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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PittsburghMom, post: 1703958, member: 34903&quot;]Well, after trading a few emails, I was able to finally confirm that it&#039;s a legit machine and not a knockoff... At least the next two days have been freed up so that I now have time to just stress about whether this machine is worth the ridiculous cost. We&#039;ve gone out a few dozen times and really like the experience and the fresh air/exercise. It&#039;s been a great way for us to spend family time together, but other than a couple of buffalo nickels, some wheat pennies, lots of modern coins &amp; a few random military items, we haven&#039;t found much that was remarkable with the cheaper detectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mainly, in the past, we just found modern coins or trash. We had a cheap $50 Garrett that was almost completely useless and then upgraded to a slightly better $120 White&#039;s which we began using exclusively. (There was a noticeable difference between those two lower end models... We resold the Garrett for $35 a couple of months ago and couldn&#039;t have been happier to see it go. We were at least able to find coins with the White&#039;s, but only reliable to about 4&quot; - 5&quot; of depth regardless of what the box advertises. I would never recommend that anyone buy the cheap Garrett that we had. We would test them both on the same spots and found it almost completely useless.) We got better at the sounds and can now reliably find coins with the White&#039;s one, but again..they were almost always modern coins due to the depth issue. (Best finds: 1 gold earring, an indian arrowhead next to a sound that we never located &amp; a civil war relic in Pgh from the Whiskey Rebellion.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Early morning has been best time for us (It&#039;s also the least embarrassing! I&#039;m a girl &amp; still kind of care about how I&#039;m perceived by others..). We have occasionally met up with other detectorists at the larger parks and all have been extremely friendly and great about offering tips/pointers. We noticed that the serious ones were all using the higher end $1,000+ models. We&#039;ve been discussing the idea of upgrading, but it&#039;s such a large investment that we&#039;ve been hesitant. Again though, we&#039;re not just doing this for the coins/relics. We just enjoy it more than walking around the mall or spending $50 at the movies. (I&#039;m a Redbox/Netflix kinda girl...) We&#039;re treating this as we would a weekend vacation out of town with the hopes that we break even one day or at least resell the machine while it still has some value. We estimate that we find about $1 worth of modern coins for every hour spent detecting with a few random really fun items discovered. That was our rate with the $120 model. I&#039;m not sure what the rate of return will be with this new one, but it seems like a moderate risk. Hope that helps anyone else who was on the fence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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