Sale Gear Thread

[dumptruck12]

FA stuff I ordered on the 1st still hasn’t shipped. I get having tons of orders, but this is kinda ridiculous. Might give it another day then try to cancel it.

This shit drives me nuts, FA is one of the biggest brands out, they just had a 75% off sale, you don’t think there is many orders that need to be received and shipped out? Damn dude, they ain’t Amazon, just chill and it will show up

[OhioGuy]

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FA stuff I ordered on the 1st still hasn’t shipped. I get having tons of orders, but this is kinda ridiculous. Might give it another day then try to cancel it.

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This shit drives me nuts, FA is one of the biggest brands out, they just had a 75% off sale, you don’t think there is many orders that need to be received and shipped out? Damn dude, they ain’t Amazon, just chill and it will show up

I get that, but I ordered the first day the sale went up. So I’m wondering how backed up they are. It’s more that I hate having open orders up and having to check on them. Just wish they’d give timeframes. I had no idea their operation was so small.

[pizzafliptofakie]

Haven't gotten a shipping confirmation from my FA order either. I know some West coasters have gotten theirs and I waited a day so I'm assuming there's a long line.

[veritas]

Haven't gotten a shipping confirmation from my FA order either. I know some West coasters have gotten theirs and I waited a day so I'm assuming there's a long line.

Just got a confirmation today from my order made on November 1st

[doomstation55]

I haven’t gotten a shipping notification so I’m gonna report them to the BBB and mail dog shit to FA Worldwide HQ in retaliation this injustice shall not stand

[art hellman]

it'd be sweet if you emailed FA to complain and they replied with a video of them burning your order

[Rocko]

I used to work e commerce in a team of 4 (college bookstore). At the beginning of the semester, we’d get up to 800 orders a day, big or small. That shit piles up quick. Idk how FA works, but our order confirmations weren’t sent out until an order was picked and manually processed.

I’ve definitely gotten the BBB threat multiple times, non ironically.

[doomstation55]

it'd be sweet if you emailed FA to complain and they replied with a video of them burning your order

Just wanna say I’m so happy you used that gif, I literally just used it at work like 10 minutes ago haha

[FS-OverKOOK]

FA stuff I ordered on the 1st still hasn’t shipped. I get having tons of orders, but this is kinda ridiculous. Might give it another day then try to cancel it.

just got shipping email a couple of hours ago. ordered on the 1st and live in cali

[Francis Xavier]

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FA stuff I ordered on the 1st still hasn’t shipped. I get having tons of orders, but this is kinda ridiculous. Might give it another day then try to cancel it.

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just got shipping email a couple of hours ago. ordered on the 1st and live in cali

Same. Give em time

[jsettle]

fA just posted a video on their story and looks like a shit ton of boxes are being loaded up on a fedex or ups truck and had a ton of boxes piled up and being packed out

[Gene_Harrogate]

fA just posted a video on their story and looks like a shit ton of boxes are being loaded up on a fedex or ups truck and had a ton of boxes piled up and being packed out

Clearly they’ve been keeping an eye on this thread.

[LebowskisRug]

They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

[rocklobster]

I sent them an email, they are looking at a 2 week turnaround time.

[veritas]

They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

[Xen]

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How are the impact lights? Been years since I was a little kid watching round three and I remember I had one with the nose and tail impact rings.

I assume they’re probably pretty stiff

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Impact boards are great. Stiff and poppy for a looong time.

The wording is a misnomer, they are not 'light' the 'impact light' is the 'light' version of the older, full carbon fiber top ply; they're actually heavier than a standard bbs board.

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Full carbon top sheet was Double Impact, Impact light had the middle of the top sheet as a carbon reinforcement

Yep...the impact light was 'lighter' than the double impact, that's all the name implied.

[rocklobster]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

[Joe Davola]

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it'd be sweet if you emailed FA to complain and they replied with a video of them burning your order

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Just wanna say I’m so happy you used that gif, I literally just used it at work like 10 minutes ago haha

And I sent it to my wife about 2 hours ago

[manysnakes]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

A good accountant will tell you this.

[manysnakes]

They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

I was thinking that too. Average it out and selling me a deck with grip for $26 shipped has gotta amount to a significant loss of money.

