garyfotodiver
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I brought my two steel LP 77 tanks in for their "required" annual inspection to a LDS here in the Chicago area. No names will be used. This was on Sunday, 30 March. It might have been earlier. The owner's son told me they would be ready on Wednesday 2 April.
Guess what?? They are still not done! I did call earlier in the month and was told they were not finished but would be by Monday 14 April. Now this is Thursday 24 April and I just stopped in but they STILL have not been done. The owner and his wife were just sitting around when I walked in. He promised me the tanks would be done tonight.
I am seriously thinking about getting some appropriate labels printed up and doing this work myself.
Last year I wanted two sets of quick releases for my computer console and I ordered them from this LDS. I need two because I transfer the console between two regulator sets. I ordered them more than one month before my dive trip. The LDS didn't even order them from their supplier until one week before my trip. Of course I called that day to come and pick them up. Eventually I received them, but it was after my trip.
And these people want me to buy serious equipment from them? I also doubt whether I will bring my now 11 year-old daughter to them for Jr. OW classroom & closed water instruction.
I really have tried to patronize the local brick & mortar establishments here in the Chicago area but they, by their actions, appear to not want my business.
I'll stick with the two Florida dive shops that DO want my business, as well as several on-line retailers.
Guess what?? They are still not done! I did call earlier in the month and was told they were not finished but would be by Monday 14 April. Now this is Thursday 24 April and I just stopped in but they STILL have not been done. The owner and his wife were just sitting around when I walked in. He promised me the tanks would be done tonight.
I am seriously thinking about getting some appropriate labels printed up and doing this work myself.
Last year I wanted two sets of quick releases for my computer console and I ordered them from this LDS. I need two because I transfer the console between two regulator sets. I ordered them more than one month before my dive trip. The LDS didn't even order them from their supplier until one week before my trip. Of course I called that day to come and pick them up. Eventually I received them, but it was after my trip.
And these people want me to buy serious equipment from them? I also doubt whether I will bring my now 11 year-old daughter to them for Jr. OW classroom & closed water instruction.
I really have tried to patronize the local brick & mortar establishments here in the Chicago area but they, by their actions, appear to not want my business.
I'll stick with the two Florida dive shops that DO want my business, as well as several on-line retailers.
