Rival

[tsnowflake72]

Is Rival Industries (ballast) still in business? Can anyone help?

[lba_dillon]

Is Rival Industries (ballast) still in business? Can anyone help?

Todd,

Hey man it's Brandon!!! Yeah they are still in business. I was just talking to Blaine yesterday @ the boat show about putting a ballast system in my boat! Give him a shout this week he can talk to you about 2 different systems!!!! I heard you had a pretty good time @ the boat show!!! Got word from Ed/Jay that Daniel Watkins stopped by on Saturday evening and hooked them all up with his new board and bindings!!!! Pretty cool! Keep in touch!

[tsnowflake72]

Hey Brandon couldn't find it on the net.
Todd

[lba_dillon]

Hey Brandon couldn't find it on the net.
Todd

Hmmmmmm let me take a peek!!!! I'll post on here with results!

[lba_dillon]

can't find it either.........all searches come back null..





I just left a message with blaine as he is bringing boats back from H-burg! I am thinking about putting a system in my boat as well.......I'm thinking hard tank for the back and soft up front....

[talltigeguy]

I would try and contact the TIge dealer in Arizona. They are adjacent to one another. I get several emails and no one seems to be able to reach them these days. I guess they don't want any more business.

[evil0ne]

I guess they don't want any more business.

I hear so many good things, but their presence on the internet is non-existent.

[lba_dillon]

I hear so many good things, but their presence on the internet is non-existent.

Yeah and you would think that since the majority of the feedback I've heard from the company was POSITIVE they would have TONS of links on the WWW



Who knows........I'll see what our marina says... I'll post any info I get! Cheers, Brandon

[Paublo]

Rival and Tige Performance Boats (the Arizona Tige dealer) in Mesa, AZ are the same. The website has been down for some time. They are so busy with the boat side of the business the Rival website has taken a backseat. They also had the Phoenix boat show this past week so give them a chance to recover and then give them a call at 480-655-9055. They are very helpful and great to deal with.

[evil0ne]

Rival and Tige Performance Boats (the Arizona Tige dealer) in Mesa, AZ are the same. The website has been down for some time. They are so busy with the boat side of the business the Rival website has taken a backseat. They also had the Phoenix boat show this past week so give them a chance to recover and then give them a call at 480-655-9055. They are very helpful and great to deal with.

Interested in selling that side of the business?

[lba_dillon]

Rival and Tige Performance Boats (the Arizona Tige dealer) in Mesa, AZ are the same. The website has been down for some time. They are so busy with the boat side of the business the Rival website has taken a backseat. They also had the Phoenix boat show this past week so give them a chance to recover and then give them a call at 480-655-9055. They are very helpful and great to deal with.

Now that you mention it..........isn't the guy who "started" RIVAL the guy who bought the dealer in Mesa??????????? I forget his name but I think our dealer did mention that! hmmmmmmmmmmm

[talltigeguy]

Too busy to do some marketing....It must not be very lucrative. According to my best calculations, the supplies to the rival system cost about half of what they sold it for. That is with me buying stuff online without any volume discount. So I think that they would make $500 on a $1000 dollar system. Then there would be some labor costs to put together the manifold and put it all in the box.

I was missing a number of items, so I guess good help really is hard to find!

[Domsz06]

they make a 100% profit on when they sell the kits. Whoever started it as left the dealer, and there customer service on those has gone done the tubes. I would for sure love to buy it and market them and sell them on the internet for a discount to all the DIY's out there. Wonder if they wanna sell that business.

[xpjim1]

I am trying to decide what I am going to do for ballast. Rival, Make-a Wake or DIY. So far without sacs I am about $700 costing the DIY out. Not 100% sure what comes in the Rival set up, but based on talltigeguy's write up I am using some upgraded parts and includes the quick connects on the sacs.

Not sure which way I am going though. There are only so many ways to do an automatic ballast system.

Just like a sprinkler system Unfortunatly everytime i work on the yard sprinklers they leak

[Domsz06]

yeah and my ballast system has had it's fair share of leaks! Let me tell you!!
this house I bought it's the first house I have bought with a sprinkler system and let me tell you it's been a PITA!!!