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Bl**dy Umbrellas!

THJahar

THJahar

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Well after the last couple of weeks of wind and rain, my brand new 30 quid umbrella got blown inside out and one of the little prongs broke.
Now this is the third umbrella in 6 months, totaling 90 quid in all.
I'm seriously getting p*ssed off.
For the sake of 2 pence worth of plastic, I have to throw an umbrella away or tape it up with duct tape making it look nasty.
Why can't those goddamn manufacturers allow the spokes etc, to be replaceable....it's just being bloody greedy.
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I dont use one :)

got waterproofs and a cap = sorted
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Bingo! Thats what i was going to say. Just dont bother with one, could do with a waterproof bucket hat really but just get on with it specifically so umbrella doesnt blow away/inside out
 
Was it a storm proof umbrella with the flaps, cause I was thinking of getting one of those?

On the whole though. If the £30 umbrella is going to break anyway why not just go to sports direct and buy a Dunlop one for £3. Might not be the best but at least if it blows inside out you can just stick in the garden as a chipping net.
 
During our Rainswpt Doubles Matchplay last week, one of the Whippersnappers from the shop was about to play a shot on the 4th and the wind caught his brolly. Must have gone 400 yards before he caught up with it. He'd only bought it that day.
We didn't laugh - much.

I find brollies a complete waste of tiem. If there's any wind it's almost impossible to stop it flapping about and if there isn't any wind then waterproofs and a cap do the same job.

Umbrellas were a pain at the RC last year. First thing on the Friday, before play was suspended, you could barely see anything through a forest of them. And when you did manage to squeeze into a gap, some prat tilted their brolly and 3 gallons of cold Welsh rain went straight down the back of your neck.
 
I like a brolly just to reduce that 'drowned rat' feeling of being constantly in the rain. it's just infuriating to me that, manufacturers deliberately make them so that the struts are not replaceable.
I mean it's not hard you could package 3 or 4 extra struts with the brolly that can be screwed in if one breaks.
but oh, no...they'd rather you dole out another full price for a replacement.
I tell you what the first branded manufacturer who brings out a brolly that can do that would get my custom on the rest of their kit as well, shoes...waterproofs, shirts and I'd stick with them for being the first company in hundreds of years since the umbrella has been invented to think of the customers and not just gouging out a profit.
 
I've got one of the stormproof ones with 2 layers of material. I've never used it in gale force winds, but fairly strong ones and never had a problem.
 
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