Discount Divers Supply Scuba Gear Buying/Reuse Policy

We Reuse Scuba Gear!

Looking to Sell or Donate your dive gear?

If you have scuba or snorkeling gear that you don't want to ever see again, box it up and send it to us using the shipping information in the yellow box above (Locals can bring it by the dive shop). Please include a written inventory, with your name and address, and include an applicable phrase:

I READ YOUR GEAR/REUSE POLICY, KEEP THE GEAR, SEND ME THE MONEY.

We pay realistic time-proven values with respect to today's market. Unfortunately, we cannot give estimates (non-binding or other) of value prior to shipping. If you are local, you can bring your gear to the shop and we can let you know what we will pay. We mail out checks on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Make a note if you need rush service or would prefer trade-in credit. Please include equipment manuals and BCD weight pouches.

"Many of our customers cannot afford new equipment. With your cooperation, more divers and snorkelers can afford the underwater world and we can make a living. Everyone benefits when equipment gets re-used - the strain on the Mother Earth is less and the good Karma flows." "Thank You", John Burns, Owner

The most gratifying thing I do is to get scuba gear out of garages, serviced, and back into the water. This process is commonly referred to as recycling. However, it is a greener process than recycling and is more accurately known as "Reuse".

You can sleep well knowing that 98 cents of every dollar spent on reused dive gear goes back into our national economy. I encourage you to support the businesses who offer reused products.

Your support helps our world in a number of ways. _a.:

• Reuse reduces the strain on valuable resources, such as fuel, forests and water supplies, and therefore helps sustain viable Oceans around the world.
  
• Reuse saves money in purchases and disposal costs
  
• Reuse keeps goods and materials out of wasteful landfills
  
• Reuse creates less air and water pollution than making a new item or recycling (recycling is better described as reprocessing an item into raw material for use in a new product).
  
• Reuse preserves the “embodied energy” that was originally used to manufacture an item
  
• Reuse results in less hazardous waste
  
• Reuse generates new business and employment opportunities for small entrepreneurs and large enterprises
  
• Reuse creates an affordable supply of goods that are often of better quality than what is currently manufactured.

There are many good reasons for us to reuse products such as scuba equipment.

If you buy, sell, or donate through Discount Divers Supply, you can feel better knowing you helped make the world a better place in a dozen different ways.

John Burns Owner

Be Responsible:

Reuse - Recycle - Regift

NOTICE: We are currently buying all types of scuba and snorkeling gear with the highest dollar paid for the gear in highest demand. Buying: Drysuits, Drysuit thermals, and BCD's(less than 10 years old) Hoods, booties, gloves (less than 20 years old) Regulators, computers, gauges (Less than 15 years old) Dive Helmets/hats/band masks - any vintage Dive lights and spearguns 2,3, and 5mm full length wetsuits, skins, and shortys U/W Cameras & Video (current digital - others as display value only) Scuba and Hookah Compressors (call first) Masks/Snorkels/Fins (less than 20 years old) Old dive photos an photo albums Accessories/extras and UW metal detectors Military Surplus dive gear Antique and collectable commercial Dive Gear Dive watches(esp. DOXA, Rolex)working or not Rebreathers - working or not We are also buying the odd and unusual! If you have something unusual; send it in, we will do what we can! Note: Keep in mind that lead and scuba tanks are often not cost effective to mail - we take them as donation only. Discount Divers Supply - America's REUSE Scuba and Snorkel Gear headquarters - Serving National and International buyers and sellers since 1993. a. Adapted from Choose to Reuse,by Nikki & David Goldbeck. Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/why-reuse-beats-recycling.html --> Discount Divers Supply Used Scuba Gear Buying/Reuse Policy ************************************************************* We are not accepting equipment to buy in the month of November. Our buyer is diving in the Philippines and Palau and our assistant buyer has taken a higher paying position at Taco Bell :) If you have something you would like to donate, mail it in or drop it by the dive shop. We provide donations receipts. Thank You for your understanding. John Burns, Owner Ship Donations to: DDS ATTN: Donations 2520 Westlake Ave. N Seattle, WA 98109 ************************************************************* What's New?! · Drysuits · Regulators · BCDs · Wetsuits · Photography · Video Equipment · Skins · Commercial Gloves/Booties/Hoods · Exploration · Communication · Accessories · Lights · Computers · Air Supply · Masks/Snorkels/Fins Kids! · Snorkeling · Gauges · Collectibles · Thermals · Bags · Watches · Submarines · DPVs · Video Clips · Travel Home Page · Gear Wanted! · Ordering Info · Product Reviews · Instruction · About us · escramble()