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Just to back up others points, you can find name brand trucks being blown out all the time so you don't have to commit to months of misery if you're trying to save some bucks. The big hook up is Zumiez sales online. They routinely blow out standard Ventures, Aces and usually the goony Thunder colorways at $30ish a pair with free shipping. Maybe snag some Mini-Logos for now and keep your eye out for those deals.
Fuck Zumiez, they dont even sponsor skateboarders. If you HAVE to buy from a big retailer at least try to make it one that actually sponsors skaters. CCS and Skatewarehouse. Always try an actual shop first, it usually takes more effort but often times you can find similar deals from legit shops. At the very least check cowtown and SPOT first.
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Also anyone clowning on this thread is a muppet
'omg i can't believe you would not buy from core brand A that produces it's shit in the same chinese factory as non-core brand B but marks up the price by $20'
You're a clown if you think any of these trucks aside from mini logos are halfway decent. Get real dude.
I'll get real.
You can 100% find off brands or clones that perform almost identically to the name brand trucks. It's not rocket surgery, they're using off the shelf alloys and with modern modeling and casting tech you can easily "steal" any design or geometry you want if that's your thing. As far as qc/quality.. There's plenty of solid trucks that come out of the same foundries and factories (theeve, destructo, gk, film etc), so much like wood and wheels you're mostly paying for a brand name/reputation.
... And that's fine. Those trucks that command a premium invested in R&D and all the marketing and sponsorship to build that reputation. Theres absolutely a reason they command a higher price, it's just usually not that they're objectively higher quality than lower priced ones.
I've skated basically every major truck and a sizable part of the obscure ones from the past 20 years. There's plenty of solid cheap trucks out there, but you just don't see them that much and most people are like you and have made a false equivalency between price and quality so they never try them. To put it another way, if I launched the Ace classic today at the $40 price point but didn't have an industry insider behind it, a killer team, and an ad campaign then you probably wouldn't buy it and assume it sucked.
There's absolutely plenty of garbage cheap and no name trucks, but there's good ones (beyond mini logos) as well and you're being naive if you think otherwise. Wasn't this place absolutely losing its collective mind over how great Royals are a few months ago?
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