Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 30
  1. #1
    Good Citizen
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Posts
    175

    Default Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    ************SENDING MY 9500ix back, AND GETTING V1 **********To the MODERATORS: I post this as a sub-post, but this one is a bit modified. So please dont delete it. I think it would be valuable to buyers and reviewers alike.


    Well... I have made up my mind. In about 5 minutes I will be placing an order for Valentine One. Today I had a K band encounter with my 9500ix. Lets just say if I was doing my usual habbit of speeding. Ide have a little yellow paper in my wallet for court appearance for about 200$.

    I drove around a whole lot today on purpose getting things done, and putting my 9500ix to the test. My problem is not one speed camera alert. Not one red light camera, and although some of the few falses in the deeper part of the city did get auto-locked out. For the price I paid for the device it simply does not meet my application.

    Got damnit I am a V1 programmed junkie. I dont feel safe without Mikes detector. I drove around scared today because of the mentioned K alert. Let me explain.


    After some really nice city alerts with O.K detection time. I began to like how queit the 9500ix is, but the one thing remained questionable in my mind. How is it going to do on the highway?
    So I purposely made long round about trips hoping to get some action. I didnt get much action at all and got tasks completed for the day.
    On my way home with my wife, and kids. I was doing speed limit, and I had a rabbit in front of me about a one quarter mile out. I get a K alert coming around a bend. It goes FULL BLAST, and visually about 3/4mile out I see the sherrif. He was running Constant ON K band. It kept blasting full ramp as he passed me by, but I knew at that moment if I was speeding he would be citing me today. IT WAS CONSTANT ON FOLKS.... I know from years with V1.. I would have seen that coppper far beyond this distance the 9500ix alerted. This makes me wonder if 9500ix advertises falsely.. Mikes Detector is AMAZING where it counts MOST!

    So with my wife there, and me gulping down the decision to buy this 9500ix and explaining to my wife I'm going to order V1 tonight, and send this 9500ix back tomorrow I made up my mind. I'm going to replace it with my third V1. So you V1'ers who have followed my anger post about the bad customer service experience with Allice. . (gulping down pride).. YOUR ABSOLUTELY RIGHT !!! LMAO I should have had "Thicker" skin as one person said lmao... Went with what I know works best for south Texas DPS, and these highway stretches. I should have just order V1 online and been done with it. I'm going to call the lady I spoke with at Escort tomorrow, and let her know after trying out the product I simply do not think it is for me, or my application of use.

    After that K band encounter I feared my 9500ix. I mean to say I feared speeding or trusting it to detect for me earlier enough and fast enough.

    Thoughts came to mind from the years I owned V1. I posted these stories before.. to win a T-shirt from Valentine Research, but didnt. However they are experiences with V1 I wont foreget.
    A state trooper shooting KA band when I was donig 120mph with my cousin following behind. Rule was I flash my tail lights three times we slow down.
    I got a KA alert so got damn far away over a double hill with 2 miles of detection and we slowed down. That trooper with his cowboy hat detected a car at 120mph but heres three cars doing the speed limit. He turned on his cop lights hoping to make the guilty one pull over, but we didnt. I remember like it was yesterday as he kept turning his head trying to make sense of who was speeding.. seeing two family cars and then behind us a speedy looking little honda. His equipment told him it was one of us family cars doing 120, but why are they doing speed limit now? He discriminated upon that sport looking hinda that had been trailing behind us, and pulled him over for our ticket. We still wonder to this day if it was for 120mph that we were doing lol.

    I posted a greatest save ever here on this forum. That V1 save will never ever be forgotten. That came to mind today as well today after this K band alert scared my trust away for the 9500ix. That without the arrows, and the significant detection range "How would I ever get saved the way V1 has done for me with my 9500ix" ??

    Then the last thought I had about my second V1 I purchased from VR which was when Version 1.8 came out with the "J" for junk signal. I remember my longest record detection ever on a highway stretch. I detected a K band cop on hwy 16 stretch 6 miles out. I remember driving forever and getting a brap every so often and then some brap brap brap brap.... thinking he was soon to become visual.. then every couple of seconds a brap brap brap.. then it ramped up with greater frequency for what seemed like forever... untill finally a white truck on the side of the road so far out upon the horizon of this flat terrain bogey locked on my vehicle.. I had an audience of people with me on that trip just jaw dropped at the detection range and how long we drove before we seen that cop; V1 made me look GREAT that night, and the price I paid for it again repaid for itself.

