Weight prices

[shakespear]

I got my gear package yesterday from my LDS, I was a bit unprepared for the cost of weights. It was $5 a pound, so I spent right at $100 morethan I had planned.

So if you are like me and get gear on a budget, remember to include money for weights.

 

[rickthescot]

The price of lead has been rising for the last several years. I sell equipment when not diving and have seen industrial batteries double in price over the last 5 years or so.

 

[fisherdvm]

It is getting outrageous. I think I'll go to the local gravel pit and get a scale. Pick up some smooth flat stones, and paint weight numbers on them. While it is not as hard as lead, it is going to be a lot cheaper!!

Or go to the local junk yard and buy stock slab of lead, and cut them into bars to fit my weight belt.

Any other options? Putting gravels into burlap bags? Be environmental friendly, and not hurt the waterfowls?

 

[fisheater]

Best bet is to go to eBay. There's a guy there selling hard weights for, if I recall correctly, $1.65 a pound, with free shipping (20# minimum order).

The only problem I had was that my post office made me go and get the box from them. Small problem, especially considering the look on the post office manager when she asked "what is in the box, gold?" and I replied, "no. Lead. All my gold shipments come insured."

 

[Ber Rabbit]

One of our local dive shops charges $4 per pound for lead, the other charges roughly $2.50...go figure.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Scuba-Stu]

so I spent right at $100 morethan I had planned.

I have that problem almost every time I go to the dive shop. But then again I have been diagnosed with 'kid in a candy store syndrome.'

 

[Bill Fisher]

Man...
I would've hoped if you bought your whole "package" (wetsuit, bc, masks/fins, etc...)
at your dive shop they would have thrown in the weights for good measure ???
I guess I was lucky to have got mine that way. That is expensive...

 

[SPG3K]

I JUST walked out of the LDS yesterday with almost the same tally - for the same reason.

Sucks that weights are mandatory =/.

BUT - on the bright side, they don't need serviced, they never wear out, and they never go out of style requiring you to buy the latest, greatest, most hi-tech weight system.

Which, according to the rest of the equipment I bought, makes the weight that I bought the best investment over a long term period of use. Kinda screwed up, ain't it?

 

[Oxy]

Man...
I would've hoped if you bought your whole "package" (wetsuit, bc, masks/fins, etc...)
at your dive shop they would have thrown in the weights for good measure ???
I guess I was lucky to have got mine that way. That is expensive...

the prices At my LDS require me to search elsewhere for sales just so I can afford to buy basics at the LDS. I never figured in weights, am I gonna go over budget? I will still have to inroll in class. What have I done:11:

 

[akscubainst]

Lead prices just like all metal prices have gone crazy in the past few years. Looks like today Lead is trading for about $.88lb It was about $.25 5 years ago and almost $1.80 last fall.

That's on the metals market so figure transportation costs (fuel), manufacturing costs and then shipping cost to the LDS. It's not going to be cheap.

It's hard for the LDS to keep up with what lead should be selling for. We purchase it for the going rate and set our price off that. As you can see the "going rate" last fall was twice what it is now.

DM