Weight prices

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Sounds like your LDS is trying to get ahead of the curve on the price increases of lead. If that was soft weights, then he's a bit on the high side. If that was hard weights, I'd take them back and shop elsewhere.

OTOH, the time to do price comparisons is before you buy.

 

[shakespear]

$5 a pound soft

$4.50 Hard

I bought Hard

 

[spectrum]

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...

There's no free luch on lead. As prosaic as it seems it has become an expensive material. If they threw it in then it was in lieu of a cash discount you hadn't queezed out of them yet.

Watching for eBay listings that ship USPS Priority mail in a flat rate package can be rewarding.

Pete

 

[knotical]

A consideration in the high cost of lead is shipping.

 

[Bill_PNW_Diver]

My LDS wants $6/LB for soft weights. Between my girlfriend and me that's about $300 in weights! Way too much.

In searching around I found you can go the DIY route and buy the pouches at Scubatoys

XS Scuba Weight Pouches, Weights, XS Scuba, XS Scuba Weight Pouches

You can then buy shotgun lead shot at gun store that has reloading equiptment for around $2/lb

Total investment - $127 for 50lbs of soft weights

 

[--tom--]

I think I have found & recovered closed to 60# of lead this past year, counting weight belts and fishing lure. I have it worked out to trade raw lead for finished (molded) lead @ 4:1. It allows me to clean up fishing trash & get a small reward for it.

 

[Noboundaries]

I purchased our cast lead weights on e-bay last year. Ended up with 81.5 lbs of weights for $80, including delivery. It is more than my wife and I need to dive personally, but we always have extra for guests or diving relatives. They work great. We sink.

 

[spectrum]

A consideration in the high cost of lead is shipping.

This is true in the dive shop but you can get a lot of weight into a USPS flat rate box. Many Ebay sellers amazingly do not realize them but if you email and suggest this shiping method they will often take you up on it. Less shipping means bidders will pay a higher sale price.

Pete

 

[Buoyant1]

I just looked at the receipt for the soft weights I recently bought and they were $5.22 each (2lb weights) so like $2.61 per pound...the hard lead is even cheaper.

 

[PhilEllis]

I just looked at the receipt for the soft weights I recently bought and they were $5.22 each (2lb weights) so like $2.61 per pound...the hard lead is even cheaper.

You got a killer deal on those. You should thank your dealer. Sea Pearls is the leading manufacturing of lead products for diving. Even with their recent price reduction on June 1, the cost doesn't reflect the price you paid. A high-volume dealer can't afford to sale lead at that price, unless they are doing so as a lost leader. It is a little easier with the slight easing of lead prices in the past couple of months, but the price you paid is, well...........amazing.

Phil Ellis