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Originally Posted by GeekGal
Garmin units keep their value well. I always end up selling my old units off on eBay for a decent price to finance my new Garmin purchases.  My Streetpilot 2720 was financed with the purchase of a GPSMap 76S and the Streetpilot III. We own other Garmin units -- for aviation, mountain and road biking, and hiking/geocaching. (And in the interest of full disclosure, we are Garmin shareholders, though not a lot of shares.)
Did you buy and use the optional traffic data unit that interfaces with the Streetpilot 2720? Most of my commuting and driving is not in areas where I'd use that (vs. just looking ahead and going, "Oh no, not again..."  but if you have and use it, I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with it. |
At the time when i purchased my GPS, the optional traffic reciever was of no use here toronto, i think it only works in the US. I think i can live without it because it's going to be busy here in rush hour traffic anyway; One really good feature of the GPS is that when I am stuck in traffic, i can browse the surrounding area and find alternative shortcuts using the side streets. This helped me cut through many small streets in small neighborhoods while everyone else is waiting in the main streets for their turn to move 10 inches
. I am overall very satisfied with my unit, I have not travelled very much in the last 2 years, only to Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa. There, there are so many one way streets and this unit is excellent, it knows all the one way streets and never puts me against the direction of incoming traffic. It even had all the points of interests like those huge basillicas, old towns, shopping centers, and monuments. I went there without going through a guide book
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The only problem i had was when i went to Buffalo NY, I forgot to take off TOLL ROADS from the avoidance setup, therefore, going back to toronto, it computed to have me drive through 2 different states first and then 2 different provinces back
That was my fault though, i Just set it up to not avoid TOLL roads and it calculated for me to pass through the Peace Bridge and pay (i believe 2 bucks or something) and i was home in an hour and a half.
I like how it sits in the left side of my dash in my Prius; i was asked a few times in the stop lights by other drivers who were curious about it, they wanted to know what it was.