Garmin Zumo 660 Discount

[mycirus]

I found a group discount for the new Zumo 660. Go to getfeetwet.com and bring up the 660. At checkout type in CLUBDISCOUNT and get it reduced from 799 to 640. Word on the Zumo forum is that they wont charge your card till it ships.

[Danno]

A quick search on Google gave me several vendors at or below the $640 price point. April 10 is the ship date given on all thesites I looked at.

The 550 can now be had for that price. Still looking for a hands on review comparing the two.

[Big Draggo]

I'm looking at the 550

[richw]

I am not buying but the new touch screens seem to be good for all outdoors
riding driving hiking and boating I think named Colorado and another place name

also does 3D rendering of topo maps

before I bought I'ld go to garmin site and see current stuff

[mycirus]

A quick search on Google gave me several vendors at or below the $640 price point. April 10 is the ship date given on all thesites I looked at.

The 550 can now be had for that price. Still looking for a hands on review comparing the two.

How much cheaper? Were they reputable places? I am weary of the too cheap ones but thought that 640 was fair. Thats about what I paid for my 550 a couple years ago.

I ordered mine this morning and they did charge my credit card. Maybe they have them to ship? I will let everyone know.

[akira700]

So now instead of an arm and a leg,
its just an arm and foot and ankle!

I'm not sufficiently blown away by the feature set for me
to drop 600+ dollars on one of those just yet.
I'd rather do 3 track days!

Does the 660 do anti-traffic guidance? Its a monthly sub for that
though right?

[mycirus]

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?...000#featureTab

Yes you can get a traffic reciever with lifetime subscription.

[Kham]

anybody have garmin 2720 on bike? does it work out for you? i dont care about extra features. i just need something to show where i am on the map so i dont get too lost.

[Kham]

also nice to know the arrival time.

2720 because im about to take it off someone's hand.

[Manny]

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https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?...000#featureTab

Yes you can get a traffic reciever with lifetime subscription.

bruce are you unhappy with the 550...I was thinking of looking for one cheaper when 660 comes out.....

[sandman]

the 2720 works fine on my bikes.

[mycirus]

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bruce are you unhappy with the 550...I was thinking of looking for one cheaper when 660 comes out.....

No the 550 is great. I just want to see what the new one is like, thats all. I guess I am spoiled.

[Kham]

the 2720 works fine on my bikes.

on which bike? do you have pic how you mount it? does having no internal battery annoys you because it gets turned on and off all the time and have to acquire new signal? does it have mp3 player? its only $100. for another $100 more the 2820 maybe better choice? said it's pretty bulky unit.

[sandman]

i use the garmin mount on a ram mount on two bikes and i have a custom mount i made on the r1

i run all my bikes on battery and i may or may not shut it off depending on how long i stop for.

i use a ipod for music and at this time have no interest in having it in my gps. as it is for me i dont think it would work.

the passport has some funky voltages that make there way onto the headphones wires.
if you have more than one device run from the same power source it can let the magic smoke out of more than one of you devices.

you've seen the gps/radar mount on my r1.

i dragged you and 20+ others across ma, through southern vt and did lunch at the outback several years ago.

it doesn't take very long to acquire a new signal

on which bike? do you have pic how you mount it? does having no internal battery annoys you because it gets turned on and off all the time and have to acquire new signal? does it have mp3 player? its only $100. for another $100 more the 2820 maybe better choice? said it's pretty bulky unit.

[Kham]

i use a ipod for music and at this time have no interest in having it in my gps. as it is for me i dont think it would work.

no.. mp3 works fine. i have nuvi760 in the car. works fine for me.

the passport has some funky voltages that make there way onto the headphones wires.
if you have more than one device run from the same power source it can let the magic smoke out of more than one of you devices.

we wouldn't want that to happen.

you've seen the gps/radar mount on my r1.

i dragged you and 20+ others across ma, through southern vt and did lunch at the outback several years ago.

it's been so long. i have short memory.

[Danno]

anybody have garmin 2720 on bike? does it work out for you? i dont care about extra features. i just need something to show where i am on the map so i dont get too lost.

I've got a 2720 I bought for $120 from Amazon refurbed. I think they're $100 now. Ram-mount adaptor and power cable cost me another $50.

The one thing I don't like about the 2720 is the screen - not very bright and really hard to see in sunlight, impossible w/sunglasses on. I'm looking for a large shade box that I've seen on other GPS mounts.

The plusses and the low cost (compared to 5x for the Zumo) outweigh the screen brightness. I prefer the buttons to touchscreen menus, MUCH easier to find/use when driving.

I had the 340c from my car before, and the advantages of the 2720 are water resistance, buttons, draggable map (find routes, towns, etc. by dragging the map), programmable routes from your computer, and the speak button.

I've disabled speech normally and just hit the speech button for the next direction. Very nice when you've got the audio mixed into your earbuds.

[Danno]

How much cheaper? Were they reputable places? I am weary of the too cheap ones but thought that 640 was fair. Thats about what I paid for my 550 a couple years ago.

I ordered mine this morning and they did charge my credit card. Maybe they have them to ship? I will let everyone know.

Bruce, good to "see ya" - maybe $20 cheaper. My point was not purchase from the vendor you liked, it's that price point will be easy to find once they're in stock.

And let me know which one you want to dump.

[Kham]

im picking up the 2720 tonight for $100. i dont know. might just be a waste of money.

[Danno]

im picking up the 2720 tonight for $100. i dont know. might just be a waste of money.

This is a link for Amazon, $107 w/1yr warrantee, refurbed.

http://tinyurl.com/daf7ue

Unless there are extras like a mount, power cable (straight wire, not the car adaptor that comes w/it), I would try to renogotiate. But that's me.

[Kham]

i meant waste of money in terms of how useful it is on the bike. plus i dont think i'll be riding all that much or all that far this yr. i now have second thought.

[Kham]

made up my mind. not buying at this time.

[Wanderer]

Using a 2610 here, pretty similar to the other Streetpilot series units of that age. All the 26xx or 27xx series are pretty rugged, reliable and un-fancy.
Cant say anything on MP3 or music ability - I just ride with earplugs rather than music.

Only criticism I have is the screen, but then again, in bright sunlight anything will wash out. Besides, a bit of plastic and some adhesive velcro tape, and you can easily make a shade for it.

[ssg]

I found a group discount for the new Zumo 660. Go to getfeetwet.com and bring up the 660. At checkout type in CLUBDISCOUNT and get it reduced from 799 to 640. Word on the Zumo forum is that they wont charge your card till it ships.

Did this work for you Bruce, and did you get it yet? It looks like it's in stock and shipping now...

[mycirus]

Did this work for you Bruce, and did you get it yet? It looks like it's in stock and shipping now...

On the Zumo forums someone tried to use this to get a cheaper price and GWF got told by Garmin they had to sell it at MSRP first. So they are still honoring the lower price, its just gonna take a couple extra weeks to get here. More info here: http://www.zumoforums.com/index.php?topic=8466.0

[ssg]

Cool, I will check the thread..thanks I couldn't find it there

If/when you happen to get yours I will be particularly interested in your thoughts on it. I've been trying to use just the touchscreen on my Zumo 550 and I could deal...especially if it offered widescreen.