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Local shop rant

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Triple_Strum
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You guys are welcome to add your 2 cents, here is why I am perturbed: Last week I went into my shop to browse around. I noticed they had ar5s and tanners in this year, which is new, they didnt carry armada last year. So I am like,"hey, I can actually support my local shop for once." So I ask the tech guy, assuming the answer is yes "you guys have the Look binding jig right?" he responds "do they still make Looks?" THat right there made me not want to get anything done at the shop. Then I say, "well I want to get 181 AR5s, but I notice you don't have any in stock" The manager responds "yeah, no one around here needs anyhing that big" I almost flipped out on here, saying that wasnt even long. So then I am like, whatever I will get some from them just to support a shop rather than online. She tells me she will have to order them and charge me $20 for shipping. I walked out. It scares me when I know more than everyone in the shop combined... idiots...
Nov 8 2005 12:40AM
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grindin101
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my local shop is d-structure so i can't complain
Nov 8 2005 12:48AM
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Ryno
Posts: 31125 - Karma: 336
they why i used ebay
Nov 8 2005 1:03AM
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freezed
Posts: 12973 - Karma: 500
yeah i love it when you go to talk to a tech or something to figure something out, then realize they know nothing.
Nov 8 2005 1:04AM
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jib_freak
Posts: 1078 - Karma: 10
i don't go to ski shops that sell to a majority of seniors no more...i hit up Fresh in calgary, only good freeski only ski shop in town and they're SICK!! going into non-freeski oriented shops is like going to sport check to buy shit...you just don't do it
Nov 8 2005 1:14AM
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eheath
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Haha 181 too big? wow.
Nov 8 2005 1:15AM
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lcc210
Posts: 575 - Karma: 10
Unless youre skiing out west and skiing heli accessed AK peaks 181 really is overkilland unnecessary.
Nov 8 2005 1:17AM
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IHOP
Posts: 2155 - Karma: 19
Not all techs are that bad. I know some around here are pretty helpfull and know whats up.
Nov 8 2005 1:26AM
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C.J.
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your kidding right.
Nov 8 2005 2:31AM
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Riley.
Posts: 2214 - Karma: 259
If your like 5'2"
Nov 8 2005 2:34AM
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zepscratch
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to a point, that would be too much for me and i weigh 160, but if you weigh like 190 you might even go longer
Nov 8 2005 8:37AM
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Grimace.
Posts: 8345 - Karma: 25
summit ski shop in framingham does a good job
Nov 8 2005 8:58AM
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imotion
Posts: 1343 - Karma: 11
the only prob i have with my shop is when i first started they set me up with some marker bindings, other than that there straight up doing there thang.

sickest thing was, i know this family who has known everyone who works there for like 20 years and i dropped there name two days before christmas(hectic days of waxing tuning new skis set up) and they got my skis done in a day.
Its funny because i know kids who bought there skis in october and theres won't be done for like 2 months.I was stoked.
Nov 8 2005 9:31AM
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rodadeaco
Posts: 1054 - Karma: 10
Best thing you could do is measure them yourself and use a marker to put a black line on the sidewall at true center.
I'm always scared when I take skis to get mounted, that they'll screw up. But at least at my shop, if they mount bindings wrong on new skis, they replace them.
Nov 8 2005 10:05AM
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DaV-Ski
Posts: 441 - Karma: 14
We have one decent local ski shop, and one shitty one. Problem is, the decent ski shop doesn't have a rossi binding jig. Last year, my buddy went to the shitty one to have his skis mounted at +5. He drew a line, with an arrow to the +5 marking, told the guy he wanted them mounted at +5, we came back the next day and the tech had mounted them at 0. He was pissed. This year I have to travel to get my fugi's mounted. Going to cost me nearly 30 in gas, plus 25 for the mount. shitty shitty.
Nov 8 2005 10:08AM
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DaV-Ski
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Oh, and that same shop told me I was too heavy for the Fujatives... I guess weighing 175 means I'm too fat for the 179 Fujatives.
Nov 8 2005 10:09AM
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e.will
Posts: 1981 - Karma: 967
Its too bad that your shop sucks

i live outside of Washington, D.C, and my shop is the sickest ever. My store will get anything you want. THis year i was planning on getting 4frnts, but my shop didnt carry them. So i talked to the owner, and he said he could get me them for the lowest price on the market. He could also get me the rossi axial 140 from last year, which I think is bettter than the axial 2.

So in other words, i dont think all stores are horrible, my store is the the shit.
Nov 8 2005 11:19AM
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sconniestyle
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my local shop rules. [BS] The BoardShop in LG rules.
Nov 8 2005 11:36AM
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jetski
Posts: 375 - Karma: 10
He is intitled to new skis. If he drew the line and told them where he wanted the sticks mounted and they still didn't...He gets new skis!
Nov 8 2005 11:47AM
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lcc210
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well they actually arent....
Nov 8 2005 11:55AM
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wolfmansbro
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You have to be realistic here. Ive been in plenty of shops in wisconsin who a majority of the empoyees dont know anything about the equipment i want. I've heard those same responses from people too. But at the same time i also have friends working at those shops who know a hell of lot more about twins and everything elnse. Keep in mind that a majority of what shops sell is beginner rec skis and thats what those empoyees were hired to sell. twin tips are still a small market in some parts and certain shops thoughout north america
Nov 8 2005 12:50PM
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pa_freeskier
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All the shops around here have the problem of having only short skis, which is a problem when youre 6'2" like me. I went to 3 shops last weekend and the biggest skis I saw were 175s. And the only reason I bought my mike nicks last year was they were the longest skis in the store
Nov 8 2005 4:35PM
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BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
My closest shop that even sells twins is fresh and the people there have actually skied before.
Nov 8 2005 5:09PM
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J.D.
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The issue I seem to have more than anyone else is trying to talk to snowboarders who work in the shop and know nothing about skis, since twins are usually sold in the same shop as boards... Trying to tell them exactly where I want the things mounted, and they tell me "No, the tech will take care of all of that". "No... no he won't. They're my skis. I know where I want them mounted. The tech will mount them where I say. Is that alright with you?"
Nov 8 2005 5:25PM
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Coalescent
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yeah..i switched fomr snowboarding to skiing..but i know more about snowboarding stuff than the local shop...i cant stand it
Nov 8 2005 5:30PM
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AttitashSkier
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and this would be the reason why i want to open my own shop someday.
Nov 8 2005 5:34PM
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rpcs2222
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if youre in virginia check out Freestyle in Roanoke, Lynchburg, or Charlottesville
Nov 8 2005 5:38PM
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MLB
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 298
Well i say you guys are LUCKY, my local shop does not even carry Line orr Armada. Most of the time they have one pair of twin tips, and they are always in the 160 range.
Nov 8 2005 7:44PM
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DaV-Ski
Posts: 441 - Karma: 14
They wouldn't give him new ones... only thing they did for him was remount them in the right place and not charge him for the mount. He was pissed and was even there bitching them out for a long time. It sucked.
Nov 10 2005 9:47AM
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