    I honestly dont think the 9500ix can do what it "Advertises" or boasts, but maybe it can. Just I trust Mikes hardware, and I dont have trust for Escorts, and so I'm tucking tail. Sucking up the bad V1 experience, and maybe just maybe tomorrow morning. I can get Mike Valentine on the phone. That would make me a V1 addict lmao

    I'm ordering my V1 right now folks !

    -Cody


    So Mike Valentine. If your reading this. Your excellent product and the fact that from what I know. If I had spoke with you directly. I would have had 100% customer service from you as well as some good old radar talk that I just didnt get with Allice.

    So ... Yup... Ordering V1 in about five minutes.

    **Moderators... I'm going to make this post as a thread**
    So please permit it as a double post\thread. I think it is valuable to see the cycle of a buyer who was always a V1 user. Who tried 9500ix, and sent it back. This says a whole lot about Mikes technology folks.
    Its just SOOOOOOOOOOOO DAMN GOOD!

    The guy is a Radar Detecting Genius!

  2. #2
    Good Citizen
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Posts
    175

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    To make things worse. On my way to take my 9500ix to the the UPS office to mail it back. I had it hooked up. I came around a bend with rabbits in front of me. I got a KA alert, and not but a few seconds after going around that bend a state trooper with CO KA blasted by. I would have been toast.

    After posting on the escort forum the question was asked if I had it on highway mode. I had it on auto mode. So I set it on highway mode, but still that KA copper was just detected. Unless he IO'd at that very time I am simply not impressed.

    So at this point I was dead set that my decision to take it back was a good one. I know from years of V1 use that I would have known about that copper WAY WAY BEFORE I EVER SEEN HIM AROUND THAT BEND. Because on that same bend V1 has saved me numerous times doing excessive speeding 90-100mph with PLENTY of warning.

    So now I'm on my way into the city. I'm on a city freeway with multiple lanes. I am approaching an over pass which rises like a hill. I come over the hill then BANG full ramp of signal... also about 100 yards in front just over the over passhill is a PD with someone pulled over, and the PD is pointed TOWARDS ME .. that was the nail in the coffin for my 9500ix. My wife drove with V1 so much she even said at that very second "Dang ... he would have got you... we need to get V1 it would have alerted on that far away".

    So conclusion. Having now tried the two most top rated detectors in the world. I honestly dont understand how the 9500ix is getting the numbers and reviews from the test grounds I find online. V1 is nothing like the 9500ix, and the 9500ix is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE V1. I honestly wonder if those test ratings were fixxed or paid off by Escort to bump some of their ratings up because I honestly dont see how the 9500ix can compare with V1. I just DONT SEE IT AT ALL!

    My wife called to check up on our order as I had her order the V1 in her name since were not yet married lmao her last name is different. Fortunately the two times we called V1. It sounded like a young man, and the second call sounded like a really nice young lady. Not the Rude "Allice" call I had.
    So I wonder if VR is putting some more vigorant reps on the phones due to my complaint. I dunno, but I sure cant wait for my V1 to arrive.

    My wife wants one for the new ford explorer we just purchased. So I will be buying our 4th Valentine one two weeks from today! We want one each for both our vehicles. I am going to do some nice hard wire installations. I will be sure to take pics.

  3. #3
    Radar Fanatic
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    WA
    Posts
    2,176

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    Good for you, you want regret it.

  4. #4
    V1 Zombie
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    New Zealand
    Posts
    2,376

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    Nice post.cody becareful you may become a zombie if its not too late

  5. #5
    Good Citizen
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Posts
    175

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    Quote Originally Posted by ghz1 View Post
    Nice post.cody becareful you may become a zombie if its not too late
    This is a much nicer post from you Ghz. It's already to late man. Straight up Mike's hardware is like nothing else on the market.
    I am dangerously honest at times. I honestly do not see how the escorts field testing in all the radar detector tests online can do what those tests results show. In practical use I was up on the officers radaring the same as a wal-mart cobra detector did to me long ago. This is why I stated they (the 9500ix) are like wal-mart equivalents.

