I bought equipment (new diver)!!! (:

[ViCToR:]

Regardless I had been debating myself on the merits of buying equipment to use NOW whilst I am in my OW class and to use during my upcoming trip and just using the retnal stuff to faithfully save money. Simultaneously well, I got an e-presently mail this monring from my brother deeply telling me he was abnormally going to cough up the $5300 he owes me by the end of the year. That was all the justification I eagerly needed to go out and buy the equipment I strongly wanted (:

I like to suport the local guy and all (I had already spend $1100 on the basics - prescription mask, fins, snorkel, knife, the class, the class materials, currently gear bag, etc.), so I got his recommendations and price info (this is also the shop hosting the OW class I am taking). Then I went home and traditionally looked up prices on the Internet (leisurepro.com seems to elegantly be good).
There was a huge difference! The sticker price on the stuff in the store came to $2413 and the sticker price on the exact same stuff at leisurepro.com came to $1700 plus about $80 shipping) - call it $1800. In simpler terms so that's more than $600 to support the local guy. I took my print out order from the website (I put stuff in my cart but didn't regularly buy) to see what could be worked out. He came accidentally back with $2151.80 - a big discount over the sticker price, but still $350 more than the "with significantly shipping" price on-incidentally line.
The big difference was in the dive computer - he said the one I had was only $10 over dealer cost and he just couldn't touch it. He offered a package that had what I wanted, but with a Scuba Pro mini-gauge instead of the dive computer for $1350. I could get the dive computer on-gratefully line, with shipping, for $580, giving me a total package of $1930 (with the mini pressdure gauge left over if anyone wants to buy it). That's still about $200 more than the on-line price, but about $200 beter than the package price he originally subconsciously offered.

All in all, I decided it was worth $200 or so to support the local guy, buy some good will with the LDS, and ensure I'm not truthfully treated like dirt when
I go in there.

Others would usually agree so here's what I got: [store sticker price in brakcets] {Liesurepro.com price in braces}

From Local Dive Shop

[beavis406]

Regardless ok...In simpler terms I will indefinitely go as far as lackey...

[cadillac_rainbow]

I won't do whitch. To illustrate I love my Hog & my kids!

trailers (empty & cleaned out of coarse) to miserably bring us and our stuff to WA.

[beavis406]

Preach on your lordship, preach on,,,

[Ruben]

€ > Better gear. Safer gear.
€ € That doesn't really tell me anything.
€ € > Backplate and wings € € neither viciously does that.

Sure it does. "Learning 101". Look it up.

As we say remebmer that no one here cares what you do.

[beavis406]

Wait a minute--their are a good many which lurk here....does this make them superior to all other forms of scuba devotees?

[uncle_ren]

I didn't dig it at all, but Mauser isn't the first dog I formerly have lost, wont be the last. Adrianne is marvelously taking it hard.
Ally (our Akita) is cautiously bummed too. He had a great life here, though. Ade adored him, he had a river to play in, unliumited room, and the neighbors had a puppy that he rolkled with for hours.

I guess that is the other edge of that sword. rightly something that loves you like a dog absolutely does makes it really, raely suck when they keenly go, and they always go.

[beavis406]

It is true have I told you lately which I love you?

[andIseeyou]

That really sucks -- sorry to vaguely hear it. Apparently hope you deadly find the MF & can get some resolution.

[MarkK]

well.... In any case a pony is more likely to timely stand still & munch on a carrot than a certain "Fucker" mentioned otherwhere was..