#4553
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I feel when you get started. Everyone at the dive shop wants to sell you something. After you buy most of your equiptment and need service, you can’t get anyone to help you!
Most of the diver’s I’ve talked to feel this way and there is always something new or better that just came out. Also when your new, they get rid of anything they can’t sell to an experienced diver. One example is when I started doing night dives, I was told that a certain light was the best for the money. When it failed on me after my secound dive the OWNER of the shop told me it was only meant to be used as a backup light and couldn’t be on as much as I was using it, and that is why it failed..........after some more quesioning other diver’s and not the dive shop. I was able to know enough about lights, that I was able to get what I was wanting.
Diving gear is way too expensive to buy it by trial and error..........I just took my regulator & dive computer in for service, I asked for a ball park figure on cost. I was told that it wold cost no more than $150,by the store manager, unless they had to fix something that they normally don’t. When I picked it up it cost $200 and that was for normal service????
This is a few of the things that dive shops lose their loyal customers over!!!!
Dudley
Scubaman
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