Cheap Tents

vernon · Post by **vernon** » 31 Aug 2008, 11:51pm

Those of us who bought the Pro Action Tiger Paws one man tent from Argos four or so years ago for £30 or, if you waited, half price at £15 might like to contemplate upgrading with the later model that Argos re-introduced this season - it's currently being sold at £24.99 - half price. The original got rave reviews in the usenet walkers forum. Mine's served me well, most recently on my Lon Las Cymru ride.

Heres a picture of the latest offering:

I've seen the original Tiger Paws sell for more than this on Ebay.

Oh I gorgot to add they make a great first purchase too!

cycle_tourer · Post by **cycle_tourer** » 1 Sep 2008, 11:30am

Wow! I have been thinking about getting a one man tent, but don't really have the money to splash out, and mostly cycle with my partner so use our very good 3kilo tent. Tempted to get one of these on my lunchbreak though!

james01 · Post by **james01** » 1 Sep 2008, 4:07pm

I bought the original about 4 years ago. Very light & compact, totally waterproof with 3000mm head flysheet. Amazing quality aluminium poles & pegs.
Downsides: a bit cramped for a 6 footer. Storage area between inner & door a bit small for panniers etc.
For the price, who's complaining?

bailout · Post by **bailout** » 1 Sep 2008, 4:58pm

I have one of the original ones I got for £15. Used it for the first time on Lundy a couple of months ago and it stood up to 3 days of strong winds and rain without a problem. I am tempted to buy another just for spares but not sure about the colour :shock:

Why did they change from the nice green to orange :roll:

not exactly suitable for low impact camping where you shouldn't.

vernon · Post by **vernon** » 1 Sep 2008, 7:10pm

bailout wrote:I have one of the original ones I got for £15. Used it for the first time on Lundy a couple of months ago and it stood up to 3 days of strong winds and rain without a problem. I am tempted to buy another just for spares but not sure about the colour Why did they change from the nice green to orange not exactly suitable for low impact camping where you shouldn't.

I'm not sure if the bits are interchangeable. I have my suspicions that they are clones of a much more expensive tent. Mine too stood up to very strong winds and heavy rain on the North Wales coast.

cyclepete · Post by **cyclepete** » 1 Sep 2008, 11:13pm

i bought one of these tents 4 month ago for 50 pound am
bit gutted now
:oops:

i have not used it but set it up in my mams garden it seems a great bit of kit :wink:

am looking for a vango venom 300 to go with it the best price i have found is 72 pounds :idea:

that would be some set of kit for 100 quid

bailout · Post by **bailout** » 2 Sep 2008, 11:27am

vernon wrote:I'm not sure if the bits are interchangeable.

AFAIK the current version is just the same but in different colour.

vernon wrote: I have my suspicions that they are clones of a much more expensive tent.

Does this look familiar

http://sierradesigns.com/tents.display.php?id=45

peter236uk · Post by **peter236uk** » 2 Sep 2008, 11:32am

Vernon
They are asking £49.99 you must of started a sale !!!!!!

cycle_tourer · Post by **cycle_tourer** » 2 Sep 2008, 2:19pm

Damn! I was too slow, back up in price.

vernon · Post by **vernon** » 2 Sep 2008, 2:21pm

peter236uk wrote:Vernon
They are asking £49.99 you must of started a sale !!!!!!

They were £24.98 on Sunday - I wish I'd committed myself to a purchase......I wonder if there was a rush and a reversal of the price cut

peter236uk · Post by **peter236uk** » 2 Sep 2008, 3:17pm

I will pop in on way home just to double check
Pete

cyclepete · Post by **cyclepete** » 2 Sep 2008, 4:57pm

bugger have just checked argos and they are back up in price :cry:

peter236uk · Post by **peter236uk** » 3 Sep 2008, 8:36am

Vernon see what you have done driven the prices back up !!!!!
haha

Ambermile · Post by **Ambermile** » 3 Sep 2008, 11:13am

Seems they are past tents now...

Arthur :roll:

cranky · Post by **cranky** » 3 Sep 2008, 11:23am

Ambermile wrote:Seems they are past tents now...

Arthur

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