Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

A Really Great Garrett Ace 250 Purchase Experience!

S

SnowCajun

New member
I posted part of this message on another forum where I had previously asked for help in a detector choice when I decided to get back into detecting again for exercise. As much as I love computers I spend too much time in front of them and that's not been exactly healthy for me. Because I had such a great shopping experience I felt I'd post this one other place also, just in case anyone else was interested!

Anyway, I decided to get back into this hobby after 30 years of being away from it. I needed two new detectors, one for myself and one for the lady I've shared my life with for the last 13 or so years. The advice I got from most everyone was to go with Garrett's Ace 250 detector. I'm in the Spokane, Washington area and stopped by Bowen's Hideout, a local detector store close to downtown Spokane. A man named Dick helped me and I don't think I could have found a more genuinely interested person desirous of helping me get what fit me the very best, what was exactly right for my needs. I told him what I was thinking about, either the Garrett GTI 2500 or the Garrett Ace 250, he questioned me in detail as to what I was going to be hunting for and where. Even though I had the money for the top of the line detector, Dick talked to me thoroughly explaining things to me in detail, and he showed me all the operations of the Ace 250 detector, he felt that the Ace 250 was the perfect match for me in regards to where and how I was going to be hunting. He took a lot of time guiding me, from his years of experience, to a choice that he believed would best fit me for my personal detector needs. Though I've not received my detectors yet I'm already a pleased customer! I can hardly wait until they arrive tomorrow.

Too many businesses want you to spend your last dollar with them so they'll make every penny of profit they can, yet this gentleman wanted me to buy the right thing for me so I would enjoy this new hobby to my fullest ability, even if it wasn't the most expensive detector in the house. I call actions such as his "genuine integrity", something I highly respect in people, and something that seems way too rare in our world anymore.


SnowCajun
Spokane Valley, WA
 
Nice to see that there is some old fashioned customer service still being practiced in this era of big box stores and push them through service lines. Sound like you found someone great to work with.
 
> Re: Would you happen to be from Louisiana?

I was born and raised in Lake Charles, LA .. actually born south of I-10, that's a big deal down there ya know. :) I live in Spokane now, though I loved Louisiana in the 50's and 60's it's changed a great deal since moving away in 73 after so stupidly getting married to absolutely the most wrong person possible! The one nice thing about living up here is there's not the severe heat and humidity like down there, we're on the east side of Washington so we get the snow instead of all the rain the west side is famous for, and there's no cockroaches, mosquitoes, or fleas up here either .. none of which I miss. :)
 
He gave you the correct skinny and you made a wise decision. Plus, a happy customer is a customer forever and that is just savvy business. Welcome back into the hobby. You'll enjoy your 250 and it should reward you well. You know where to come if you have any questions or problems. Good luck.

Bill.
 
[quote Uncle Willy]He gave you the correct skinny and you made a wise decision. Plus, a happy customer is a customer forever and that is just savvy business. Welcome back into the hobby. You'll enjoy your 250 and it should reward you well. You know where to come if you have any questions or problems. Good luck. Bill.[/quote]

Thank you Bill, I greatly appreciate your wisdom and support.

SnowCajun
 
Yeah ain't it wunnerful to be free of all those critters. I live in Portland and enjoy the same freedom. Was born and raised in the Midwest where those critters number in the millions.

Bill
 
[quote Uncle Willy]Yeah ain't it wunnerful to be free of all those critters. I live in Portland and enjoy the same freedom. Was born and raised in the Midwest where those critters number in the millions.[/quote]

I agree, and it sure made my dog happy also when we first moved here, I imagine to her it was like a bit of Heaven. I've been over to the Portland are once, had to do business up in Battlefield, WA I think it was .. hmmm.. was that actually a battlefield? Anyway it was a pretty area, I hope to go back someday. I think there's a big Insulator show in Portland this summer... the national show or something. In my youth I used to run up poles for insulators, but not anymore, though I still like the old pretty colored ceramic or porcelain ones.. I dare not call them stoneware ones as that's frowned upon.. lol. I lived in Houston for awhile but was really glad to get out of there, they had cockroaches that were as big as your shoes .. well not quite that big, I may have exaggerated a tad, but they were pretty darned big. Nasty things.. ooooo I hate them!
 
