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iainandsam Jan 16th 2009 10:56 pm

Camping equipment
 
Where is best place to look for a tent. Looking for 3 rooms. Any suggestions also makes to look at?

viviennef Jan 16th 2009 11:13 pm

Re: Camping equipment
 
They are mostly good quality here. Boating Camping Fishing has great ones, they take a while to put up though. It was like the krypton factor last time we put up a large three room one. We took our old one over christmas because I couldnt face it.

If you do go to BCF - sign up online before hand and get a discount. Most shops here you can discuss a discount with.

Vivienne

smudger_scfc Jan 16th 2009 11:33 pm

Re: Camping equipment
 

Originally Posted by iainandsam (Post 7180253)
Where is best place to look for a tent. Looking for 3 rooms. Any suggestions also makes to look at?


I find Anaconda very good for camping stuff at reasonable prices.

http://www.anaconda.com.au/Default.aspx

Always seem to have sales on, and signing up for membership (no fee's) also gives you extra discounts.

pumpkin blossom Jan 16th 2009 11:41 pm

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Don't bother with Rays outdoors. We bought a $400 tent from them, came with no instructions, and after just under 2 weeks one of the poles broke! They tried to tell me it was not covered under the warrenty as poles were not a part of the tent!!! How the hell do you put up a tent without poles!

We had a hell of a fight to get them to replace them. Staff were terrible, tried to say we had said we had taken it out in the rain and wind which it was not designed for! We had had it for less than two weeks, in the SUMMER in ADELAIDE, and said it was not LIKE we had taken it in the wind and the rain. I'm sure people here would love enough rain to knacker a tent, but there had not been one drop!

Knocks me sick every time I see one of their adverts now.

And it turns out your right are not the same here as in the UK. Consumer peope told me if SHOULD last more than two weeks, and of course the poles are part of the tent, but no process for a company not sticking to things being fit for purpose.

If I could go back I would have bought from K Mart, they have good tents at average prices, and would have sorted out a problem like broken poles.

MacScot Jan 17th 2009 12:07 am

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...camping equipment..it's the way you hold your hand..isn't it ? http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/sex/t1508.gif

annqldau Jan 17th 2009 12:57 am

Re: Camping equipment
 

Originally Posted by iainandsam (Post 7180253)
Where is best place to look for a tent. Looking for 3 rooms. Any suggestions also makes to look at?

You can get a general online idea of prices and sizes at http://au.shopping.com/xFS?KW=tents&CLT=SCH they are usually on the mark.

emelems Jan 17th 2009 4:54 am

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I always like having a nose at the tents in BigW... they have quite a lot of camping equipment aswell... think the prices are pretty reasonable too..

Em x

NigelWaring Jan 17th 2009 8:56 am

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Make sure any tent has an attached floor and mossy nets at the doors and windows, unlikely that they won't but you never know with some of the cheap imports. We always take a soft handbrush for sweeping them out.

annqldau Jan 17th 2009 12:21 pm

Re: Camping equipment
 

Originally Posted by iainandsam (Post 7180253)
Where is best place to look for a tent. Looking for 3 rooms. Any suggestions also makes to look at?

According to another post you know need golf clubs as well as a tent...:rofl::rofl:


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