    V1 just got damn detects so far away it is rediculous. I remember speeding on the highway once and I got a KA band so far away I reached my hand out the window to the speeder next to me pacing with me and waved him to slow down. He gave me the "What" hand gesture. I took V1 off the Visor clip and showed him the arrows. We Slowed down, and sure enough there was the bogey.

    I HAD THAT MUCH TIME BEFORE WE EVEN GOT TO THE BOGEY !!! THATS REDICULOUS FAR DETECTION.
    The escort 9500 was trash. They have superior customer service, but their detectors remind me of Rocky Mountain Radar propaganda!

    **I'm sorry for ever doubting any other V1 zombies here on this forum "WHO TOLD ME SO", and I appolgize to Mike Valentine for doubting I would need V1**

    I dont appologize for the rude encounter with Allice. LOL That part still stands.

  6. #6
    Good Citizen
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Laurel Springs, NJ
    Posts
    135

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    Welcome back from the Dark Side.

  7. #7
    Good Citizen
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Posts
    175

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    LOL... yup.

    I miss my arrows, BUT TOMORROW I GOT THEM BACK IN MY POWER !!!

    Man I cant wait to hear my new V1 sound off on a bogey. I also cant wait to actually get some REAL DETECTION RANGE. That 9500ix wal-mart equal RD detection range was killing me. I was scared to go 5+PSL with it. I'm used to MILES OUT DETECTION. LOL

    I am now.. without question a 100% PRO V1 nothing is better zombie. Ive tried the supposed competition, and it doesnt hold a candle to V1. Hands down. If the 9500ix was supposed to be the next best detector to V1. Then I can honestly say. They have very far to go to match grade with V1.

    V1 is the worlds best radar detector, and the ONLY RADAR LOCATOR FOR YOUR CAR\TRUCK if you dont want to get tickets, and have the absolute best chance of not getting caught going over the speeding limit! ANYTHING less than V1 is asking for citations!

    -A V1 sinner who repented, and asks forgiveness LOL

    Boy do I want my V1. AHhh tomorrow I get to mount it up, and have my arrows.. ohh man I cannot say that enough!

  8. #8
    Good Citizen
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Posts
    175

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    Quote Originally Posted by nr2d View Post
    Welcome back from the Dark Side.
    Yessir! My Force is now strong again with the arrows Master Nr2D.

    I'm hoping to be free on Sunday. I plan on driving to Austin TX. A guy is selling his Blinder M47 brand new in the box never been installed for 300$. I'm going to test it out, and take it off his hands to maximize my vehicles protection.

    Having the arrows to show me where to look is what I look forward to most. Also... that 9500ix I cannot say it enough detected like a Rocky Mountain Radar detector. LOL.. You didnt know about the cop until he had you.

  9. #9
    Radar Fanatic
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    OHIO
    Posts
    1,848

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    "...full ramp..." Belscorts don't ramp up!

  10. #10

    Default Re: Sending back my 9500ix LMAO. Tucking Tail, and I'm ordering V1 tonight.

    Good decision indeed ! Bought my V1 a week ago, and really happy about it now !

 

 

Similar Threads

  1. I'm back....with a 9500ix!!!!
    By VietTroop in forum Escort
    Replies: 10
    Last Post: 06-24-2011, 06:46 PM
  2. Caution Sending Redline back for a Refund
    By NCSPEEDER in forum Escort
    Replies: 19
    Last Post: 10-15-2009, 08:59 AM
  3. Ordering Monday... V1 or 9500ix or eww STi
    By senfinger in forum Valentine One
    Replies: 83
    Last Post: 08-22-2008, 07:38 AM
  4. Sending 995 back a 4th time to BelEscort!
    By proudNMAmember in forum Beltronics
    Replies: 9
    Last Post: 11-04-2006, 08:43 PM
  5. sending x50 back to test v1 out
    By ryansandlin in forum Valentine One
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 08-25-2006, 09:03 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •