MorePower4me

I think he's trying the old 'win over the little brother move' and would have given that stick away if he saw an 'impressive improvement' in drinking from a water fountain... :P

Why don't you move up to forward for net year? Its not like they can get worse, and hopefully you'd enjoy the change of scenery. Think of it as a new challenge you probably couldn't get if you guys were 9-0.

Impressive mustache! :lol:

As well as a girlfriend to cut loose. ^ This. I'd have expected to see 'Ex GF didn't....' Either way good luck. You can usually get pretty large reductions in the hospital bill if you call the billing department and make it clear you WANT to pay, but just can't pay that much.

Bought new hockey pants and found that: 1- Suspender buttons allow you to use suspenders 2- Suspenders keep the pants from falling off 3- Padding works better than thin nylon for stopping fast pucks All 3 of the above (while seemingly obvious) aren't, to Easton. At least on my Synergy ST4's. So thank you Reebok for making pants for < $60 that don't leave with with black and blue marks and needing to pull up my hockey pants every other minute. My hockey experience has improved dramatically!

It just occurred to me I won't ever get any 'good' pictures because I'm the only one in my circle of friends how has a 'proper' camera and the know-how to use it... I can't even get my wife to pick up it with most of the lenses on it. Sigh... Well if anyone needs shots taken at Leaf Ice in IL let me know!

Took a slapper to the single 1" spot on my pants that isn't padded... Stupid Eastons... Plus, they won't stay up and don't have buttons for suspenders, so I get to pull them up every shift... Job??? What in the world for? And thanks for the Good Luck wishes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_%28Bible%29

I've fallen for that before... <_< (I'm just bitter because I am waiting on a HM order too...)

Haha, thats awesome. I think you should have made up something absurd for the answers. Like "m'am, everyone knows breezers go in-between your 2 layers of hockey pants. Pause... You are wearing 2 layers of Hockey Pants right?"

Haha, mine is not a popular opinion I see! To respond to a couple points I do NOT have extensive composite experience. I've done some cosmetic carbon fiber applications (not load bearing) both overlays and bagged, and dabbled in minor load bearing automotive applications (front splitter on an autocross car) but not nearly enough to even feign any genuine knowledge on the subject, especially an OPS designed for strength AND flex. My point for bringing up the bow was solely to point out that carbon fiber can be made to bend, and do so repeatedly. Obviously the applications are much different, but I still challenge the idea that a stick HAS to break after a certain amount of flex cycles. Pushing it to far will break it, obviously, but I still think they should be able to last longer than some do (but thats a segway for another time). My main beef was that being new to the sport (after a LONG time away) I could have easily made the same mistake this guy did. I would hope that I'm a bit smarter and wouldn't get it close to the breaking point, but how else do you know what your looking for? Or what the difference between 77 and 110 is? Hell, it was a comedy of errors from the time I walked in the door according to this thread. I asked the guy if they sharpened skates (I didn't see the machine but it was pretty obvious after the fact), then I asked him how long it would be and if I should wait (I was planning on coming back the next day, but he could have thought I was in a rush) and then while he was sharpening them I was walking around looking at gloves and sticks (and flexing them - I didn't know any better and was trying to figure out what each flex # meant). I was certainly being respectful towards the shop/worker (way too many years in retail for me and my wife is still doing retail management to be a dick) but maybe people just don't realize what they're doing? If I had broken a stick I would have certainly offered to pay for it, its only right, but I would have definitely also speak to the warranty reps at the manufacturer to see if they would replace it. I still consider breaking before it even hits the ice to be a defect.

So is a composite bow/crossbow, but you can still play with one in the store without it imploding. The only idea behind concessions for the card was only if it would help the store. Certainly he's not a superior 'person' (as evidenced by his spawn and actions in this matter) but if he turned out to be a big shopper, his lifetime sales value might far surpass the stick price. I wasn't there, I don't know. But the whole idea behind 'flex' and not being allowed to flex the stick is a peculiar one to me. Earlier in the thread someone referenced online service in regard to prices, saying that the advantage of the LHS is that you can try out the product, see how it feels, etc. If going into your store is now the same as looking at a 3D picture (no touching) and reading a description about flex (not actually flexing), I would hope your (stick) prices are in line with online ones too. You've removed the entire LHS advantage and anyone's reason for not shopping on price alone.

You make a very good point, there is no guarantee he throws money around on gear, but someone who drops that much money every year, on a credit card, and one that needs to be paid off every month at that... Makes my retail mind start to drool... (but I'm weird like that). And as for Easton and the warranty, I'd think they would jump to cover something like this. Granted its been a while since I've played hockey (and admittedly it was primarily with wood sticks or much older composites) but do the OPS sticks often break from a simple flexing in the store? As a manufacturer, I'd think the last thing I'd want to hear about my biggest, baddest, NHL used, flagship, puck catapulting weapon of a stick, is that a simple flex in the store made it meet its maker. I'd be embarrassed and would want to immediately get a new one sent out lest people think my product is that poorly constructed. But like I said, I am getting back into hockey now and may be out of touch with the way things work. The closest approximation I can come up with (in areas I'm familiar) is high end road race bicycles (think Lance.) Its a very similar construction process, using very similar materials, and similar design goals (light as possible, stiff in some areas, compliant in others) and in some cases the bikes and sticks are even manufactured in the same factories in Taiwan... but in the case of a bicycle frame, if it breaks the manufacturer is apologetic and gets you the latest greatest version (usually with an upgrade in model) and makes sure you realize your occurrence was a fluke, and that they really are 'better than that' - why are the stick companies so different? (besides the obvious engineered obsolescence and 'consumables' nature they've marketed) Certainly the bike companies don't cover accidents like your frame getting run over by a car, but if it broke on a test ride, or while sitting on it in the store they would. Maybe I'm just expecting too much out of a $300, 430gm piece of molded carbon fiber?

Sweet God, I just read about your last time... :o I think you win the venting thread. Did they give you any advice last round to avoid another? It appears unsuccessful. :(

Crappy situation all around, but I think you were being a little harsh since it was clearly an accident. (Stupid actions no doubt, but he didn't come into the store with the intent to break it.) Doesn't the business have insurance for exactly this sort of occurrence? (it should...) Or why not offer to charge only the actual cost of the stick? It's a pity that it all turned out this way (and that the police needed to be called) but I honestly think you lucked out (a lot!) with the parents. I can assure you that since the police were there anyway, similar vandalization of my property would most definitely have been reported. It's no different than a car salesman throwing a brick through the windshield of a car he just sold while its still on the lot. It was a spiteful move to make. The fact that the stick was yours has no bearing on the situation. If you're claiming once it was broken it was his stick/responsibility, then you have to concede that it was his when you defaced it. Or if nothing else, when you noticed the Centurion I'd think you would have tried to make some accommodations. This guy drops 250K+, every single year, on that card, and you've guaranteed not one more penny of it will be at your store. I'd have thought that saying "I won't charge you for the broken one, but you have to buy a non-broken one" may go along way towards getting his documented, large amounts of spending back, no?