Steven
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Tue, 16 Dec 2008
Garmin doing good on warranties - 16:43
When my Garmin Forerunner 305
finally really
died with the crack and subsequent internal soaking I thought I had to
send it away to the US and pay the repair fee in US dollars as well as getting
it over there and back. I am happy to report that Garmin is a much easier
company to deal with for us Australians than that.
I finally decided I wanted my HRM/GPS enough to arrange the shipping to the US and contacted Garmin. I was pleased to discover they allow you to send it into the Australian Garmin support people and they will repair or replace the unit for the flat fee they use of around AUD $109. I sent mine in last week and today in the mail a brand new Forerunner 305 arrived.
It will be good to be geeking out with my wrist hardware again during my run tonight and ride tomorrow morning. Thanks Garmin for making this an easy and painless process.
Yay for international book purchases. - 15:29
After reading Little Brother
recently I
was keen to buy a copy. I also wanted to get hold of the Last Watch book by
Sergei Lukyanenko, and I had been keen on getting Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard
Book. However of those three only The Graveyard Book was available in
Australia already. The Watch book did not get released in the US when it was
supposed to, however I discovered it had been released in the UK. The other
books were also available there. So i made an order with Amazon UK to get
those three books, and while buying from there anyway I also got a copy of
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over
the World.
I was happy today to receive all of these books in the mail at work, yay some good reading, some fantastic food and hopefully some more things to keep my mind occupied at the moment. Once again showing it would be so much nicer if things were released internationally at the same time so I could have bought them locally.
