Posted by guv on 05/12/07 22:07

On Sat, 12 May 2007 22:36:21 +0100, Colin Wilson
<REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.co.uk> wrote:

>> There's also the matter of distrubitors, publishers and retailers
>
>Incidentally, Garmin once tried to feed me that bullshit about
>distribution and publishing - I felt compelled to remind them that
>THEY THEMSELVES handled the distribution of the title they refused to
>sell in europe without hardware that I didn't need or want.
>
>In the end, I bought more hardware that came with maps, and with the
>money "saved" over buying the maps alone (>£50) I bought
>http://www.garminsuck.com and published their lame fucking excuses, as
>well as confirmation from Navteq* that they were not responsible for
>Garmins' pathetic excuses on map sales policies.
>
>*Navteq provide Garmin with the map data, and there was a suggestion
>that it was Navteqs' T&Cs causing the problem.

I thought you were going to bring this up! ;-)

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