I have e-mailed them several times & had no response, anybody got any other suggestions? the thing is only about 18months old, there must be somebody who does repairs on these sounders!:g:
I've no idea what a fisheasy cost? But I would guess as you can buy a new Eagle 242 for £60 of ebay that a repair would probably cost you more than that?I have e-mailed them several times & had no response, anybody got any other suggestions? the thing is only about 18months old, there must be somebody who does repairs on these sounders!:g:
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We are in a Global Market now. No one needs to buy in Britain anymore.I have bought a Garmin 140 to replace it, which gives me an Eagle Cuda 168 plus this Garmin 140, but I thought that if I got this Fish Easy sorted, I would have a "fall back" machine, I dont believe that it costs anywhere near the same amount of money to run a "diagnostic" on a faulty machine, as it does to produce a new one! Its a bloody con by the importers, to fleece the boating public yet again!:nonono:
On the web yesterday I could have bought a Garmin 140 in USA for $92! ( the exchange rate is $2 =£1) therefore it cost £46! Here, on "special" it cost me £93.70! it was made in China, how the f**k did it cost, £46 more to ship it to UK than it does to USA? another case of Rip Off Britain!!!!:g:
blueskip
It wasn't a cheap as chips model, I paid a bit extra for some bells & whistles but the lifespan was crap. I have bought a Garmin140 to replace it, & I have a Cuda 168 as back up, but it would be nice to be able to get something that is less than 2 yrs old, with less than 40hrs on the clock repaired. I am sure we are being shafted with this electronics kit, nobody who sells it, seems to have facilities for repairing it, & the franchisees black list seems to be growing!:g:I've no idea what a fisheasy cost? But I would guess as you can buy a new Eagle 242 for £60 of ebay that a repair would probably cost you more than that?
The trouble is as chrip said. They are made with cheap labour at low cost in faraway countries and aint worth the trouble to the manufacturers to repair.It wasn't a cheap as chips model, I paid a bit extra for some bells & whistles but the lifespan was crap. I have bought a Garmin140 to replace it, & I have a Cuda 168 as back up, but it would be nice to be able to get something that is less than 2 yrs old, with less than 40hrs on the clock repaired. I am sure we are being shafted with this electronics kit, nobody who sells it, seems to have facilities for repairing it, & the franchisees black list seems to be growing!:g:
blueskip
I had an e-mail from Silva, very helpful, they sell the sounders in UK but repairs are done by Lowrance in the USA, so a "service exchange" is the usual response, they have no "FishEasy" sounders in stock, so I have to send a whole list of details to them, which I will do, I am determined to get something out of this <40hr wonder!:rtfm:
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