Hmmm...I can't answer, Dave, how many classes he runs as he didn't train me,
but he runs his school, he owns half the store and is a master instructor
for PADI.
I'll give you his email word for word:
"All the scuba pro stuff we had in the school did not last that long so i am
not a really great fan of it ,"
So I might have misinterpreted on my first email. As you can see, he's not
generally a big scubapro fan period. I'll ask him for specific reasons
besides them not lasting long, but I would assume (and I know if you assume,
you make an ass out of u and me!!) this would mean wear and tear, no?
As for it all being a sales pitch, I know Rob pretty well, and he's a pretty
straight-up kinda guy so I don't suspect a sales pitch, especially as the
fins he are proposing to me are cheaper than the twin jets I originally was
more interested in, and he's giving me a very good discount on them...
Then again, take EVERYTHING I have said in these last emails with a grain of
salt as I have been up for almost 48 hours straight because of the Concorde
crash and things are just a wee bit fuzzy!
:)
Cheers
Kat.
>From: Dave Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Fins continued
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:59:08 -0800
>
>No to start a flame war but....
>
>Exactly how many classes does this guy run? The Twin Jets have been out
>since roughly January and he's already worn a bunch of them out? Sounds
>like a sales pitch to me. (besides Scubapro would replace them) I have
>about
>50 dives on mine since March in very harsh conditions (teaching classes)
>and
>once washed and dried they look almost new. I won't dis the Mares fins
>cause, I've never used them. I'm sure they are excellent fins but, I also
>know that the Twin Jets are very durable.
>
>Dave Mitchell
>Juneau, Alaska
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of K. Blessin
>Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 8:35 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Fins continued
>
>
>Hi all
>
>Hate to bring up the subject again re fins, but.....
>
>I've been following the posts about fins quite closely, and have read up on
>both and some others, and have decided to get either a set of Quattros or
>Graphite Twin Jets. I asked a friend of mine, Rob, who runs a dive shop in
>the north of London about his opinion. He said he would highly recommend
>the Quattros as in his opinion they are the best on the market at the
>moment
>(and he said he'll sell them to me for £65 - £20 off the retail price!!).
>As for the twin jets, he said he bought a lot of them for his classes and
>they didn't last very long at all with all the wear and tear and therefore
>he wouldn't recommend them.
>
>as well, he added the following:
>
>"anyway the all new Mares volo fin will beat
>anything on the market if you can get them as they are as rare as rocking
>horse crap at this time they sell so quick we have had the on order now for
>four months!"
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Cheers!
>kat
>(two months and counting before I'm in Thailand!)
>www.geocities.com/katcalls_76
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