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In early January of 2001, my brother, Danny, was visiting from
Kansas. We decided to visit our local Fry's. There, we happened
upon the weather stations. Fry's sold weather stations from two
different companies, Oregon
Scientific and Davis
Instruments. I noticed that the Davis stations were much
more expensive than the Oregon stations. Danny and I knew that
this is exactly what our Dad would love to have. I decided
to do a little research to find which station would best Dad.
A little reseach turned into three months of exhaustive research.
The more I read, the more excited I became. Not for Dad, but for myself!
I finally made the decision to but a station sometime in mid-March.
As I did my research, I found Davis had just introduced a weather
station named the Vantage Pro
. Considering the price and feature set, I believe the Vantage Pro is
probably the better weather station. The only problem is hasn't shipped
yet and isn't supposed to start until May 2001. In software, we call this
"Vaporware".
The lowest price I found on the internet was $329 for the WRM-968. The
next lowest was $380 at a few sites and the next was $400. I started
looking on E-Bay and found that one
company was flooding E-Bay with WRM-968's starting around $150 but with
a reserve. I never found out what the reserve was, but it was higher
than $315. I finally one company on E-Bay where I could directly buy
a station for $301. The name of the seller was estuff4less.com.
I was very
statisifed with her response to my e-mails and delivery of the weather
station. I would definitely do business with her again. Don't be
fooled into thinking you are going to get a WRM-968 for less than
$300 because the auction price starts less than $200, it won't
happen!
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