UW Camera Equipment "Sale"
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:45 pm
As someone who's been stuck at home like many people lately, and therefore online more than usual, I saw an email pop into my inbox just now from Backscatter, listing a whole bunch of UW photo equipment on sale (one came in from Reef at almost the same time, probably not a coincidence).
I immediately thought "hey, I've been meaning to pick up some odds and ends, spares and other stuff. Maybe now is a good time with a sale on so many brands and also as a way to help some of the UW camera shops who are probably freaking out and trying to thin inventory in what looks to be the beginning of a sustained drop in consumer spending. Win-win, right?"
So I assembled my cart and made sure I had everything I'd been thinking of getting for the past several months, and then looked at the total and thought to myself that it still added up to what seems like a whole lot of scuba units.
I had happened to save my cart as a pdf from a little while back with nearly all the same items, but then didn't end up submitting the order at the time because it was 50/50 that the items would arrive in time for a trip I was about to go on. I went back and looked at it. The normal prices of all the items on the website have gone up by virtually the exact same amount of the discounts being offered.
I'm not sure when this happened, or if it was very recently, but basically the prices across the board got raised 15-20% and now there's a "sale" essentially reducing them by the same amount. Bit of a head scratcher there.
I immediately thought "hey, I've been meaning to pick up some odds and ends, spares and other stuff. Maybe now is a good time with a sale on so many brands and also as a way to help some of the UW camera shops who are probably freaking out and trying to thin inventory in what looks to be the beginning of a sustained drop in consumer spending. Win-win, right?"
So I assembled my cart and made sure I had everything I'd been thinking of getting for the past several months, and then looked at the total and thought to myself that it still added up to what seems like a whole lot of scuba units.
I had happened to save my cart as a pdf from a little while back with nearly all the same items, but then didn't end up submitting the order at the time because it was 50/50 that the items would arrive in time for a trip I was about to go on. I went back and looked at it. The normal prices of all the items on the website have gone up by virtually the exact same amount of the discounts being offered.
I'm not sure when this happened, or if it was very recently, but basically the prices across the board got raised 15-20% and now there's a "sale" essentially reducing them by the same amount. Bit of a head scratcher there.