I need to get a compressor. What savings to be had a camping shows?

[GeeTee]

Couple of years ago there were 2 magazines that did spotlight "Indepth tests" - 1 month apart... They came out totally the opposite..How could they come to this result so far apart?
Impartial? Money rules.
But .. MIRACLE BY MIRACLE, both tests were followed by pages of advertising by the winners.. AND.... "Subscribe to win a set of XYZ LIGHTS VALUED AT $50,000"...

I reckon if you paid enough there'd be a magazine out there somewhere where a companies trailers could come out 1st in every price catagory in Camper of the year - even if they didnt have a trailer over $10k. Thats just how I see it. 
agree with the short term batting off some people do...
"... these are by far the best tires I've ever had.. I've got 12klms on them now and they are still black!" kinda ****.

as I said Lost I totally understand your cynicism and agree to some degree. Yes it is possible for tests to come to 'opposite' conclusions depending on the criteria (value/performance and durability etc etc) and who is doing the testing (experience, preference, understanding of the criteria etc etc) but this 'weighting' should all be explained in the article. If it's not... be cynical!

But the Net is not always a BBQ with mates either: After being a nice obedient little Hilux forumite, I threw up some ideas and asked for feedback from punters on some plans/ambitions I had for my products before I committed another $20 or $30K...

The forum masters locked the thread. An email arrived and it said my posts would be re-instated if I agreed to a 12-month 'sponsorship'.

I didn't agree with this 'cash for comment' situation and I haven't logged-on since.

Anyhow, maybe you/we should start a thread instead of hijacking this one on pumps...

[chester ver2.0]

Back to the origional question if you add up the cost of tickets and the day at the show even with the discounts you can still pay the same as normal retail. I have gone to the local ARB store the week after the show and they gave me the compressor at the show price so i was pretty happy with that.

Dont go a cheapy one i learnt that the hard way lets just say 1 beer per tyre so a 6 pack is required when im towing the camper

[Big D]

Can't say I've heard of anything going wrong with the Tigersz11 Thumper.....it dominated it's price range for duty, speed and reliability (even though TJM won for some reason.....I guess they offered the magazine more for the win!)  How it won over the TJM unith which it beat it in every regard I have no idea.   I would buy one again over a more expensive one....looks exactly like the Dr Air Pro whcih won first place in the over $250 category and only costs around $300.

check this out -  reckon the actual real world test results are legit but how that translates into the placings is a bit of a mystery.

http://www.4wdaction.com.au/articles/2011/issue-169-air-compressor-comparo-corrections

As for going to the show...I reckon if you are going anyway then it is worth considering buying one there but I wouldn't go there just to buy a compressor - it won't be financially viable after the entry, food, drinks etc!

Cheers

[Big D]

just realised someone else previously posted the same link...sorry (where's the embarrassed smily face).

also, I run the Tigerz 11 as my primary hardwired (it's fairly big) and keep the smaller blue tongue as my backup now.   The Tigerz11 blitzes it.