Creative
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My son is auditioning for Music College this term and as a result we are travelling the length and breadth of the country over the next few weeks.
So we thought it was about time for a sat nav update. We went off to argos and purchased a Mio spirit on the grounds that it was cheeper than Tom Tom and had free map updates for life.
We took it home and as I started to set it up, it looked great until it asked me to set up my home address. I put in the postcode and rather than my street (which is the only street with the post code,) it showed 6 surrounding streets without giving any indication of what was the correct street.
I then tried other postcodes and got similar results.
The box claims it has full post code search. Well it does, because it will show the correct street randomly placed in a list of 5 or six, but unless you know the road name you don't stand a chance.
We took it back to argos although sat navs are exempt from the money back guarantee, but the manager after trying his address and that of several employees and finding that it was utterly down to guess work, refunded our money so we bought a Tom Tom as we know that they at least know where they are going to!
So we thought it was about time for a sat nav update. We went off to argos and purchased a Mio spirit on the grounds that it was cheeper than Tom Tom and had free map updates for life.
We took it home and as I started to set it up, it looked great until it asked me to set up my home address. I put in the postcode and rather than my street (which is the only street with the post code,) it showed 6 surrounding streets without giving any indication of what was the correct street.
I then tried other postcodes and got similar results.
The box claims it has full post code search. Well it does, because it will show the correct street randomly placed in a list of 5 or six, but unless you know the road name you don't stand a chance.
We took it back to argos although sat navs are exempt from the money back guarantee, but the manager after trying his address and that of several employees and finding that it was utterly down to guess work, refunded our money so we bought a Tom Tom as we know that they at least know where they are going to!
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