just not kite shops.
go trade your car in and you will get stuff all
they have over heads etc etc so its clear cut they cant give you top dollar for 2nd hand gear. and its hard for shops to sell off 2nd hand gear when you have noobs posting **** kites on ebay for other complete noobs to bid on than break their legs

mitch88 said...

^^^^^^^^200th post ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Nice work Mitch

unfortunately kites are like undies. once you use em and stain em nobody wants them!...

Seriously lies don't last long. be prepared for 50% depreciation per year.

So $2000 retail
1year $1000
2years $500.
3years $250 so forth and sp p

So sometimes a shop is better off telling you to sell private as what you want for it compared to what they can sell it for is a big difference. Additionally most kites wholesale are a 100% mark up for retail.. Eg a core GTS for example $550 kite only (wholesale) +GST goes for $1200 retail.. Give or take.


So what your saying is that it is ok for the kite shop to rip us of with a 100% mark up on a new kite and then give a low trade.
Then put it up on the buy & sell section and make a 100%profit on our trades

So $1000 profit for the new kite and
$ 300 profit on our trades.
That's $1300 profit and you say that its ok

I think that is an insult to the kiting community. Makes me more keen to buy from overseas

The nerve of some people! Starting a business and then trying to make money out of it.
What next?

if i smoked 20-a-day that'd be $30x365=~$10k a year
if i was a 2-cartons-a-week p1sshead, that'd be $5k a year.
hookers - what are they, $500 an hour?
<$3k gets me 3 new kites a year on easy trade-in. the wind is free.
each to their own.

yellowvtr1 said...
I think that is an insult to the kiting community. Makes me more keen to buy from overseas

While you are reading this, just cast your eyes around the room you are sitting in, just about everything you look at will have had similar margins from the manufacturer to a retail customer, nothing new here since the industrial revolution started

How many $$ have you shelled out for bottles of drink in the last year, coke, redbull, beer, wine or water, the cost to manufacture and what you paid are to completely different things.

90% of first time business people also think it aint fair to charge to much so they start a new business and think they will change the world and make a killing yet the statistics say they fail in the first year because they couldn't make enough money to pay the rent, There is plenty of bills to pay out of that margin you think is a lot

Opps I think I just wasted my time explaining, I just looked in your profile and see from a few pics you made a harness out of what looks like garden hose WTF
Man you will enjoy the sport a lot more if you bought a real one

yellowvtr1 said...

Question can someone please explain as to why new kite prices are so high and trades so low?????

I was considering upgrading my gear ,that was until I contacted the store about the purchase,and trade.
I was told that I should sell my gear private as I would get a better price,(my gear is not old its 2010) how am I to support the store when told this,all I wanted was to get a fair price for my trade and I would have handed over the cash there and then for the new gear.
if I wanted to sell my gear private I would not have wasted my time driving to the store.
Now I think that I am better off buying on the internet from overseas.and selling private as I dont want to give them my money now.
Who else has had this happen to them or is it just me that thinks its bad customer service.

That's my rant for today,bring on the wind

What a Complete useless kook of a tool....

Why don't you buy your electricity overseas, your petrol and your families food...?
Surely you can get it cheaper, and the multi nationals you get it from now probably won't feel a thing...

A family run kite biz gives you a heads up and says sell your gear privately for more cash than we can afford to trade it for, and when you're ready we'll talk turkey...

We'll cut you the best deal we can..

And you think they are trying to rip you off..l

with every post you make, I Regret stopping you from using that 20yr old surfboard leash you attached to your twin tip and had your missus strap to your ankle the first time you turned up to the beach... nevermind your mongoloid looking mate who sits in the carpark for all hours In the company work ute smoking drugs and freaking out the locals, telling them he's a kitesurfer after they have been watching him sit for hours with the motor running in the carpark with plumes of smoke coming from the drivers window...i

If I owned the kiteshop you're trying to dis here on the net, I'd have you beaten to a ridiculous bloody pulp the next time you tried to walk into my shop...

But knowing the family that you are crapping on, for who they are...
They'll still do their best to cut you a deal..

Just remember, when your stupid kids can't get a job, it's cause of people like you...

This is not my harness it's one that I saw a bloke using and had to get some pics of it

wdric said...

doggie said...

mitch88 said...

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Wholy sh!t
Please xplain how u managed 12924 post in 4 yrs
I thought you guys get plenty of wind over there

11,384 of them consisted of the word "boobs (.).)"
After apparently being found funny once, the joke was repeated a further 11,384 times, raising a laugh from the same seabreeze crowd (6 vocal yokels) each and every time.
That was the intellectual peak, it's been downhill lately since those heady days

wdric said...

yellowvtr1 said...
I think that is an insult to the kiting community. Makes me more keen to buy from overseas

Opps I think I just wasted my time explaining, I just looked in your profile and see from a few pics you made a harness out of what looks like garden hose WTF
Man you will enjoy the sport a lot more if you bought a real one

That just about sums it up really. Sometimes I don't know why I bother wasting my time explaining things to numpties..

yellowvtr1 said...

Question can someone please explain as to why new kite prices are so high and trades so low?????

I was considering upgrading my gear ,that was until I contacted the store about the purchase,and trade.
I was told that I should sell my gear private as I would get a better price,(my gear is not old its 2010) how am I to support the store when told this,all I wanted was to get a fair price for my trade and I would have handed over the cash there and then for the new gear.
if I wanted to sell my gear private I would not have wasted my time driving to the store.
Now I think that I am better off buying on the internet from overseas.and selling private as I dont want to give them my money now.
Who else has had this happen to them or is it just me that thinks its bad customer service.

That's my rant for today,bring on the wind

I have a 2011 kite you can buy for $1900 mate if ya keen? No? Didn't think so. Oh, and by the way, you're an idiot.....

kiteboy dave said...

wdric said...

doggie said...

mitch88 said...

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Wholy sh!t
Please xplain how u managed 12924 post in 4 yrs
I thought you guys get plenty of wind over there

11,384 of them consisted of the word "boobs (.).)"
After apparently being found funny once, the joke was repeated a further 11,384 times, raising a laugh from the same seabreeze crowd (6 vocal yokels) each and every time.
That was the intellectual peak, it's been downhill lately since those heady days

Sorry Dave, I will use hooters from now on if that pleases you (.Y.)

I would say cut your loses trade your gear and know you supported a local business! in the long run you don't lose out much

RPM said...

wdric said...

yellowvtr1 said...
I think that is an insult to the kiting community. Makes me more keen to buy from overseas

Opps I think I just wasted my time explaining, I just looked in your profile and see from a few pics you made a harness out of what looks like garden hose WTF
Man you will enjoy the sport a lot more if you bought a real one

That just about sums it up really. Sometimes I don't know why I bother wasting my time explaining things to numpties..

And that just shows how many sheep are on this forum . He said its not his harness ya s
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/Review/custom-made-harness/