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I looked at Jackson kayaks too before I bought my Ride 115 (which I think is worth every penny I paid for it) but the store was going to charge me 50 bucks to demo it for a couple hours to make sure I like it. That's laughable. You don't pay to test drive a car do you? So why pay to "test drive" a much cheaper method of transportation? I called HOOK1 and asked about a demo and they said sure. They drove it to Old Hickory and said to call them when I'm done to pick me up. I already thought the Jackson kayaks were overpriced. At 1,200 dollars I don't see what the Jackson Coosa does that the Ride 115 can't do for about 300 dollars less.

I went into the other store selling Jackson kayaks (they'll remain nameless) and told them HOOK1 lets me demo any kayak I want for free and said they should do the same thing but they wouldn't and said that Jackson makes it mandatory that they charge a potential customer just to demo a kayak for an hour or so. I don't know if I believe that or not but if it's true, it's enough to make me not want to buy anything from Jackson. If it's not true, that means that store was just wanting my 50 bucks and didn't get it, along with the other 850 I obviously was willing to spend on a kayak. Their loss.