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CMC
CMC
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CMC CMC
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25 Nov 2011 5:24pm
P.S I have been riding a 9'1 x 22 x 2 11/16 Rounded square Steve Del Rosso HP longboard so I am allowed to be in the longboard room now.

I think it may be Ruben Roxburgh's old board.
CMC
CMC
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CMC CMC
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25 Nov 2011 5:54pm
chrispychru said...

i will let you boys judge this one. i took one of my old shortys in for a trade on a new shorty. well i struck a deal and my lad gave them the spray he designed a couple of days later. well it has been a week and i rang the shaper to find out if the lad could check his board while he was doing the blank.....bloke didnt even know what i was talking about. rang the shop where i traded it in and the owner told me , nah mate im selling it on consignment and will take the amount that he sells it for of the custom price. order will go in then..WTF is up with that,is that being classed as stealing or being rorted? would like to know what you boys think


Chrispy, get the board back and go and see Dan McDonald on Currumbin Ck road, ask Mac for a reference on his work.

Order a carbon wrap or a Bamboo flex EPS Epoxy.

62mac
62mac
WA
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WA, 24860 posts
25 Nov 2011 4:03pm


doggie
doggie
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WA, 15849 posts
25 Nov 2011 4:30pm
SBs in LBs
CMC
CMC
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CMC CMC
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25 Nov 2011 6:46pm
doggie said...

SBs in LBs


The boundaries no longer exist Dog Child.

They are a myth anyway.
chrispychru
chrispychru
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25 Nov 2011 7:05pm
CMC said...

chrispychru said...

i will let you boys judge this one. i took one of my old shortys in for a trade on a new shorty. well i struck a deal and my lad gave them the spray he designed a couple of days later. well it has been a week and i rang the shaper to find out if the lad could check his board while he was doing the blank.....bloke didnt even know what i was talking about. rang the shop where i traded it in and the owner told me , nah mate im selling it on consignment and will take the amount that he sells it for of the custom price. order will go in then..WTF is up with that,is that being classed as stealing or being rorted? would like to know what you boys think


Chrispy, get the board back and go and see Dan McDonald on Currumbin Ck road, ask Mac for a reference on his work.

Order a carbon wrap or a Bamboo flex EPS Epoxy.




mac gave my boy the orange and white one in the pic above. the story is something altogether different
BoardCulture
BoardCulture
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26 Nov 2011 7:44am
CMC said...

My best ever sale was before the cheap Chinese boards when second hand beginner Mini Mals were the equivalent of Golden Rocking Horse poop.

A guy came in in the morning and asked if I would buy his used Mini Mal. I played down the excitement, in the end I arranged him to come back at 3pm with the board and I would 'take a look'

About 30 minutes later somebody else came in and asked if I had any. I said this time instead of the usual 'no, sorry', 'yes, I'll have one this afternoon. Come back about 4'.

So old mate with the board is a little late and arrives at 3:30pm. He's been to the Pawn shop who's offered him $60.00. He tells me this and says he thought that was a bit less than he wanted. I ask politely 'what kind of money were you expecting', he says 'oh about $120', I tell him I think it's worth a little more and give him $150 we are finishing up the paperwork and the buyer from the morning comes in while the seller is still there.

I have to kind of brush the buyer a little and tell them I'll be with them in a minute. I rush the seller out so that the 2 don't catch on.....

Somehow pulled it off. In the end I sold the board for $380 to the buyer and never even got to clean the wax off or fix any dings and they were stoked. I could have sold the board for $420 afterwards regardless.

$230 margin on something you have in stock for 3 minutes. Who ever said profit is a dirty word?



Classic.
Kinda sad that you can sometimes make more on a second hand learners board than on a new noserider. Guess thats why we have so many boards now from Chinese Charlie - Mark

towball
towball
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4634 posts
26 Nov 2011 6:28am
Chrispy in this country we have somthing called the consumer guarentees act to protect the buyer I'm sure there is somthing similar over there , from what Ihave seen you have meany more hoops to jump through to run a business than us , (it's bad enough here ) I'm sure you could deal to this guy legally. Gotta give mac ten points for giving the kid the board
chrispychru said...

i will let you boys judge this one. i took one of my old shortys in for a trade on a new shorty. well i struck a deal and my lad gave them the spray he designed a couple of days later. well it has been a week and i rang the shaper to find out if the lad could check his board while he was doing the blank.....bloke didnt even know what i was talking about. rang the shop where i traded it in and the owner told me , nah mate im selling it on consignment and will take the amount that he sells it for of the custom price. order will go in then..WTF is up with that,is that being classed as stealing or being rorted? would like to know what you boys think


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