View Poll Results: Where should I buy the fritschi's from?
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Just buy online but have the local shop mount 'em
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Offer online price to local shop
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Negotiate somewhere in between at local shop
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Pay full price at local shop
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Work off part of the cost tuning skis, pay low price to local shop
9 21.95%
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01-13-2006, 07:58 PM #1
When your buddy owns your ski shop...
So I want to get some new Fritschi's, but there's no way he'll beat 20% off, free shipping, out of state (no sales tax), etc... He'd be selling for less than cost. I'm gonna have him mount them regardless, since he'd do a better job than I would. Offer to pay him what I can get them for elsewhere? Pay him his price? Negotiate somewhere in between? He already lets me use his shop to keep my skis in good shape, so I'll help push through the stack of tune-ups when I'm there.
And, of course, there're all other boot/binding/skis/gear purchases =(
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01-13-2006, 08:00 PM #2
If you can afford to buy them from your buddy, then do. If not, then don't.
"I smell varmint puntang."
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01-13-2006, 08:06 PM #3
$85 savings, assuming retail.
$34 savings in tax, assuming 8% at retail.
$119 savings, assuming retail.
So.....mmmmm.....wh.....errre......meet in the middle...........................
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01-13-2006, 08:15 PM #4
nah, buy em where you can. he's in business. he'll understand. same product, you got a good price. he won't care.
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01-13-2006, 08:24 PM #5
so the margin on Fritchis is less than 20%??
WTF.
that's a sucky business to be in.. . .
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01-13-2006, 08:25 PM #6click click boom
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Originally Posted by FNG
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01-13-2006, 08:25 PM #7Originally Posted by bc
$425(retail) -20% -8%(tax) = 312.
Cost is about 255.
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01-13-2006, 09:26 PM #8
I run into the same problem around here. There's a shop that I've always been loyal to and they always give me around 40%-60% off, but when you can buy online and avoid the taxes I can always find a better deal online. I buy everything I can from them even if it costs me a little bit more only because I know that I'm helping out a good business who has always been there to help me out. That's not to say that I haven't bought skis online and then had them mount them or that I've purchased every piece of gear from them, but I make sure that they know that they have me as a loyal customer and 9/10 times I'll buy from them. I don't know what your financial situation is, but I've always been of the mindset that what goes around comes around so unless you're saving $100+ by buying somewhere else you should do whatever you can to help out your buddy's business.
I think that the human mind is unique among all other forms of life in that it can spontaneously create unique thoughts and provide unique behaviors. Instead of rewarding that uniqueness we, for some reason probably because of cultural and social necessity, we chastise unique behavior and reward conformity.
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01-13-2006, 09:34 PM #9
It's ironic this query is raised at the same time we in Dtown lose the Miser. I've often wrestled with this dilemma. I bought the boats at Miser. Everything else, from skis to extraneous paddle/ bike / bc gear, was acquired online (Mtlion IS the mang) Tough call. Especially tough now that Miser is done.
On first
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01-13-2006, 09:46 PM #10
I'm still trying to figure out how your buddy owns your ski shop.
"Can't vouch for him, though he seems normal via email."
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01-13-2006, 10:21 PM #11
Why don't you bring your buddy 10 new customers and have him give the binders to you for free plus the mounting plus a sixer.
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01-13-2006, 10:34 PM #12indentured servant
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i'd be embarassed to not buy from my "buddy" in your situation
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01-13-2006, 11:50 PM #13
If he was really your buddy then, perhaps you would not have needed to ask this? NO?
my buddies give me 'the deal' , knowing damn well, word of mouth is the best advertisement!
hhhmLast edited by MacDaddy; 01-13-2006 at 11:58 PM.
Points on their own sitting way up high
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01-14-2006, 01:15 AM #14Originally Posted by truth
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01-14-2006, 01:43 AM #15Originally Posted by Powdurr
Originally Posted by Below Zero
Originally Posted by MacDaddy
Originally Posted by quienes?
Originally Posted by SnowRider4LifeOriginally Posted by truth
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01-14-2006, 02:19 AM #16glocal
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As a practice, I always try to concentrate my business to one shop so, as a regular, I become friends with the people there, and get them tuned to the kind of realtionship, not necessarily the service, that we can have. It's give and take. Be a friend.
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01-14-2006, 08:53 AM #17Originally Posted by splat
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01-14-2006, 09:23 AM #18
fyi: Pro-form this year was around $275 for currrent Freerides
More fucked up than a cricket in a hubcap
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01-14-2006, 09:47 AM #19Originally Posted by Core ShotThe snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
~ e.e. cummings
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01-14-2006, 01:05 PM #20Originally Posted by Powdurr
drC
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01-14-2006, 02:40 PM #21glocal
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Originally Posted by mrw
I'd do the same.
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01-14-2006, 03:49 PM #22
If the price is similar then I buy locally. And I really don't expect my friends to take a loss or work for free. If they did that for all their friends they'd be out of business.
On the other hand...
Some little guys do pass through at cost to their friends to get their volumes up. That means bigger discounts from wholesalers. No sale equals no profit but selling at cost means bigger discounts from wholesalers.If you have a problem & think that someone else is going to solve it for you then you have two problems.
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01-14-2006, 04:17 PM #23
if you have a relationship with the shop and they treat you well, spend a couple extra bucks for the good service. having a place to take your gear should it break is priceless. karma deposits work extremely well in ski and bike shops.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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01-14-2006, 04:20 PM #24
buy em' online.
Then take all of the money you saved to buy a keg for your friends 'going out of business' Party. He will appreciate the gesture, I am sure of it.
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