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    Posted: 10 Apr 2006 at 9:56am
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To all those people who rushed out and paid megabucks for Avet reels, seduced by the Gold colour.

The same ones who are now finding out what everyone else already knows - that all that glistens is not gold, and corrosion and drag problems are well known with these reels.

Ya shoulda stuck with 225LDs, boys.

Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water.


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They will all be rushing out to get some qaulity Abu gear..........

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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Stupid boy.

 

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hahaha

Daiwa all the way!! unless its a trinidad

225, huh aint they obsolete!!

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upgrading a bit of kit shortly Squid....you want that other VIP of mine?
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Quote: Originally posted by Peter da Squid on 10 April 2006

hahaha

Daiwa all the way!! unless its a trinidad

225, huh aint they obsolete!!

They stopped making you 30 years ago Squiddy - are you obslete? Not according to my wife.
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yepp Im obsolete and useless.

Thats a kind offer on the vip Charlie Pride, see you tomorra for the usual??

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your'e on Mr Kinte!
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Translation: Kezza will be talking dribble on Skype Tommorow eve !
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Never let it be said that I dont do my investigating........

From Mr Watson

�well we all know that a feature of the ITM Fishing Show is the underwater footage and the filming of the underwater footage has for the most part been filmed by me. So it was with some surprise that I noticed Kerren pick up the underwater camera while I was fishing�.but Kezza wasn�t too keen on getting into the 11 deg water so instead he leaned over the side with celly in top pocket what followed was  �plop���Fark..that was my farken phone� all on board refrained from laughing at the large tattooed guy who I tried to help vent and get it out of his system as it was early in the trip.

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Ahh he did mention that his cellphone was taking sms pictures of snapper feeding on it.
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...what a complete load of "cods" wollop.

I was actually showing the Southlanders how to create their own version of TAS Reef...damn neighbourly of me I thought.

'Luckily' I had only recently upgraded phones and still had the old one, so the contacts could be copied over to the replacement phone easily...would have been a complete bunch of arse otherwise....see there is a silver lining there somewhere....expletive expletive!!

you'll keep Randell & Co.


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Go the 225LD's. They rock
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Quote: Originally posted by Bender on 10 April 2006

To all those people who rushed out and paid megabucks for Avet reels, seduced by the Gold colour.

The same ones who are now finding out what everyone else already knows - that all that glistens is not gold, and corrosion and drag problems are well known with these reels.

Ya shoulda stuck with 225LDs, boys.

 

I own an Avet SX bought after some consultation with members of this site in this thread.

Thanks Bender and "everyone else who already knows" as I dont recall anyone posting anything about corrosion or drag problems when I was considering what to buy. And now you come out with this.

If the problems with these reels were so "well known" then why didnt someone say something at the time?

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Nominate THEM for the April award Boz, for not warning you off

Plenty of April left yet to find some nominations eh boys?

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"Thumbs down to that phone muppet"

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Boz...

Caveat Emptor

I just did a basic Google search on AVET reels and alot of comments made by those that have been using them of different forums around the world are not overly flattering...warranty? or shell out a few bucks and get your reel looked at now...even if you have a good one it would be preventitve maintenance and piece of mind at the least?

....guess folk are worried about potential law suites etc if their posts are construde as liable and because AVET is reasonably new on the market here in NZ, no one would have had a lot of hands on experience with the product....will PM you one of the discussion forums fyi!
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Quote: Originally posted by Bender on 10 April 2006

To all those people who rushed out and paid megabucks for Avet reels, seduced by the Gold colour.

The same ones who are now finding out what everyone else already knows - that all that glistens is not gold, and corrosion and drag problems are well known with these reels.

Ya shoulda stuck with 225LDs, boys.

Just outa curiosity , what prompted this post ??
Why does the answer to all government problems involve taking more of my money ?
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Quote: Originally posted by Boz19 on 11 April 2006
Quote: Originally posted by Bender on 10 April 2006

To all those people who rushed out and paid megabucks for Avet reels, seduced by the Gold colour.

The same ones who are now finding out what everyone else already knows - that all that glistens is not gold, and corrosion and drag problems are well known with these reels.

Ya shoulda stuck with 225LDs, boys.

 

I own an Avet SX bought after some consultation with members of this site in this thread.

Thanks Bender and "everyone else who already knows" as I dont recall anyone posting anything about corrosion or drag problems when I was considering what to buy. And now you come out with this.

If the problems with these reels were so "well known" then why didnt someone say something at the time?

I didn't know then and was veeeery tempted to join the mass exodus. But I asked myself the question - is there anything, apart from a sexy colour, that an Avet would give me that my Penn 525 mag doesn't?

Couldn't justify the expense. Since then there has been quite a lot on the hull truth site about bearings dying through sale water ingress and corrosion.

 

BTW - Boulder recommended a couple of inexpensive alternatives on that thread and you didn;t listen to him did you (even though hes done plenty if fishing and owns three of every reel ever made)?

Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water.


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