Have you had a GREAT EXPERIENCE with your LDS?

[fnfalman]

I have great experiences with a few Southern California shops:

1. Sea D Sea in Redondo Beach - this is the shop that I went through for training and gears purchase. The owner is honest to a fault and if you deal fairly with him, he'll be more than fair with you. 100% customer service & support.

2. Hollywood Divers in Hollywood - this is a tech diving heavy shop that I am planning on taking my tech diving classes with. Great group of people with awesome customer service & support.

3. Ocean Safari Scuba in San Gabriel - this shop is a great rec diving shop. Small but super friendly and the owner is very conscientious about training OW and AOW divers. Their rec divers seem to be better trained than most other rec diving shops.

All these shops are small and cozy. Hollywood Divers has a very large stock of gadgets & gears but it's still a cozy place. You can tell that these shops are divers' shops and not a gear/T-shirt retailer (aka boutique).

 

[Andy077]

Rex's in Norwalk, CT. Real nice people, my course was phenomenal, they never try to give me a hard sell, only give me the info I ask for good peeps all around

 

[medicgts]

Underseas Scuba in Villa Park Illinois. I purchased mygear at another LDS and got very little information or anything resembling information about it at the time of purchase. Underseas is closer to my home so I stopped in. The staff there spent almost an hour going over my new gear with me including my new airsource3, and I didn't even buy it from them! Outstanding! All my purchases have been made there since and will be for a long time to come.