Where do you get your gear from???
Im just wondering where you get all/most of your gear from and where is the best place..
thanx cam
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jack on -
I think i phrased it badly. What i'm trying to say is you guys sell all your stuff very cheap. Other shops (examples being goodtime and boardstore) sell their decks for the same price as you (e.g. s9 brandy) but sell their wheels for much more. I wasn't trying to have a go at you. But your explanation of sector 9 giving you set prices to sell does make sense
Cheers.
Investing so ,much money like that is great. Kudos.
Robbo said:
I've never sold ordinary otangs for 100-120, not sure where you get that from. Sector 9 is a big company so can make volume cheap, they have a suggested retail and often have stern words with you if you deviate from that. All the other brands are not so big and therefore can't make there gear as cheap and can't sell it to us as cheap but they don't have a suggested retail so we can tweak the price a bit.
Last year newtons cost me about 10 grand, it was money well invested, helped the Aussie scene and helped asra. Sending young Australians to Canada and maryhill is costing me about 5 grand, again money well invested cause it helps young Australians compete for our country on a world stage. The question is do I get that money back? Not really. Does it feel good and is it the right thing to do? Yes
Jack Nolan said:Maybe because the dollar is so high at the moment the next order the Aus distributor makes will be cheaper than normal because we at $1.10 and the price drop will continue all the way to shops so that the australian shops will be more competitive against the US ones again?
People are only buying from Overseas because of the dollar. A year ago buying a dervish from daddies cost some kid in my suburb $450 just because he didn't know about Aus shops.
Either the dollar will drop and US shops will get more expensive or it will stay higher and Australian shops will inevitably get cheaper if the distributor is paying less.
But talking about skate shops here is something that confuses the fuck out of me.
You go to shops like goodtime and boardstore at the sunshine coast to have a look around. and as you expect they sell otangs and shit for like $100-120 for a set of wheels. Then they are selling top brand decks like S9 DH division for $199. The same as hopkin and ado. wtf is up with that?
if they can afford to sell decks at a competitive price why are all of their wheels so ridiculously priced?
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Permalink Reply by Goodtime Surf and Sail on
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FORGIVE ME IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN ADVERT, i tried my best to get the point accross with as little wank as possible :(
Unfortunately when it comes to fluctuations in dollar values it doesn't mean a direct price change, in the case of Goodtime, we work on a system of fixed margins that will allow us to give you the best price (and to not go broke)... Ignorant to recommended retails and the potential to make easy cash and it's worked for us for the last 40 years.
Forgetting about margins and RRPs the bottom line about what we/any store can sell a product for is completely dependant on the price that our supplier/distributor charges us (unless you're running with no overheads, not providing warranties, don't have a relationship with a supplier or a local distributor and go directly to the manufacturer) and it's up to them, the middlemen, whether they pass on the savings/profit that comes about with fluctuations in the AUD.
Unfortuntately In the end, usually they DONT drop their prices and there are many reaons for this.... the most pominent reason being, considering the current state of global ecnomoies, that because when Australia was trading at USD0.70 etc. (not that long ago) they didn't put their prices up and absorbed the losses they were taking so that you guys, the customers, wouldn't get pissed off because you had to pay more.... have a think about that when you're saving 10 cents to a dollar on your next online purchase :/
and yes, it would be logical in this situation for us to go to a new supplier or to the US direct or even, god forbid, the manufacturer but we're not bastards... we like Australia and we've been supporting Australian's and Australian businesses since we opened and don't plan on changing that.
as Robbo said, S9 is a different kettle of fish in that Network (massssssiiiiveee buying power, arguably the biggest in the industry) handle the entire process thus cutting out the middle man, absorb fluctuations in price (both + and -) and cut out the middle man (at least as an Aus retailer)
Buy from Robbo, he's supporting the industry!
p.s. orangatangs are the dearest wheels we stock @ $85-$100, never any more.
p.p.s still waiting on our first ever s9 dh stuff (because we gotta pay our bills) but $200 seems to be the price of most decks we get.
edited for crucial typos hahaha
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jack on -
That sounds reasonable.
To be fair; the last time i went in to goodtime was before you started avertising on ASRA and your only longboarding stock were dervishes and otangs.
Looking at your facebook page and stuff your stock looks way more comprehensive now.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Daniel Witchey on -
hahahahaha
Merrick Wildash said:
So this one time. I think it was in this thread.. Someone asked where we bought out gear from hahahaha
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yes you're right and unfortunately as you're all aware that's all that the punters want. We've been carrying Landy since 04/05 but there wasn't any demand until last year (had an urban assault on the shelf for 6 years before we gave it away)
and okay, sorry about the hijack. i need to say no more but to answer the question, Goodtime.
Jack Nolan said:
That sounds reasonable.
To be fair; the last time i went in to goodtime was before you started avertising on ASRA and your only longboarding stock were dervishes and otangs.
Looking at your facebook page and stuff your stock looks way more comprehensive now.
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Permalink Reply by Laurence Lombardi on
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hahahahaha, kellys gonna rip!
Merrick Wildash said:
hehehe. Maryhill.. Goodluck, Kellys gana kick your ass :D :D
JERK said:
Well I will be attending Maryhill, and the money I saved from buying from MBS and such helped me get there. I'm also pretty sure MBS is a part sponsor of Maryhill festival of speed.
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Permalink Reply by jason on
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so im not a real skater?
Adam said:go cr8ive sk8 or hopkin you get the gear the next day and talk to real skaters
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Adam on -
Dude you, these are just the ones i have dealt with and they have been awesome, from the very little i know about concrete lines, i think they would be rad too.
I was reffering to other shops that are not on this site where the staff say thinks like, "Modus are the best bearings you can buy" and "Removable bearing covers with rubber lining, nah mate you can only get them on the cheap bearings". Real quotes i have been sold by one skate shop and a surf shop in caloundra.
As i am on the sunshine coast ordering from them is the same as ordering from the goldy. No offence intended Jason.
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Permalink Reply by Mike River on
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If more people bought Early, or Vault, perhaps those companies might be able to generate the funds needed to produce kick arse products, which would then mean australians would not need to torture the world by importing shit from USA.
Catch 22 though isnt it. I would buy local, but no one makes the board I want to ride, so I buy from USA or Europe- which does not support the Australian longboard industry, which means the products I want to buy will not get made here.
I find it quite hilarious that people moan about prices, yet are unwilling to support the lower priced local products. Especially considering the bulk of all longboard products (this includes decks, bearings, risers, griptape, trucks, wheels, bolts) are all made in the same group of factories in Tawain/China.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Adam on -
Early and Vault in the same sentence???
This thread??????? getting funny.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by m0juu on -
sticking to your gun(metal)s?
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