Top Ten Reasons NOT to Purchase Scuba Equipment Online

1. No manufacturer’s warranty regardless of what the seller may tell you. If you don't believe me go the manufacturer’s web site. They will have a warning posted about purchasing equipment from unauthorized online sellers. Use this link to Aqua Lung's site.

2. A regulator set up purchased online will cost you a lot more in the long run. You will not get "free life-time parts" from the manufacturer nor will you get our “loyal customer discount” on the labor when it’s serviced. That's an average of $60.00 in parts and about $11.00 in labor you save each year!

3. Online does not always equal the lowest price. Our “Package Pricing” makes us very competitive. Come in for a free, no obligation quote. What do you have to lose?

4. No professional advice before or after the sale. An ad on a web site or a magazine article is no substitute for the years of personal experience and training your instructor relies on when helping you pick out the proper equipment.

5. No way to try it before you buy it.

6. If you purchase something online and don't like it, then you're stuck paying shipping fees both to you and back to them.

7. No professional assembly and testing of the equipment before you use it. Do you really want to use “life support equipment” without it being assembled and tested by a professional?

8. Once you've used the equipment purchased online you’re stuck with it. We give you 30 days to exchange it; even if it's used.

9. Purchasing equipment online drives up the price of other services at the dive store such as lessons, trips, rental, air fills. The simple truth is it takes “X” amount of money to keep the doors open. If the shop losses equipment sales to an online seller the money lost has to be made up someplace else or the shop closes.

10. If you don't support the local dive shop; you won’t have a local dive shop.