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Has it shipped yet. Has it shipped yet. Has it shipped yet.

Just like an aggravating, but anxious kid.

I was happy with my 405, then the 410, then maybe 605, 610, F2, now F3. F3 works for the most part. Its crashed on me. Its locked up on me. But I still like it. It does much more than I need, but I can live with that. the 5x does even more than I need. But I dont know if I'd like maps or not. But I do like the idea of more memory and faster processor. That spells future proof usually. I might not like mapping. Ok. so I may not use it. I might not like the OHRM, though I hope it works. If not. So be it. I really really hope it wont lock up during my next 50miler, 100k or 100miler. That really blows. It blows that I cant charge it while its on my wrist. But eh... I can hold it while charging, or faster it to my pack. Ultras are hard, holding a while during recharge. Cake. I'm excited. I'm prepping my F3 for resale, hoping to reduce the chunk the F5x is setting me back. But my preorder is in.

Peace!

0 jburchm1 over 8 years ago

I placed my preorder on Jan 4th. I cancelled it by phone some time in late February, but they sent me a credit card failure notice on the 23rd. I updated my card info, and received the watch on the 25th.

0 gi_thien over 8 years ago

I am guessing that you havent been checking your credit card account as well? Since surely the charge would have been present.

I preordered mine F5x from CT on 1/9. No shipping email, no credit card charge.

I pre ordered on 1/4 and have not heard anything nor my credit card charged

0 blaneclark over 8 years ago

Garmin.com availability?

Anybody know when the F5x will be available through Garmin.com?

0 jetguat over 8 years ago

Regarding people whose credit card numbers got stolen after a Clever Training order:

Look into virtual account numbers. I have that on my Citi card. Other cards offer something similar.

You can generate a new CC number for each online transaction, and can set an amount limit and expiration date. The number can only be used by one vendor. The charges all come through on your bill like they were made to your base CC number, so it's not confusing. There's no problem with a return getting credited back to the one-time number.

And if you're dealing with a less-reputable vendor, it'll stop them putting on extra charges you weren't aware of, because that number can't exceed the Dollar limit you assigned.

It makes it a lot harder to for someone to steal and use the number, and if they do, you only have to cancel that virtual number, not your real CC number. So less hassle.

The one place you have to watch out is if you're buying something online that you'll pick up, like baseball tickets, because they'll generally want to see the card you used to purchase them, and you won't have a card with the virtual number on it.

Citibank has virtual account number, but Chase bank does not. I double checked that today.

0 jetguat over 8 years ago

Crazy the fraudulent activity on my card was EXACTLY the same. I had close to 20 separate charges in the span of 2 days from USPS ship and click located in Washington D.C.

Today was my turn I guess. I preordered from CT on 1 / 9. Daily I have been looking for fraudulent charges on that account, and I've been also looking for the CT charge. Neither were spotted, until today. Chase Bank alerted me to a possibly bogus charge of $440.99 at walmart . com, and that same card was tried to be used in the registration for some Western Union like service (different name that I didnt recognize).

Just my luck, CT will attempt to bill my F5x today and it will fail, further delaying the receipt of that device. Boo!! :mad:

0 Tommylee84 over 8 years ago

chemin emas

Anybody know when the F5x will be available through Garmin.com?

This is the question I keep asking them (garmin) with only replays of "This quarter" or "Soon". I have a 30% off with them I want to use for the 5x so I'm sitting here sitting on my hands while everyone gets to play with their new 5x's.

0 dcrainmaker over 8 years ago

Today was my turn I guess. I preordered from CT on 1 / 9. Daily I have been looking for fraudulent charges on that account, and I've been also looking for the CT charge. Neither were spotted, until today. Chase Bank alerted me to a possibly bogus charge of $440.99 at walmart . com, and that same card was tried to be used in the registration for some Western Union like service (different name that I didnt recognize).

Just my luck, CT will attempt to bill my F5x today and it will fail, further delaying the receipt of that device. Boo!! :mad:

Since you just posted the same on my review post, I figure I'll also copy my thoughts here too...

That sucks.

But, I don't think it's CT. They've provided pretty extensive detail on how they do credit card processing to folks who have e-mailed - and they don't see/store numbers, rather, it's all handled by a major credit card processor. Here's what they provided when I asked:

"• The site is PCI Compliant and certified by reputable 3rd party vendor (Trustwave)
• The site undergoes regular malware scans, both by our hosting company and the 3rd party PCI compliance vendor (latest scan last night showed no malware present)
• The site operates with credit card processing technology where credit card numbers are never exposed on our site, numbers are encrypted and sent directly to credit card processor and only tokens are passed back-and-forth between site and processor.
• The site does not store any credit card info, credit cards are stored via the processor in their vault. Only customers can edit credit card info, and even then card number is masked.
• No credit card information is taken over the phone. This ensure that no one but the customer has access to credit card data.
• We have strong security measures in place to access Admin site areas: whitelist IP ranges, strong user password requirements, etc."

That said, I was curious was the US fraud rate is for credit cards. Stats I could find peg it at 46-48% of Americans have credit card fraud over the previous 5 years (stat from 2016). So basically, half of all Americans, or 10% of US folks per year. And thus...10% of people who use any credit card regardless of company (Amazon, Apple, or Clever Training). With thousands of DCR readers using a given vendor - then some may draw conclusions. Or more likely, it's just random timing coincidence.

I'd say that the once every 10 years (if you want a different way to look at 10%) is actually pretty accurate for me and my US based credit cards.

Just my two cents...

0 blaneclark over 8 years ago

This is the question I keep asking them (garmin) with only replays of "This quarter" or "Soon". I have a 30% off with them I want to use for the 5x so I'm sitting here sitting on my hands while everyone gets to play with their new 5x's.

Yep that is exactly why I am waiting on Garmin.com as well. Hopefully they have them soon!!!

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Anybody know when the F5x will be available through Garmin.com?

3-5 weeks, so end of April.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Discount

Yep that is exactly why I am waiting on Garmin.com as well. Hopefully they have them soon!!!

I'm right there with you. My company gets a corporate discount. I did at least confirm it's a 35% discount. So I guess that's worth the wait. I wasn't going to get one, but at that discount it's a great deal IMO. But limited to 1 a year though.