| It's a jungle out there! When you are trying to | | | | it. But the width, ah, that is another matter. For |
| buy a hammock, jungle doesn't say the half of it. | | | | bar hammocks and fabric hammocks this is not a |
| This article is intended to guide you past some of | | | | big issue. But in the open sprang woven |
| the pitfalls unscrupulous hammock sellers have | | | | hammocks like the Mayan and Nicaraguan this is a |
| strewn in your path. By the way, ten or fifteen | | | | big deal. If you lay a Mayan hammock or a |
| years ago this whole internet hammock landscape | | | | Nicaraguan hammock on the ground you will find it |
| was pretty serene. Most of the folks selling | | | | is hard to know how wide it is. What some folks |
| hammocks on line were actually human beings | | | | do is to have one person on either side pull the |
| who had discovered them on their travels and | | | | hammock as wide as they can and then measure |
| wanted to share the good news in the frontier | | | | the distance. A lot of 11 and 15 foot wide |
| world of the internet. Not anymore. Many of the | | | | hammocks have been born this way. |
| companies these days follow the pillage and burn | | | | Unfortunately few of them can hold even one |
| philosophy of corporate greed. Listed below are | | | | person, let alone two, in real comfort. |
| three common tricks these folks like to play on | | | | 3. The third trick is free shipping. I have to tell you |
| the unwary shopper. | | | | that hard as I have tried to get FedEx or UPS to |
| | | | ship for free, they just won't do it. As shipping |
| 1. The first trick, which is a common one, is simple | | | | accounts for 8-10% of the revenue of an online |
| exaggeration, what is known legally as "puffing". | | | | business, one way or the other it is packed into |
| This can be as simple as calling a hammock "large" | | | | the price. Now I will grant you that free shipping |
| when it is not. In fact I would pretty much say | | | | can be convenient in that you know the total cost |
| that across the board if a hammock is called | | | | up front. But it is not free. Not ever. |
| "large," it isn't. Most hammock lines start out with | | | | So the next time you see the ad for a |
| the smallest hammock in the line called "large," and | | | | Kowabunga XXXL super huge family hammock |
| then add X's and L's until you are reeling. | | | | "Shipped Free", dig a little deeper. Maybe it is a |
| 2. The second trick is the fanciful measurement | | | | really good deal on a really good hammock. But |
| ploy. The length of a hammock is a pretty | | | | then again, maybe it is not! |
| straightforward thing. You lay it out and measure | | | | |