rstofer
Contributor
If the cost of not getting 'free parts for life' after servicing your equipment each and every year whether you are diving or not is a deal-breaker, buy from the LDS. Many people do. But think about it... What if you take a couple years off? Are you going to keep that service up to date? Are you really going to take a regulator with absolutely NO dives in for service when you have no intention of making any dives in the foreseeable future?
Those 'free parts for life' are pretty expensive when the initial product costs a couple of hundred dollars more at the LDS and incurs labor charges each and every year.
If you can buy from an authorized SP dealer for the same price you get at LP, that dealer is about to lose their franchise. The manufacturers set the price, end of story. Violate the manufacturer's pricing policy and you won't be an authorized dealer very long.
Of course the initial price is the big draw. Money is everything. Too bad LP became an authorized Oceanic dealer.
Richard
Those 'free parts for life' are pretty expensive when the initial product costs a couple of hundred dollars more at the LDS and incurs labor charges each and every year.
If you can buy from an authorized SP dealer for the same price you get at LP, that dealer is about to lose their franchise. The manufacturers set the price, end of story. Violate the manufacturer's pricing policy and you won't be an authorized dealer very long.
Of course the initial price is the big draw. Money is everything. Too bad LP became an authorized Oceanic dealer.
Richard