ORIGINAL: ShatoDavis
... So i tell the sellsperson that i want to test them outside. he says there is no way! So i tell him that I won't buy them. Long and short the manager agreed to let the sellsman take the chart outside across the parking lot and we would stand at the door and compare. I would estimate that the chart was 200 yards away.
GREAT way to go about it!
...I guess the point of my story is, Don't ask the manager to do you special favors unless you have $1500 to spend!
Here, I disagree with you. It shouldn't be any skin off their nose to accommodate their customers even for a $50 pair of throwaway binocs. They could build an enormous amount o' customer goodwill with such a small gesture as this, that that the word o' mouth would be priceless. I don't understand how so many places can be so short-sighted about these things.
As for my experience on bino's, I just got back from a 10 day hunt in BC, & 4 guides (including the 2 owner/outfitters) thought my Zeiss 8x42 FL's were better than the Swaro's & Leica's that they were carrying. I was quite pleased with them, anyway... I finally got my bull!
FC