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General Com-Pac and Sailing Related Discussions => Gear, Deals, Retailers, and Yards => Topic started by: brackish on April 22, 2010, 08:28:48 AM

Title: Ultimate Passage, an endorsement
Post by: brackish on April 22, 2010, 08:28:48 AM
Living in an area where everything marine has to be ordered online, I am rarely impressed with service.  Ultimate Passage was an exception.  I needed to order a tiller pilot and a C-Max c-card for my GPS,  two relatively expensive items.  Shopped a half dozen sources and Ultimate Passage clearly had the lowest delivered price.  However, I had to ask a question about one of the items, so I emailed them at about 10:00 PM.  When I went to the computer the next morning at approximately 6:00AM my answer was there.  The C-card was not in stock, something I expected so, I emailed to get an expected delivery.  Had an answer in five minutes. 

So I placed the order.  Five minutes later I get a call from Lisa politely asking if I was sure about the C-card format, wanting to make sure that my GPS took that format and not SD.  I had researched it and was sure, but it was nice to have a supplier actually check.  Most would just let you make what would be an easy mistake to make.

Order came quicker than promised and complete.

I'll be back.

http://www.ultimatepassage.com/

Title: Re: Ultimate Passage, an endorsement
Post by: Billy on April 22, 2010, 10:49:53 AM
good to know, and west marine is so over priced
Title: Re: Ultimate Passage, an endorsement
Post by: newt on April 23, 2010, 12:56:23 AM
I checked their prices, about on the level with Defender. Pretty good :)
Title: Re: Ultimate Passage, an endorsement
Post by: brackish on April 23, 2010, 11:26:33 AM
Quote from: newt on April 23, 2010, 12:56:23 AM
I checked their prices, about on the level with Defender. Pretty good :)

On the two items mentioned above the delivered difference in the price compared to Defender was a total of $40.  About $75 difference compared to West Marine.  Very good.  Thing is, all things being equal, their service and response time was excellent.