Things ridiculous ski shop customers say

topic:Kulkea said:
-"Center mount these for me, por favor"

- Response: You ride park, homeboy? or are these the skis you ride the whole mtn with?(guess which is usually the case)
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Well, except true center doesn't make that big a difference in the park, if we're talking about takeoffs and landings switch, that extra couple cm you get on the tail doesn't really change much.

Where a true center really comes handy, is when your thing is hauling ass switch downhill. There that extra stability really matters. So you're asking the wrong question here.
 
13973379:scratchskier321 said:
"Can you put a 3 degree edge on these(park skis)"

super valid request. ur killing park skiers with stock edges dawg. :(
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ha! i just did a 3 degree on an enforcer 100 last night for a customer. they definitely know best.
 
Yeah so I'm a very good skier but I haven't skied in 20 years. Last time I was out we were on 200cm skis!! HAHA Anyway, what are the best skis to get. Remember I am very good
 
13935371:elm. said:
This doesn't matter, though, because in reality it takes a week for epoxy to fully cure (even the 5min epoxy), and probably two days for skis to be safely skied on, so you shouldn't ski right after mounting anyways.
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I’m gonna stop right here, my winner for ‘things ridiculous ski shop customers say’
 
13933741:860media* said:
Completely agreed. Yet if you ask them to crank the din IMO they should do it, only if you sign off on it though. its just part of the mounting process that I think could be changed. Call me an idiot, But sucks to grab skis outta the shop hit your first feature and have both of them pop off.

But, Yea Kulkea I have had trouble mounting my skis for years at multiple places around CT/VT. To beat it now I just grab a pair of old rental boots from my home mountain. They are way worse than mine, but they like them hahaha
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it’s not your din that is causing you to pop out of your bindings, but the fact that you are mounting them with a different boot.
 
13973753:KneeDrop said:
I’m gonna stop right here, my winner for ‘things ridiculous ski shop customers say’
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it’s true. after a day epoxy is around 70-80% cure. takes a really long time to 100% cure. they’re ok to ski right after a mount, but it will be stronger if you wait.

source: i’m a plastics engineer
 
13973814:cool_name said:
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it’s not your din that is causing you to pop out of your bindings, but the fact that you are mounting them with a different boot.
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Plus, adjusting dins is such an easy thing to do if you have a screw driver most resorts do
 
13976590:elm. said:
it’s true. after a day epoxy is around 70-80% cure. takes a really long time to 100% cure. they’re ok to ski right after a mount, but it will be stronger if you wait.

source: i’m a plastics engineer
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Oh, I wasn’t arguing that.

Unless you have a strange brand like DPS, you don’t want to epoxy your screws in. It’s not flexible enough to remain waterproof(the main reason for glue), it can mess with some cores, and it can break your shit when you want to remount.

source:I’ve worked in a tune shop for more than half my life
 
13980526:Poindexter. said:
Should I grease my bindings
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This could be a legitimate question. There's grease in moving parts of the bindings that you can even see from the outside
 
13980530:runforlove2018 said:
This could be a legitimate question. There's grease in moving parts of the bindings that you can even see from the outside
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True. I think it's lithium grease (not positive) if anyone is looking to grease their bindings with what the factory uses. Although I dunno how you'd grease them since the greased rubbing surfaces are internal. I have had both din and adjustment screws seize up before, so greasing older bindings may not be a bad idea.
 
"I need some skis to ski blacks, I only ski blacks..."

Idiot rich kid at Boulder that will probably ski Keystone 4 times and wear his ski jacket to every party.
 
"If it rains tomorrow you guys are gonna lose all your trails"

*customer walks out door*

Coworker: "No shit dumbass, go back to DC"
 
13933674:Knewnews said:
it is equally annoying to have someone at the shop question you when you know what you want. i have found with mounting you need to mark it with tape and clear instructions or some employee might decide you need the factory suggested mount rather then what you really want/need.

thankfully im too poor to actually buy something currently new or from a shop so i only deal with mounting once in awhile.

you would think people in the retail side would make a info print out with ski basics to help explain what realistic, rather then being tongue in cheek about being a douche to do your job. it's like when they are trying to sell you some parabolic skis lol like yea man i know that means sidecut and it's been around a long time. all smoke and mirrors, if you helped educate your customers you wouldn't have as many ignorant requests but the flip side is you also wouldn't be able to prey on that same ignorance to up sell a bunch of worthless crap.
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Just bought a pair of blends and terrified that if I ask for a center mount there gonna mount it like a racing ski. Between me and my friends we have all asked for a center mount. I got a center mount and one got them mounted basically on the back tips and the other was far back from center. How hard is it to listen to a simple request on paper. Im not having my skis get mounted wrong because some shitty ski shop tech thought he knew more then me.
 
