Yes, good suggestion, there are lots of good tips on YouTube. Lots of bad ones, too. Follow only the good ones.Pick up the rest of the tips on YouTube
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Yes, good suggestion, there are lots of good tips on YouTube. Lots of bad ones, too. Follow only the good ones.Pick up the rest of the tips on YouTube
and that applies to what percentage of divers?Agree. Unless most of your dives are rarely deeper than 30 feet, in which case why risk flooding the expensive thing.
I don't know, but I'm one and I've run into several others. Maybe we should do a poll--wait, polls on SB tend to be skewed, so they say.and that applies to what percentage of divers?
How can you tell good from bad when you don’t know good from bad?Yes, good suggestion, there are lots of good tips on YouTube. Lots of bad ones, too. Follow only the good ones.
The purpose of Groupon is to lure customers in with low prices, impress them with the quality of your service, and make up for the low cost introduction through continued sales. Any business that advertises through Groupon and and provides poor service that will repel the people who use it is run by idiots. They do exist, though.Back to the original topic of this thread, you get what you pay for. A while back there was a Chicago area shop that was running a Groupon for OW for $250. That’s about half of what I paid for OW. A former north shore Chicago area dive shop owner (Jack of Frog Pond) referred to it as “predatory pricing” in a post a few years back.
Do you really think you’re going to get decent instruction for probably half of the cost of the probable average in the area?
But shops who require OW students to buy mask, fins, snorkel, and possibly gloves have enough profit margin to run people through. Stick 'em on their knees, tell them how great they are and after that they dive on vacation. They are like baby turtles hatching. Few survive to become adults/lifetime divers. That profit margin from those sales are key to the dive shop's survival. Most people look at price. How often do we see on social media "where's the cheapest place to get certified?" as they think all instructors/shops are the same. I mean, what is the difference of certification from Slick Eddy vs Proper Training, Inc., as Eddy is a good talker and convinces people that "ah, I teach you the same things as PTI"?The purpose of Groupon is to lure customers in with low prices, impress them with the quality of your service, and make up for the low cost introduction through continued sales. Any business that advertises through Groupon and and provides poor service that will repel the people who use it is run by idiots. They do exist, though.
But shops who require OW students to buy mask, fins, snorkel, and possibly gloves have enough profit margin to run people through. Stick 'em on their knees, tell them how great they are and after that they dive on vacation. They are like baby turtles hatching. Few survive to become adults/lifetime divers. That profit margin from those sales are key to the dive shop's survival. Most people look at price. How often do we see on social media "where's the cheapest place to get certified?" as they think all instructors/shops are the same. I mean, what is the difference of certification from Slick Eddy vs Proper Training, Inc., as Eddy is a good talker and convinces people that "ah, I teach you the same things as PTI"?
Back to the original topic of this thread, you get what you pay for. A while back there was a Chicago area shop that was running a Groupon for OW for $250. That’s about half of what I paid for OW. A former north shore Chicago area dive shop owner (Jack of Frog Pond) referred to it as “predatory pricing” in a post a few years back.
Do you really think you’re going to get decent instruction for probably half of the cost of the probable average in the area?