Nearly ready to go

All paid for put together by me and ready for Monday Against Minelab policy to take delivery any earlier . So for now it's sitting at my suppliers place charging up.      


I seem to have developed a nervous twitch. Wonder what that's all about  


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aussiedigger wrote:All paid for put together by me and ready for Monday Against Minelab policy to take delivery any earlier . So for now it's sitting at my suppliers place charging up.      


I seem to have developed a nervous twitch. Wonder what that's all about  


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I'm not aware of any policy, if anything there should be a policy against letting that baby with your name on it collect any unnecessary dust.
I womder if the gold shops will be getting the window cleaners in early on Monday to remove the drool.

Congrats.

Early Monday Morning the phone rings at AD home "ring" ring" is that you AD , "Yes" Its the shop have some bad news the shop got broken into and all the GPZ are missing

Should have it in your hands already AD, all paid up for, not like we have to wait until its your birthday, or christmas hey.

I feel for you Aussiedigger..
It's going to be the longest weekend on record for you 

Congrats on getting one..
 Hope to hear what you think of it.
Only if you want to that is..

Detrackozi wrote:Early Monday Morning the phone rings at AD home "ring" ring" is that you AD , "Yes" Its the shop have some bad news the shop got broken into and all the GPZ are missing

For a man that gave me my first ever Gold nugget.  You sure know how to worry a guy

Considering another supplier I know here was broken into only a few days back and many  worth of detectors where stolen. thankfully no 7000's had arrived at that time.

I'm feeling like a kid waiting for Xmas morning I can't wait




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I have just woken up and received a minelab email newsletter saying we can pick up our detector YESTERDAY !

tricky 1 wrote:I have just woken up and received a minelab email newsletter saying we can pick up our detector YESTERDAY !

Yes I got the same email.

"The GPZ 7000 will be available for sale from Friday 20th February. For more information on this revolutionary new machine please contact your Local Authorised Miinelab Dealer. "

Now hope the dealers have got them in stock.

cheers dave

Sick and tired of their games!!!!! 

Yeah there sitting at shops,the first batch's i understand,why don't they hand them out!
So Dave are they handing them out or is the email more marketing expertise???

I'm not sure if this is what happened but I was told they would be shipping to dealers in the US on Monday and available for sale by Friday the 20th because it takes 4 days to ship to some parts. Problem was that Monday was a holiday here and nothing could get shipped, meaning that some dealers wouldn't receive them until Monday the 23rd. If that's true perhaps Minelab delayed everything till Monday so as not to give some dealers an advantage and have a global release all on the same day. I'm not sure that's the case but it seams to fit the scenario.

I'm waiting till Monday too. Guess I'll just be reading the manual all weekend. At least I'll know how to turn it on

Bit of a sales pitch but at least some footage of it in action i found this morn:

Seems to be using a terracotta coloured coil...maybe a prototype?

CostasDee wrote:Seems to be using a terracotta coloured coil...maybe a prototype?

I thought I was coloured blind..
Guess not. 

Are you sure it's not just a beefed up sdc2300 

I have just gotten home from a morning run to a patch that has been flogged to death with 4500 and 5000 with every coil made and in every timing. the highlight was a specie about 30mm in diameter with 3 grams after dollying at 20" measured. I am going to need a bigger pick. too excited to worry about settings, just paired the wireless module and ground balanced in factory preset and go.

bloody hell, build your muscles up, a lot of deep holes coming up

tricky 1 wrote:I have just gotten home from a morning run to a patch that has been flogged to death with 4500 and 5000 with every coil made and in every timing. the highlight was a specie about 30mm in diameter with 3 grams after dollying at 20" measured. I am going to need a bigger pick. too excited to worry about settings, just paired the wireless module and ground balanced in factory preset  and go.

So how come that you got the jump on the others who have been hanging out for Monday as the official release date?

goldchaser wrote:  So Dave are they handing them out or is the email more marketing expertise???
 

Mate when I got the email from Minelab this morning, rang the shop and yes they have them and can get ours no worries, so what do you reckon we did. Yep went and picked it up.

It's getting a full charge right now and will be giving it a good go tomorrow on some local gold fields.

cheers dave

Well it's all fully charged now and ready to go, couldn't help myself just had to go outside back yard in town and turn it on, it ran with very little interference, not like the 4500 or 5000 which I had to have a DD coil in cancel mode in the back yard to stop the electrical interference.

If this is an indication of the rest of the machines ability it's gonna be awesome.

Now its time to read the manual some more.

cheers dave

As above Pablob. on the doorstep with a copy of minelabs email. charged the battery on the car charger o the way out.

tricky 1 wrote:As above Pablob. on the doorstep with a copy of minelabs email. charged the battery on the car charger o the way out.

Thanks. Looks like some dealers either don't have them in yet, or they are playing the release date by the book.  Whatever, I am sure that another couple of days waiting won't hurt them.

davsgold wrote:

goldchaser wrote:  So Dave are they handing them out or is the email more marketing expertise???
 

Mate when I got the email from Minelab this morning, rang the shop and yes they have them and can get ours no worries, so what do you reckon we did.  Yep went and picked it up.

It's getting a full charge right now and will be giving it a good go tomorrow on some local gold fields.  

cheers dave

Good on ya,thought we were 3hrs behind over here not 3 days

couldnt pick ours up dammit. would have been good to have it over the weekend.