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01/9/2011 at 9:55pm
Location: N.Yorks
Outfit: Outwell Montana Lake
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You pays your money you takes your chance i guess with that."Needs reproofing" is pretty vague to say the least.
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02/9/2011 at 11:32am
Location: The Love Shack
Outfit: BearLake 6 and a hot water bottle.
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It doesn't say how old the tent is (does It?)remember a polyester has only an average lifespan of the equivalent of about 6 months of usage before the material starts to de laminate and the waterproofness breaks down.
Tbh a polyester tent should not need reproofing in its life time,apart from the odd seam.
I would be very wary
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02/9/2011 at 12:12pm
Location: Sauchie Scotland
Outfit: Outwell Wolf Lake 7
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In the description it says that all faults are minor and the items can still be used - to me a leaking tent is not fit for purpose! Personally I wouldn't risk it, you might get lucky, the person who returned it could have had really bad condensation and just assumed it was leaking, but on the other hand it might be similar to another post on here where one whole side of the tent had not been proofed - no fun at all and at the price it's sitting at, not much of a bargain!
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02/9/2011 at 3:23pm
Location: Somewhere in a field camping.
Outfit: Eldorado Cabanon Etna too many others
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They are based in Sheffield and are selling loads and loads of 'returned' tents.
There's a chance that you could land a bargain but after my experience with the Gelert Clearance Shop on eBay I wouldn't be tempted
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04/9/2011 at 8:14am
Location: Shropshire
Outfit: Vango Maritsa 700
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Thanks all, I think I'll give it a miss
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04/9/2011 at 9:27am
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Bit of seam sealer and some waterproof spray and for half an hours work you've got a good tent
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04/9/2011 at 10:11am
Location: Scotland.
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Quote: Originally posted by campingworld1 on 04/9/2011
Bit of seam sealer and some waterproof spray and for half an hours work you've got a good tent
Unless it's something like an ex-display tent that's been up all summer and has started to delaminate due to UV exposure, of course. TBH that's the only reason I can think of to reproof a good quality tent like an Outwell. It shouldn't need reproofed under normal conditions.
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04/9/2011 at 11:43am
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Definitely true, but I assumed it had been one that a customer sent back because it's 'leaking'. In which case I would go on to assume there's probably nothing worng with it that an experienced camper couldn't fix (pitching/venting etc)...
POint taken though, an Outwell that is actually leaking through the fabirc is something like a petrol engined supercar with 250k miles on the clock... might look good but best avoided
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04/9/2011 at 11:53am
Location: Essex
Outfit: Bell Esvo Bedouin 280 Flagstaff 4ATC
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I've got a feeling that this seller is selling on Go outdoors' returns, if you look at the other items there is a lot of "higear" tents too..... Feedback score ain't too bad though and look at the amount of faulty tents they have sold....
As others have said, I think it's a risk but the chance you take with a returned item... I know of someone on here that lost sleep over buying a tent recently from the Ebay clearance shop of one of the big camping brands, worrying about what they were going to get when the package arrived, only for it to arrive in brand new condition with just a zip needing to be re-attached.... the tent is now as good as new and they are well chuffed!
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