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Due to illness, Pulsar is temporarily not trading. we hope to be back soon.

Our new website will have a fully fledged webshop selling unique brands and accessories (all the best performing in the UK) ALL items cheaper than ANYONE else in the UK. We WILL give the best service at the cheapest prices and we will give away FREE detecting related software and review the latest machines will complete honesty (not like the field tests you read in the magazines).

Look out for the New Minelab Explorer beating "PULSE DEVIL". In recent tests it found a hammered silver at 22" in ground an Explorer wouldn't even work properly on. It's easier to use and MUCH lighter too!!

We will be one of the few UK dealers who will be selling this superb machine designed by Genius Dave Emery.

Would you like to know where to buy this HOT new GM3+ (as reviewed at http://www.garysdetecting.co.uk/golden_mask.htm)? We don't sell it but this NEW UK dealer does!!>>> Search Technology

So, metal detector sales uk, what's it all about?

Metal detecting in the uk is a relatively small hobby with only around 15,000 people seriously involved, it is not on a par with say fishing, so the sales of metal detectors is limited to a few large dealers. The smaller dealers eak out a living usually at the whim of the big two, and it is impossible to gain entry to the market unless your face fits, although it is a very good way to make money online due to the extortionate profit margins. Metal detector online sales, are much smaller than say fishing tackle sales, camping equipment, hiking other outdoor pursuits. Add to this that as the high fuel prices bite, more people are curtailing driving to metal detecting rallies or to visit dealers who are far from their home address. This has given rise to the sale of metal detectors online, it has also given rise to reduce the costs and thus still maintain the hobby by fitting vehicles with alternative fuel sources, and also promoted the rise of the price comparison site through people searching for cheap petrol. Also this has had an effect on bicycle sales and motorcycle sales.

Commercial metal detectors are not very robust, or well designed electronically and so a business opportunity or business opportunities has / have arisen to carry out metal detector repairs and metal detector modifications, but again the big two are artificially, and illegally suppressing competition by selectively restricting the supply of spares. This has put fledgling repairers like Pulsar Electronics at a disadvantage. The existing “authorised repairers” CLAIM to use only new or factory approved parts. Interesting that because from what I see, most detectors have electronics design using old and obsolete electronics components bought in bulk from distributors. This is done so they can release the parts to their own “authorised repairer” and freeze out any competition, further proof that they to act illegally and anti competitively from the start.

A few people have tried to sell metal detectors at discount prices, take Discount Detectors, Peach Ideas and Coin Shooters for example, all have been pushed into bankruptcy or just given up through threats of physical violence from various dealers, yet the general public, ignorant of just how sad most of the large importers really are continue to support them by buying from them. The reality is this; these dealers see their customers as gullible suckers ripe for the picking. Using tactics designed along the adage than a fool and his money are soon parted, they blatantly profiteer from those who are most vulnerable. They use lies and pseudo scientific terms to peddle what are, in the main nothing more than expensive toys. Nothing could be further from the truth. They want your money, plain and simple, and when you have problem, they don't want to know. A lot is made of the fact that the metal detector market is so small that it can remain “under the radar” of the trading standards and Office of fair trading, thus those dealers who blatantly flout the law know they stand very little chance of getting caught or prosecuted.

Take one dealer, the Minelab Explorer. Each unit costs them around £495 trade (I know, I've seen their trade price list). They sell onto other dealers for around £635, yet if you haggle directly with them and pay cash, they will let you have one for £690, this would mean that for another dealer to do the same they would only make £55 profit. Not really worth getting out of bed for really . There is a term for this, it is called “Placing your competitor at a disadvantage” and it's highly ILLEGAL, yet this dealer is guilty of it and have been caught doing it 18 months ago, in early 2007, using a hidden camera, and AGAIN a few weeks back in July 2008. yes indeed, direct sales at discount prices if you are the main importer will make you money, but only at the expense of the dealer who is a customer. Why sell Minelab, Fisher, Garrett, or XP? Simple answer is DON'T. Getting involved with these overpriced toys is just too much hassle.

JUST SAY NO!!

We do, and so do a growing army of UK detectorists!!