Where's Garrett?

[metaladdict]

Keep your eyes on the quiet guys!

I was wondering what happened to you John.
You have been very quiet.

 

[metaladdict]

I was wondering what happened to you John.
You have been very quiet.

Keep your eyes on the quiet guys!

Are you saying with the color that a v3i will be slapped with a Garrett sticker on it??

 

[John-Edmonton]

Are you saying with the color that a v3i will be slapped with a Garrett sticker on it??

Man....I never even thought of that. Maybe???? I have been out prospecting for gold.

 

[metaladdict]

Man....I never even thought of that. Maybe???? I have been out prospecting for gold.

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Nice amount of flour gold, If I lived near the California foot hills, I'd be looking for that gold also!

 

[RgnFn]

Care to elaborate? All I need to know is whether they're working on *something* on the higher end and relatively soon. Don't need to know exactly what or exactly when, just that something's imminent. I've outgrown my current machine, and am toying with the idea of maybe a D2, but I'd much rather get a Garrett for a lot of reasons, but among them is not have to learn a totally different platform....

 

[SS_Wonder]

Care to elaborate? All I need to know is whether they're working on *something* on the higher end and relatively soon. Don't need to know exactly what or exactly when, just that something's imminent. I've outgrown my current machine, and am toying with the idea of maybe a D2, but I'd much rather get a Garrett for a lot of reasons, but among them is not have to learn a totally different platform....

This +1000

 

[Surf Master]

Waiting for a Water Proof PI for SALT beach / water hunting to come out , besides the tank ATX , and without the Axiom Nugget hunting mark up , bring it Garrett under 2k I'm ALL In !

 

[John-Edmonton]

Care to elaborate? All I need to know is whether they're working on *something* on the higher end and relatively soon. Don't need to know exactly what or exactly when, just that something's imminent. I've outgrown my current machine, and am toying with the idea of maybe a D2, but I'd much rather get a Garrett for a lot of reasons, but among them is not have to learn a totally different platform....

Garrett, at any time is always doing research and development on all their levels of equipment to keep them moving foreward.

 

[cellrdwellr]

They are just slow I guess can't say I'd recommend a single Garrett model to a beginner right now, you can get much more for your money nowadays. I am a Garrett fan and user, but they have absolutely fallen out of the race in the sport division. Which is frustrating for their supporters like myself. Superior products, extremely fun to use, very versatile, dependable, and EXCELLENT customer service, but there are many machines in the market that can do more for less. John knows something we don't (like usual ) , hopefully they finally answer the call we all have been waiting for. He is right, it's the quiet one's you gotta look out for

 

[Coin-Saver]

Agreed, unless the quiet one is dead

 

[james45]

I like my At pro, it's a keeper. I might of bought an Apex if it was waterproof with the tone roll audio.
Garrett needs something.

Would be nice if more detectors would be able to use AA, 9- Volt.Those were the good old days.

 

[james45]

Well, the reality of it all, the "Made-in-***" packaging is something I argued at White's for many years and other places as well. The legal rules of other countries may differ, but here in the USA, and it was more clearly qualified about 2021> The product musts be made with primary parts that are Made in the USA, and the primary design and construction must be Made in the USA, and there's more. Look it up.

Since metal detectors are mainly using all those electronic components hat are mainly made in China or Taiwan, and NOT made in the USA, they do not qualify. Additionally, it is where a lot of the physical packaging is made, such as the really nice control housing of the Teknetics T2, or when you look inside a detector and see that the circuit boards or other needed components or assembly were done in China or Mexico or elsewhere and then go to the USA manufacturer, those components were NOT Made in the USA.

For a couple of decades I voiced my concern with White's because so many said thy won't buy 'foreign' and only Made-in-the-USA. Well, Minelab, to give them credit for doing it right, were Made in Australia and Ireland, but now they boxes say Assembled-in-Malaysia. You can say using Foreign and Domestic parts, buy 'Assembled-in' is the proper and legal way to describe where a product comes from.

I do have a Nokta Pulse Dive that says 'Made-in-Turkey' on the box, but really, where do the electronic components come from? Or, for that matter, any of the physical packaging or the design intelligence? It might be that their country doesn't have the legal laws in place like here in the USA, or no-one has called them on it if they do. FTP got called on their Made-in-the-USA packaging and design, and it is only a matter of time. Look at all of the telephones, TV's, computers and on-and-on that we know are definitely 'Made-in-' foreign countries and primarily using foreign (to the USA) components. It's life.

So, in-the-end, I watch my LG television, use my Samsung phone, type my Forum contributions with my foreign computer and use a Dell monitor, and I do not have any problem using an Assembled-in-Malaysia Minelab or Assembled-in-China Quest detector. Really, the Quest products might actually be close to totally 'Made-in'.

On the coming X-Terra Pro, we are not positive yet where they are 'Assembled' but I do know I want one.

Monte

We sure miss you Monte.