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Elegant & Affordable BluShark Apple Watch Straps - Roundup Review
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May 29, 2025
You don't have to go to Apple to buy stylish watch straps for your Apple Watch. There are plenty of third party options, including BluShark, a small business with big products! Tech expert Dave Taylor borrowed his daughter's Apple Watch SE 40mm to try a couple of different styles from BluShark, including both the Alpha2 and the Silicone Oceanica. How do they look? Fantastic. There's lots to like... Check it out at: https://www.BluSharkStraps.com/ Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #applewatch #watchstraps #blusharkstraps #bluesharkstraps #applewatchstraps #askdavetaylor
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the Apple Watch is great but there are
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tons of watch straps not made by Apple
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let's check a couple
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out dave Taylor here and I have my
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daughter's Apple Watch now she has what
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Apple calls their sport band on it and
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it's a pretty nice piece of silicone and
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it certainly matches the watch color
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really well but Apple makes very spendy
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watch bands so people tend to just have
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one rather than having a couple that
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gives them the ability to change things
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up and have it match their mood or their
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fashion so this one is $50 for this
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sport band so I want to put that in
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context cuz the three we're looking at
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all of them are significantly less
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expensive and in fact let's just jump
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right in so this is the silicone
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oceanica seafoam from Blue Shark and all
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of these are from Blue Shark get back to
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that in a second and this one as you can
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see is designed to be used in the water
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it has the little holes in it so that it
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keeps your wrist dry there's lots to
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like about it the Blue Shark wants
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$24.95 for this watch band apple's
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version you ready for this same it looks
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identical and it is $99 from Apple so
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this is 25% of the price but let's get
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there so first thing I want to show you
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in case you've never seen this before is
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that it's really pretty easy to take the
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band off your watch let's jump in so you
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can see a closeup of me doing that so
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here's our watch and I'm going to flip
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it over and now you can see there's
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these two little metal areas and it
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turns out if you just push one and then
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slide the band comes right off and you
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do the same thing on the other
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side and then when you're ready to put
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the band on you don't even have to push
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it just slide it in and did you hear
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that click so it clicks into
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place super easy that's it so now I just
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have the watch itself and it definitely
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needs a new watch band so Blue Shark
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kindly sent me three different watch
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bands representing two different styles
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so these are the Alpha 2 style and these
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are made out of ballistic nylon but they
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actually have a pretty soft feel to them
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they feel very nice and they of course
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have the quick release adapter so they
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will go right on the watch super easy
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and they are to some extent two-tone so
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the green one this is the Convoy Green
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and it has green with sort of a really
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dark blue stripe on both sides the one I
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like much more is the Gulf Racing and so
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this is light blue and orange and you
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can see that it also has orange bands so
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really fun and so let's
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actually pull this apart and then put
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this on the watch and honestly the
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hardest part of this task is trying to
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decide if you want to have it where you
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have the strap on the top going into the
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buckle so it goes sort of around your
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wrist like that or whether you want to
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reverse the whole thing cuz you can
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obviously do it either way one of the
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great things about how Apple has
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designed these watch bands is that it's
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you know super easy to work with and so
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then what I'm going to do is I'm just
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going to slide it in and it locks in
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place let's see there we go
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um yeah let's see try it the other
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orientation too ah that's the way it's
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supposed to go that makes more sense so
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the trick here is that on one side there
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are three black dots and on the other
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side there are two black dots with a
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metal dot in the middle the metal dot
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should be facing the back so when I put
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it in with that orientation it locks
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right in place and it is a secure
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connection and so this one will be the
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same so I can put it on the same way and
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so now you can see the watch with this
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very cool golf racing strap and I can
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put it on my wrist and of course the
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first time it's a little tricky cuz the
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band is a little stiff and let's see as
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I'm doing this I'm thinking I usually do
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it with the other orientation so we'll
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try the other orientation with the other
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bands but this one it's now on my wrist
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and it is secure you can see the way the
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buckle mechanism works here and it's
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really nice looking band i really think
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that it's very fun and sort of a very
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summery color scheme and the band feels
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very secure all of the hardware and the
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buckle and everything all definitely
