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The Sign Asks YOU!

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RKF
Posts: 1527 - Karma: 342
The Sign of the Skier wants to know what twintip brand you would like to see carried next year!

Your oppinion matters, if you feel like contributing please let me know here.

We currently carry K2, Salomon, and Rossi twintips on our wall. but stil carry dynastar, elan, and fischer available on special order.

Your options are as follows...

4FRNT
LINE
ARMADA
PRIOR

What skis do you toronto skiers want better access to for next season!
Jan 16 2007 7:12PM
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fouldsys
Posts: 7404 - Karma: 39
line
Jan 16 2007 7:20PM
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Ronix
Posts: 1396 - Karma: 33
yea line, I dont know anyone eles that sells them in the gta
Jan 16 2007 7:39PM
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BusyJohnSohn
Posts: 3483 - Karma: 29
line for sure, the fcat is sporting life carries armada's, which are sick, and you would have a monopoly on Line in the GTA, there have also been numerous threads in this forum about where to buy Line in Toronto
Jan 16 2007 8:04PM
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Dust_Head
Posts: 26 - Karma: 10
Definately Line and I'll take a set of chronics, also Dynastar, Solomon.
Jan 16 2007 8:09PM
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timmi
Posts: 12874 - Karma: 3,460
armada. or line.
Jan 16 2007 8:51PM
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seider
Posts: 958 - Karma: 23
ya its true what he said, i was looking for lines this year but i couldnt get any
Jan 16 2007 9:29PM
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cjgncjgn
Posts: 3023 - Karma: 21
line for sure...

nowhere else to get em
Jan 17 2007 12:12AM
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whattheshit
Posts: 6562 - Karma: 107
sales rep in sporting life said that the armadas they had there weren't selling too well.  i would say line though.  set yourself apart from sporting life.  i was seriously dissapointed when i could find the same shit in both places.
Jan 17 2007 8:39AM
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jibsworth
Posts: 1554 - Karma: 12
LINE
Jan 17 2007 10:43AM
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harr][s
Posts: 1279 - Karma: 128
line!!!!!!
Jan 17 2007 10:48AM
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harr][s
Posts: 1279 - Karma: 128
and then sponsor me!!!!!!!!
Jan 17 2007 10:48AM
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Pipe_Munky
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the sign is turning to internet forums in making business decisions?

maybe they should stick to racing and patio furniture




Jan 17 2007 11:11AM
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JFerg
Posts: 2440 - Karma: 62
Maybe if Skiis and Biikes took a little more time (like the Sign) to follow today's skiing trends they wouldn't be such a joke among Ontario freeskiers.
Jan 17 2007 12:50PM
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whattheshit
Posts: 6562 - Karma: 107
yea cereally.  

and the skiis and biikes website is atrocious.  get serial.
Jan 17 2007 12:52PM
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whattheshit
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upon further review i retract my statement.  i guess they got cereal this year.
Jan 17 2007 12:53PM
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tattooed-n-evil
Posts: 246 - Karma: 19
prior would be sick, suppourt a canadian company
Jan 17 2007 5:05PM
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pink_powder
Posts: 159 - Karma: 10
line.
Jan 17 2007 7:04PM
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ragadytrees
Posts: 551 - Karma: 27
LINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINELINE
Jan 17 2007 7:24PM
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eastchris
Posts: 674 - Karma: 16
line.... lots of people are looking for line skiis in the gta... i know if you guys had them thats what i would get
Jan 17 2007 7:28PM
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steevner
Posts: 4502 - Karma: 47
line, it almost seems unanimous(sp)
Jan 17 2007 7:55PM
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godfrey
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line
Jan 17 2007 8:20PM
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whattheshit
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yea thats true.

and even then this was the sporting life in lawrence park.  so if they aren't selling well that should tell you something.
Jan 17 2007 8:27PM
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RKF
Posts: 1527 - Karma: 342
Dude. the store management will be heartbroken to hear that we are known for specializing in racing and patio furniture, why would you say something so cruel.
Jan 17 2007 8:28PM
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Legit
Posts: 1411 - Karma: 28
line
Jan 17 2007 10:11PM
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CamBrowne
Posts: 1830 - Karma: 99
no matter wat the sign will never be known as a core freestlye company but rather a company that is trying to make money off of companyies
UNLESS u stopped selling patio stuff and racing stuff and got good staff that new wat they are talking about unlike people thats say "well if u get smaller skis u can spin faster"
Jan 17 2007 11:01PM
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steve-o
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man, why are you guys all hating on patio funriture, thats stuffs dope. no one wants a regular lawn chain anymore. line.
Jan 18 2007 1:51AM
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sneather
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line
Jan 18 2007 3:25PM
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FUUUCK
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if you guys get the EP pro model i WILL buy it.


i hear the line rep is a tool though
Jan 19 2007 9:37PM
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JFerg
Posts: 2440 - Karma: 62
I heard line is coming out with Eric Pollard Pro Patio set.
Jan 20 2007 1:11AM
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corey74
Posts: 658 - Karma: 13
LINE for sure.. and maybe armada
Jan 20 2007 1:55AM
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seider
Posts: 958 - Karma: 23
dam i know what in gonna be buying in the sumer, an eric pollard Pro patio Jib set it costs a bit more than the pro patio set but its worth it
Jan 20 2007 8:12AM
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RKF
Posts: 1527 - Karma: 342
as much as i respect your oppinion... im pretty sure the sign of the skier isn't out there to make money off of other companies. yes it is a race focused shop, but if you look at what the store does for the race community you see that the store makes very very little off of its racers. racers for the most part get the same deals in the store as staff.
and what is wrong with selling patio furniture in the summer... the shop doesnt make enough money off of ski gear in the winter to survive. it doesnt make enough money because it is mostly geared towrads racers and they get sweet deals so there is not much money made...
so following this train of logic one would come to the conclusion that the sign of the skier isnt trying to make money off other companies.. but is rather the oldest ski shop in toronto and is run by a family that cares deeply about the sport and because they see where the sport is also going they wanted to follow the trend of the sport.

the point isnt to makes the store known as a core freeskiing shop, the focus will always be racing, but i as an employee, and someone who cares about freeskiing though that perhaps the community would like a chance to express what they want. so if you dont want to express what you want you dont have to.. but there is no reason to bash the way the shop is run.. especially when you dont know whats going on, to say the sign is trying to make money off other companies is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard when compared to the other shops in toronto, ie. sporting life, or skiis and biikes.
Jan 21 2007 10:06PM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
finacially, line for sure. as everyone said line is hard to find. Then again, there is a huge reason for that. The skis suck. period. Nothing else to it. When a shop gets half the skis back they sell, it becomes more of a liability then an asset to them to keep selling the company, with all the paperwork, warranty issues ETC. So the first month of business will be booming, but give it another few and needless to say business will even itself out.  The fact you can't get them anywhere (i don't know who would want them and why) screams to carry them though. So you have to think business, finance, and hearing out the public and you gotta combine them all to one decision.

Then again i don't work in a shop, so i don't know how much of all that i would take to heart. But im pretty sure most of it makes sense.
Jan 22 2007 3:26PM
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zach_steeze
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linhes nobodey else has them
Jan 22 2007 8:43PM
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