Quote Originally Posted by Wahine View Post
One word of warning about the Polar, if the battery in the transceiver (the chest strap) dies, you have to buy a new one (the last one I bought was $75) and if you need to replace the battery on the watch, it has to be sent to Polar to be done. Polar will not honor their warranty if you do it yourself. This is related to maintaining the waterproof nature of the unit.
Ha, ha Wahine. They can't even do it properly themselves.

I gave both our polars for a battery change. DBF's came back no longer waterproof!! So another trip to the sport store; then Polar calls up my DBF to tell him they want him to pay another 50 bucks for a new watch casing, upon which he said the standard favorite "I'll only talk to your supervisor" and they ended up having to provide a new casing for free.

Apparently they had the monopoly on HRM's so long they are really arrogant.