yo NS, so ive never made a thread like this before so I wasnt really sure what forum to got to but ANYWAY. so I sold this pair of 157 line masterminds, to this guy, and they had normal cosmetic topsheet damage, nothing bad there, and the guy asked if they had any edge cracks and I was pretty sure they didnt cause I only used them for a very short season, and didnt go hard on them at all, (It was my first season skiing)...... and after I knew I was done skiing on them I put a generous wax layer on the bases to keep the bases hydrated and whatever..,.,.,., anyway, so I go check for edge cracks for this guy, and after a pretty close inspection I had determined that they had no edge cracks. so as far as the condition I told this guy they were 7/10 condition aside from the fact that they had been mounted three times, otherwise the bases were practically perfect except some slightly deeper (not core) "gashes" behind the heel piece of the bindings of the skis from doing trannies on my PVC setup (which i decided wasnt a big deal so I just said the bases were in pretty good condition and had a couple moderately deeper "gashes" WHICH could be SUPER EASILY filled in with a little p-tex if anyone is worried about it at all)
ON TO THE STORY, so we determined that $70 was a fair price seeing that they are a couple years old, in not the best condition, and because we both live in NH and could do a local pick up deal, so over the weekend I met him and sold him the skis for $70 and he just texted me and said he was slightly disappointed because he found an edge crack and I didnt tell him about "the gauges" so we talked about it for a little bit and I told him That I honestly did not see the edge crack and the "the gauges" were kind of insignificant so I made a judgment call to not go into too much detail about the bases and just say they were decent with a couple deeper "gashes" and we decided that he wasnt really worried about "the gauges" cause he could easily fix them and mostly he was worried about the "edge crack" so I asked him to send a picture of it and here it is:
so I kind of said "im sorry man about that, I honestly dont think it will affect anything at all and again im sorry bout that, but not much I can (or want) to do. And he said he agrees that its not a super big deal, but they are for his girlfriend cause he is planning a touring trip, and he is worried about it because here is exactly what he said: "Because when you are outside the park if you hit something like a rock that edge is now much more likely to break out" so I said I understand, your right, but I still think its highly unlikely that that little edge crack is going to put anyone in a situation that they REALLY dont want to be in especially for a pair of $70 dollar skis, but still he guilt tripped me, and at the end of this he said:
And personally I dont think its not worth $20 if im only getting $70 for the skis but I was wondering what you guys think? gimmie your opinion!! also! this is the first time I have ever been questioned by a dissatisfied customer, I have no even remotely bad feedback, and I ABSOLUTELY DONT WANT TO CHANGE THAT, but yeah, I havnt said anything back yet, and would love to here your guys' feedback on this situation