Buying New Kit, After Function, What Matters Most?

Cost or Aesthetics?

  • Money saved wins hands down.

    Votes: 6 54.5%
  • Rule 1 always look good is the rule I go by.

    Votes: 5 45.5%

  • Total voters
    11

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So your poll is intended to find out how many other divers do?

I suppose at least some dive gear manufacturers think industrial design is a motivator in their customers' buying decisions. So who am I to second-guess them? The free market knows best.
You think folks in the dive industry know what divers want? Silly wabbit.
 
It could be anything at all, but if you need an example, you need a new wet suit, and these are the ONLY 2 you get the choice of


assume both fit equally well


Agreed budget is important, but lets assume the bodget can stretch to both items.

Like I said, it depends what it is. I just bought a new drysuit. The one in the colour scheme I wanted (black with a green pocket) was £1400. I ended up with the same suit (brand new, ex-display), but with a pink pocket for £700. I hate the colour pink. Had there been more pink on the suit than just the pocket and a small strip on the arm, I wouldn't have gotten it. As it is, I have coloured the pocket with skulls and crossbones to hide some of the pink.
 
Like I said, it depends what it is. I just bought a new drysuit. The one in the colour scheme I wanted (black with a green pocket) was £1400. I ended up with the same suit (brand new, ex-display), but with a pink pocket for £700. I hate the colour pink. Had there been more pink on the suit than just the pocket and a small strip on the arm, I wouldn't have gotten it. As it is, I have coloured the pocket with skulls and crossbones to hide some of the pink.
So had it been pink with a black pocket, you would have paid twice as much for the black with a green pocket? Therefore looks win over money!
 
Truth be told though, had the drysuit been more pink, or was unavailable, I would have most likely ended up with another seaskin, for roughly £700
 
Truth be told though, had the drysuit been more pink, or was unavailable, I would have most likely ended up with another seaskin, for roughly £700
Fair enough!
 
Pink has character - think of it as Neptune's answer to satanic/Hades black :)

Correction: think of it as Neptune's answer to demonic black :)
 
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Pink has character - think of it as Neptune's answer to satanic/Hades black :)

You'll probably laugh when you see my new suit. Because of the pink. But you can't say no to a £700 Santi.
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I'm shocked - it says Demo when it should say Nemo :) Demon does not cut it !!!
 
You think folks in the dive industry know what divers want? Silly wabbit.

Of course they "know"--at least in the long run. You can't continue to offer what divers are not buying and stay in business. You can try to steer divers' beliefs about what they "want," but in the end you are either providing what they want and turning enough profit to stay in business or you're not. If enough divers want crazy "aesthetic" stuff like booties that resemble Chuck Taylor All-Stars, we will see them. I don't understand it, but then if I understood what people want I would be rich.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/

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