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I really wanted to love this thing. I liked the fact that it had a display, that it would sync with a program on my Windows laptop, and that it would run for a year on watch batteries. I purchased it in April, and it was awesome for about a month, at which time it went dead. O.K., I thought. Not exactly the year that I had hoped for, but maybe the batteries were already run down at the time I bought it. So I decided to replace the batteries and see what happened. Here's the first problem. The CR 1632 batteries are very hard to find. I didn't find them at the grocery store, the drug store, the hardware store, . . . I finally called Radio Shack, and they had them, so I got in the car, bought two batteries at Radio Shack for about $10, and that fixed my problem -- for about another month, at which point the thing went dead again! Now I realize I'm going to be replacing batteries a lot more frequently than once a year, so I find a source on the Internet for some cheap batteries and buy 10 of them. Problem is, they don't work at all. A friend is an electrical engineer, so I had him test the batteries and it turns out they weren't quite putting out 3 volts. I decide maybe the reason they were so cheap is that they've been sitting around for a while. So I order two more Duracell CR 1632 batteries on-line. They came today, I put them in, and the Garmin Vivofit is still dead. So I spent $129 for the Vivofit and around $30.00 on replacement batteries to get about two month’s use out of my Vivofit 2. I am past the point where Amazon will take it back, so I am going to have to try to get the money or a replacement from Garmin. Very frustrating.