| I would expect at least 40% ... the LDS owners have to make a living just as we all do.
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I don't want to pay more than I have to but I find the whole "cheapest-mentality" very frustrating. It's why we have such cheap training courses that safety just has to be compromised to deliver them, it's why too many instructors have just come out of their course and are working for free.
For some reason people are not appreciating that their regs, BCs etc are life support equipment, that the training they get is designed to ensure they can operate effectively and enjoy themselves whilst underwater....and that if those things are valuable to them then perhaps an industry founded on "cheap" may not be the most compatible.
I guess the perceived risk has been dumbed down but I doubt on sky diving boards, that people buy their kit from eBay and just take it for a jump the following weekend.
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