I have no problem with Mike's post here, but the fact you spent 50 bucks and they shuffled you out the door would be enough for me to be awfully pissed off.
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I was referring to more of the LIABILITY that the owner was opening himself up to, rather than the insurance company TELLING you to inspect a piece of equipment.
If someone brings a reg, octo, gauges, and LP inflator hose to us to assemble, we would do a full performance check on the reg, after we assembled it. We would also charge $35 for this service.
with the local AGs office and the local BBB.
You probably won't get the $50 back. But you will force them to do more than $50 worth of work to respond to the complaints, and further, you'll leave a record for the next guy who checks them out before going in there.
Include the fact that this action was a punitive one based on your purchase of the gear from a different store, and that it had already been assembled and tested. That ought to perk up some ears.....
You probably won't get the $50 back. But you will force them to do more than $50 worth of work to respond to the complaints, and further, you'll leave a record for the next guy who checks them out before going in there.
Include the fact that this action was a punitive one based on your purchase of the gear from a different store, and that it had already been assembled and tested. That ought to perk up some ears.....
Thoughts ... Good instructors are hard to find. If you're happy with your instructor, why cut off your nose to spite your face? Contact the instructor you like and find out when he is teaching an AOW class, he may even agree to do it privately for what the shop would charge. See if you can arrange for pool time and equipment purchases through him, many shops not only allow but encourage such relationships
I think that the regulator checkout charge is bogus but I agree with Mike that you should expect to pay for pool usage as well as tank rental etc.
Mike
LOL a foreign reg. Dude, nobody does this. Do you think if you bought a reg at another shop that your shop would insist that they check it out and then charge you for it?
Does your shop bully every diver who arrives for a course with his own gear into handing it over and then present them with a bill for a previously undisclosed amount when they pick it up?
Give me a break. I can't see that it was anything else other than that they were sh*tting him because he didn't buy his reg there. It's cynical, it's wrong, it taking advantage of someone who is naive and evidently polite enough not to look them in the eyes and tell them to stick it up their proverbial poop-shoot and it should not be defended.
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Yeah, good one... And, yes if someone wants to use their own reg that they did not buy from us for the open water dives, yes we do inspect them before the dives.
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