Went to go outdoors on the weekend as they had a sale on saw a tent we liked and asked for some advise. The manager came over talked up the tent, said best on market and he said it could be done with a huge front awning for a special package price of £471. We jumped at this as go outdoors normally sell the tent for £500 on its own! Went to the till but non in stock! We got one transferred from another store and it arrived today, turned up scanned through till........... £786 so I question this and they say ok sir we can do it for £620 as a special price! The manager swore on his daughters life (what a prick) he never said that price even though he had written it on the box lol. Any way all ended quite well as he the manager proved he couldn't count again as he calculated the best deal he could do me on the tent and awning and a carpet I had added on with a shelf price of £101 Tent - 341 Awning- 196 Carpet - 78 Total - £502 WTF I pretended to be pissed of and said just put it through the till If he had gone with the original quote he gave me on the weekend that he reckoned would never of happened I would of been paying £572 (pmsl) This idiot argued with me for 2 hours and then Oh well I saved at least £400 so worked out in the end lol
I'm sure it was all with good intent. obviously his 'pitch' in sales was good. I think you're a top 'guy' to 'peg' the price. I'll get my coat......
Good on you, just picked up a tent ourself. 5 birth big enough for the the family. Main thinking was for weekend hols and when the family want to come to track days and watching BSB We need pics of th tent lol
The weather is part of the fun lol Remal - we went for the outwell Montana 6p with all the extras, it's really sturdy and great quality, zips and windows ect miles more advanced than the other makes they had in there show room. I'm 6'4 and nowhere near the roof and has huge living area. And with the awning it's the size of living area again. I go to thruxton for BSB every year with the lads (more of a piss up) with the awning on we have space for all our bikes
I did not get the awing but will get it next year. looks a great idea but want to give it a try a few times before I get it . I picked up the vango icarus 500.
I think we were tempted by the 600 version of that I think, it got wider as it got to the back? We were going to but changed mind last min as we were offered a deal we couldnt refuse!!! lol
We were looking at a vango Maritsa 700 first which was also massive! Put the outwell up in the garden yesterday and it's great was def worth all the stress in the end, really good bit of kit and more than enough room even without the extention. But hey no more cold nights camping for the bikes
Well we decided we would head off to Devon to test out the new tent for a week, prob not the best idea with a 2.5 yr old a 9month old with the cold nights lately but we can always head home. I think the other campers must of been pissing them selves laughing as we quite obviously had no clue what we were doing and had to take down and re do as missed a bit! Deffinately a case of 'all the gear, no idea!' all this while the weather couldn't decide if it was raining or bloody hot Anyway tents nearly complete thought I would post a pic
Thats a very big tent....... Tomorrow we will be attempting to assemble the new awning for the motor home.I can guarantee it will end up in a blazing argument....always does..
