MrBillM
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Good Deal on VHF antennas
I ran across this at www.westmarine.com. I've just ordered two.
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bajalou
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Great prices for sure
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Bob and Susan
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it was a Great price till i got to the tax and shipping an EXTRA $18
more than the cost of the product $16!!!! $36 total
AND i need an extra one for my base station
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MrBillM
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A Taxing Experience
The California Sales Tax (assuming CA delivery) is an unfortunate fact of life since West Marine has a physical presence in CA and does not have the
option of not collecting the tax.
If you're only ordering that one item, shipping will be a little steep. In my case, I had already put together an order including a radio and some
other items so the shipping had less impact. Still, in each case the savings over the regular catalog price was $23.00 +tax so it would still be a
good, if not great, price.
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BajaHawk
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Thanks for the heads-up! I just picked one up. They didn't have the one advertised so gave me the closest thing at the special price.
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BajaHawk
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Thanks for the heads-up! I just picked one up. They didn't have the one advertised so gave me the closest thing at the special price.
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MrBillM
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Kudos to West Marine
Once again, West Marine shows themselves to be an outstanding vendor.
I received my (2) Shakespeare 8' antennas early this week. Opening one of them I found that the Coax was gone along with the hardware. I e-mailed
West Marine telling them that the antenna shipped must have been a defective return mistakenly put back in inventory since the coax was missing and it
attaches well up inside the hollow antenna tube. I received a reply the next a.m. stating that they had shipped a replacement out No Charge via Fed
Ex that morning. I received it today.
As an aside, today I removed the "defective" antenna completely from the shipping tube and I found a memo attached to it from West Marine Marketing
addressed to "All Stores" stating that they were shipping this DUMMY antenna to be placed in the store display replacing a discontinued Shakespeare
model. So the unit wasn't actually defective, it was a display unit that was mistakenly placed in stock.
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