You will never get the fox guy on that forum to say the slightest negative thing about Whites or one of their detectors. He has been a guardian of their company for a long time. The philosophy on that forum goes back to the days when detecting magazines controlled what was said and printed. The customer was never considered for honest feedback. I hope Whites changes their ways. Too many competitors out there to be releasing poor quality products. And the forums will get the word out. Well at least it well get out to the more experienced hunter.
Your right Goodmore.
He is so brand loyal it stinks to high heaven.
I posted what Steve had discovered over there as well,,,this gent wouldn't even acknowledge my post....And I gave true blue references.
A smoke screen is being continually set over there,,,I can see through it though.
And I sure don't want to see anyone get screwed or be caught off guard due to the smoke screen.
Folks work hard for their money,,and expect to get something for what they pay,,something indeed useful,,something to enjoy.
There is nothing enjoyable about having to take a detector to drop point for shipment for problems,,,or a person being without equipment they already have paid in full for.
I realize there will be some problems with some detectors,,,but this saga with this manufacturer is it seems with every release they try to do.
And this particular model,,,some things actually happened beforehand of release that didn't make sense or were less than desirable to say the least.
Maybe approx $700 ain't much money to some folks,, I'm no Bill Gates,,but I feel folks deserve better here with both this detector and the communications and the timeliness of the communications that come with it.
I am not asking for a perfect world here,,,this is far from perfect though.
When a hillbilly sitting in rural Tn can see this mess from afar,,,surely the folks at Sweet Home can see even better than I??? Or can they??
This cover your tracks mentality with this it seems " great service" is flawed logic.
Great service is for unexpected problems when equipment has been operated for longer periods in the field,,and or isolated problems that rear their heads.
Not for work that should be labeled as "recall work".
What schools of business did these folks attend???
Here's a question to show the smoke screen.
Remember White's charged folks for updating their V3 detectors if they were outside of a purchase date window.
Why
Certainly not the fault of those who purchased early.
Why did they change the model number of the detector??
A majority of this whole silly business could have been cleared up,,if these folks at Sweet Home would have had any sense,,,and had firmware version viewable at turn on.
But that was too difficult or asking too much--- for a detector made in the 21 st century.
