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    • 19/10/2010 at 7:14 am #42490

      tunnel topper

        don’t know which way too go.
        do i buy the one with loads of adverts bragging how good it is.
        or do i go for the one with no publicity from a less popular manufacturer?
        cost price of both being the same, am i paying for the advertisement? or is the better known one the best?

        which would you go for, the fashionable one or the unknown?

      • 19/10/2010 at 7:28 am #119253

        TF_Stevie H

          I guess its a piece of fishing tackle that you are on about seeing as it is not ‘OT’

          Whatever it is, is there any reviews on it? If so I would look at this first.

          If not then I would say that the company who is willing to spend money on marketing the goods, also ‘may’ have a better customer service ethos as it is a better known company if you have any issues.

          On the other hand, IF they are both ‘exactly’ the same and the same price then it shouldn’t really matter which one you buy. I would trade then off against each other.

        • 19/10/2010 at 2:57 pm #119315

          tunnel topper

            Hi Stevie H, yes it is fishing tackle.
            i have always gone for the unknown, least fashionable, and have been glad to be different. these days everyone seems to push their product/stock and sifting out the alternative option is getting harder.

            just wondered if anyone else liked to be an individual, or is being one of the crowd better~think

          • 19/10/2010 at 3:32 pm #119317

            TF_Waveney One

              I like to be different.

              One thing that I wouldn’t do is to buy relying on the reviews in the magazines. I have never seen one that said “save your money and buy something else”, have you? Perhaps that is because the items ‘reviewed’ are advertised elsewhere in the magazine. The only way to establish what to buy is to hear personal views from users you trust and then check them out in the tackle shows or tackle shops.

              What I would say though is, if you go into your local tackle shop and give a pole or rod a waggle and spend 15 – 20 minutes of the time of the staff in there, then have the courtesy not to buy it through mail order. You can always haggle with the shop for a decent price.

              Having said all that most of the well known manufacturers produce good products.

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