just update map vs just buy new GPS

In reading some of the latest discussions about map updates,
one user mentioned the concept of just buying a new GPS,
and selling the old one....

hmmm - interesting concept -
map update for my Nuvi 255 are $70
New 255 on Amazon is $110 - other sites are about $140 -
maybe sell old one for $50 ?

So, buying a new GPS (to basically get a newer map),
and selling the old one might actually work...
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ps56k wrote on Jan 2, 2010:


That may be so if you actually want to change your GPS every few years. I am
still using a StreetPilot 2820 (now long discontinued) which I would hate to
give up in exchange for anything more recent. All that Garmin seem to have
done in the past few years is to remove many of the features of the
StreetPilots, miniaturise them (making them a lot more flimsy in the process)
and add a few irrelevant features like MP3 players and so on.

I would like to keep my StreetPilot for as long as possible - it's very
solidly built unlike the Nuvis, and has no battery to wear out so it should
last a few years yet. I've therefore bought a NuMaps lifetime subscription
for CN Europe. I've had 2 updates so far in 2009 and each one has had
significant changes so I think it's already paid for itself

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Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
email: mike_lane at mac dot com

        I like my old StreetPilot myself, but mine was older model of StreetPilot
which uses Garmin expensive DATAcard and only limit to 256M. It took me
many years to upgrade to the newest NUVI 680 (at the time), and took me some
years to accept what NUVI 680 has to offer (or limitation of the NUVI 680)

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:14:03 -0600, ps56k wrote:


I just looked on ebay and my model, the Nuvi 200w, is still selling above
the $60 mark even for beat up models, so you may have a point.
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Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:01:17 -0500, Mike Russell


I sold my old C320 which was kind of bulky, to a truck driver and bought a
nuvi 260 which is a lot smaller, had street name call out and new map for
the difference of a new map update. The nuvi 260 has all the features I
need plus it just drops into my pocket when getting out of car so may just
get a map update.
MR