Interesting. Its nice to know who you're buying from before you buy.

With respect to sounders, the power cord on my new Garmin corroded and needed to be replaced (most likely my fault) and they sent me a new cord no questions asked. Just recently my sound quit and after talking with Garmin they told me to send it in and they'd fix me up. I'm assuming there won't be any problems. So far my experience with Garmin has excellent in customer service....now I'm just hoping their sounders have the same reputation as their GPS and mapping units.
JMS