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Topic: Polycotton shortlist - your thoughts?

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I have been camping for over 45 years uurgh feels old. Anyway when i started camping polyester tents did not exist. It was a major discovery at the time for hikers due to the light weight and probably cheapness of the material. How ever it became apparent that it had negative sides including condensation forming on the inside of the tent and dripping, little or no ventilation, hardly any shade is created and noisier than cotton tents in the rain. Polyester tents are still great for hiking but not for large family tents. Weight seems hardly an issue when most people turn up with MPV's, roof boxes and or trailers.It seems to me that alot of the cost of a tent is surely in the man hours taken to stich it together so the material is hardly the issue. So then why, here in the uk, have we a massive choice of polyester tents and hardly any choice of polycotton tents. PROFIT. Its more profitable to sell polyester tents than polycotton tents. We the british public are easily persuaded as we only buy whats on offer. We are not very demanding consumers. Therefore all the tent retailers sell a majority of polyester tents. If you want choice start to look on at the Dutch retailers they have an amazing choice of cotton tents. I have just bought a HYPER CAMP cotton tunnel tent from a company called
http://www.obelink.nl/ws/home.asp
We received it today after ordering it 4 days ago over the internet. We have just had it up in the garden and its a brilliant quality for less than half the price of a poly cotton tent in the uk. We are still so cynical about the so called recession and retailers being greedy. It still seems to be rip off Britain to me. If you want cotton go Dutch.

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