Not to hijack the thread but this WAS a good one.
In the late 90's Gamin came out with the revolutionary GPS the Streetpilot. Mono LED screen. $500. The Best on motorcycle GPS by any shot at the time.
At the time, Office Depot had an internal corporate saboteur. They would pick out a few items, go into the corporate data base and change the price to pennies on the dollar. They did so with the Streetpilot, marking it down to 139.99. The news hit some GPS net forum around 9 am one morning. By 11 am it had made it to the nationwide Long Distance Riders motorcycle forum. These are Iron .... Association riders who think nothing of riding 1000 miles For Dinner.
That list went BESERK on this deal. I kept track of how many units were bought. I drove about 40 miles round trip to buy 3 of them myself, 1 for me, 2 for other Long Distance Rider friends who had none left at the stores near them. You could go on-line and check inventory. People were riding into neighboring states to buy one (or more). The LDR list bought 73 Streetpilots saving over $26,000 before other Garmin sellers heard about it and squawked to Garmin. Garmin ordered Office Depot to return ALL Garmin units to them. Remarkably, the deal lasted about 30 hrs or so with OD standing by the price until all the units were pulled.
Bruce in Ocala, Fl
