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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 14:34:42 -0400
To: cavers@ge*.co*, techdiver@aq*.co*, wreckdiver@aquanaut.com
From: JJB <lungs@ic*.ne*>
Subject: Deluxe Airfills
Below you will find an email message that was forwarded to me by a newly
certified recreational Padi nitrox diver that I met through a friend.  We
discussed a few things with regards to Nitrox filling techniques and I was
amazed by the story that he told me listed below.  I asked for his
permission to post this publically.

I was not aware of the new super deluxe filling systems available on the
market.  What surprised me was that Brownies has not made this item
available for the retail market.  

>From: boom125@wi* for privacy
>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 11:57:43 -0400
>To: JJB <lungs@ic*.ne*>
>Subject: Re: Brownies
>
>Hi Jim,
>
>Now - before you post anything about Brownies I have to emphasize that
>the staff there is 100% friendly and they do what they can to satisfy me
>as a costumer. 
>Brownies has one shop off 17th ST and one off Broward so I asked several
>staff members on diferent occasions and got this answer with regards on
getting an >air fill with my nitrox clean tanks:
>
>"Since an airfill into a nitroxtank has to still go though our tripple
>filtersystem we charge the same ($ 7) as a NITROX fill"
>
>For the time being I go to Divers UnLTD. - they charge me $ 2.60 and
>take the air not from their normal fillingstation but from their NITROX
>hose - just that they don't fill any 02 into it and give me a 21% air fill.
>
>Actually I can live more with that (specially since Brownies told me
>beforehand) than with what happend with B & B  in Dania on US 1, where
>the guy promised to nitroxclean one tank and one valve for $ 37 and
>never mentioned any "hidden charges" - when I came back he added for
>O-rings and some xxcharge and $ 4.50 for the sticker. It came to a total
>of $ 52.
>Telling him that I wanted the charge to be taken off,  he declined in a
>very arrogant way - so I told him I would dispute the charge on my
>creditcard - now it get's good: he called me a dickhead, then first
>ordered me out of the store, then followed me onto the parking lot and
>challenged me to a fist fight!!!
>
>Wolfgang
>
>

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