I'd had my V1 for for several years and earlier this year decided I'd take advantage of thier upgrade program. Since I live just a little north of Cincinnati where they are located I thought I'd take a drive down and pick it up instead of paying $16 shipping. Plus, I was curious to see what the place looked like. Well, if any of you have had visions of grandeur, this will quickly dismiss them. I called ahead of time and they said they would get the order ready for me to come down and pick it up.

Here are some pics from the trip. I only took my point and shoot and it was raining, so forgive the pic quality.

Heading down I75 to Cinci. Get off at Reed-Hartman Hwy


Valentine is on Alliance Rd.


In the BlueAsh Office Center


Can anyone find the Valentine office in this picture??? Hint: its on the left.


There it is.


If not for the small writing on the door, you'd never know it.


You enter to a very small waiting area and behind these doors are where the phone operators sit. The woman in the orange top came out to greet me and in this picture is looking for my order.


I commented to the woman how non-descript the place is. She said, "That's how we like it." Unfortunately Mike Valentine wasn't there to come out and greet me with my new V1.

 

what?? that's all,

I thought you would have to meet one person and then enter a bat-cave to enter an underground lab..............disappointed

 

Yea, I was a little underwhelmed by the experience as well. They'd probably have had me arrested or something if they'd noticed I was taking pics of their lair. Not sure what I was expecting, but certainly at least a little more than this. If I go down and pick up a Escort I'll take some pics of that trip as well and maybe it will be more exciting.

 

Nice... Enjoy the new RD.

 

Well, I think that was March I made that trip. So far so goog though, except for all of the falses...

 

Well, sorry, there won't be any pics from the journey to Escort since I found out that I could just go to Bestbuy 2 minutes away and pick one up, which I did today. We'll see how it goes. I like the different display options that it has. I put it on "speed" and find myself looking there more than at the speedo on my car. My car is known to show speeds a little faster than I'm actually going.

 

exactly why i didnt buy 1. love my escort <3

oh and i thought valentine was located in the "integrated center for healing" lol.

 

Well, I didn't really have many falses until they started installing all of these highway camera thingys.

What does the <3 mean? Less than 3 falses ever?

 

<3 = a side way heart


Thanks for spending time taking the pics, I liked it.
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i was expecting a much bigger place than that, like factory like.

 

Wow, I'm speechless, Utterly F A S I N A T I N G !!

 

Yea, it wasn't exactly all I'd expected and more...

 

RD = FTW...

btw i need a new one...

 

V1 FTW...despite the small facilities.

 

Interesting, you somehow took the exact same pictures that somebody named JAZZY put up one year ago on a radar detector forum.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...-inside-2.html