714 Dollars Mask

[Nemrod]

Over 700 dollars for a NIB classic oval mask on ebay. Perhaps it is time for the manufactuers to re-evaluate some of the items they make.

My favorite and at least it did not run 714 dollars. The box had 4.98 on it if I recall, made in France. Sold in the USA by Healthways (who semi sorta evolved into ScubaPro)

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[skresch]

Outstanding

 

[Nemrod]

Oh, to be sure, it was not I, Nemrod, who paid 714 dollars for that beautiful mask, $4.98 is more my speed.

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[David Wilson]

> Perhaps it is time for the manufactuers to re-evaluate some of the items they make. <

I agree!

There are several diving equipment companies still making masks with blue rubber skirts at a reasonable price, e.g. Majorca Sub of Greece and Escualo Sports of Mexico, although they no longer seem to come with the traditional stainless steel frame and screw:



Sadly, small companies like these have no international distribution systems like the big players do, so it's impossible to get hold of masks such as these outside their country of origin.

 

[Wayward Son]

If they can sell them on the web, they can sell them anywhere.

 

[David Wilson]

>If they can sell them on the web, they can sell them anywhere.<

True, but neither of these companies seems interested in selling them anywhere other than their own country. Emails to the manufacturers and their local distributors ordering equipment go unanswered, even when, in the case of the Mexican gear, they are written in Spanish. The same is true of Japanese diving equipment manufacturers and retailers, but at least in their case there are specialist companies in Japan that will make purchases on behalf of western clients.

 

[Eris Lucan7*]

I have a old Nemrod-Metzeler o-glass Mask from the 70s what woud it bring?!


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[ex outlaw]

Vintage Scuba - Sea Dive Mask - (eBay item 270171373977 end time Oct-06-07 10:14:31 PDT)

This one went for $886.66. so much for modern science.

 

[jim T.]

I'm just guessing, but being a collector of vintage toys, etc. in the past, having the original box in great shape VASTLY increases the value of an item. I don't know if all of the masks shown/discussed here have the original packaging. For example, I've seen some tin robot toys without a box go for $200 but the same toy with a mint condition box go for ten times that amount! Maybe that's what's going on?

 

[Coelacanth]

Just can't get over how hardcore the man on the box in the last picture is; I mean, he's shot the damn marlin with no apparent weapon, and has now gone to grab it with nothing more than his mask and candy cane snorkel, meanwhile all he's wearing is a near-man thong! This dude don't need no exposure protection.

Truly, he is wearing the mask of the Gods.