Welcome to Golden State Metal Detectors, Foster City, CA Hours: 0900 to 1300
NEVER pay retail or Hidden Shipping Fees !!!!
Competitive Pricing with Expert Guidance and FREE Lessons
NO JUNK Bundling Mail Order Schemes (we have to FACE our Customers)
NO Obligation FREE Demos
See It, Feel It for the RIGHT FIT!
FREE Shipping on Mail Order Sales
NO Wait Local Pick Up with Face to Face Instruction as to Proper Settings
White's, XP, Tesoro, Garrett, Fisher, Teknetics, Bounty Hunter Detectors
Multi-Line Dealers Give You a True Choice!!!!
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Multi-Line Dealers May Give You a True Choice!!!!...
BUT the Passionate Smart Ones TEACH You the Finer Points so you
Know what your Doing, Resulting in Success in Finding Valuables passed up by
Those not Enlightened!
In Association with California's Golden Triangle of Local Expert Dealers
Big Valley Metal Detectors and Valley Metal Detectors (Citris Heights and Modesto) , and Comstock Metal Detectors (Paradise, CA)
We also Recommend for National Sales: WWW.MetalDetector.com and East Coast Sales, Gold Diggers Metal Detectors in Raritan, NJ or reknown author, Andy Sabisch, North Carolina
Confused by that BIG BOX Mail Order Store, Stay Away from the one offering Chinese Garbage and 'Toy' Detectors.
Ask about our 'Enlightenment Package' free with Detector purchase!!!!
NO Confusing Hyped Information and Phoney Claims. Get the Straight Scoop, Quality MADE in the USA Detectors and Accessories.
Don't fall Victim to their BAIT and Switch
Tactics stick to your guns and buy the above mentioned Brands, by US Companies,
NOT from China with Bad Designed Circuits that can't penetrait a bowl of Oat Meal.
Typical Mail Order Deal; Acme Chinese Detector, INFLATED Retail $900.00, on sale for as low as $250.00 Free Shipping.... Good Deal... Right... NOT!!!!
The Truth: Costs them as low as 70.00 per unit, even less so they mark it up like an 80% off sale.
Your going to miss many of the valuables you are looking to find without advanced techniques and information we share with our customers.
The BEST Deal is Dealing Locally to Ensure Maximum Understanding and Making sure you get the BEST Package BEST For YOU
Since 1983, Golden State Metal Detectors is a Cottage Bases business located in Foster City, California and nearly 40 Years of Experience.
We are your West Coast Multi-Line Metal Detector Dealer serving the greater Bay Area with 1000s of Local Customers with an emphasis on
Training OUR Local Paying Customers so you get the most out of your Detector BEST for You!!!!
We carry the following Major Metal Detector Lines:
The 2012 State of Art FULLY Wireless XP-Deus, Version 2 and Upgradable, White's, Garrett, Fisher, Teknetics, Bounty Hunter, and Discovery Metal Detectors and a large supply of preferred accessories from Jimmy Sierra Products, Lesche, Wilcox, Brutus Bags, and Sand Baskets and Scoops.Selection of Pre-Owned Metal Detectors at additional savings! Call 650-574-2012 for additional information or questions. BEST time to call me is between 0900 and 1800 PDT. Hours of Operation 0900 to 1300. Appointment is recommended.
Mission Statement:
"I've tried to set up this Web Site to be straight forward talk and not a Dot.company with a Shopping Cart and offering after the sale, LIMITED or NO ASSISTANCE, a perceived lower 'sale' price scheme fraught with hidden shipping and handling charges (read the fine print) and the risk of receiving a damaged or repacked detector someone else sent back in spite of suffering restocking fees." Most of all, they don't offer the 'Enlightenment Package'. What they do offer are JUNK bundling schemes... that is, take $12.00 worth of Inferior Cheap Accessories and Claim your getting $200.00 + plus with your Detector. OH... it also gives them the opportunity to tack on shipping fees you were not considering so their FREE Shipping on the Detector becomes anything but FREE. One of Big Valley's Customer will no longer deal with one of the large
mail order concerns. When he got his credit card statement, he was charged not once but THREE times, and the accessories received which tacked on almost 60.00 in shipping was junk. He also received his detector THREE Weeks after the order and guess what, the WRONG detector for his needs and our area. Don't get snookered.
THE REAL CRIME is they flood the market with NON-United States Produced and Engineered Metal Detectors that can't penetrate a bowl of Oat Meal. See some of the comments received by my customer page. Most newbies- people are then talked into the WRONG detector, become frustrated and jump out of the hobby. These unfortunates purchased the WRONG detector but would have been better served by their Local Dealer.
Now, just because a Dealer is Local doesn't make him a 5 Star Dealer. Many Dealers lack the level of understanding. Many try to sell out of an Empty Basket. Many Local Dealers are lacking in knowledge and will not put together a competitive Deal. WEST COAST Trapper Larry @ Big Valley in the West EAST COASTERS Ron 'The Situation' DeGhetto of Gold Diggers and the Guru, Master Detectorist Carolina- Andy Sabisch, are among the most Knowlegeable Dealers when it comes to Professionally Engineered and sold Metal Detectors INCLUDING the NON-American Minelab which puts out a competitive high quality product. Andy by the way has authored more Field Tests via Lost Treasure Magazine then the # of years in my Marriage. Andy has published the Most Comprehensive Metal Detecting Book written to the present and is now a FULL Fledge XP-DEUS Dealer. Even if your living in another state, call me for
a Dealer Suggestion.
