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Well it may seem an obvious thing to do to most to check your new tent before you embark on your first trip with it.

We decided, as new tent arrived yesterday, that we didnt need to have a practice put up, because it is fairly straightforward and we have had several tents. But we thought we had best check that everything was there!!

What a bloody good job we did, because all the poles were missing!!! What a laugh (NOT) that would have been arriving at site with no poles, and its not like we have just left them at home either, we would have been stuffed!!

I phoned the shop, who first thought it was the manufacturer problem, as they thought poles and tent all packed as one, but after double checking, they realised this was not the case, they had just not been sent, so they are en-route and should be here tomorrow!

what tent is it, tell me tell me!

i would have been well fed up if half a tent arrived

Royal Hampton 4, its an almost identical copy (apart from eyebrows, and a second side door) to the Outwell Oakland XL.

Cant wait to get the other half to my tent now!!

I was checking a tent over for an ebay sale and found it had no pegs! I couldn't understand where they could have got to as I'm really strict about checking a site over before we leave! At least I had a few days before the auction was up to buy some more!

Poles have arrived today - Hooray!    A complete tent!

But am definatley going to do a complete test pitch over weekend, just in case  - even though it was the shops fault we didnt get the poles, and not the manufacturer, but I think it makes you a bit paranoid after a bad experience!

Our utility tent came today, and that has already been checked and pitched and is back in bag!

We bought a Sun Valley 6, put it up on a test run, and found a small fault.  Kept the poles, sent tent back and the shop sent a SunValley 8 flysheet & inners by mistake... 

The thought did cross my mind to just keep the SV8, and make up the extra pole, but I'm a law abiding chap and had it swapped again for the correct one (although, looking back, a SV8 would be nice...)

The rule is ALWAYS check & test pitch a new tent before you go (and also always test pitch and check tents at the beginning of the season...)