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That site also says the learning fee is in addition. With a big rangeSo the first two prices were ONLY for theory ? They did not include practical dives ?
Here is a Florida price: PADI Advanced Open Water Certification | Two Day Course | Florida Keys Dive Center | Florida Keys Dive Center
It is $325 and already includes the two days of practical dives so you do not have to pay anything else.
No the original price is $380. Hence my confusion.You do not need to pay $345 + $183.
check with the shop but I am pretty sure they already include the online learning when they quote you $345
Maybe they quote prices differently in the US. I am confused too now LOL !No the original price is $380. Hence my confusion.
Last time I tried it was the same.
The price difference is because eLearning is convenient, premium priced, full boat non-discounted price when bought directly from PADI that actually places a value on the instruction and content provided above and beyond the cost of maintaining a website. (Also includes the cost of the c-card)I don’t get how you come to $145 difference: I already posted it but let me repeat again in case it was missed due to the other replies.
I believe that the first price includes the practical dives and the last one does not. So there is no difference as you’d pay probably $145 for two days of practical dives ...
$35 difference sound like they are just recognizing that you have already paid for the c-card with the eLearning purchase.The dive shop prices is for all 5 dives. Only diff is $35 less if i do online before I get there.
The dives are not changing in any of this. It is just where I do the "learning" part.
The price difference is because eLearning is convenient, premium priced, full boat non-discounted price when bought directly from PADI that actually places a value on the instruction and content provided above and beyond the cost of maintaining a website. (Also includes the cost of the c-card)
At a dive shop, a combination of market forces and habitual, reflexive undervaluation of an instructor's time drive down your price.
Between the actual cost of in water instruction, the book itself, and the c-card, the shop is NOT making a substantial margin on the course. They are close enough to offering you a course "at cost" that you cannot expect them to just deduct the premium price of the profitable eLearning course from an already bare bones traditional class price structure, and stay in business.
Now, that doesn't mean that they have thought it through all the way, did the math right, and are taking advantage of all opportunities. Assuming they are a PADI resort, they should be able to capture a substantial portion of the PADI eLearning price as revenue share. Sometimes from what I see posted on SB, I wonder if some shops even realize that or are just in the habit of receiving divers that affiliated with their local shop and so deprived the folks doing the water work from receiving the eLearning revenue share.