Are you referring to Battle Ground. That's just acros the river. Had friends that lived there but both deceased now. Spent some time in Texas and have friends and a niece there. You can mount a saddle on some of those Texas roaches. Next time I think about it I'll post a pic of a ten foot rattler some boys killed down there.

Many years ago I seined water dogs out of stock tanks in Texas and other Southwestern states to be sold as bass bait on Lake Mead in Vegas and the Colorado River. We were always on the lookout for those big buzz tails.

Bill
 
Congrats on your purchase and I hope that you come out swinging that 250 like a hurricane. Im glad that there are still genuine people out there that arent in it for the allmighty dollar , They actually care. Best of luck to you my friend and hope that you find some great things with your 250. Hope you can post your finds. :detecting:
 
The history of Battleground Wa, is kind of anti-climatic compared to it's name.
In the mid l8oo's a local native American was on his horse in the Chelatchie Prairie (near Vancouver, Wa) area doing whatever it is he was doing. Off in the distance he noticed a group of Yakima Indians dressed in battle gear heading his way. No women or children were with the warriors so it was definitely a bunch of horse-stealing bad boys looking for trouble.
The hero of our story turned his mount and scurried back to the mouth of the Cowlitz river where the town of Freeport was. Freeport is now buried under the paper mill in which I work.
Upon telling the town that a war party was approaching the locals gathered their mounts, grabbed their firearms and rode out to meet the Yakima's in a friendly little shoot-out.
As the parties neared each other the Yakima's' turned their horses and fled back over the Cascade mountains never to return.
And that is the big reason the town of Battleground has it's name..for a battle in which no shots were fired.
Pretty pathetic story huh??
 
Yeah, you're right about all those critters and pest. But I gotta tell ya, we got the BEST food in the world down here in South LA. MMMMM SO GOOD.
 
[quote roceda]Yeah, you're right about all those critters and pest. But I gotta tell ya, we got the BEST food in the world down here in South LA. MMMMM SO GOOD.[/quote]

I do have to agree with that.. One thing I've noticed about food served up north that they call Cajun food is that it nearly kills you to eat it, they think it has to be so hot and spiced up that it's almost intolerable. It never was like that when I was young. True we had our hot sauce to add in, but it wasn't mouth burning hot right off the bat like so many places seem to think it should be now. I really miss good crab gumbo, or Boudin ... my back door neighbor used to make us stuffed crabs .. omg I miss those. I dearly love fried oysters but I think these people don't know what oysters are. I've had a great amount of trouble finding decent bbq also, though we did find a good place (O
 
I don't suppose you can get good boiled crawfish there either. I think they call them "crayfish" ( must be some kind of forigen language) . Do you miss good ol' Louisiana coffee??? I'm partial to Community Coffee. I tell ya man, we have the best, bar none, dadgum food there is to be had anywhere.
 
[quote roceda]I don't suppose you can get good boiled crawfish there either. I think they call them "crayfish" ( must be some kind of forigen language) . Do you miss good ol' Louisiana coffee??? I'm partial to Community Coffee. I tell ya man, we have the best, bar none, dadgum food there is to be had anywhere.[/quote]

Community coffee was the best no doubt, I remember it well. It came in a red package as I remember from many years ago. I can't drink coffee anymore, my system has gotten old and can't take the caffeine ... but that was truly good coffee. My father used to fill up a big thermos of it and cook biscuits every morning before we'd go goose hunting, we'd eat biscuits and drink coffee after killing our first geese. I don't think there was better coffee anywhere in the world than right there drinking it with him in the freezing rice fields down in a goose blind. What great memories!

SnowCajun
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top