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Garage Skateshop has Element decks for $15. Hard to beat that for a BBS pressed deck if you don’t mind the shapes.
Also Zumiez has ‘em for $25. Is Element going under or something?
https://garageskateshop.com/collections/decks
Is element okay?
Nick Garcia (finally!) left Element on Thanksgiving day.
I take it they're either not doing okay or they're "restructuring" and are possibly rebranding their skateboarding division image.
Think of that clothing collab they did in an actual forest. Maybe they're trying to get back to their roots or something?
Cynic says: nah, they're definitely not doing okay
Edit: how do we know these Element decks on deep discount are BBS? Garage doesn't list it and Element's site had a mix of (mostly) the same graphics at Garage/Zumiez/etc. where some were BBS and some were not
Pretty safe to assume the Pro boards are BBS, those from EU retailers are HLC, team logo boards are China, based on the few I've ordered a few months back. The nose and tail are really tapered, almost egg shaped, with a medium concave that mellows out substantially a few weeks in. If you're in to those shapes $15 is hard to beat.
RE the future of Element it definitely doesn't look rosy. Nick Garcia got cut / left, Donny Barley posted about getting his real estate license which is never a good look. And their inventory has been on heavy discount for months.
Edit: 8.0s have really tanked in popularity over the past few years, every online retailer has loads of 8.0 and 8.125 on clearance.