Pride Celebrity X Review

Luxury Mobility Scooters, December 2009

We have picked the top popular luxury scooters in the market, the TGA Breeze 4 and the Freerider Royale 4. The Breeze is manufactured by Afikim of Israel and is imported and distributed by TGA; the Royale is manufactured by Heartway and distributed by NHC under the Freerider brand.

Retailer	Freerider Royale 4	TGA Breeze 4
Value Mobility Scooters	£3,250	£3,245
Factory Outlet Scooters	£3,795	£3,795
Discount Scooters	£3,995	£3,465
Scoota Mart	£3,495	N/A
A1	£3,465	N/A
TGA	N/A	£4,695
Lazarus Mobility	£4,695	N/A

A price difference of £1,445 between high (Lazarus Mobility) and low (Value Mobility) on the Freerider Royale 4, and a difference of £1,450 between high (TGA) and low (Value Mobility again) tells us that shopping around is an absolute must. In most cases the sites that required you to contact them for a price didn't have a price that varied a great deal from the published prices on other sites. Some companies thought it would be a good sales tactic to refuse to give a price until we provided our best quote, and unfortunately some companies feel that belittling the competion, or mobility scooters that they didn't stock.

Mobility Scooter Price Watch

Comparing prices of mobility scooters is a notoriously difficult thing. Many manufacturer recommended retail prices are normally massively inflated to allow massive apparent discounts to consumers; products may be re-branded to make comparison shopping near impossible for most consumers; but worse than all these is the practice of hiding retail prices. Hiding retail prices has two main effects: it drives true competition out of the market by making real comparison shopping overly difficult; and it forces customers into contact with high pressure sales people. To help make things just a little bit simpler we are going to try to find the best prices on the most popular mobility scooters on the market. How are we going to do this? First of all we will collect prices from sites that actually do make their best prices freely available; then we will cross reference that with online price match services like Google merchant centre; third, we will contact a selection of sites that don’t list a price, but do give quotes by email. What we will not be doing is contacting sites that are only contactable by telephone or mail as it will be far too time consuming. The other thing we will not do is haggle. Expecting the many of the most vulnerable people in society to have to haggle for a product that is required to maintain a normal standard of living is deeply distasteful and hopefully naming and shaming these companies with their outrageous ‘opening offers’ will help to end this sharp practice. The prices initially will be broken up into seven categories; luxury scooters; travel scooters; 8 mph scooters; 6 mph scooters; 4 mph scooters; three wheel scooters; and powered wheelchairs. This is all a work in progress so please let us know what you think and if this is useful.

Mobility Scooters

Just got to keep that posting rate up in order to be recognised as a site about mobility scooters. This is going to be another gibberish post that I will delete or edit into some sembalance of order once things are up and running. Thinking about manufacturer names it will probably be worth using the regional distributers of the mobility scooters as the web has a global reach and a consumer in Israel won't know that a TGA Breeze in York is the same scooter as the Afikim Breeze in Tel Aviv, or the EV Rider Breeze or Wheelcare Breeze in the United States. Equally the same can be said for Heartway scooters that are sold as NHC (Niagara Health Care) scooters in the UK. Some scooters are even sold under more than one brand within the same market, take for example the Big Yellow Scooter Company that simply sells Pride Colt's and Pride Go Go's that happen to be yellow.

Mobility Scooter Review

In order to get this site listed I will have to make a number of long blog posts for the blind thing to read and index. If you are reading this I would stop right now as this is not going to have any interesting information about mobility scooters, that will come later. I think this blog post will need to be about eight hundred words or so. Writing eight hundred pretend words about mobility scooters is not an easy thing to do but I will persevere. Did I spell that right? Shouldn't really matter though as no one will have read this far. When I start writing real posts they will be about scooters like the TGA Supersport and the Freerider Royale. These posts will be full of interesting information about the scooters including their maximum speeds, weight capacities, battery life, and much much more. The real posts will describe things about these scooters and their strengths and weaknesses. Some scooters are great for indoor use, others not so good. Some are perfect for heavier users, often referred to as bariatric. If the user plabs to take their scooter off road that scooter will need to have certain attributes, things like large wheels and suspension. Their will also be posts about the Motability Scheme as it seems that there will be interesting times ahead now that Motability Operations appear to be about to take over the scooter scheme. Other things of interest we will be watching and blogging about will be the rising tide of anti scooter sentiment that seems to be spreading across the country. I think this is only three hundred odd words so far so I will just keep going. I am now starting to struggle to come up with other words that are related to mobility scooters. There must be many more, maybe I could effectively just list products. I'll give that a go. The Pride Colt XL8 is a mobility scooter as is the TGA Mystere. Unsurprisingly the Mercury M48GT and the Shoprider Cadiz are both scooters as well, good ones too. I know that I haven't reached my count yet, but I'm going to wrap it up. I think I will need to do this for a good few more days before I can actually post some real content. I will stick an image of a mobility scooter up though so this one isn't totally done. That picture is the Freerider Aviator S8, a rather nice new scooter manufactured by Heartway. When I am doing this for real I might write a piece about a mobility scooter like this. I would talk about the great stuff that Heartway are doing to raise the standards of design in mobility scooters.