#1376
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From Aikidiver: The beauty of the scuba uniform system is that it covers all economic levels of students. This is how it works, you develop 4 sets of gear to cover all price ranges.
Then I’m not wearing a "set" in the pool, I’m wearing 1 of 4 potential sets of gear in the pool. What if a student says "I can’t afford the mid range set but I would like a computer?" Do you tell him he has to buy gauges or do you modify your "kit" to just add a computer to his low end set?
You can suggest what you want, and it may work for you, but in my experience you’re going to lose potential students and long term customers if you start trying to force new divers to buy gear.
Many of our divers are only going to be diving once or twice a year on cruise vacations because they don’t like inland diving and aren’t going to buy gear to do it.
If it works for you, great, but suggesting it as a model for all dive shops isn’t realistic and I think the overall responses to your question are supporting that.
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