[rocklobster]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

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A good accountant will tell you this.

But are AVE and Dill wise enough to listen to the accountant and his pointdexter numbers or hellride-lets-burn-this-profit?

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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I was thinking that too. Average it out and selling me a deck with grip for $26 shipped has gotta amount to a significant loss of money.

Especially with free shipping, they must be hurting on orders that are pure hardgoods with zero softgoods.

[manysnakes]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

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A good accountant will tell you this.

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But are AVE and Dill wise enough to listen to the accountant and his pointdexter numbers or hellride-lets-burn-this-profit?

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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I was thinking that too. Average it out and selling me a deck with grip for $26 shipped has gotta amount to a significant loss of money.

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Especially with free shipping, they must be hurting on orders that are pure hardgoods with zero softgoods.

Yeah I suppose the idea is to get people to buy some high margin soft goods (especially to make free shipping) with loss leading decks, but it didn't even occur to me to look at the FA soft goods.

[Badandoldskater]

The sale might have been a move to generate cash flow and reduce their glut of inventory. A lot of these companies use logistics companies that keep their inventory and they are the ones that drop shop the items to the consumers. Also clothes are made to go on sale, the mark up on soft goods is a lot. Either way I took advantage and bought a few to either keep or give away.

[doomstation55]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

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A good accountant will tell you this.

As an accountant, I’d advise burning the product. But I’m also a pyromaniac so take that for what it’s worth.

[nitro89]

anyone reckon the fa sale was simply to make room in the warehouse for Tyshawn's new board company?
that's obviously gonna blow up big time when it drops, even more so if he gets soty this year.

but its a wild guess as i have no idea if it will even be distributed there but as theres no bad blood between them (that i know of) i don't see why it wouldn't be.

plus they'd be able to recoup that profit loss quick time.

[Síota]

Just saw Enjoi has a huge sale on there US site:
https://enjoico.com/collections/sale?fbclid=IwAR1RUrS-NxcMp-ePFjr_ZTysflN2vpjEW4Q75GApg9IvaK7MiAUs01y-lfE

[PisstickleTypeExperience]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

I would imagine the bigger companies have to have some of this. What are the biggest skate brands? Element? Santa Cruz?

[stupidfuckface]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

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A good accountant will tell you this.

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But are AVE and Dill wise enough to listen to the accountant and his pointdexter numbers or hellride-lets-burn-this-profit?

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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I was thinking that too. Average it out and selling me a deck with grip for $26 shipped has gotta amount to a significant loss of money.

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Especially with free shipping, they must be hurting on orders that are pure hardgoods with zero softgoods.

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Yeah I suppose the idea is to get people to buy some high margin soft goods (especially to make free shipping) with loss leading decks, but it didn't even occur to me to look at the FA soft goods.

I got five decks...

[manysnakes]

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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After seeing what it costs to move all the useless shit in a one bedroom apartment I can’t imagine what it would be for a literal warehouse full of product, probably makes more sense to sell at a loss and be rid of it than pay an astronomical moving cost and still have to unload the merchandise

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I wonder if skate companies have a financial analyst, coders and data scientist on payroll that does analysis on selling goods at cost vs moving the product, sales projections, calculations on hardgoods price elasticity, social media analytics and data modeling for product seasonality and correlation of rider footage output vs board sales.

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A good accountant will tell you this.

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But are AVE and Dill wise enough to listen to the accountant and his pointdexter numbers or hellride-lets-burn-this-profit?

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They must really be hurting to lose that much profit on a sale of non overstock items.

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I was thinking that too. Average it out and selling me a deck with grip for $26 shipped has gotta amount to a significant loss of money.

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Especially with free shipping, they must be hurting on orders that are pure hardgoods with zero softgoods.

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Yeah I suppose the idea is to get people to buy some high margin soft goods (especially to make free shipping) with loss leading decks, but it didn't even occur to me to look at the FA soft goods.

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I got five decks...

Same, which is how I arrived at (I think) $26.40/per deck with grip and shipping.

[KinkyRailsRailed4u]

Adidas is having a week long sale with free shipping. Busenitz and Tyshawns for $49.

https://www.adidas.com/us/skateboarding-shoes