Best ski shop in Tahoe/reno??

Lol. I dont know how the topic changed from best ski shop to retail buisness ethics... but whatever.

I'm just going to say that I like Porters... because its been there for days, and its mad cool.
 
Uh Mukluk changed the topic when he started spewing diarrhea out his pie hole

And I'm going to say support Porters, Daves, Totally Board, and Sports Exchange. Just sticking to my North Shore homies for now cuz they all had a rough winter last year.
 
wooooowwww... whoever you are, you have way too much time on your hands! and take ski talk waay too seriously. i just saw all those posts you wrote in this thread since the last time i've been on newschoolers, and wow...

i don't work for moment or that shop, i just think they're both sick. and those people you named are three different, and we ski together. and i don't have a thousand friends or posts on newschoolers like you because i'm not that active on it. because since the last time i read this thread, while you've been married to it and talking shit, i've been skiing all over the country instead of talkin about it.

oh man... people are so aggressive on this site! chill out... skiings cool... and fun...
 
holy crap let this stupid thread DIE, shoreline in south lake is way better than all those other stores. Oh and Im definitely not "Mukluk"
 
No prob cuz we're all entitled to our own opinion. I'm obviously biased and have an opinion cuz I'm a north shore gir. lShoreline and Bob who owns it are cool but it's not a full blown ski shop. That was the thread topic that's all. No real probs with you just Mukluk.
 
I've only recently posted on this thing too. For cryin out loud I'm "lame". And sorry Mukluk I wasn't talking shit at all. I was setting the record straight from you talking shit. I've been around the block more than you trust me and years and years ago had the MSRP / MAP thing explained to me by a sales rep friend of mine back then so that's why I was calling bullshit on bullshit. Again, we ain't got snow on the ground so go in and play lets make a deal with whatever shop you wanna support, but the original "street" or MAP price on a K2 Hell Bent starts the same for everybody.
 
oh yeah, I'm gonna have to say my new favorite shop is sread and butter - just cause I like the place and had a frickin' awesome time there. Way to kill it guys.
 
cougarette I dont know why your ranting on me. I just listed a few ski shops. I guess that offended you. haha. ya youve been around, but not in the ski industry.
 
GotSteaz -

Don't think I did much ranting on you. Poor Mukluk got the brunt of that.

And you seriously don't know what I got offended about after reading my "rants"?? It's that you like a lot of people just assume that because you go to the mountains that they INTENTIONALLY RAISE the initial, sticker price of skis versus some shop in the bay area or whatever. And the flip side is those that think a bay area shop somehow chooses to put a sticker price on a ski $50 or $100 less than a shop in the mountains.

I was just trying to deal in FACTS and educate the sheep a bit that think that shops really have much of a say in what price they put on a ski. THEY DONT. So when you say prices are higher at Bobos or Porters, your wrong. Of course I specified all the MSRP / MAP / Feb 1 deal in a previous rant so am not going to go over it again. And this shit goes across the board. Want that gucci Oakley Crowbar goggle with a sick lens color? If Oakly says the price is $130, then Bobos sells it till about Feb 1 at $130 just like a shop in the bay area (again "bro deals" aside and a shitty winter with no snow at all aside as those are two examples when all bets are off on a manufacturer not enforcing their MAP pricing policy).

And hey GotSteaz, I started skiing at Squaw in the 70s before you were probably born and worked at shops and resorts in the 80s and 90s. Still have LOTS of friends in the industry even though I haven't been for several years now.
 
So... who are you? because i am sure at least one of on here should know you, if what you say is true. As most of us are tahoe/truckee locals or transplants. Care to quit hiding behind an online profile?
 
woah you've been working in ski shops since the 80's? You must be old then. thats funny that someone as old as my mom goes on newschoolers.
 
started in rentals in 86 right out of high school so yeah, I turn the big 40 next year. thanks for saying I'm as old as your mom though cuz I probably am
 
and yeah I agree I'm over this too. One of my younger girl friends has been trying to get me to use the internet more for like finding a date and surfing around and all that and told me to get on all the chat sites and this thing since I grew up skiing but I just get way too agro and should probably shut my own pie hole more often. probably why I scare off to many guys too. but thanks for the heads up to shut up. i'll go back to menstrating for now
 
so the name fits.

and you're wrong about alot of that pricing lecture. i went to college, lol. we're not all dumb kids here

the price given by manufacturers is a "suggested retail price". different shops can choose to or are forced to sell at different prices because of outside variations that affect their business... like their location, town regulations, demand, standard of living in that area. some shops are forced to sell at less mark up and make a smaller profit margin

so yes, when oakley tell the shops suggested retail on that crowbar goggle is $120, a shop in aspen can sell it for $140 and a shop in southern ny can only sell it for $115 or nobody will buy it. both shops may still buy it from oakley for $90, and unfortunately the ny shop owner only makes $25 off it.

but then again his mortgage on his NY suburb house is only %60 of the other owner's same size aspen home. (oh, and sports authority probably gets that goggle for $80)

so yea, the sports exchange may be forced to sell their products with less mark-up at a cheaper price, because times are tough for historic truckee small business owners

go back to school cougar
 
ya whatev, I think RMS is the best, bobos is a joke as far as anything else shred and butter, the only prob is you cant get your skis mounted there yet.
 
pues es un perro porque en realidad es un perro....a quiene escribio el mensaje es totalamente una otra pregunta. mukluk parece como un lobo
 
bobo's is legit- this moron kid i know's dad owns the place- he knows what he doin.

porters is cool

if you'll go to sac, then check sierra snowboard and ski- they have amazing deals on tons of stuff.

sierrasnowboard.com
 
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