There is something seriously wrong when it even possible to buy stuff from abroad and ship it directly to my door in two days, for much less than half what it would cost to buy locally... if I could even find it locally!! As far as I'm concerned the North American distributors are clearly only interested in ripping off the North American consumer. Black listing an online store is really just padding their margins and depriving us of decent equipment priced at what it is worth, not what they can get away with. The real answer is to make North American shops competitive pricewise, not to try and put the online stores out of business.
Frankly I'd rather be able to see & touch most products and buy them locally (to support the local dive industry) than order them online, but I will if the pricing and availability is so dramatically different.
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Andrew "Always comes up clean" Brownsword
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