My LDS just keeps getting crazier!

[TheRedHead]

I have a question for anyone: If I take a reg to be serviced, then can the dive shop trace it? For example, say I buy a reg from LP, and then after some use I take it to a dive shop for service.

The dive shop serviced my Mares POS Axis and put the service sleeve on it. I don't think they made any attempt to "trace" it. I actually got it from Leisure Pro and it free-flowed the first time I used it. I paid to have it serviced by someone I trusted since at that point I didn't trust LP.

 

[TheRedHead]

What the heck are service tags on the gear? I've never seen nor heard of such a thing before.

They say SSI on them, Stu. It might have something to do with SSI?

 

[TheRedHead]

Besides the issue of "free" parts if other criteria are met, or perhaps a discount if purchased from from their shop, what difference does it make who the customer purchased the gear from??

C'mon, awap, dive shops make their profit selling gear! Let's not pretend to be totally clueless here...

 

[captain]

Now is that any way for an (ex)LDS owner to talk? You might make folks question their trust in their LDS.

May the good ones survive.

Believe me the business was quite different in the 60's and 70's. I didn't offer instruction. I sent my customers to the YMCA which was about the only game in town at that time. Never asked to see a cert for air or gear. Also SOP for the time.

 

[cerich]

The dive shop serviced my Mares POS Axis and put the service sleeve on it. I don't think they made any attempt to "trace" it. I actually got it from Leisure Pro and it free-flowed the first time I used it. I paid to have it serviced by someone I trusted since at that point I didn't trust LP.

LP is an authorized Mares dealer.

Your Axis most likely has one or all of these issues.


The oriface/lp seat wasn't that great then, they now have a retrofit kit
The 2nd stage poppets springs were not very well QA'ed, they now QA all the springs.

Unless these are addressed your Axis will always be a PITA within a few dives of servicing.

 

[Wayward Son]

Maybe. I've never seen gear tagged in any way. Both LDS's nearest me sell & service Aqualung as well as other brands, neither use any sort of tags.

I happen to have an SSI OW card, but it's a replacement for my old NASDS card. SSI absorbed them a long time ago, so they issue replacements. I've not been in an SSI shop, so maybe it has something to do with them. Not anywhere else I've been.

 

[redacted]

C'mon, awap, dive shops make their profit selling gear! Let's not pretend to be totally clueless here...

Dive shops who make their profit by selling gear to uninformed customers at uncompetative prices need to be replaced by a good LDS. So who is clueless?

 

[TheRedHead]

LP is an authorized Mares dealer.

Your Axis most likely has one or all of these issues.


The oriface/lp seat wasn't that great then, they now have a retrofit kit
The 2nd stage poppets springs were not very well QA'ed, they now QA all the springs.

Unless these are addressed your Axis will always be a PITA within a few dives of servicing.

I don't dive it any longer (bought a Zeagle and an Apeks), and haven't even tried to sell it on ebay, although they apparently fixed it as it didn't happen after service. My LDS would have never sold such a regulator. The point being is that my particular LDS (the subject of this thread) makes no attempt as far as I know to trace anything if brought in for paid service.

 

[TheRedHead]

Dive shops who make their profit by selling gear to uninformed customers at uncompetative prices need to be replaced by a good LDS. So who is clueless?

I think an uncertified diver buying a poodle-jacket integrated Cressi BC on the net - at whatever price - is the most uninformed gear purchase I've read about recently. You don't have to buy anything to take your OW certification class. I certainly didn't.

 

[*Floater*]

The point being is that my particular LDS (the subject of this thread) makes no attempt as far as I know to trace anything if brought in for paid service.

Could they trace it though? Or can a typical dive shop employee or owner type the serial of a reg into some database and see who originally bought it and registered it, from where it was bought and when?