BEST PRICES BUYING NEW CANOPIE

[andrewkirk 0]

HEY DOES ANYONE KNOW WHICH COMPANY HAS THE BEST PRICES FOR NEW GEAR .

[slotperfect 7]

Using all caps on internet forums is like shouting. If your post is long it also makes it very difficult to read. Please use title case for your posts.

Thanks.

Arrive Safely

John

[andrewkirk 0]

sorry about the shouting .shhh

[darkwing 5]

Contact several. Many will give a deal.. I doubt there is one that will give a substantially better deal than others. One thing you need to remember is that customer service is worth something.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[UDSkyJunkie 0]

The best deals I've seen are usually for Aerodyne canopies... usually an Icon/Pilot/Smart combo deal or something of that nature, available from multiple companies, you're best off contacting dealers for pricing, as it changes often. On the container specifically, cheapest is Dolphin, although the Shadow Racer is an incredible deal and IMO a better rig.

Personally, that isn't the gear I would purchase... don't get me wrong, it's all high-quality stuff, I just am willing to shell out a few more bucks for what I think is even better stuff, namely UPT and PD equipment. Low prices for new stuff from those guys is a lot harder to find though.

"Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission."

[bigway 4]

I would suggest a full aerodyne kit or maybe aerodyne canopies and a wings container.

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[fmmobley 0]

And I would suggest you talk with gary@karnagekrew.com. He was awesome to work with and gave me a very good price on an Aerodyne canopy which I am extremely happy with.

... Marion

[mr2mk1g 10]

Reference your other post about what canopies to buy:

I'd look at anything in a semi-elliptical plan form. You've already said you don't want to deal with the consequences of mistakes on a fully elliptical.

You mention you've jumped a 135... maybe consider downsizing just one size to a 150 from the 170 you're on at the moment at most rather than skipping a whole step - that's if you're thinking of downsizing at all of course.

You've already been recommended a SabreII / Safire II / Pilot. Those are the three primary contenders and are all great canopies, though there are also other semi-ellipticals on the market.

Personally I went for the Pilot, though I wouldn't turn down either of the other two, especially the Safire.

The Pilot is likely to be cheaper than the other two wherever you look, though I can also second the recommendation about talking to gary@karnagekrew.com – very helpful guy.

[bigway 4]

Thanks for the approval mate. I hope everything is going well with your canopy.

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[mr2mk1g 10]

Well not exactly. The club just about got themselves ready to place an order and now they're fighting off an attempt to shut the club down by a bunch of fucking hippies.

Apparently some twit's tabled a motion to prevent the uni supporting anything which involves air travel within the EU. Would shut the skydiving club down over night along with a couple of others.

Now they gotta fight that off before they can spend any money.

[bigway 4]

Why dont they just start a club with out the uni involved. It is not like the university gives anything.
Maybe they chip in by raising money, but i am sure you could start raising money by becoming a 'sub-dealer'?.

If the hippies start playing games with you then maybe they are pot smokers and your boys could start rallying a very hard punishment for anyone smoking pot and maybe get it cracked down on. I am sure this would shut them up very fast. If they are threaning you then threaten them back. Start kicking ass. Surely they are not perfect, everyone has a secret... just use it against them.

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[mr2mk1g 10]

The club's a uni club. They get most of their funding from the uni and the three club rigs are technically owned by the student's union. The fourth one they're about to buy would also be owned by the SU. Breaking away would mean starting from scratch and giving their effectively 4 rigs back. Sucks for them... but I doubt the hippies will succeed.

I've suggested they set up a bead stall on the other side of campus the day of the vote. Hippies can't resist a bead stall, especially not if it sells joss sticks too.

[bigway 4]

LMAO

Well if they lose, I am sure that we can help get those rigs. Depending what manufacturer sold the rigs i am sure we could pull the whol card saying that " they were sold to you at a special price and the clause in the sale says that you must own them for a certain amount of time before you are able to sell them and they must have a certain amount of jumps on them before you can sell them"
Similar thing with demo rigs that dealers buy from certain manufacturers. We could then set it up so we get the manufacturer to buy them back at a very cheap price for the guys of the club.

Could work,... otherwise they will have to sell them and maybe i can help them out by buying them if you guys do start a seperate club. However we would need to go over some conditions etc via email and not in the forums.


Or maybe we could have a rigger condemn a couple of them and say that the rules are once a rig is condemed it has to be sent back to be officialy destroyed

Anyway, I may be able to help out with a purchase. We should talk via email

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