maps and POI data for your Garmin GPS. Visit our nüMaps Onetime page for plan details.
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Thanks Craig, I was wondering why i didn't receive this email too. I've adjusted my account settings.

I got the following options checked:
Announcements about Automotive Products
Please notify me by email of future map updates

It's been almost 2 years. I've got 0 email notification from Garmin.

I received the E-Mail from Garmin as well. However, I believe this notification is only after-the-fact. I am pretty sure the lower prices we have been seeing on Amazon.com and ErwinComputers.com since August are related to this price cut. They probably reduced the wholesale pricing to their resellers some time ago and only now are getting around to letting folks know about their own pricing.

I have mine, purchased for $79.95 back in August, still waiting to be activated. I was already up to date so I am waiting for 2011.30.

Sorry, but I got my for $68 shipped several weeks ago.

If Garmin lowers their price, the others will have to follow. There is still a recession going on, regardless of the news media(and Washington) wants to tell you, after all it is election time.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, it all depends on what Garmin charges the resellers. If they are paying $65 wholesale per update to Garmin, they would be crazy to sell them for $60 unless they are looking for a loss leader. What we do not know is are the reseller prices from Amazon.com and others now based on a reduction in prices to the resellers already in place or is there another reduction coming down the line based on Garmin's new price reduction? This is the first reduction I have seen from Garmin yet the resellers have cut by about $10 since late July.

NEW GARMIN MAPS ARE FREE

Well, the first one is free, unless you have the Lifetime maps.

Thanks to the other members here at the Factory, the heads up on software updates, maps, price cuts or whatever else is much quicker than Garmin could ever be.

Incredible though how you can be signed up for email notification and never get one single email from them.

Very efficient & professional on Garmins behalf.

check your email SPAM folder, maybe they are delivered to your mailbox, but simply go to junk, so you never see them ?

I gotta get you some Glasses. Login to your account, go Manage Maps, on the right should tell you "Update Available" click it and then add the lifetime maps to your cart...Bingo $ 89.99 USD

Read my post again. Slowly. And, I already have LT updates. The jist of my post was, Garmin sent an update notice for the 2011.20 maps. Only 2 months late...

But, as I said, there was a SW update available, but nothing in web updater.

So, do you use bifocals? The next pair is on me!

were even

If I buy a GPS, Numaps, just about anything, the price will drop dramatically in a year or so....

I should learn to wait for the better deal. This makes me rethink the Oregon 550 I was going to buy, maybe best to wait until next Summer.

Larry

I get 0 spam (believe it or not). Those that make it to my spam folder are from online retailers where I've purchased something before such as newegg, Hilton hotel in Vegas (that's because I've booked a room online) and so on.

0 "spam" from Garmin.

the newsletter from Garmin was sent out from:
email@email.garmin.com

try adding this address to your Address Book.

also are you using some common webmail like GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc or something more exotic?

I am not getting any email from Garmin either. I just re-subscribed so I will see if that helps.

Again, thanks for the reply but I'm positive my mail setting has nothing to do with it. I won't bother trying to make it work. I get Garmin news quicker on this site anyway.