Richard Ray
Full Member
Over the years I've used many, many detector brands and tested many others as field editor for Jess Publishing. They would often send me a half dozen machines for "product testing". I personally used Garrett detectors in the field from the time they produced the old grey BFO.
You name a brand, I've most likely used it, even the little Roth detector. I never had a problem with Garrett's service department. Often Bob Podhrasky would just give me a new detector, whenever a problem came up... On the other hand I've had other well known companies not return a detector that I sent in for repair or even answer my letters. My detector being lost forever. And others that sent a detector back to me in the same broken condition.
That's not to say that all things have been rosy with the Garrett company, that's why I started manufacturing my own... But all in all I can't complain about Garrett or their service. There are many brands out there, it's people's right to use whatever brand they want and not "bad mouth" the others, after all some people like oranges and others apples, some both, to each their own...
Richard
You name a brand, I've most likely used it, even the little Roth detector. I never had a problem with Garrett's service department. Often Bob Podhrasky would just give me a new detector, whenever a problem came up... On the other hand I've had other well known companies not return a detector that I sent in for repair or even answer my letters. My detector being lost forever. And others that sent a detector back to me in the same broken condition.
That's not to say that all things have been rosy with the Garrett company, that's why I started manufacturing my own... But all in all I can't complain about Garrett or their service. There are many brands out there, it's people's right to use whatever brand they want and not "bad mouth" the others, after all some people like oranges and others apples, some both, to each their own...
Richard