M8 & M15 Coils Price And Availability?

[Shelton]

1 minute ago, midalake said:

Gosh? How long before Deus come out with their extra coils for the D2? ?

Yes, the same situation as with the Go Terrain app...

[Steve Herschbach]

10 minutes ago, midalake said:

Gosh? How long before Deus come out with their extra coils for the D2? ?

I’ve had both the 11” and 9” on mine, and could get the 13” right now if I wanted one. But I’m not saying I’m a huge Deus fan nor a fan of their limited overpriced proprietary coil selection either. I’ve bitched endlessly about the wireless overkill - give me cheaper wired coils any day. It’s just I’ve already got one, and Minelab seems determined to push me to be satisfied with that. I’d love instead to be a thrilled Minelab cheerleader, but it ain’t happening right now.

[Jeff McClendon]

10 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I’ve had both the 11” and 9” on mine, and could get the 13” right now if I wanted one. But I’m not saying I’m a huge Deus fan nor a fan of their limited overpriced proprietary coil selection either. I’ve bitched endlessly about the wireless overkill. It’s just I’ve already got one, and Minelab seems determined to push me to be satisfied with that. I’d love instead to be a thrilled Minelab cheerleader, but it ain’t happening right now.

Oh wow, I hate to have to say this (being a big Minelab fan) but, there is the Nokta Legend with many coil choices, works with Nox 800 compatible Bluetooth devices and its price is ridiculous and most of all great support and communication.

[Dug D]

I'm following along with the exact same thoughts as the rest of you. 

If the weather turns nice where I am before I see my Manticore, I'm not sure what I will do. 

[phrunt]

I'm impatiently waiting, it's a slow process that is for sure.  The next detector Minelab release they should keep their trap shut until it's almost ready to release and hold off releasing it until they're actually ready, coils ready to go, detector ready to go and plenty of stock availability and they'll find they have a much smoother release with happy customers rather than upset ones.   I'm aware some of the suggestions we as end users give would just not be suitable for them or make business sense in their situation but their current methods are just not working so management really need to try take another approach.  They're upsetting far too many potential customers and in turn encouraging them to buy other brands.

I expected a wait for the coils, but seeing them pump out other model detectors is a bit irritating especially when the Manticore was highly anticipated and marketed for some time before release and it's right up there as a flagship, the other models were sprung on us with no notice but still seem to have the stock available issues too.  At least coils are available for the Nox 900 by using the older model coils.

I'm really liking my Manticore, a bit disappointed at the start it was a step backwards in Target ID stability especially when marketing says its got more stable ID but I've calmed that down lowering sensitivity, still not as good as I hoped but not too bad now, it may improve with the 15x12" coil as I am talking about stability on deeper targets.  I can't wait to get the 15x12" and 8.5x5" coils, they're the coils I'll use not the 11", I rarely used my Nox 11", same with my CTX, 11" is just a size I don't need, I only want small and big ?

Chase is right though, if Minelab collaborated with Coiltek in the background and Coiltek had coils available for the Manticore at release it would cause a flurry of buyers by having more options, one thing Minelab can have over XP and their Deus 2 is coils, coils that are not going to be available for the XP can easily be available for the Manticore such as small coils, yet they just don't seem to want to take advantage of this as much as they should. 

[UT Dave]

It seems the bulk of Manticore's have been shipped to big box retail stores.

I wonder, how many of the people buying them from those places, care about the additional coils?  Maybe very few.  Maybe, there's just very few of us, period, in the grand scheme of things that even care about the coils.

Who knows what Minelab's plans are.  The entire rollout of the Manticore definitely leaves a bad taste though.  I'm more open than ever to competitor offerings going forward.  

- Dave

[Steve Herschbach]

On 3/21/2023 at 3:45 PM, UT Dave said:

I wonder, how many of the people buying them from those places, care about the additional coils?  Maybe very few.  Maybe, there's just very few of us, period, in the grand scheme of things that even care about the coils.

It’s a self fulfilling thing. Any salesperson will tell you the time to sell accessories is right when the customer has made the buying decision. “Would you like an accessory coil sir? It will help you have better success with your new detector. And how about a spare lower rod - just in case? Plus it will make swapping that spare coil out much easier.” And so it goes. By not having accessories available when people are buying the detector, they are missing sales. Once the excitement wears off, or the machine turns out not to be all the new buyer was hoping, the desire for the spare coils wears off also. It’s just Sales 101 and bad business to be leaving dollars on the table by not having all the ducks in a row when they need to be. The fact companies like Coiltek and Nugget Finder exist proves that entire businesses can be supported with the coil sales that Minelab misses with their inability to figure out how to do coils right.

[UT Dave]

^^^ Agree 100%.  Bad for us, bad for them.  And no commnication.  Leaves one to wonder just what are they thinking.

- Dave

[longbow62]

I don't understand the hold up, but I've been doing great with the 11" coil. 14-17 silvers for the year this weekend. All with the Manticore so far. I'm wanting that small coil bad though. I've got some places I really need it.