Holy Crap I am very very DISSAPOINTED in VR. I hope this gets back to Mike-Valentine

[nine_c1]

Barbara........if it's the same Barbara I have dealt with numerous times at Escort.......is a real sweetheart and terrific sales rep. Certainly has the preferred attitude for dealing with Customers spending hundreds of dollars on radar detection equipment. There are a few slugs from time to time in their service department, but their rep on here EscortRadar is good as Gold.

Likewise with Michael B. from Whistler.

The mean old lady at Valentine has been known to be mean for quite some time..........maybe because we refer to her as being an "old lady" here on the forums. She is unfortunately the same one to initiate service calls and again, can be more than a little condescending. However, their tech department is represented very well by a tech that just happens to have the name of Mike. He usually makes up for all the abuse Dear old Alice dishes out.

Well, on the bright side it's VERY likely your wife will actually prefer the quite operation of the 9500ix and the neat GPS functions. As far as reception range, it's definitely a top tier detector.

But if you love your Valentine, don't let Alice scare you off. It's a quality detector with a distinguished reputation backed by a solid company.

Sweeten up Alice or we're gonna have another talk at your next appraisal!!!

[Jag42]

In Texas that Ix will get you in trouble with Tx Dps and there lightning fast Instant on.

[CodyOebel]

Barbara........if it's the same Barbara I have dealt with numerous times at Escort.......is a real sweetheart and terrific sales rep. Certainly has the preferred attitude for dealing with Customers spending hundreds of dollars on radar detection equipment. There are a few slugs from time to time in their service department, but their rep on here EscortRadar is good as Gold.

Likewise with Michael B. from Whistler.

The mean old lady at Valentine has been known to be mean for quite some time..........maybe because we refer to her as being an "old lady" here on the forums. She is unfortunately the same one to initiate service calls and again, can be more than a little condescending. However, their tech department is represented very well by a tech that just happens to have the name of Mike. He usually makes up for all the abuse Dear old Alice dishes out.

Well, on the bright side it's VERY likely your wife will actually prefer the quite operation of the 9500ix and the neat GPS functions. As far as reception range, it's definitely a top tier detector.

But if you love your Valentine, don't let Alice scare you off. It's a quality detector with a distinguished reputation backed by a solid company.

Sweeten up Alice or we're gonna have another talk at your next appraisal!!!

Thanks for this reply. I really last the very last sentence . Lmao.. reading one of Mike V's replies here on the forums taught me a new word "Sullied" . I'm always looking to learn new stuff, and Mike seems like the guy any intellect would just LOVE to be around.

Allice burned me that day, and really taught me to avoid VR and calling them by phone. Something told me I should have just ordered via online, but thats the problem these days. Being a graduate in electronics, and like many here who love RF, spectrums, science, etc.. it's not common we can talk to our friends, or family who dont comprehend the tech we so love. It's like when you build out a DOS machine, or an old linux computer, and use an amberchrome monitor TODAY, and yet at wal-mart their cheapest machine has nearly 4ghz of processing power and 6gb of ram, but the DOS machine is 4mb upgraded to 8mb. Lmao.
The graphics card cannot handle duel monitors, but it can handle one monitor, and the second being an ambermonochrome if you know how to extend the memory using some DOS syntax. WHY mess with such a legacy system? Why dig in C functions, or C++ fow hours trying to understand how the function works and instead of just using it and knowing it does this or that?? Because we are techy people by nature and heart.

So when I called VR.. part of me wanted to chatter a bit. Give a little break to the VR rep, and let them talk about the hardware they sell and represent. Poke their brains a little. WHen I ordered my first V1. It was a gentlmen I spoke with, and I had a great conversation with him. To have a mean "old" sounding lady speak to you condensending when you consider yourself an intelligent person. One who understands hisher brain is capable of sending RF and images to a robot on mars 300 million miles away, and getting mass spectrum analysis of dirt and rocks from such a distant place.. you know your a human and what humans can do. Talking with idiots, or talking with someone who treats you like one will quickly make you change direction of a purchase.

So I'm about to drop a couple grand on a new vehicle, and want to radar protect it. Since I will try out escorts passport. I will also order a V1 (FROM THE WEBSITE), because I got a thing for mikes system, and it works!

