\Wow you guys dont give anyone a chance here do you !
I sure didn’t intend to put "the community" in a tail spin over this nor did I realize our protest of paypal policy was creating such a stir, so im not sure where to start.
I guess we can start with this thing called supply and demand for the last 5 years burton produced alpine gear and the industry was in a glut of excess gear we bought less and less alpine gear at wholesale prices and still had to sell it at or below cost to get it out the door but WE STILL supported it
even when every other snowboard dealer had abandon it as nothing more than a gay segment of snowboarding.<O:p></O:p>
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If you "guys" were not so cheap and paid for gear so the manufactures could stay in business or make money producing the gear you would have more choices, but today there are very few.<O:p></O:p>
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I would say support the cateck, bomber, priors even if they are more expensive than closeout burton because if they cant keep the lights on you wont have that choice either!
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There are a few places starting to build race boards again but they are expensive, the closeout boards and bindings are cheap as they are because the manufacture sold them cheap, dealers like us invested in that to support the alpine community and other niche markets.<O:p></O:p>
Believe me we had better things to do with 100,000.00 than to invest in what some people would consider old outdated gear just to let it sit in storage as we sold it off, and if you bought that gear from us in the beginning it was much cheaper than today.<O:p></O:p>
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But as the supply goes down the price goes up, if we could get more we would and it would be different but we cant get more and neither can anyone else until someone starts making it again.<O:p></O:p>
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There are very few bindings boards and boots left but someone will be stoked to get a board at 199.00 299.00 or 349.00 when everything else is 600, 700, maybe more?<O:p></O:p>
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“God I should have bought 10 of those back when they were cheap”.<O:p></O:p>
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Funny thing is its not going to get any better for any of us because the dollar is weak all over the world and seams to be slipping every day, our dependence on other countries to supply us with goods is making us weaker so your dollar buys less why do you think the Canadians are buying in America these days?<O:p></O:p>
Because the Looney is worth nearly as much as the dollar now<O:p></O:p>
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LOOK AROUND YOU WHAT IS GETTING CHEAPER? HOUSING? FOOD? GAS? <O:p></O:p>
NO ITS ALL MORE EXPENSIVE and its only going to get worse.<O:p></O:p>
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Have you checked the prices on the new prior alpine boards? Wait till the 07 gear is out many brands will be seeing increases in cost much of it dependent on it's country of origin SO HEADS UP BOYS!<O:p></O:p>
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Hey d-sub sorry for not knowing the age on those bombers I don’t keep up on the different models of bomber binding like I should, I just know the ones you buy today are upwards of 300.00 as a retail price correct me if im wrong.<O:p></O:p>
If you noticed I did not even list them as trench diggers I just took them off the board and tried to describe them the best I could I didn’t say they were a new model? <O:p></O:p>
Sorry for the confusion<O:p></O:p>
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I don’t hide the fact that I don’t like some of the policies on ebay/paypal and the bs that happens there its too bad everyone didn’t know every one else because allot of the crap would go away.
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Since day one we have had a policy of leaving negative feedback for all non payers regardless of "excuses" often they retaliate with negative feedback on us we don’t waste the time to get it removed mutually or otherwise, many sellers don’t bother to let others know about the non payers we do.<O:p></O:p>
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But THOSE WHO PAY FOR THERE AUCTIONS GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR and most are stoked, don’t be blind to the thousands of positive feedbacks we have, the responses you spoke of are meant to be for those viewing our feedback to explain that we leave negative feedback for non payers and that the majority of our negatives are form non payer retaliation.<O:p></O:p>
Ebay limits the space to explain so I agree it looks funny.<O:p></O:p>
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IF WE MAKE A MISTAKE AND IT’S OUR FAULT WE MAKE IT RIGHT!<O:p></O:p>
Even if it means bucking up and loosing money on shipping etc. <O:p></O:p>
But if some idiot types his address wrong and we send it there and it comes back to us it’s that guy that pays to have it shipped again <O:p></O:p>
Fair is fair.<O:p></O:p>
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Maybe im the idiot for wanting to make it right here on bol or at least try to defend the accusations that are being flung around, if your bent because stuff is to expensive for you see above.<O:p></O:p>
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If you feel I have wronged you in someway/ anyway I would like to know about it.<O:p></O:p>
So at least have the backbone to shoot me an email and give me the opportunity to make it right. Especially you slc boys
Im sure some of you haters will never change your views and that's ok,
some people will never be happy and the world will always have haters
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