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Divers Direct's poor service

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gxharris@yahoo.com - 14 Aug 2007 14:04 GMT
I sent gear for my girlfriend and me, based on a promised one-week
turnaround. After a month, they send it back with a letter from Tim
Robinson the Repair Service Manager, saying they didn't service our
brands. They have since updated their web site with acceptable brands
and have removed the promised turnaround. I sent him an email that
said in part "Mr. Robinson:
I cannot begin to tell you how upset we are!  We have a dive trip
scheduled for the end of this month.  I seriously doubt we will be
able to find a place and have our gear serviced in time.  Our gear
was sent to you well in advance of our trip in order to ensure that
it would be safe to use on our trip.  Now we will have to rent gear
from the dive operator in Provo.  They use the British Pound down
there, and at today's exchange rate, I shudder to think what that
will cost.  There is no indication on the "4 Piece Annual Service
Labor" web page that there are any restrictions or limitations on
brands you service.  I will be sure to give your service a bad review
on your web site, as well as spread the word to all the Internet dive
discussion groups, dive magazines and dive shops in Fla. and beyond."
Their response was to send me a $50 gift card I had to use at Diver's
Direct. That will not begin to cover the one-week gear rental we had
to pay.
Lee Bell - 14 Aug 2007 14:38 GMT
>I sent gear for my girlfriend and me, based on a promised one-week
> turnaround. After a month, they send it back with a letter from Tim
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
> Direct. That will not begin to cover the one-week gear rental we had
> to pay.

I can understand your annoyance at the miscommunication, but just where in
this country are you that you can't find anyone local to do the service on
your regulators and what kind of regulators do you have that they can't or
won't service?

Lee
Grumman-581 - 14 Aug 2007 22:27 GMT
<snip>

If it's only been a year or so since it was last serviced, just use it
anyway... If you have a problem with it, then rent gear at your
destination...
TonyP - 18 Aug 2007 00:03 GMT
> <snip>
>
> If it's only been a year or so since it was last serviced, just use it
> anyway... If you have a problem with it, then rent gear at your
> destination...

I agree. I usually get my gear serviced every 2 years of hard cold water
diving. I do the routine stuff to it between dives to make sure that it
is at least clean from salt.
Grumman-581 - 18 Aug 2007 03:49 GMT
> I agree. I usually get my gear serviced every 2 years of hard cold water
> diving. I do the routine stuff to it between dives to make sure that it
> is at least clean from salt.

Awh 'ell, just go with enough of a redundant backup and just keep
using the stuff until it quits working... <evil-grin>

Darwin has always been there for me...
Matthias - 15 Aug 2007 01:48 GMT
gxharris@yahoo.com;735849 Wrote:
> " I will be sure to give your service a bad review
> on your web site, as well as spread the word to all the Internet dive
> discussion groups, dive magazines and dive shops in Fla. and beyond."
> Their response was to send me a $50 gift card I had to use at Diver's
> Direct. That will not begin to cover the one-week gear rental we had
> to pay.

Actually I think a $50 gift card is a pretty generous offer for a not
performed $100 service.

But now that you have spread the word, did you return the gift card?

Matthias

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chilly - 15 Aug 2007 07:49 GMT
> I sent gear for my girlfriend and me, based on a promised one-week
> turnaround. After a month, they send it back with a letter from Tim
> Robinson the Repair Service Manager, saying they didn't service our
(snip)> Their response was to send me a $50 gift card I had to use at
Diver's
> Direct. That will not begin to cover the one-week gear rental we had
> to pay.

I can understand your frustration, but I'm very curious about a couple of
things.  1)  Why were you so concerned about the condition of your gear?
Has it been years since it has been serviced?  Were you having problems with
both sets?

2) $50 seems reasonable.  What do you plan to buy with it?

3)  Why would you send your gear away to be serviced?  I take mine to an lds
near my neighborhood.  Do you live somewhere that you can't do that?

4) If your gear has not been serviced for quite some time, do you also
intend to take a refresher upon your arrival at Provo?
-hh - 15 Aug 2007 12:11 GMT
> <gxhar...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I sent gear for my girlfriend and me, based on a promised one-week
> > turnaround. After a month, they send it back with a letter from Tim
> > Robinson the Repair Service Manager, saying they didn't service our
> > brands.

Gosh, wonder what brands they sent in?  I'd suspect something that DD
doesn't sell...

> > Their response was to send me a $50 gift card...

> I can understand your frustration, but I'm very curious about a couple of
> things....
>
> 3)  Why would you send your gear away to be serviced?  I take mine to an lds
> near my neighborhood.  Do you live somewhere that you can't do that?

Well, let's see:

this poster's IP address is 208.242.126.82

Which is:  Baltimore County Public Library
  (208.242.126.0 - 208.242.127.255)

A little more digging shows that this individual uses the X-No-Archive
to conceal some of his comments (we know what that means), but his
name is Grant Harris, he has an email address and webpage at
gharris@bcpl.net and http://www.bcpl.net/~gharris/ (yeah, Baltimore
County Public Library).

Grant claims to have other passtimes of being a horseman & sailer; not
cheap hobbies.

And since Mr. Harris is willing to go from MD to West Palm Beach
Florida to go sailing, one would expect that he's willing to do a
short 5-10 mile drive around the Baltimore / Harford County, MD. area
to a diveshop. Scuba Hut is on the southside of the beltway, so
because of traffic we'll give him a pass on that option, as well as
Aquatic Connection in Dundalk for the same reason.  But there's then
at least Acu-Dive downtown, Diver's Den in Parkville, Knight Diver in
Edgewood, the Scuba Center in Havre De Grace that are all close, plus
there's Aqua Adventures in Cockeysville, or if one wants to go away
from the city, there's Guppy Gulch up in Delta, and Delta just happens
to be where my one brother-in-law used to live in when he worked at
the Docks downtown, so I know that its not 'impossibly far'.

> 4) If your gear has not been serviced for quite some time, do you also
> intend to take a refresher upon your arrival at Provo?

How does one do that via mail-order?  :-)

-hh
ben bradlee - 15 Aug 2007 11:47 GMT
>I sent gear...

LDS.
 
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