This may be, and probably is, the wrong place to post this. But it is as close as I can guess at. Please feel free to push it elsewhere.
Anyway, for all divers, new or experienced, what's something you wish your LDS told you, tells, you, or let's you you know about?
If you ran the perfect dive shop, in your opinion, what's important to you? What would make you loyal to a specific shop in the age of the internet and a near over-saturation of dive shops?
I don't want to beg the question by saying my shop price-matches based on online prices, but we will bend over backwards to accommodate students and their schedule, and generally offers free pool make-up sessions as long as the student is flexible. We're generally cheaper, more thorough, and more customer-service based than most of the dive shops I've ever worked at.
But what do YOU look for as a diver? Price, experience, having a shop dog to play with your when you're bored--what would your ideal shop look like? Amigos out in High Springs is pretty close to perfect in my book. 24/7 service, all day, every day, But that's tricky in Alaska, thanks to meth and heroin swinging by after hours.
What does your dive shop do good or bad that you wish you could promote or discourage? Any input here is beneficial, whether it be good or bad.
I'm open to suggestions and brainstorms. Fire em at me, and if you ever make it up this far North, feel free to swipe a free t-shirt off the rack. Practically, were trying to take care of everybody who cones through the door, even if that means sending them somewhere else. But, what's your ideal view of a LDS? What do you expect, what classifies one shop as better than another in your head? I'd love to hear your opinion.
Cheers!
Ron
Dive Alaska
Anyway, for all divers, new or experienced, what's something you wish your LDS told you, tells, you, or let's you you know about?
If you ran the perfect dive shop, in your opinion, what's important to you? What would make you loyal to a specific shop in the age of the internet and a near over-saturation of dive shops?
I don't want to beg the question by saying my shop price-matches based on online prices, but we will bend over backwards to accommodate students and their schedule, and generally offers free pool make-up sessions as long as the student is flexible. We're generally cheaper, more thorough, and more customer-service based than most of the dive shops I've ever worked at.
But what do YOU look for as a diver? Price, experience, having a shop dog to play with your when you're bored--what would your ideal shop look like? Amigos out in High Springs is pretty close to perfect in my book. 24/7 service, all day, every day, But that's tricky in Alaska, thanks to meth and heroin swinging by after hours.
What does your dive shop do good or bad that you wish you could promote or discourage? Any input here is beneficial, whether it be good or bad.
I'm open to suggestions and brainstorms. Fire em at me, and if you ever make it up this far North, feel free to swipe a free t-shirt off the rack. Practically, were trying to take care of everybody who cones through the door, even if that means sending them somewhere else. But, what's your ideal view of a LDS? What do you expect, what classifies one shop as better than another in your head? I'd love to hear your opinion.
Cheers!
Ron
Dive Alaska
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