I see I got a few red thumbs, I feel like mark haha. I'm all for supporting local, so I suppose I should shed some light on my reasoning not too in this circumstance. Basically I was shopping for a new quiver of sails.. ideally 4.2 4.7 5.3 5.9, thou in the end I went for 4.5 5.3 5.9 cause the small sails would be used extremely rarely. So the reasons.
1. Price, pretty obvious.
2. No local retailers of the sails I wanted, it's pretty boring on the water with everyone on the same gear, good to get some different colours out there.
3. Suitability, I bought a powerex 430 RDM last year (locally), and found that it didn't suit my existing quiver of sails, North Duke and Naish Force. So if I was to get a new quiver of norths or naishs I would also have to replace my existing mast.
End of the day, I'm a uni student, I have a decent job so not as broke as some, but I can't afford an extra $2000 just to support a local retailer.
There are some other reasons as well, but this is hardly the place.
As far as service goes mine was completely the opposite of Bretts, not only are the sails probably better built and performing then anything else on the water in my opinion, but as far as the retail experience went, the response time on emails was less then a day and I had my sails dispatched on the day, and at my door within 4. And the advice, well the guy actually wavesails and I've heard from reliable sources that he rips
, so I'm pretty sure I'm in good hands.
Makes me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside buying local, but my wallet can't stand for that kind of abuse.
