Things I hate about LDSs. I will put my list up top here with my rant down below (think of it as "optional" reading )
1. Don't bad mouth your competitor in town just because your competitors. If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up. Listening to a 15 minute diatribe on what a bafoon the other guy is won't earn my money.
2. Don't tell me that every other piece of gear on the planet save what is sold in your store, is junk. It removes your credibility and demotes you to used car salesman, not dive shop operator.
3. Organized dive trips can be fun for some people, but not for me. I don't like crowds and usually prefer to do my own thing. So please, stop pushing that "total bargain" trip to Belize for $3K. I am going the week after you for half that.
4. Stop bad mouthing online sales. I have bought THOUSANDS of dollars worth of gear online and any problem was rapidly resolved by the online retailer. I don't have any pity for you anyways since you screwed me with your 80% markups prior to online sales. I figure this is your "just desserts".
I finally went "back to school" after an extended break to further my PADI education. I selected an LDS after visiting the 3 in my area (and the one I selected was the furthest away by far!). Now, I have been diving for 15 years and my wife has been diving for 3. We own all our own gear.
I tell the shop manager that I might need to rent a suit because my henderson 7mil semi dry will be way too warm for the local lake we will be diving. He immediately launches into the "Henderson? You actually bought one? Good luck trying to get support out of them down the road." Whatever...I love my henderson and as far as I am concerned they have my brand loyalty.
Then I tell him that the lake he has chosen is supposed to have 0 visibility in it right now. When he asks how I came about that information I tell him the owner of one of his competing dive shops "How the hell would he know, he's never there!" I guess it would be this new fangled thing called the EnTireNet. Sure enough, as the public works website indicated, the vis was crap the entire time...nothing like 8 - 10 INCHES of vis.
I am done ranting...thanks for listening to me *****. rock on.
1. Don't bad mouth your competitor in town just because your competitors. If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up. Listening to a 15 minute diatribe on what a bafoon the other guy is won't earn my money.
2. Don't tell me that every other piece of gear on the planet save what is sold in your store, is junk. It removes your credibility and demotes you to used car salesman, not dive shop operator.
3. Organized dive trips can be fun for some people, but not for me. I don't like crowds and usually prefer to do my own thing. So please, stop pushing that "total bargain" trip to Belize for $3K. I am going the week after you for half that.
4. Stop bad mouthing online sales. I have bought THOUSANDS of dollars worth of gear online and any problem was rapidly resolved by the online retailer. I don't have any pity for you anyways since you screwed me with your 80% markups prior to online sales. I figure this is your "just desserts".
I finally went "back to school" after an extended break to further my PADI education. I selected an LDS after visiting the 3 in my area (and the one I selected was the furthest away by far!). Now, I have been diving for 15 years and my wife has been diving for 3. We own all our own gear.
I tell the shop manager that I might need to rent a suit because my henderson 7mil semi dry will be way too warm for the local lake we will be diving. He immediately launches into the "Henderson? You actually bought one? Good luck trying to get support out of them down the road." Whatever...I love my henderson and as far as I am concerned they have my brand loyalty.
Then I tell him that the lake he has chosen is supposed to have 0 visibility in it right now. When he asks how I came about that information I tell him the owner of one of his competing dive shops "How the hell would he know, he's never there!" I guess it would be this new fangled thing called the EnTireNet. Sure enough, as the public works website indicated, the vis was crap the entire time...nothing like 8 - 10 INCHES of vis.
I am done ranting...thanks for listening to me *****. rock on.