http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92QtmLI0eQ
Anyone seen this video ?
He seems to have a real thing against carbon poles , does he sell alloy ones or something?
No, he sells cf poles. He sells a basic pole with extensions to reach higher levels.
So when he says that other suppliers try to sell you a pole for this level, another pole for the second floor, another pole for the third etc. he is marketing his one pole plus extensions does all.
Its his idea of creating a marketing edge over his competitors. Unfortunately for him, most of us only have a normal day to day pole and a second for those high level windows. I have an SLX40 which gets used half a dozen times a month, so I would expect that to last for many years.
My day to day SLX22 gets much more use, so I don't expect it to last as long.
He is only doing what Black and Decker did to the power tool market about 40 years ago. They had one drilling machine that was also a power source for numerous attachments, ie circular saw, jigsaw and sander. It was a good story and caught the public's imagination, even if the attacments didn't work well in practice.