What makes one regulator better than another?

[Marie13]

I got 10% off before tax on mine at my LDS, the original price was $615. We definitely get the shaft price wise for a lot of stuff.

Shearwaters usually aren’t discounted unless it’s something like your thing.

 

[buddhasummer]

Strange looking A700, never heard of a MK25HP either:

 

[buddhasummer]

Not to labour the point, but...

Prices ex tax too.

 

[buddhasummer]

Point laboured.

 

[buddhasummer]

I've offered to sell Japanese divers regs before but I guess they think my prices "are too good to be true".

 

[Centrals]

The exchange rate is about $1.00 to 110 yen
All those regs costing serious money!

 

[buddhasummer]

Yep, all dive gear is the same, stupid expensive. Without sounding like a conspiracy theorist, it certainly serves Japans retail industry having such low levels of English.

 

[Centrals]

To protect their own scuba industry?
No wonder so many of them are using their own brands.
SP should produce scale down version(size wise) of eg. G260 in either white or pink colour for sell as "limited edition" in Japan. No other colour would do for the female market and with matching console and hoses as well.

 

[runsongas]

gull already does white and pink gear a lot already with tabata not far behind

 

[Centrals]

gull already does white and pink gear a lot already with tabata not far behind

That is for Japanese female market.
How often do you see non Japanese brand carry that colour?

SAS

So colourful