Deep down inside even though I do not personally know this intelligent genius who devised this hardware. I pray he researches into interfacing his system with a GPS. I worry Mike wont have us V1's 5 years from now with the way escort is going in their direction. Being a business owner, and knowing competition.. Ive sliced throats in every way when I noticed they were doing it to me (Speaking in analogy). As Mike said people will sully your reputation any way possible, and escort is doing that to him etc.. The fact is in his own defense. The man is expert and innovative, but now I think that shell is being built around him.
The shell of comfort, but those arrows and system will be obsolete one day .
The old lady made me think she wasnt being paid well. Made me think she hated her job. This resulted in me thinking Mike is stressed out, or not doing as well, and seeing chapter 13 or something. IF YOU CANT BEATEM JOIN'EM.
Money wise if Mike cant afford the R&D to bring V1 to the next level. I wonder what Escort would offer him as a joint owner or something to merge systems. I think he would financially secure himself! On the side note.. if Mike builds his own system to be LIVE like Escort is.. they will be entirely shut out!

Those arrows keep him alive, and we all know this. The man is brilliant, but what V1 was to me years ago as an entry level tech is not as astounding today. The "Escort V1 LIVE Enterprise Supreme Defense System" as I woud call it lmao. for 700$ is definitely without question something I would drop dough on in a heart beat!

Makes me wonder if Escort has ever dropped a letter on Mike with such an offer.
I had to cough my business up, and do the same. The result for me was I made more money, and was co-owner, but not THE OWNER. When the pride let the title go away .. the money I made was worth it in the end.
No matter what though. I know this! V1 will be around always! If I was Mike. If GPS enabling my system wasnt affordible or plausible to make fast enough return on the investment. Ide have a contract with Escort stating my CEOVP title, stock holdings, and a perminant contract to always keep my name in the game! Thats just me, but again I'm not the Genius Mike Valentine, and I am wonder what that man has up his sleeve for his businesssystem, and us end users.

-Cody Oebel

[hemihem]

Why you post such a statement, I've been running Ix for years, it's a tool not a license to drive rediculous. stick to 5 to 10 over the PSL and you'll notice you'll never have a problem in Texas.

[ghz1]

Barbara........if it's the same Barbara I have dealt with numerous times at Escort.......is a real sweetheart and terrific sales rep. Certainly has the preferred attitude for dealing with Customers spending hundreds of dollars on radar detection equipment. There are a few slugs from time to time in their service department, but their rep on here EscortRadar is good as Gold.

Likewise with Michael B. from Whistler.

The mean old lady at Valentine has been known to be mean for quite some time..........maybe because we refer to her as being an "old lady" here on the forums. She is unfortunately the same one to initiate service calls and again, can be more than a little condescending. However, their tech department is represented very well by a tech that just happens to have the name of Mike. He usually makes up for all the abuse Dear old Alice dishes out.

Well, on the bright side it's VERY likely your wife will actually prefer the quite operation of the 9500ix and the neat GPS functions. As far as reception range, it's definitely a top tier detector.

But if you love your Valentine, don't let Alice scare you off. It's a quality detector with a distinguished reputation backed by a solid company.

Sweeten up Alice or we're gonna have another talk at your next appraisal!!!

Yeah Mike V can’t be too bad of a guy to keep that dinosaur in a living (no real insult intended). With the number of threads posted in this forum referring to her very unfriendly attitude, I'm sure it has cost them a sale or two over the years. You would almost think she's part of the family.
I'm very sure I have talked to her one or two times and she was very nice to me maybe it’s because I was being very nice with my very exotic sexy kiwi accent lol. I have dealt with Mike via email with technical question and he is first class. One day I rang and got Mike V himself! Now that was a real buzz for a down under zombie I tell ya. I asked him if he would like to bring over the Porsche and drive on our lovely touring roads, he declined giving the excuse that the postage for the car was too expensive lol.

[spartcus]

The one thing that you guys are forgetting that Mike got to go home with her we don't. He can care less what we think or say about the old lady or him because no doubt that she can make his life a living "HELL".

[barryswanson]

Mike probably hasn't given here a good rogering in quite some time. Get some little blue pills and turn your wife s frown upside down.

[KaPro]

ROFL!!!! Good one Barry. True that!

[ghz1]

Mike probably hasn't given here a good rogering in quite some time. Get some little blue pills and turn your wife s frown upside down.

How Australian to say such rude things like that. Yeah you got to look at the ancestry . Then you can forgive such an insult ...or maybe not. I see your a fan of Joe Dirt need i say more......Dude you do dumb ass post like that in the V1 forum your gonna it get right back at ya.

Where you from brr the pub?

[midd]

ok, anyone who has read the V1 forums knows by now that that woman who answers the phone for VR has a nasty streak. No one can argue that. The few times I have called, I have never experienced it. What I don't get, is that CodeyOebel states in the thread about going from 3.863 to 3.893 states this:

"That just speaks for the UNBEATABLE QUALITY AND PRECISION INSTRUMENT Mr. VALENTINE MANUFACTURES !!!

Thanks Valentine Research "

So having said that you would settle for a far more inferior product because the lady hurt your feelings? Geez you need some thicker skin. Just one more rabbit on the road for me to stay behind.