I mean a whites can see in the ground and tell you what it is before you dig it up,so I'll give them that.But why in the world would a metal detector company make a metal detector with a huge metal box hanging off of a rod that you carry with one arm is beyond me?Should detectors be getting lighter or heavier?You tell me?If you want to be a weight lifter that's you're business.But i think in certain engineering designs,the new age of plastics might just be ok.What do you think norbyx?
Well I disagree, but that is what it's all about and that is the nice thing about human nature, if we all had the same tastes we would only have one metal detector and we will all have the same one.
Anyhow this is what I think. Whites metal detectors don't feel heavy, even though they aren't light as other brands, they are well balanced. Why they put a metal box in the back of the rod, I can give a couple of reasons for that. First they want to give a immage of "built to last", there are too many cheaply made detectors (or electronics) now days that look and feel cheep, and it is quite a different immage to see a well built, with quality materials, item.
I don't believe that new age electronics are better than the old ones as far as durability. I have had a lot of OLD electronics that were built like tanks and nowdays they build them to fail, otherwise you wouldn't be changing them soon. Once a Ham radio would out last you if you took good care of it, now days if you don't sell it after 5 years of use you most likely will start having problems with it.
And that goes for 90% of todays products, they might be better in some ways, cars might be faster and more fuel efficient, but they aren't built to last.
So going back to metal detectors, whites makes detectors that feel well, they feel like they will last forever, and most of the times they do. I have had other brands and even if they don't feel as the whites they do have a decent feeling. Than I had the tesoros, they look and feel like they were made by amateurs. I am not saying that they don't perform, I am just saying that they feel the same as a chinese $50 metal detector and they cost more than 10 times that, so how can they justify that cost? You tell me.
Now tell me something else, my tesoro has 30 min of use because I wanted to test it to see if I could adapt to it, and I couldn't, I decided to sell it and placed an add for it at $100 less than what I paied for it (with invoice proof), tesoro dealers aparently have to sell their detectors at a fixed price and they can't go below a certain limit (my cost), and with all of that I have not had ONE offer on the detector, I can tell you that if it was another brand I would have sold it long time ago. That also makes me think....
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