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

[CodyOebel]

The ix is very on par with the detection. I have owned two v1's I know what I am in for when I own a V1. However.. what totally defeats situational awareness that V1 provides.. is Escorts "LIVE". That is TOTAL AWARENESS stating many people are on the network.. it simply cannot be defeated; Not even by the arrows!

To many videos confirm they both detect at about the same time and distance! Around curves and hills! Add LIVE into the equation, and we have a new ball game.

Yes.. I can absolutely GIVE A Flat FK about a product with poor customer service. Lmao.. However I havent dealt or spoke with Mike direct. That might change my perspective. Also "I" did not know of this mean woman. So for me it was a horrible experience.

To make things even worse though the order I placed with escort is going sour so far.
I paid for saturday shipping. Sat shipping was un-available. So it is due to arrive today! (monday), but the tracking number provided to me is not showing me anything.
Spoke with a few reps already. They cant tell me anything because the tracking number does not show up. I paid for a next day shipping. NOT 2 day shipping. So I'm going to throw a definite gripe if the unit does not arrive TODAY!

It's definitely not my radar detection weekend I will tell you that!

[Jag42]

The Ix's filtering is slow to respond to brief signals.

[mustang5_00]

Well, it must have something to do with Cincinnati customer service, as I just had a problem with Escort. As a northern Ohioan, I thought those to the south in state always had the reputation of being much more hospitable. The common thread seems to be both V1 and Escort are located in the Cincinnati region. I hope you get your ix with 'live' soon, but not if you ordered the 'Race Red Edition'. I placed an order over two weeks ago. On the site, the receipt indicates 'order completed'. It did not list any shipping or tracking info. After waiting a week, I messaged them on their chat feature. They advised the order should be placed 'soon'. Another several days went by and I had to message them again. This time they said they were on 'back order' and should ship out today. Checked again today and finally cancelled my order. The kicker is when I asked for an emailed acknowledgement that the order was cancelled, the rep indicated 'she doesn't have a script for that.' I was all set to call V1 instead but thought I would read up on any developments in this forum! I guess I would rather put up with rudeness so long as I had some prompt response and shipping rather than a smiley chat feature that places my order on hold for weeks!

[thevorlon]

/Off topic: "So having said that you would settle for a less inferior product because the lady hurt your feelings?"
I know the intent of the sentence, but, "less inferior" means "better", or, not as inferior.

[ghz1]

To make things even worse though the order I placed with escort is going sour so far.
I paid for saturday shipping. Sat shipping was un-available. So it is due to arrive today! (monday), but the tracking number provided to me is not showing me anything.
Spoke with a few reps already. They cant tell me anything because the tracking number does not show up. I paid for a next day shipping. NOT 2 day shipping. So I'm going to throw a definite gripe if the unit does not arrive TODAY!

It's definitely not my radar detection weekend I will tell you that!

Gee sounds like you live on an Island aswell

[CodyOebel]

/Off topic: "So having said that you would settle for a less inferior product because the lady hurt your feelings?"
I know the intent of the sentence, but, "less inferior" means "better", or, not as inferior.

I agree with you Thevorlon.

See what he failed to read and think about is I stated "Quality product" meaning the design and architecture of the V1 is solid, built solid, and is quality work! I also said "Precision" instrument. Another correct statement.

What I did not say was that V1 was the most "Superior" instrument. He filled those words in for himself. Hands down the escort is a robot with android like intelligence compared to V1.
Escort 9500 provides absolute situational awareness. Defense networking (replacing CB radios with an itnelligent map system that shows detected threats) which is in my opinion un-defeatable in defense.
The fact that escort delays a second .. a SECOND .. when encountering a threat compared to V1 (I watched the videos I seen V1 beep first I am not discounting that). Doing some math 1 second isnt much difference, and in that 1 second the escort is evaluating the threat of being real, or a false.

So instead of me jamming on my breaks and losing my cruise to a false alarm. Ide rather have that extra second of electronic evaluation to determine how accurate the threat is!

Last but not least customer service makes all the difference in the world, and escort has it!
---Would you think your going to get a good smoothe service replacement of your device from a person who talks absolutely rudely to you. You would rather hope and pray you got a great working device first time around, and not have to deal with such a rude person right. Wouldnt you feel more comfortible should you get a bad unit knowing you can have faith that it will get replaced and get taken care of---???


This encounter didnt stop me from ever buying another V1, but what it did do is made me look else where! It is that simple!