IF your attracted to the BIG Box Concept Store as I frequently will buy off Amazon on ome of my Computer Stuff, I am proud to recognize www.MetalDetector.com, Michael Bierzwig, owner. Of ALL the Big Box Stores, I have discovered that Michael offers a Straight Forward NO-Nonsense Service and will NOT Repack Open Box Returns and represent them as NEW like some other Big Box Stores do. I have recently gotten to know Mike, introduced to him by Andy Sabisch. Detector Electronics is also my Supplier for the NEW XP-Deus and after meeting Mike, we have a meeting of the minds of what truly Professional Service is with NO games, No Mutiple Charges of your Credit Card, or Telling you they have something in stock when it can take weeks if not months to deliver the product.
Unlike other SO-Called Super Stores, Mike's employees are indeed experienced detector Sales People and will strive to put their customers in the right detector. So, if for some reason, you don't feel like dealing with your Local Dealer or a Local Concern, give Detector Electronics a call and tell them, Greg at Golden State sent you OR Better Yet... Call Golden State or Big Valley. For all Detector Electronic Customers in the SF Bay Area, you are welcome to make an appointment for a hands on lesson, just $50.00. If you purchased your Detector Elsewhere it can cost up to $100.00 for that same lesson.
NOW.... Be careful of the Internet, most of the information is off mark and causes confusion underscored by Mega Super Stores that offer Chinese Junk and Imports that they can enjoy an exclusive on. Overall, looking at the various line ups, I consider White's Electronics Line among the BEST regarding a combination of Effective Features and Price and from their entry level CoinMasters to their Spectrum Series, they deliver very good performance in our MORE Difficult Mineralization, thanks to their Ground Compensation Circuits, yet many of these Mega Mail Order Houses promote NON-White's Metal Detectors and push Chinese Foreign Product assembled in the Far East because they Make MORE Money...... so don't be fooled and switched to CHEAP Designs and Poor Performance.
I have an example of one I took in from Karen who learned her lesson. It is Chinese, sold as the Sand Shark (not to be confused with Tesoro's Sand Shark) and also labeled with other names like Viper etc. It falses on Black Sand and is poorly engineered. I utilize it as part of a demonstration as to what NOT to buy.
One such Infamous Mail Order House CEO boasted over 24 Million in Sales annually but only a small amount was White's Metal Detectors. Shame! They eat off of the plate of Local Professionals but they could care less. Many of their customers end up frustrated and come to us to trade in their 'wrong' detectors or have to pay up to 100.00 for a piece of our professional guidance. I will say thank you to the Dot.com stores and local toy stores which have indirectly brought me customers I can convert to LOYAL local customers.
Professional Local Dealers have a passion and understanding for the hobby and a GREAT local dealer passes on the information to make sure their customers understand or are enlightened to get the most out of the hobby. So Frequently I see the same Detector Mistakes and Identifiable Junk Bundling Packages becoming immediately resold on the internet because of the issues with mail ordering from certain suppliers that promise and Hype everything for the Love of Money and don't respect the Local Dealers, especially the Golden Triangle of Power Dealers in Northern California West Coast to Our East Coast because we point out MEGA Mail Order Houses and their historical Weaknesses and failed results. We HAVE to FACE OUR Customers so we don't Saddle Them with Crap Accessories!!!!
Mail Order Mistakes from CERTAIN Dot.Com Stores: When it comes to being coached on the finer points of tuning optimization and setting your metal detector for your soil conditions your attempt to get answers to your questions are met with 'Gee, I don't know, I think it your detector comes with a manual, better read it again' or 'You need to go out and practice'. About the only thing most know is to ask 'What Credit Card do you want to use?'
Some folks just don't learn..... a Club Member, Ron W. He moved from the area but dropped in the other day and paid me a visit. He had purchased a Teknetics G2 from a dealer down in the south bay. I asked Ron, what did he teach you about the detector. Ron sheepishly responded, 'Not a damn thing' just took enoughi time to hand me the box and I was on my own. Ron's story is par for the course with many of the dot.com companies as I've heard it over and over again. Don't let this happen to you.... deal with Golden State and you'll actually learn from the beginning how to set your detector for the numerous applications and soil conditions. Even if you've been in the hobby a long time, I find that there is still a lot we can teach you during the lesson phase and as technology rolls on, things do change and we're on top of it.
I prefer to earn your business by helping you in person, email or phone. I'm not going to waste space by showing the same old factory pictures of metal detector models or showcase Chinese Made Poor Quality JUNK.
You've come here seeking information so you don't make the wrong choice of metal detector. Let me help you decide and I want to earn your business. If you live in an area supported by a local professional I know, I'll let you know and refer you to him as ultimately you as a consumer are best served dealing face to face with your local professional that is competent and carries a full basket of product.... "
Greg, owner of Golden State Metal Detectors, formally Trans Bay Metal Detectors.
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