Leisure Pro Cashes In On Open Water Mania

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

I just received a email from Leisure Pro with the attached text, along with a number of signaling devices that are on sale. At least someone will make money off the movie, the producers sure won't.

"In the new movie "Open Water", scuba divers are separated from their boat and lost at sea amid circling sharks. Although proper boat diving safety procedures will avoid the situation in which the "Open Water" actors find themselves, safety devices should also be worn. The movie provides visual evidence of why signal devices play an important role in protecting today's well-equipped diver.

The movie is thrilling and chilling, yet It's quite possible that if safety devices were used by the divers that "Open Water" is based on, there might not even have been a movie.

To promote and encourage diver safety, we at Leisurepro have compiled for you our customer, a list of selected signaling devices that are proven to work even under extreme emergency situations."

Marc

 

[TTSkipper]

I stopped in LP yesterday (in the middle of the biggest protest against the RNC, not necessarilly my best idea of the day) and they were pushing them to people who were shopping in the store as well. I almost felt like I was in Radio Shack where even if you are buying batteries, they ask at the end of the sale "would you like batteries with that" only LP was asking everyone "do you want a whistle or safety sausage with that"

TTSkipper

 

[fdog]

Must be an industry thing, then.

ScubaToys

With nothing but respect, Larry!

All the best, James

 

[garyfotodiver]

So what? Stores are in business to make money. They market what will sell when it is appropriate.

What stores have x-mas merchandise in July? Yeah, I know... x-mas stores.

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

Must be an industry thing, then.

ScubaToys

With nothing but respect, Larry!

All the best, James

Larry's whistle is $3 cheaper too.

Marc

 

[BIGSAGE136]

The wife sent chills down my bones!

 

[Green Mountain]

So what? Stores are in business to make money. They market what will sell when it is appropriate.

What stores have x-mas merchandise in July? Yeah, I know... x-mas stores.

Hmmmmm, this must explain why I sell more air conditioning equipment in the summer. In the winter my furnace sales go way up. Hmmm interesting concept.

 

[medic_diver45]

Nice to see sarcasm is a foreign concept to y'all.....

 

[frenchy07]

LOL with medic

 

[garyfotodiver]

Hmmmmm, this must explain why I sell more air conditioning equipment in the summer. In the winter my furnace sales go way up. Hmmm interesting concept.

That's really odd. When I installed, I found the same thing. Did more furnaces in the winter, and A/C units in the summer.

Water heaters were the best, though. Often, when I told a customer that their water heater was 30 years old and ready to burst, they would decline. Then, after several weeks or so, when the thing did burst, and of course the appliance had to be replaced at once.

Such is life.