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My ski shop is a joke

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wolfmansbro
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so i just went to my local ski shop here in brookfield, wi and i found out everything there is just a joke.first off they are not getting the PE's in even though they are a k2 delealer. 2nd they only got 1 pair of 175cm TM. No scratches for this year atleast he said they were on order. and get this the guy at the shop had no idea about the Scratch and scratch fs. he thought rossi had a new twin time out this year (forget the name he told me). and to top it off they are not carrying the 181cm 1080 because he said that they were just to big to 'Spin' with.
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Sep 3 2003 12:40AM
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weazelzb
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hah thats a fuckin stupid shop

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Sep 3 2003 1:00AM
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strode
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next thing he'll tell you is they aren't selling twins at all cuz 'why would anyone want to ski backwards?'





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Sep 3 2003 1:17AM
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Papa
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i'll tell you the first problem, you're in wisconsin




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Sep 3 2003 1:21AM
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3ski6guy0
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hahaha
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Sep 3 2003 1:30AM
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Vtsnowski
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sounds like a place in bangor i went there one day and ask about Armada 4frnt and line they said they have never heard of any of them and they wouldnt ever carry some thing they dont know about. First of all if you dont know about any of the big twin tips skis you should own a shop cause that is where the sport is going and they dont have a clue about any of it. I think they were thinking i was making up names for skis when i asked them. it pissed me off so much.




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Sep 3 2003 1:35AM
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Matty.
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sounds like my shops


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Sep 3 2003 1:39AM
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bigtreefallhard
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hahaha sounds like it sucks whats the name of your 'shop'?
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Sep 3 2003 1:48AM
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wolfmansbro
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i would also like to point out that they didnt have any freeskier, ski, skiing, powder, freeze, or axis mags, no volume video mags or no ski movies (Well they are getting movies in soon, but none from last year) and i am not even going to mention clothes....sypder and north face, that is it
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Sep 3 2003 1:51AM
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D-40
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thats the same for me in clothes. my shop carries freeskier mag. they dont got to many twins but i think its funny that they carry bc ski's in minnesota (pocket rockets and seth pistols). what bc do we have maybe a whole 2 inches of fresh powder.
Sep 3 2003 2:17AM
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Billy
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They dont have ski movies because no new movies have shipped yet. And they probaly dont have any left from last year because they sold them all...it was really tough to figure that out wasnt it...
Sep 3 2003 3:22AM
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dpoiii
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Sep 3 2003 3:27AM
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FreshCoast
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Sounds like my shop. Last winter I remember asking about twins and all he wanted to sell me was 1080s in the 171. Well I'm 6'4' and I told him need the 181 for stability, and I prefered longer skis, but all he could say is the 181 would be way too much ski for me. I couldn't handle it, espically in the park. Thats when I decided to never set foot in there again and buy directly from a rep.
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Sep 3 2003 3:31AM
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Vtsnowski
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Some of the guys at ski shops dont have a clue about skis it makes me want to slap them. but i hold back from the need to.




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Sep 3 2003 3:32AM
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petek
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umm, you havent seen my ski shop. cleves in truro, they have no 1080's, or any twin-tip, have only atomic rossignol and salomon. about 20 skis max.



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Sep 3 2003 3:56AM
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D-40
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yeah i told my dad to get me the 175 i think 1260's and the guys told him taht it would be to big for somebody 5-8 so he got me the 164's
Sep 3 2003 4:09AM
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petek
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it doesnt depend on how tall you are, its how agressive, and how much you weigh, and experience



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Sep 3 2003 4:10AM
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lineskier10
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sounds like one of my old shops, but it went out of business, a new shop i goto has a lot of good stuff and im applying for a job there, so maybe i will get hooked up with deals once i work there
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Sep 3 2003 4:31AM
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feezy
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Hey, at least you have a ski shop. I live in Gilroy, and even here in Cali i am hard pressed to find a pair of twin tips, and then it is usually Seth Pistol or Atomic Tweak.
Sep 3 2003 5:03AM
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lanks
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whats wrong with a seth pistol...


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Sep 3 2003 5:05AM
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Nine_Milla_Killa
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Sucks to be you! My shop kills it.
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Sep 3 2003 5:08AM
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skimack
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Yeah, I doubt Gilroy would be a big freesking haven. I live in Redwood city, it's almost as bad.

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Sep 3 2003 6:07AM
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albatross.
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the owner of my shop spent like 30 minutes explaining why the elan airtwist is better than every twintip on the market. They only had line and elan, but they didnt carry line skis, only snowblades.
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Sep 3 2003 6:17AM
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rodeo7
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where r these places?
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Sep 3 2003 7:17AM
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schlonginator
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all i can say is hahahaha suck in farkers




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Sep 3 2003 9:22AM
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dilla_says_go
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freds freeride is the shit. thats all im going to say. its just the shit

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Sep 3 2003 3:59PM
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west
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yah i stopped up there last year, it was sweet





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Sep 3 2003 4:03PM
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Justo8484
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except fred hates salomon
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Sep 3 2003 4:07PM
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JibbaJabba
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my shop is kinda gay too but at least they have armadas , TMs, and a whole wall of armada clothing. Other than that its gay.
Sep 3 2003 4:14PM
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johnnypsunami
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yeah surprisingly this thread makes me look at my ski shop in a whole new way, i guess it is pretty chill
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Sep 3 2003 5:15PM
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vtrider
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fred lies tho, told me that he had ridden the 182 trouble maker, yet last time i checked none have even made it into the country yet...
Sep 3 2003 5:21PM
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manus
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Hey, I swear by my shop, if they don't have it, chances are they'll get it for me. I just hate going to shops where they are stuck up and assume if they don't know you, you are an intermediate at best and have no clue what you are talking about. I just like going to these types of places and making them realize their sales people don't know dick, and they carry crap.

As far as a lot of shops not carrying the smaller companies, I think it goes deeper than just the shops may not know about them. A lot of shops won't carry em because of the possibility the company may not exsist in a year or two and are concerned about their customers having problems with warranty type stuff. So although they looose some customers that want the small companies, they keep their other customers happy. A lot of shops would rather someone be dissapointed that the shop doesn't carry something rather than get pissed off because something happened to the ski and now its a loss, and the customer is pissed, and tells everyone they got screwed over.
Sep 3 2003 6:20PM
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