The Titan LX is a decent reg. It doesn't breath as well as the Atomic at depth, but it works.
That's not really comparing Apples to Apples. Most Atomics cost 2 to 3 times as much as a AL Titan LX
As far as Cressi goes, I try not to touch anything of Italian in origin that is important to my health. I own Italian motorcycles, but that's about as far as I'd trust Italian quality control.
The computer isn't make by Cressi. It's made by Seiko. Just OEM'd.
Seiko makes the same computer for Dive Rite, Tusa, Cressi and Zeagle. I doubt it even touched land in Italy on it's way from Tawain or where ever it was made on it's way to the US.
Suunto makes solid dive comps but they use conservative algorithm. What this means is that if you were to dive with a buddy using a different computer, your dive comp may direct you to surface a lot sooner than his would. I.
I've seen this first hand when diving with someone with a Suunto. They ran out of NDL way before I did.
all the manufcatures would have to do is spot purchase their products from LP and trace the source through serial numbers if they truly did not already know the facts.
I think a couple of manufacturers have done this... others claim to have done it but clearly didn't make a dent in what LP was selling of their brand. Others chose to quit fighting LP and make them a dealer.
For the ones that claim to have tried that, sometimes these are the same manufacturers that are direct/indirect shipping to them anyway and is claim is just more kool-aid they are trying to sell competing LDS's.
In the end, the manufacturers really don't want to loose the sales volume to LP because if they cut them off, then most likely the LP customer will choose a competing brand and the original manufacturer looses out.
in this bad economy where the dive industry is suffering, having layoffs, having reduced orders, etc... I can't see any dive manufacturer wanting to cut product distribution to any 'seller', whether it's LP or other.
LeisurePro is an authorized dealer for many of the items in their inventory, but not all. I believe that they had recently become an authorized dealer for Sherwood.
I have a feeling that LP becoming a recent Sherwood dealer is partly because Sherwood got tired of other dealers complaining about having to compete with them and offer price match on products.
I wonder if it was the same large online Zeagle dealer that talked Zeagle into making LP an authorized Zeagle dealer so they didn't have to compete. (they sell Sherwood also.)
In the end, this resulted in huge price increases of Zeagle products on the LP website and now that other mentioned dealer no longer had to compete with price match...
I just wonder if the same people are pulling the strings here....
