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$149 for PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water Diving Courses (NSW)

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$149 for PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water Diving Courses (NSW)
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[Deactivated] on 12/08/2011 - 17:00 scoopon.com.au (209 clicks)
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IMPORTANT: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY THIS THROUGH SCOOPON
You can contact Paul (Dive Operations Manager) directly on either 0447012580 or [email protected] and he will offer you the exact same deal WITHOUT having to stuff around with Scoopon or provide a single cent to Crap Of The Day and co.

A few people have been asking about the open water certifications recently so hopefully this is what you're looking for. There's a choice of two options:

3 Day Open Water Diver Course
+ FIVE ocean dives and one ocean snorkel
+ Technique and safety lectures on site
+ Online theory courses and video tutorials
+ Final exam
+ PADI Log Book and International certification
+ You'll be certified to dive up to 18 meters of equal or higher certification

3 Day Advanced Open Water Diver Course
+ FIVE Ocean Dives - includes night dive, deep dive, search & rescue dive, marine naturalist and navigation dive
+ Technique and safety lectures on site
+ Online video tutorials and homework
+ PADI Log Book and International certification
+ You'll be certified to dive up to 30 meters with another diver of equal or higher certification

Both options include a $100 voucher to spend at their store for diving gear

Can't vouch for the "$700+ value" it claims, but looking at their site (particularly http://www.truebluedive.com/?page_id=414) you easily get the value just out of the dives and certification alone, even if the store voucher is offset by markup (can't tell, can't find their store on their site).

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  • [Deactivated] on 12/08/2011 - 17:04
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    This company are going to get their asses kicked if they are caught doing this on the side… Sorry, but they are advertising through scoopon, then posting the details to contact them directly to circumvent them getting their cut? highly unethical business practise.

    [MOD: Removed accusations]

    • [Deactivated] on 12/08/2011 - 17:09

      Actually no, I'm not associated with any of them…
      I've just been burnt badly by Crap of the Day (bought one of the PS3s at the "sale" last… October/November?) and still haven't seen anything for my money despite trying to go through Fair Trading (VIC) and CTTT (NSW), so I'll happily take any opportunity to help others avoid getting ripped off by them.

      • [Deactivated] on 12/08/2011 - 17:10

        They aren't advertising it either. I contacted them directly to see if they'd offer the same deal without going through Scoopon and Paul replied with the thumbs up.

        Think: if I was a rep, I could just post the same deal here. I wouldn't have to link to Scoopon at all. I only link to it because they haven't got the deal advertised on the site and it pisses me off when people post "word of mouth" deals with nothing officially visible, like "oh hey I walked into Harvey Norman and argued for 3 hours then price matched in JB blah blah and BEST BARGAIN EVARR".

    • anthony on 12/08/2011 - 17:13

      This company are going to get their asses kicked if they are caught doing this on the side

      Do you work for scoopon?
      If you dont then you can not know what agreement a merchant agrees to when they use scoopon to advertise.

      Sorry, but they are advertising through scoopon, then posting the details to contact them directly to circumvent them getting their cut? highly unethical business practise.

      Why?

      How is it any different to a company selling their products on eBay and also selling the same products for the same price (Or even less as they do not need to pay ebay/paypal fees) on the companies own online store? Which many companies do and you probably have no problem with

      Or as a much more extreme example how about companies who advertise through the yellow pages, should you have to first contact the yellow pages to purchase the product you want from the company advertising in the yellow pages?

      • Tal_Shiar on 12/08/2011 - 17:18
        +3

        The last point is just stupid

  • Domingo on 12/08/2011 - 17:49
    +2

    I once saw a ScoopOn deal that I was interested in buying, but the timeframe wasn't appropriate as I was on holidays. I contacted the business while the deal was still active and asked if we could organise the same deal outside - they were happy to oblige.

    This worked out better for me, as I got to do things at my pace and I was left with a very good impression of the company.
    It also worked out better for the company, as they didn't lose out on any money.

    I don't consider this unethical at all - the restrictions were too tight and we organised something around them.

  • richy_o on 12/08/2011 - 18:11

    get one of these for melbourne now and we are sorted!

  • poinda on 12/08/2011 - 19:04
    +1

    Does the price include gear hire and air fills? if not.. what is the cost with those?

    • [Deactivated] on 12/08/2011 - 19:12

      Yes included.

      "Courses include all gear hire and post-dive refreshments"

  • adante on 12/08/2011 - 20:17

    If anybody in Brisbane can run this, please do so. I've been waiting for a similar Brissy deal for ages.

    • Domingo on 14/08/2011 - 22:33

      I did my Open Water course in Mooloolaba with Sunreef. It was pretty bad conditions (post floods January, really bad visibility) but the course itself was really good. I paid $680 for it and felt it was easily worth that. Even at that price, they aren't really making any money off you - one person full time to run the class for 2 days, gear hire, pool hire for the pool work, 3 staff on the boat, divemasters to help run the dives etc.

      Given the bad conditions some people get when going to certain business with ScoopOns, I would be hesitant to do it for diving. You can pretty easily hurt yourself through any kind of careless teaching or poor equipment maintenance.

      I'm not at all saying this will happen, but there is that chance. These people run these courses at low cost already because they love diving and love to share their experiences. But they are human and doing it for next to nothing is probably not ideal for them.

  • the discombobulated… on 14/08/2011 - 10:03

    Wonder if he'll reply today… Would want to do both. :)

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