13981368:Peterkrekorian said:
Just bought a pair of blends and terrified that if I ask for a center mount there gonna mount it like a racing ski. Between me and my friends we have all asked for a center mount. I got a center mount and one got them mounted basically on the back tips and the other was far back from center. How hard is it to listen to a simple request on paper. Im not having my skis get mounted wrong because some shitty ski shop tech thought he knew more then me.
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Just measure it and mark it. If the shop doesn't put BSL ond the sharpie line on the masking type that says "BSL here" with an arrow then you can get the hookup on a new set of sticks.

I just went through this and the shop called just to clarify before drilling them and the skis came out perfectly, mounted 2.5cm forward from recommended, ~-4 from center
 
13981368:Peterkrekorian said:
Im not having my skis get mounted wrong because some shitty ski shop tech thought he knew more then me.
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easy there killer. if you just talk to them when dropping them off and tell them center mount and do what others have suggested, its a non issue. I will even call customers if the sales people did not specify mount location for any ski that has options. I wouldnt say techs think they know more than you, just that techs are working hard to get people their skis quickly and sometimes (being human) they make a mistake. keep your calm and the shop should make it right. Years ago (like 2000) i had a tech mount mine traditional when i asked for +6 from traditional and he set my DIN to 6. obviously didn't know what he was doing. I talked to the shop manager about it and it all got squared away with a new ski and i went and mounted it in their shop and that was basically my interview
 
13983270:freeskibum82 said:
easy there killer. if you just talk to them when dropping them off and tell them center mount and do what others have suggested, its a non issue. I will even call customers if the sales people did not specify mount location for any ski that has options. I wouldnt say techs think they know more than you, just that techs are working hard to get people their skis quickly and sometimes (being human) they make a mistake. keep your calm and the shop should make it right. Years ago (like 2000) i had a tech mount mine traditional when i asked for +6 from traditional and he set my DIN to 6. obviously didn't know what he was doing. I talked to the shop manager about it and it all got squared away with a new ski and i went and mounted it in their shop and that was basically my interview
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I went in there yesterday and when they realized I wasn’t a normal jerry from Rhode Island we were straight.
 
Yesterday a dude brought in totally thrashed rentals with gravel in them, when confronted he tried to play it off and then promptly left. Three pairs of demos came back the same way, one of the pairs being held an extra day. Whenever we tried to call the dude would never answer, but eventually we got him to pay #mlkwknd

[video]https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/921966/29576853-1140246742782348-8592855320085135360-n-mp4[/video]
 
dad wanted me to sell a kid some magic j's for his kid, i asked if hes going out west he said no its for park but his kid wanted these, i told him he will rip the edges in the first week and i gave him a reccomendation for a wide park ski, but he got mad and said that his son knows better, guess who showed up within a month with blown out sides and 950 dollars down the drain.
 
14010951:roddy116 said:
dad wanted me to sell a kid some magic j's for his kid, i asked if hes going out west he said no its for park but his kid wanted these, i told him he will rip the edges in the first week and i gave him a reccomendation for a wide park ski, but he got mad and said that his son knows better, guess who showed up within a month with blown out sides and 950 dollars down the drain.
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What a total boner.
 
14011089:wasatch_rat said:
Me: "where do you want these mounted?"

Jerry: "um, the top?"
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this made me lol but imagine if you didn't know about mounting points, "where do you want these mounted" would sound pretty weird
 
14011103:pinkcamo1000 said:
this made me lol but imagine if you didn't know about mounting points, "where do you want these mounted" would sound pretty weird
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For sure, me and the Jerry both had a good laugh about it before I explained things. Now I just ask "mount on recommended?" Usually saves time and confusion instead of having to explain the pros and cons of where to mount a ski
 
13980945:VinnieF said:
True. I think it's lithium grease (not positive) if anyone is looking to grease their bindings with what the factory uses. Although I dunno how you'd grease them since the greased rubbing surfaces are internal. I have had both din and adjustment screws seize up before, so greasing older bindings may not be a bad idea.
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Actually there's not many moving parts on the inside of a binding. Normally just a metal spring inside a housing, and the DIN screw really just pushes to compress the spring, with a few parts to keep it in place. Generally what gets greased is the worm screw on the heel track, as that is what actually moves when the ski flexes and the binding recoils on the heel track to keep constant forward pressure.

I have done complete disassembly/reassembly on pivot 18's, and there are almost no moving parts on the inside, and very little grease anywhere in it
 
I was doing a ski boot fit for a father/son duo. Son was in a 29.5 and the father 27.5. After working with them both for about 45min and finding boots they were both happy with the father finally asks what size the boots they are in. Que a 30min argument which the manager got involved in because apparently the son and father wore the same size shoes so they had to have the same size boots and that I had fitted them wrong.

End result was the manager telling the father to piss off for being rude and the son coming away happy with some new ski boots.
 
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