Great question, I would totally try to exchange it. I mean come one, 1 day before?? I think you have a good shot!
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Great question, I would totally try to exchange it. I mean come one, 1 day before?? I think you have a good shot!
DeepSeaExplorer
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Years ago, I bought a new Dell PC, a 486 with 33 MHz processor. The very next day they started advertising a new 66 MHz processor. I called and they said it was too late to change the order because it had already been delivered to my house. Sure enough, I got home and it was there. I could have sent it back, but I would have to pay shipping, which was no small thing on such a beast. You think they could have told me when I was placing the order a day earlier. With something as small as a Petrel, I would eat the cost and exchange it.
Anyhow, I got lucky this time. I was on the fence with the Petrel and my indecision paid off. I got ship notification on the P2 already...
Anyhow, I got lucky this time. I was on the fence with the Petrel and my indecision paid off. I got ship notification on the P2 already...
I ordered and received my predator about one month before the petrel was released. I called shearwater but they wouldn't offer me any options to upgrade except but a petrel at full price. I don't really blame them though.
Dr. Lecter
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Yeah, that's not how any of this works. If you don't like what you bought, sell it on here or ebay and buy what you do want.
Dr. Lecter
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No opinion on the compass, the BT improvement is nice. I won't be trading my earlier Petrel in for a P2 unless I decide to stop diving my backup computer on my right arm and put it on my DPV, though. And I'm not sure the P2's compass would be large enough to be better at that than the Sea Rover I have mounted on the nose of the DPV now.
Probably best for me to just ditch the Predator controller I have now and buy a NERD. Expensive toy, though.
bubblevision
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Nah, I've already dived it 4 times, and it's Thailand. I'm not that bothered. I like the compass in my little console. If they'd brought out a big overhaul it would be a different matter.
I have a couple of computers with compasses...but I seem alway gravitate to mr wrist mounted compass on bungy cord.
I love my Petrel. It seems that the only real change with the P2 is the compass. I've used several DCs with an integrated compass and always come back to my old analog compass on my wrist.
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