User Review: Magellan SporTrak Pro

Reviewed February 1, 2006 by Corey Spurlock

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Price Paid: $250

This unit worked great for the first year or so...though it didn't get much use.

Then it started locking up...just after the warranty expired of course. It has happened three times and now I have a very expensive paperweight!

The first time it locked up was because of an incomplete download of the MapSend software. I had been through the process before, but for some reason while loading an update the unit locked up.

So after trying numerous times to get help from Magellan via telephone and email and finally getting a response that was no help at all, I had to send the unit back to them for repair. It cost me $15 each way for shipping and Magellan charged me $95 to fix it.

Once it finally got sent back (about a month later) the unit worked for a few more weeks and then one day when I turned it on it went into eternal restart mode over and over again and finally locked up on the start screen. The only way to turn it off was to remove the battery pack. So, once again I had to pay for the shipping each way and the repair charge of $95 and wait.

Then, once again the unit failed the same way it did previously. So, now I have a $500 paperweight because of the initial $250 purchase price and cost of sending and repairing the unit twice.

Bottom line is: DON'T BUY IT!

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