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Thanksgiving Badge 2023

Any ideas why there is no U.S. Thanksgiving badge this year - or why the special holiday/festival badges are mostly based in Asian countries?

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3957888 over 1 year ago +1

Lame. It's not about the badge, it's about the fact they couldn't be bothered? I got Garmin at first because the Vivo4 was my best option at the time and also it was cheap. The badges have been a nice…
3957888 over 1 year ago in reply to llempart +1

You realize they had Thanksgiving badges 2022 and 2021 and probably older? They can just call it "Turkey day" like some others do. There is no reason you can't separate what it is now from it's past.…

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0 sdmtbgpx over 1 year ago

Because the Garmin subsidiaries outside of Asia do not care about celebrating festivals, public occasions etc with Connect badges?

0 e7andy over 1 year ago

The Thanksgiving badges were also in the Asian countries. Last badge was available in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan...and United States... Garmin Asia wanted a badge for Thanksgiving and had to add United States because Thanksgiving is a US holiday :-)

We can only guess why and how it works like it works.

0 4411990 over 1 year ago in reply to e7andy

Gotta wonder how those turkeys migrated to Asia, since they are only native to the Americas. But I guess they were food for the spanish explorers.... Guess when APAC wants badges to stay ahead of the rest of the worrld, they just program it and poof it's done.

0 4411990 over 1 year ago in reply to sdmtbgpx

sdmtbgpx said:
Because the Garmin subsidiaries outside of Asia do not care about celebrating festivals, public occasions etc with Connect badges?

Hnnn, Garmin World HQ is in Kansas, USA. But yeah, they probably don't care.,...

0 sdmtbgpx over 1 year ago in reply to 4411990

Really ? My point is clear.

0 4411990 over 1 year ago in reply to sdmtbgpx

Yeah, so is my point. If Garmin HQ doesn't care about USA holidays then why should the other offices. Even the EU HQ doesn't do anything, badge related.....

0 Jd_wood over 1 year ago

did not see a Tanksgiving badge 2023 being offered, please confirm if it is not being offered this year?

0 e7andy over 1 year ago in reply to Jd_wood

There is no Thanksgiving badge this year.

0 3957888 over 1 year ago

Lame. It's not about the badge, it's about the fact they couldn't be bothered? I got Garmin at first because the Vivo4 was my best option at the time and also it was cheap. The badges have been a nice motivation, if they start slacking I have no reason to stick with Garmin when "other" choices are sometimes very comparable and better priced.

0 5341692 over 1 year ago

Upset. No Thanksgiving trophy 2023. I live in Eastern usa