http://www.sacklunch.com/?p=187 Active hurting skate companies by overselling shop decks.
From Irvine-sucks.com, 100 reasons why Active blows:
1. They sell girls underwear.
2. I think one employee there skates.
3. Bad grip jobs.
4. “Oh, it might say that all active decks are on sale, but that doesn’t actually mean all of them.”
5. When you ask an employee for an 8.25 shop deck, they give you dumbest of stares and go get a less incompetent co worker.
6. They complain about gripping 8.25s. You shouldn’t have offered to grip it, dick.
7. They have a “Bro me a penny” dish at the front counter.
8. The skateboards are pushed to the very back corner, taking up maybe 5% of the store.
9. “What, we’ve never heard of that policy, since when has independent had a life time guarantee?”
10. “Oh you called Independent and they confirmed the policy? Well, don’t come into my store with that kind of attitude.” Ask Alex, it's a good story.
11. Skatin’ Steve is sponsored by them.
12. Eric Sellers was too.
13. Have you seen some of the art on the walls?
14. I mean all of the art.
15. Jumped to opportunity to carry awesome products such as “Ollie pop gum” and “Skaterade”.
16. It's easier to find girl's skateboarding products than Girl Skateboards product.
17. Not once have I seen them play a video in the store.
18. “Bro, do you know how much it would cost to have shop copies of all those videos?”
19. When discussing the topic of skateboarding in an english class, a girl uses the statement of “Well, I work at active, so I think I would know.” to argue with yours truly.
20. They probably don’t have
www.irvine-sucks.com bookmarked.
21. The employees have tattoos, but they’re pussies.
22. The employees have too many piercings, and they’re pussies.
23. They catch on to awesome skateboarders scamming them too quickly.
24. Since when has 2 pairs of shoes for 85 dollars been considered a sale. (Thanks Noah)
25. I think about ten 13 year old girls work there, and they’ve never gripped a board.
26. They are a proud sponser of the Irvine High football team.
27. They carry far too many pairs of designer jeans.
28. The music played in the store is pretty crappy.
29. The posters on the window have pretty close to nothing to do with skateboarding, but instead girls with big sunglasses. Hooray.
30. 10:1 odds a customer in active has never skated in their life.
31. 20:1 odds a customer in active does not skate now.
32. You usually have to get pumped up for a heated arguement every time you go in there.
33. If they ever read this, or knew who I was, I’d probably get banned from going there.
34. They have the power to run little legitimate shops out of business, using walmart style tactics.
35. Do not exchange indy 149s, because they are afriad of the shredders that can handle such massive trucks.
36. Wouldn’t sell a certain Irvine-Sucks member a copy of the Flip video because of the fact it says must be older than 37 or whatever it said. Obviously the hip can’t have a sense of humor.
37. “Can’t make it as just a skate shop.”
38. How many employees there straighten their hair? Not counting the girls.
39. Girl employee, who couldn’t be older than 18, try and belittle shredders by saying “Can I see some I.D. little man?”
40. They don’t send us boxes of skate goodies for being the most awesome website coming out of Irvine. Thanks Utility ; ).