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I think it's hilarious they baked a pair and sent you out to skate on them (assuming within an hour or maybe two), got their feedback, and what? Put them back in the stock room?

Being easily bothered.

Everyone, or every hockey player you interact with? Because there are a ton more of us that you don't know.

Midnight Monday morning skating. http://gifninja.com/animated-gifs/469369/oh-crap-omark

Holy mother of cutting board. What's that from?/under the assumption it wraps around your back underneath the shoulder pads?

Can only hope this marks the end of stock scalloped steel on Easton's skates.

Exactly what I was talking about. Didn't know how old the technology was, but a similar machine wouldn't be impossible to recreate. Wishful thinking. Excited to hear more.

Hopefully they'll offer a machine similar to CCM's for their U+ a couple years ago.

QFT. Impressive. How slick is the (granite) against the (SS)?

I'd venture to guess original 2.1 steel, given SSs taller height.

Bout time Haggy.

Hey, if there is a dollar to be made, I say have a small sign behind the counter that you can point to. They'll either walk out of the store and do it themselves as they should or they'll fork over two dollars. If the signage is there, you create a "not by my own choice" impression.

What new skates you settle into?

Rofl, not when you make money and have someone else's wife make you a home cooked meal. Who wants to rage tonight??, not me!

QFT!!!!!

ZEES intersects with HORN to make ZEES and SHORN. The intersecting S is on a triple word score, and the Z in ZEES is a triple letter score. 32 points for ZEES (the S was a blank tile so no point value) and 7 points for SHORN. x3 makes 96+21 points = 117. = me quitting.

The guy I'm playing in Words with Friends just dropped a 117 point banger on me. Quit, or trek on... hmmm.

More importantly... I don't think DS was saying people are asking for "his" discount, but rather a(n arbitrary) % off their new skates/stick.

I agree with what you say, but I believe these arguments are stemming from the original question, of is it OK to negotiate prices in a hockey store?, when the prices are set as is by management in order to keep the store away from red numbers? As a former retail sporting goods manager, no, I do not like it and no, I do not think people should have the perception that their individual purchase is more important than anyone else's/the store's bottom line/what have you. In my experience the people haggling for discounts are usually the same ones who assume the store marks everything up an extra 100% to achieve gross profits, when time sitting on the floor, employees having to explain the product to customers (not every one of which will purchase it/anything at all), occupying shelf space, all cut into the profit on the product.

But wouldn't you still have to buy $230 custom OPSs to get curves like the "Slovak" in order to try them out?

It is an attempt to negotiate, clearly, yes.

More accurately, I believe bartering and negotiating has always been a part of the process of financing items (which are always big money purchases), but should not be a part of the process of purchasing items.

And so the first generation of kids who grew up throughout the era of ebay and Crigslist sales make their way into retail stores, with money, from their first jobs. #generalization

:D

Too bad no one spoke with Savard. I hope Perron can turn the corner, while it doesn't sound good, it always seems like it can happen at anytime. Must be tough-as-shit waiting around though. Would love to see those hands next season.