[CodyOebel]

SCRATCH ALL THAT JUNK I SAID ABOUT ESCORT!!!!

Larry Clark from Escort PERSONALLY messaged me and ensured me that from their side they confirmed my unit mailed out friday night. I just called my home sitter and she said it arrived . THEY DELIVERED WHAT THEY PROMISED ME!!!!!!! V1 did NOT!


Here is the BIGGEST slap in the face of it all. That grouchy lady who spoke condescending to me when I called back said "Sorry it's too late we wont ship out the unit until tomorrow" proves how much they care about their customers. Because 30 minutes later after my anger came down from the way she talked to me Barbera Carson from Escort mailed out my unit on friday. So how come escort could do it, and VR couldnt? POOOR FKKKNG CUSTOMER SERVICE TRASH!!!!!!!! SIMPLY TRASH !!!

Got damn Mike and his electronicsV1 is nice. I will not at all say any negative things about him, or his device. The man speaks Radar, and we here like radar talk! He needs to hire some teenagers who will work for minimum wage who absolutely love to chatter about electronics and take this grouch off the phones.

IM SO FREAKING EXCITED...I cannot wait to go home to play with my 9500ix on my computer.

OooooooooooooooooooHhhh THE BEST PART!!!! I HAVENT EVEN BEEN CHARGED YET FOR MY 9500ix due to the saturday over night air correction I will be getting a delayed billing. SO THAT MEANS THEY GAVE ME THE UNIT AND I HAVE YET TO PAY FOR IT!

Well I got their money IN MY BANK waiting for them to take it because got damn they deserve it. CUSTOMER SERVICE WILL ALWAYS DOMINATE IT IS THE RULE OF BUSINESS IT IS THE SPINE AND LIFE OF BUSINESS AND WITHOUT IT BUSINESS WILL DIE!

Escort provides 5 star customer service.

[dizwiz24]

This post is like the person who gives a hotel a poor review because the person at the front desk was supposedly rude to them. Doesn't matter anything else about the price, room , cleanliness, lack of bedbugs, etc.

On the flip side, if the person at the front desk was nice to them they give it 5 stars. Doesn't matter that there was bedbugs, dirty room, etc.

[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.

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?

Lighten up mate, don't take life so seriously. Sounds like you need a root too or a cuddle off your mum. If having a sense of humour is correlated to being a criminal then somebody call the police I must be a wanted man.

[CodyOebel]

This post is like the person who gives a hotel a poor review because the person at the front desk was supposedly rude to them. Doesn't matter anything else about the price, room , cleanliness, lack of bedbugs, etc.

On the flip side, if the person at the front desk was nice to them they give it 5 stars. Doesn't matter that there was bedbugs, dirty room, etc.

Your being cinic brother. That is a tunnel view statement. If someone is rude at a hotel definitely at a hotel I would quickly assume their hotel maids who change the sheets hate their job just as much as the front desk person, and there would be bed bugs so to speak.

Lets analyze your statement a bit more though. Ok... bad front desk rep, great hotel room, and bed the whole works is perfect other than the bad attitude of the front desk individual.
So acrossed the street was another 5 star hotel, but that front desk lady spoke to me golden and joyfull. Both hotels are 5 star ratings. So which do I want to give my money too now ?

Now ... it would be different if per say. Hotel 1 with rude front desk person was a 5 star hotel, and the other hotel acrossed the street that treated me good was a 4 star. I would still want the 5 star experience and brush aside the rude front desk person, and request a manager to expose this person ruining my experience with their service. All said and done, and I go to my room -end of story!
The problem here.. is I'm forced to choke down something I didnt like because I wanted the 5 star room! Scenario 1 was I had two five star hotels V1, or Escort top end model ???

What I have been given by Escort exceeds a 1010 in customer service.
All of you reading this are V1 cinics. I know Because I threw rocks at anything without the arrows since 1.7, and then onto my 1.8. I talked crap about escort products or anything without the arrows without even having tried their product quickly concluding I have the best radar detector, and the GPS tech doesn apply to my needs. That was years ago, and things are RAPDILY changing (moores law).

Note: From what I have researched V1's patent on those arrows expiresexpired this year!
If escort adds arrows into their next unit, or unto the interfaced iphoneandroid screen to give a directional detection using a new radar detector. I will utilize the trade in option (Which VR doesnt provide), and get the new unit with the arrows.
Then V1 would have become 100% obsolete in this case!