Regarding Mike Ferrara's posts about Sherwood:
Admittedly, I don't know much about the relationships between manufacturers and an LDS, but that sounds like an outrageous request by Sherwood! I think this has been mentioned before, but it seems to me that the LDSs need to band together and demand that Sherwood pay them for doing free recall work for their customers, or face collective refusal to sell their products. If Sherwood refuses, then many LDSs will stop carrying Sherwood, and it will only be available on the internet. Many of the internet providers probably don't service the regs, or if they do, I would guess the waiting time is pretty long. Word-of-mouth from the reg owners themselves will eventually get around that having Sherwood products is a real pain because you can't get them serviced anywhere, and it will become a much less popular brand, until Sherwood convinces the LDSs to carry it again by agreeing to pay them for their labor!
It seems to me that someone REALLY needs to form an LDS trade organization! Both divers and LDSs would benefit, and in the long term, so would the manufacturers, since it is better to have LDSs carry their products rather than give up because the manufacturers are unreasonably difficult and demanding.
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