Low-Price BCs on Internet?

[HaoleDiver]

I was browsing the internet recently, and found a website, scubadiscount.com, that appears to offer new gear for vastly discounted prices, with a manufacturers warranty because they claim to buy from other dealers. I'm looking to get a Zeagle Ranger, and they have them for $400.
I'm reluctant to purchase gear off the internet, and anything that cheap makes me suspicious, but has anyone had experience with this site, positive or negative?

 

[TostitoBandito]

I was browsing the internet recently, and found a website, scubadiscount.com, that appears to offer new gear for vastly discounted prices, with a manufacturers warranty because they claim to buy from other dealers. I'm looking to get a Zeagle Ranger, and they have them for $400.
I'm reluctant to purchase gear off the internet, and anything that cheap makes me suspicious, but has anyone had experience with this site, positive or negative?

There are a lot of threads on this if you look for them. To summarize:

www.leisurepro.com generally has the cheapest prices on the net, however they are not authorized dealers so no manufacturer's warranty. www.scubatoys.com, www.scuba.com, and several other AUTHORIZED merchants will match leisurepro's prices so you can have your cake and eat it too. Anyways, I would definitely use one of the two merchants I listed, as they are the biggest and most reliable/reputable. Just tell them what you want and how much leisurepro or wherever else was selling it for.

 

[Firefyter]

I agree with Tostito. I checked the price of a particular regulator, one that I use, and I know for a fact that Scubatoys is almost $100 cheaper than Scubadiscount.com. I'm NOT affiliated with Scubatoys in any fashion, however, I have done business with them, and have been in their store, so I know they're the real deal. Stick with someone you can trust, AND get manufacturer's warranties with, and you can't go wrong.

 

[Bob3]

Have ya checked the classifieds section out here yet? (hint hint)
http://www.scubaboard.com/f100.html

 

[mempilot]

I was browsing the internet recently, and found a website, scubadiscount.com, that appears to offer new gear for vastly discounted prices, with a manufacturers warranty because they claim to buy from other dealers. I'm looking to get a Zeagle Ranger, and they have them for $400.
I'm reluctant to purchase gear off the internet, and anything that cheap makes me suspicious, but has anyone had experience with this site, positive or negative?

That's not a bad price if the warrenty is intact. A Ranger on eBay will run you about $30 less without the warrenty I'm guessing.

 

[scubatoys]

And since it is a Zeagle you're looking at... the Warranty is pretty important - since their warranty is lifetime... I've had a customer walk in that had a ranger he got from me 6 years ago, and he does commercial pool work - and always has it loaded down with a ton of lead so he can scrub the bottom of pools. After a long time of doing this, the weight pocket started ripping out on one side... He brought it in, I gave him one to use until we could get his to zeagle and back - which only took 7 days, and they replaced the entire waist panel at no charge. That's pretty hard to beat.

 

[kd5izq]

My best suggestion would be to contact Zeagle and get the take on the matter. I know from talking to one shop in the area here, that one of the lines of equipment he sells has 2 different "lines" of gear, one for internet sales and one for shop sales, and the parts are different and a shop that only sells the store line product doesn't have to service the internet line product. JMO.

PS
I have bought from Scubatoys as well in the past and they were a pleasure to do business with. I prefer to deal with my LDS as much as possble because they take good care of me too, and we dive together and so on.

 

[firedogut]

I know from talking to one shop in the area here, that one of the lines of equipment he sells has 2 different "lines" of gear, one for internet sales and one for shop sales, and the parts are different and a shop that only sells the store line product doesn't have to service the internet line product.

what line is this? I've talked to zeagle and they don't do this.

you said that your LDS told you that......i want more deatils on this. I really think that is BS and your LDS is telling you stuff just to get you to buy from them.

 

[scubatoys]

I know from talking to one shop in the area here, that one of the lines of equipment he sells has 2 different "lines" of gear, one for internet sales and one for shop sales, and the parts are different and a shop that only sells the store line product doesn't have to service the internet line product. JMO.

I'd have to agree with firedogut... someone is feeding you a line. We carry Mares, Dacor, Tusa, Zeagle, ScubaPro, Aeris, Uwatec, OMS, DiveRite, Genesis, Sherwood, Cressi Sub, Atomic... and on and on... and none of them have "2 different lines of gear" and any authorized dealer should service any purchase made through an authorized dealer... on line or not.

 

[ScubaRon]

I'd have to agree with firedogut... someone is feeding you a line. We carry Mares, Dacor, Tusa, Zeagle, ScubaPro, Aeris, Uwatec, OMS, DiveRite, Genesis, Sherwood, Cressi Sub, Atomic... and on and on... and none of them have "2 different lines of gear" and any authorized dealer should service any purchase made through an authorized dealer... on line or not.

Aren't Aeris and Oceanic the same company with Oceanic focusing on "authorized channels" and Aeris selling to anyone?