David_57
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Dive shops are like Harley dealers you feel raped when you leave the shop one of the reasons I gave up diving around Canada and only dive down south and rent the bottles, the dive shops with few exceptions are a rip off.
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It's easy to find a worst-case scenario and use it to rationalize why it's therefore justified to charge everyone for the cost of accommodating that one situation ... it's also not good business, not if you expect to stay in business.
There's a dive shop here in the Atlanta area that is geared only on making money.
I'm certified to O2 clean and visually inspect tanks.
I had my tanks hydroed. Brought them home, tumbled them, rinsed them, treated and rinsed and did an O2 cleaning on the valves.
Put my inspection sticker on the tanks and took them to this particular shop to be filled.
Because the tanks were empty they wanted to perform VIS on them and charge me for the inspections even though they had already been inspected.
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BTW, I would have guessed that having a tank oxygen cleaned would include the VIP, too. I recently had tanks hydroed, and I asked the hydro company to O2 clean them after they did. The tanks came back with a VIP, as I expected, at no cost beyond the hydro and O2 cleaning.