One of the things that helped our shop out in a lot of ways was to simply not have a sales tactic at all. Everyone here is just as honest as we can be and people can form their own opinions of us from there. We are just a bunch of old military guys and tend to act that way. Pressuring people into purchasing a certain type of gear is just not needed. If someone is going to do a type of diving, public safety for instance, then we will absolutely give them our best advice. The final decision must come from them though. I qualify it as bad business to sell an unsealed first stage reg to a public safety diver. The same could be said to sell a titanium reg to a tech diver that uses high O2 all of the time. Pushing people into sales is the best way to push them out the door.
Why is it such a bad thing to just tell someone that you do not know the answer to a question and then find the answer together? Maybe some Dive Pros should just get off of their high horse for a while and get back down to the "normal diver" level. No one is perfect and pressuring someone to make a decision that they may later regret coudl possibly push them out of the sport all together.
Why is it such a bad thing to just tell someone that you do not know the answer to a question and then find the answer together? Maybe some Dive Pros should just get off of their high horse for a while and get back down to the "normal diver" level. No one is perfect and pressuring someone to make a decision that they may later regret coudl possibly push them out of the sport all together.