Please read the thread I linked above about this matter. The facts say the opposite of what you and others are fantasizing about here.
I still remember when DACOR went under, and eventually, Mares bought them. I was a big DACOR dealer in NY then and thought oh great, Mares will keep the brand alive, and there will be no issues with parts for a few more years. That wasn't the case. Mares just put the DACOR logo on a few of the Mares regulators, which continued for very short years. It turned out that Mares bought the failed DACOR name to take control of DACOR's dealer network. Mares USA had less luck penetrating the US market then and bought DACOR because DACOR had a good dealer network in the US. No new DACOR equipment and no parts at the end. Mares offered people who owned DACOR regulators discounts to buy Mares regulators, but it wasn’t free nor a good deal. I had customers who owned DACOR regulators for themselves and their entire families (father, mother, son, etc.) and did so for decades, yet all that went down the drain. I find it terrible to forget all this when the circumstances are similar and appear to be even worse now. They still advise people to buy equipment from a company that has all the information put out in public; the influential people in the industry and people who were very closely associated with the company say that it is a bleak and terrible situation. It appears that AL, especially Apeks, is in horrible shape. Most likely, there won't be a happy ending.
People who are fantasizing about a happy ending and still recommending that people continue to buy AL equipment are thinking/fantasizing that all will be ok in the end. You're having wet dreams and fantasies, but they are just that: dreams and fantasies have nothing to do with realities. There is a very good chance what happened with DACOR will happen again, and customers who believed in the product will end up holding the bag with their regulators that they can’t get serviced, updated, or enjoy what they bought them for in diving.
I just don’t get it. The warning signs are in big capital letters with history to back them up, yet people still want to bury their masks in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong. They will put their hard-earned money into this terrible deal or try to convince others to throw their money in the fire. Wow!!
