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Off piste bundles ie pack, peeps, shovel and probe?

 Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone know any stores that do bundles and hence offer a good price?

I see facewest.co.uk do bundles, and telemark-pyrenees offer 10% discount when you build your own bundle, but just wondered if anyone knew of any other stores.

regards,

Greg


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 25-01-07 11:37; edited 1 time in total
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you may not want to purchase from ebay but a friend and i got great deals from a place in utah on bleeps with shovel or probe, was about 50 quid cheaper than uk and came with foc choice of shovel or probe!

have a look on ebay or their website at: www.snowbigdeal.com
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kitenski, ...try Lockwood ...... they have some very good 'bundle' deals

......+ 10% off I think for Ski Club Members......
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To piggyback onto this question, what would the wisdom of snowHead reccomend as a good bundle?
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kitenski,

They don't make much profit at all on peeps (father-in-law of a friend worked for one of the big sports outlets and even he couldn't get a good discount for his son-in-law).

The bundles are cheaper but tend to be made up of less than top-notch items. (e.g. plastic shovels instead of a decent metal one and peeps that aren't so easy to use). You tend to get what you pay for. (e.g. the G3 Avitech shovel isn't cheap but is metal and light)
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cheers DB, didn't appreciate that, the facewest bundle does include a metal shovel though...for £310

http://www.facewest.co.uk/pp/ski/packages.htm

..and the lockwoods one also has alu shovel for £300 (it's for my wife, hence the female version)

http://www.lockwoods.uk.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/001842.5.6651905467821066190

Cheers,

Greg
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kitenski, ...... you will be okay with either .... both companies are very good to deal with.
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I got my nost recent beeper and shovel through snowbigdeal with good service, but you will end up paying duty and a handling charge.

The ski club package discount from Lockwoods was quite good too... Some good package dealshere would work out about £240 for a good probe transceiver and shovel and delivery.
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i got a great bundle at S&R and they upgraded me to a dakine heli backpack for no extra charge, BCA combination probe and shovel plus the medical kit and thermal bag was it think around £149... this was in october though not sure if deal is still running.
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Also have a look at www.e-omc.com and www.daddiesboardshop.com. I have bought (over the internet) from them before without any problems or delays.
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DB wrote:
kitenski,

They don't make much profit at all on peeps (father-in-law of a friend worked for one of the big sports outlets and even he couldn't get a good discount for his son-in-law).


Hmmmm... a friend who works for a local store gets 50% on his beacons so I'm not totally convinced that there is no profit in avalanche beacons.

Why don't you buy in Europe?

For example the Vieux Campeur will do you a Barryvox Pulse for 329 E + 44E for a probe and shovel... someone can probably convert that into UKP. I would probably go for a BD Deploy 3 avalanche shovel (very compact, strong and light) at 52E + 19E for a probe. If you are on a budget you can get the Ortovox retriever for 144E (so that would be 188E for the cheapest pack - that must be just a shade over 100 quid).

You can read my review of some of this seasons Avy gear in the Avalanche Review
http://www.americanavalancheassociation.org/tar/TAR24_4_ALL_LoRes.pdf - PDF (large dowload) page 5.
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davidof wrote:
Hmmmm... a friend who works for a local store gets 50% on his beacons so I'm not totally convinced that there is no profit in avalanche beacons.


They must be selling them at twice the price then Wink

There are cases where companies susidise safety quipment as it's in their interest for their staff not to be burried until it thawns out in Spring.

Can you find out how much profit they do make?
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DB, A friend of mine runs an outdoorshop and whilst noseing through catalogues i did happen to notice a 50% price difference between trade and rrp on shovels
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