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Topic: Coleman Alaska 3 polycotton

Merry

14/4/2009 at 11:35am
Location: A quiet pitch with a lovely view
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£65 on Amazon . Still an awful lot of money for a small dome tent but an excellent price for this particular polycotton one. Luxury pup tent, anybody?

I think it looks great but my old knees are telling me to get real.

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splendidisolation

14/4/2009 at 8:22pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: Karsten 220 De Waard Visdief+Kuifuil

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I think that's a great price for a 3 man polycotton dome!....and free delivery.....shame there's no measurements on there........I'd better not make the effort to look for them in case it makes me want one...a great little tent.

cottontent

28/5/2009 at 8:13pm
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I have been camping for over 45 years uurgh feels old. Anyway when i started camping polyester tents did not exist. It was a major discovery at the time for hikers due to the light weight and probably cheapness of the material. How ever it became apparent that it had negative sides including condensation forming on the inside of the tent and dripping, little or no ventilation, hardly any shade is created and noisier than cotton tents in the rain. Polyester tents are still great for hiking but not for large family tents. Weight seems hardly an issue when most people turn up with MPV's, roof boxes and or trailers.It seems to me that alot of the cost of a tent is surely in the man hours taken to stich it together so the material is hardly the issue. So then why, here in the uk, have we a massive choice of polyester tents and hardly any choice of polycotton tents. PROFIT. Its more profitable to sell polyester tents than polycotton tents. We the british public are easily persuaded as we only buy whats on offer. We are not very demanding consumers. Therefore all the tent retailers sell a majority of polyester tents. If you want choice start to look on at the Dutch retailers they have an amazing choice of cotton tents. I have just bought a HYPER CAMP cotton tunnel tent from a company called
http://www.obelink.nl/ws/home.asp
We received it today after ordering it 4 days ago over the internet. We have just had it up in the garden and its a brilliant quality for less than half the price of a poly cotton tent in the uk. We are still so cynical about the so called recession and retailers being greedy. It still seems to be rip off Britain to me. If you want cotton go Dutch.

PigletandTigger

28/5/2009 at 8:32pm
Location: Dorset
Outfit: Lots.mainly Cabanons!

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Errrm Merry....can I ask just WHAT you're doing STILL looking at canvas tents?

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Merry

28/5/2009 at 8:47pm
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Errrm, old thread, Piglet. Revived by Cottontent, a new name on the boards but with a strangely familiar style

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PigletandTigger

28/5/2009 at 9:03pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Merry on 28/5/2009
Errrm, old thread, Piglet. Revived by Cottontent, a new name on the boards but with a strangely familiar style

Ahh I see what you mean (on both points!)

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spudz

29/5/2009 at 3:07pm
Location: Bergamo Italy
Outfit: ESVO Pyramid & Ridge

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I'm of the same opinion. There's a certain Deja Vu about it all .....

Oooooooooo, spooky!

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beefysmum

29/5/2009 at 3:19pm
Location: swansea
Outfit: Avondale corfu sunvalley 8

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Deja vu? spooky ? copy and paste must be stuck , only 5 posts but all indentical.........

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29/5/2009 at 6:46pm
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it's £99 now as well.....

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