Minelab GPX 4500 Is Back?

[RONS DETECTORS MINELAB]

I remember the 4500 was reinstated after the 2013 Garrett ATX came out with an amazing price reduction a little over the ATX. 
The Garret Axiom was just reduced in price in Australia so this would be a good market move from Minelab to get a hold on the Axiom sales there and clean out the older 4500 leftover inventories at the same time, two birds 🦅 with one stone.

[phrunt]

Yep, just imagine how easy it is to change the production line from producing a 5000 to a 4500, same PCB, same housing, same everything. different decals, box and firmware.

Stopping production of the 4500/5000 only served the purpose of pushing people into higher priced models.  It's good to see a return regardless of why, good detectors and helping bring pricing down again.

[Steve Herschbach]

7 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Yep, just imagine how easy it is to change the production line from producing a 5000 to a 4500, same PCB, same housing, same everything. different decals, box and firmware.

5000 was discontinued, out of stock almost everywhere now, excepting the counterfeits. I doubt there is an idle production line sitting just waiting to be fired up. It's a very expensive detector to produce so there are better routes to go if they want to compete in the low end market.

[phrunt]

18 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

5000 was discontinued, out of stock almost everywhere now, excepting the counterfeits. I doubt there is an idle production line sitting just waiting to be fired up. It's a very expensive detector to produce so there are better routes to go if they want to compete in the low end market.

I'm not so sure about that.

Still current on their website for Australia/NZ

And the stock levels at Finders Keepers (probably more likely stock levels at Minelab's warehouse than at Finders Keepers I would say judging by the numbers being 983) 

Maybe they found a heap of them in a back room too 🙂

Lucky Strike Gold in Australia also have them, no indication of stock levels but available in stock.  I think some dealers just don't want to stock them as sales were low.  The cheaper 4500 may sell well though.  5000's a bit over priced I think.

[Steve Herschbach]

Instead of finding the few places you can possibly get a GPX 5000 look at all the places where they are out of stock and listed as discontinued.

[phrunt]

1 minute ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Instead of finding the few places you can possibly get a GPX 5000 look at all the places where they are out of stock and listed as discontinued.

I haven't seen any saying discontinued in Australia on their websites, most say out of stock through but keep it listed for some reason and some just don't have it at all on their websites.  I do know when I asked the NZ dealer about it, he said he doesn't stock them now but could order one in for me.  

It's been a weird situation. 983 is a massive stock number though, could be an error.  

There really aren't many dealers left that stock the high end machines according to the ML website, when you go to the where to buy map on their website the numbers now are quite small but there are errors as JP's shop isn't there but he obviously sells them and likely other stores missing as they've been messing with the map lately removing Miners Den, Lost Treasures, Phasetech and others.

The dense red dots on the major cities are mostly big box stores.

Either way, you're very likely right, it probably is discontinued and until stock runs out, they won't directly say that, far more expensive of a detector to make than a 6000 and also a heavier package to ship increasing costs, 6000 killed most demand for it until more recently with modders.

[Steve Herschbach]

Well I’m also not insisting I am right about the GPX 5000, in fact I’d be happy to be wrong. There have been mixed messages, seems like there was an official notice to discontinue, then that got rolled back. If they are still finding GPX 4500 sitting in corners years later it could go in for some time. Makes a person wonder about their inventory control though.

[abenson]

Why doesn't Minelab just quit playing around and put the 4500/5000 guts in a CTX body and sell us something we really want instead of resurrecting the old GPX models.

[Steve Herschbach]

On 2/21/2025 at 11:15 AM, abenson said:

Why doesn't Minelab just quit playing around and put the 4500/5000 guts in a CTX body and sell us something we really want instead of resurrecting the old GPX models.

 

Yup.