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solid now let's do the same
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thing with the Convoy Green strap that
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one again we have the three black dots
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on one side and the two black dots with
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the silver in the middle on the other
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and this time let's let's orient the
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watch so I'm going to have the watch
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this way and I'm going to have the strap
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go down and around that way so I'll put
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this piece on the bottom and then this
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piece
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and once you know which side is which
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it's sure easy to work with so now we
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have it with the Alpha 2 Convoy Green
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strap from Blue Shark and this one I
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will just again wrap over my wrist and
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this feels much more like what I'm used
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to in terms of which is orientation of
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the strap and I'll put it on and tuck it
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in let's see we'll tuck it in with this
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one and I'll be honest my daughter's
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wrist is considerably smaller than my
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wrist which is why I am not worried that
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this looks a little small on my wrist
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but as you can see it looks really nice
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it's a really nice watch strap and I
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think that it's very secure i don't have
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any worries that my watch is going to
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fall off apple did a really good job
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with that mechanism and of course all
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these other companies can utilize it so
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the bands are very fixed and very solid
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and it looks really good and it's quite
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comfortable so it's already pretty soft
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and I think as I wear this more of these
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nylon bands will actually get softer cuz
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that's kind of how that works and so
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I'll take this one off and then the
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other one that I'm really interested to
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check out is the one that's the
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competitor to Apple's $99 watch band the
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Oceanica operates a little differently
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so it's a little tricky to get this all
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worked out so we're going to start with
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the top piece and then again we want
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that silver dot down so we'll put it on
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the top and that's done and then the
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bottom piece will again use that silver
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dot for
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orientation and if I put it in correctly
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then so we have the strap and it's a
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very nice looking strap and it's a
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little stretchy but what we want to do
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now is we want to put it on my wrist and
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then I'm going to flip my wrist upside
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down so you can see that this tab that
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sticks out we're actually going to just
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use to push into a hole so now we have
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the wrist correctly set and it's on and
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then you're wondering well what about
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this piece and the answer is all you
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have to do is then slide it into one of
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the holes and you're done and that's it
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so it's a very different experience but
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it's designed to keep your wrist dry and
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it's designed to have it be obviously so
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that your watch which is already
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waterproof it then has a waterproof
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strap that's not going to irritate your
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wrist when you get wet and then it dries
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off so to take it off we'll have to
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reverse the process and it's easy enough
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it is a little tricky to figure that out
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the first time but as you can see it's a
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very nice looking strap and I have to
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say that I really like Blue Shark i
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think that their logo is fun their
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packaging is fun and of course their
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pricing is excellent because you can get
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the straps from Apple for your Apple
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Watch but they're probably 2x to 4x more
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expensive than from competitors that
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have in my opinion just as good a
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product but at much lower price meaning
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that you could buy all three of
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these and have all of these different
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choices for the same price as just the
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watch band that Apple sells that is in
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this style with the different sort of
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waterproof tubes and stuff so I'm a fan
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of having options and Blue Shark is
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definitely giving me options and that
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would give you options if you check them
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out so we do need to talk price before
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we get there I'm going to ask you to
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you found this of value and I hope you
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did all right let's talk prices so you
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remember both of these are the Blue
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Shark Apple Watch Strap Alpha 2 this is
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the Gulf Racing this is the Convoy Green
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and they are $34 each and then this
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strap and this is the one that we have
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on the watch this is the Blue Shark
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silicone oceanica seafoam color and it
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is remarkably $24.95 so this is the
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least expensive strap and yet it might
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be the coolest these are solid options
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there's absolutely nothing wrong with
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the Apple Watch bands i just want to say
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that but get some choices look online go
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to their website it's all at
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bluesharkstraps.com and you'll find that
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you can for that same amount of money
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get a lot more by going to someone other
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than Apple
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