Catatonic

You have no idea and are just scraping the surface on the politics and crazyness of the dive industry and just how fragmented and unfair it is and if you decide to go ahead with a dive store prepare yourself as in this day and age it is EXTREMELY hard for a dive shop to make any money with online equipment sellers undercutting dive stores with better pricing and conditions of sale that dive stores do not have the same concessions to but buy the same equipment form the same manufacturers.

Its all about volume purchases and small local diveshops do not have the purchasing power and are FORBIDDEN to sell online but yet the manufacturers sell to the online sellers without that restriction putting the local shop at a very big disadvantage.

The ironic part of this is the dive industry cannot survive without the local diveshops and something definaltey has to change and as we speak in the dive industry there are dramatic changes in the midst that hopefully will put the diveshops on the same level playing field but i fear it still will not happen.

Only time will tell but for sure something has to
change

Gaz Cooper