English vs American Equipment

[Jocasse Whale]

Looking on the internet, I have come across several websites that sale gear for European only. I have only been diving for three years(51 dives) so I have no idea what the difference is? So what is the difference?
Also I buy my gear at Bermuda Triangle in Greenville and wonder about buying on line?

Jocasse Whale

 

[Captain Walt]

Allot of Divers will have conflicting advice. This is not advice.......Buying gear online may be cheaper on the front end but going through your LDS builds a relationship. And I can't tell you how many divers have been on my boat and lost a dive. When I asked (just my experience) where did you get your gear and every time the reply is online. Going back to the relationship you cant beat the cheers affect "Hay Norm!" The dive community is not that big as it is most of us know each other where I'm from and...I dive...."allot"...I do not own a dive shop, but I do own a dive charter. So I see allot of different gear. You can get the same gear online but who did you get it from? Sure you know. Just say'n I wouldn't buy on line, but thats just me.... just put'n my thoughts in the ring.

Right, well welcome to the board from Savannah Ga. Diver.

 

[cdiver2]

Looking on the internet, I have come across several websites that sale gear for European only. I have only been diving for three years(51 dives) so I have no idea what the difference is? So what is the difference?
Also I buy my gear at Bermuda Triangle in Greenville and wonder about buying on line?

Jocasse Whale

England just like the US there is good and not so good equipment. However I would be carefull on the tanks, when I lived in the UK (27 years ago) the the testing was different.

Buying on line, I have for a number of years with no problems.

 

[Bob Vincent]

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Captain Walt has a very good point ... I rather buy from a LDS than on the net. But I want them to come somewhere close to the pricing. I tell them straight up ... I can buy that for $xxx what can you do for me ...

When something doesn't work right are just plain doesn't work at all it's nice to go into a LDS and yell help! But try that with a net item that you need help with and walk into a LDS then it's like where did you buy that? Oh, really well we really can't help you with that. Just give them a call. They sold it to you!

Equipment that is offered outside the US sometimes doesn't have the warrenty that the stuff sold for the US has. Called Gray Market. Which you can buy at as discounted rate but can't be fixed here under the warrenty.

 

[vladimir]

I buy my gear at Bermuda Triangle in Greenville and wonder about buying on line?

This thread will probably unfold the way countless others before it have. People will counsel you to buy at a local dive shop, with dire warnings of equipment failures and shoddy or counterfeit equipment if you don't. Their warnings have only a tenuous basis in fact, much of which is in the ancient history of the mail-order scuba business. They will overwhelmingly have a vested interest in the dive industry in some capacity. They are shop owners, divemasters, charter-boat operators, and lonely people who hang out at their local dive shop.

Other people will tell you to buy at ScubaToys, Leisurepro, Deep Sea Supply, Divesports, DiveRiteExpress, etc. They are satisfied buyers of scuba gear.

Good luck.