Trade policy for Navionics charts purchased on the website x - traverse.com has - again - been reviewed in recent weeks, at the same time as the 'My Account' page has changed. These changes are unfortunately not all positive.
The renewal of the charts purchased was proposed for two years at a price of half of the initial purchase price, what had seemed a reasonable offer. This offer is gone for mobile media, and is maintained only for MacENC and applications for PC. This means that users who want to keep their charts updated beyond the first year must renew their chart folder at the initial purchase price. I find this totally counterproductive, as this will encourage many users of this excellent mapping not to renew their files and use them in the State for several years.
[Update 25/08/2014] Changes in the site X-Traverse
New page «» My Charts & Maps. "
It is now confirmed, in the page My Charts & Maps in your personal account (formerly "My Account"), for each chart folder bought a button Renew Now proposes to renew the licence of the current maps folder to be able to continue to perform updates for another year. The offer of 2012/2013 who proposed this renewal half price has disappeared, except for Mac and PC (150 $ instead of 300 $). But for how long again ?
For each map folder, a line indicates if you have enabled the folder on one or two devices, another line indicates the number of days remaining authorizing updates the folder maps.
But that's not all, alas !
Navionics prices continually increasing
Prices for some region (¹) still come to increase : 15% at 80$ for the 46XG, region 50XG launched at 50$ is today 80$. At this rate, Navionics has aligned its tariffs in 2018 on those charts for Mac/PC and chartplotters !
Some prices have practically doubled in 4 years ago !
I admit that if I had previously struggled to understand the evolution of the commercial policy of Navionics, now I denounces as their sales volume does nothing justify these increases in price for mobile. It is urgent that new players come compete this hegemony of an editor that seems to disregard its customers, while playing the card of the community sharing allowing to enrich its data for cheap.
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(¹) The price for iPhone have joined those of the iPad in 2010. Prices for MacENC have not changed.
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Navigating now with my iPad and Navionics since 1 year, I bought the cards, to x-traverse. I have 2 iPad , (one if something goes wrong) and until now content to be able to navigate with either one or the other. But recently the maps have disappeared on the 2nd iPad ? And Navionics asks me to redeem them via X-Traverse. I thought that we had the ability to recharge for free paid cards ? And especially how to explain the disappearance (very disturbing) maps on the iPad ?
Thank you
Dr. Braun
I explained in this post the management of cards with X-Traverse. After a year you can no longer update your maps. But they remain Ad vitam in your iPad UNLESS you accidentally pressed "Update map list" and validated without taking the time to read the alert message : « Attention : These cards will be deleted. New maps will need to be downloaded ».
Hello,
I just invest in inavx on ipad and am very satisfied. I also bought cards in x-Traverse. Seeing the table on the evolution of prices, I have questions on future updates.
Have information if the editor of Inavx will let you purchase otherwise subject to a more reasonable price inflation.
Cordially
Jean-Christophe
No, nothing to wait on this side there.