Hi all,
I just bought my 930 a month ago and was starting to get the hang of the traffic feature (when to listen to it, when not to) and my trial ran out... I too had seen it in Home just a few days ago for $25 or $30 as a previous thread here mentioned... but now, it's not in Home at all as a buyable service, and even going to their website does not let it appear when I click on "Buy traffic" it takes me to a "Download Home" link...
Anyhow, I called customer service and they could not get to buy traffic either... they said this is probably due to the price change.
"What price change?", I asked... "it's $59.99 now", was his response!!! Since end of July.
This is just outrageous really... you've got Navigons giving the stuff away for free for life, others giving a year... and TomTom is only giving me a free month, and expecting 60 bucks thereafter on a $450 dollar device! To make matters worse, I use my cellphone to connect to traffic (I had the data plan anyway) so they can't even say this money goes to broadcast the info through the FM towers or anything, I'm accessing this through the net... every online traffic site I've seen charges at most 30 bucks a year, without mentioning all the free ones.
This is really discouraging... I had a cheapie Mio and just took a peek at GoogleMaps on my Palm 700p and for the most part got very similar results wrt traffic. I really really like the 930 but man, a 140% price increase sure is hard to swallow...
I just bought my 930 a month ago and was starting to get the hang of the traffic feature (when to listen to it, when not to) and my trial ran out... I too had seen it in Home just a few days ago for $25 or $30 as a previous thread here mentioned... but now, it's not in Home at all as a buyable service, and even going to their website does not let it appear when I click on "Buy traffic" it takes me to a "Download Home" link...
Anyhow, I called customer service and they could not get to buy traffic either... they said this is probably due to the price change.
"What price change?", I asked... "it's $59.99 now", was his response!!! Since end of July.
This is just outrageous really... you've got Navigons giving the stuff away for free for life, others giving a year... and TomTom is only giving me a free month, and expecting 60 bucks thereafter on a $450 dollar device! To make matters worse, I use my cellphone to connect to traffic (I had the data plan anyway) so they can't even say this money goes to broadcast the info through the FM towers or anything, I'm accessing this through the net... every online traffic site I've seen charges at most 30 bucks a year, without mentioning all the free ones.
This is really discouraging... I had a cheapie Mio and just took a peek at GoogleMaps on my Palm 700p and for the most part got very similar results wrt traffic. I really really like the 930 but man, a 140% price increase sure is hard to swallow...