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Well thanks to all of you I went and tried the Mako II's on yesterday.
My Mako II's arrive a few days from now. I got a really good deal on them thanks to eBay. So It definitely lessened the blow of spending money on new skates. Plus I feel more comfortable in the II's over any of the other model's in the line since I will be in them up to 15 hours a week coaching/playing etc. I'd rather have them last a little while. Now I need to try the CXN holder and decide if I should swap out for Edge Holders.
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Completely agree with what you're saying. The only thing I will say as to why you should go with the mako2 is because the first generation makos had a couple of design flaws that effected the overall durability of the skate. I can only speak for myself when I say I have been in the mako 2 for over a year and have never been happier. Granted I agree the price is insane and it all comes down to how much you play and at what level.
I'm not so much worried about durability as I am comfort. If I get the original's and they broke down by the time the II's come down in price (whenever that may be) I'd be ok with buying the II's on closeout. I'm not making the NHL any time soon so even if Easton came out with some incredible new technology for the next model I don't think I'd ever consider spending $800 on skates.
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This topic is making me think I should jump on a pair of original Mako's for the price I saw them. Just can't decide if I should bite on them for the price, or get the Mako II. Aesthetically of course I like the II's better but I'm at the point in my life now where looks aren't everything haha.
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Had to cancel our trip to Florida for the weekend at the 11th hour.
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Found this last night. Not sure who's it was but I picked it up a few years back. Pretty sure I never used it. And of course my season is over til the fall.
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Enjoy weddings so much, have had a few of them....
My advice, it's your wife's day, let her have the wedding she wants. Guys don't grow up thinking about their wedding day. Unless the request(s) is just batchit crazy, just say yes and smile.
I've definitely let her take the lead on everything. I just step in when she gets overly stressed, like last week when she saw our venue on Say Yes to the Dress (didn't know our venue was even popular enough to be on TV) and thought "It looks so bare there were no decorations or lights hanging or anything" to which I had to remind her that the first question she asked when we sat with the venue was can we hang lights/decorate how we want and they said of course.
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Luckily my fiance' and I have already been living together, we get along fine, having my grandmother in the mix is a story that could fill a chapter on the Venting Spot. (I'm grateful it's worked out like this however sometimes you need to let the steam out haha) the best tips we received have mostly been restated here: getting someone to field questions the day of, I told my fiance' who is very worried about people not liking something my groomsman who was a fighter and stands at 6'4" off skates will be wearing a button that says complaint department. I will also be relegating a groomsman to handling final payments that day.
Strose: we're not doing real flowers, the 50% off sales at Michael's and 7 Michael's later we got every flower we need for the wedding. Guys are wearing pocket squares not flowers.
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Thanks for that. Its really just my mom that is driving me nuts. She thinks my cousin knows everything there is to know about weddings and every time she talks to her she calls me and says "your cousin said..." I always respond with " Okay thanks I will put it in the suggestion box". Eventually I will get a phone call from my dad telling me to stop being an ass to her. Its frustrating because if I take the side of my mom my fiancé and I argue and she calls me a mommas boy and if I take the side of my fiancé my mom gets all pissed and then my dad calls me. At least my dad and I understand each other and I can talk to him like a normal person where I have to sometimes where kid gloves with my mom. If you need someone to chat with too feel free to send me a PM as well. BTW I grew up in Long Island and my fiancé is from the country in upstate NY so this is culture shock my mom is going to have to realize.
Optimus as always thanks for contributing I guess
Thats more or less why I stopped including my parents in anything at this point. Just give them little tidbits of information about what we did. "We just found a photographer, well talk to you soon, love ya mom bye!" No chance to ask the thousand questions she thinks I didn't cover.
I'm not sure how far along you are with planning or where you're getting married but if you need any suggestions on anything let me know, we're almost finished at this point and just waiting on the date to get here and have been fortunate enough to lock up some really quality vendors.
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Wedding planning. Everyone says this is suppose to be the happiest time in your life. I am still waiting for the happy part. It doesn't help that we are from two totally different families either.
Going through the same thing. Luckily my fiance' and I have the same tastes and have worked extremely well together so far. I've found so far that it's the families that tend to cause the most stress. (At one point we have nearly no friends coming because our parents wanted every friend they ever met coming.) Just remember it's your and your fiance's day. If you need any help or wanna vent more since I'm going through the same process, feel free to PM me. Sometimes it's easier to vent to someone other than your fiance' about their family. I found that one out the hard way.
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That is correct!
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Not sure I'll hold onto these they seem a bit big on my hands. God damn impulse purchases.
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That's why they created crossgrinders ;-)
Yeah, but still takes quite some time, especially when someone tries to make an "extra deep" sharpening at Dick's hahah the V can go 3/4" the way down the steel (obviously at that point we just kindly tell them they may want to go back and get a refund or a new pair.)
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"I took a knive sharperner to my skates and now the blades look uneven" apparently he sharpened them all night that they looked like blades and he thought he'd skate better. Brand new skates. Dumbass refused to want to put new runners on them too and said no one warned him against it.
The local Dick's Sporting Goods claims they will sharpen skates for customers, I've seen at least 10 pairs in the past few months come in with the blade sharpened to a point. (--> \/ ) Takes forever to fix it for them.
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Dunno if you have done it or not, but take it from someone who has learned it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. Ask her out man. No matter what you think, because when you lose your chance you will regret it for a longass time my friend.
QFT
x2 and take it from the guy who decided he didn't want to risk it and make a fool out of himself, I missed out on many chances because I was afraid, and it hit home after I ran into someone I hadn't seen since HS and we ended up going out one night and hit it off and her saying to me she always liked me but was too afraid to say something.
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Decided to take a family pic, the one95's have been in the family and in use since the day they came out. Unfortunately after last night they may need to be retired, might just pick up a pair of one100's to replace them. The s9's I bought brand new and still haven't used them just not sure if I want to go with those or one100's. The 4.0's were an impulse buy. I'm terrible with decisions haha
Pro Stock Flexlite 4.0
Pro Stock Bauer S9
Regular old one95's haha
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You don't have to do that. Just tell them you stop sharpening 30 minutes before closing. Signage may help too...that way you condition your customers to come in a bit earlier.
We have bright signs with contrasting colors at eye level for most customers located on the door, in the window, and the side door of the shop (outside the rink) Most customers who ask what time we are open until will follow with "so you sharpen up until then?" At which point we will just say yes.
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We've now started to tell people over the phone we close half a hour earlier then the actual time the door gets locked so those people that think close at 8 means come at 8 come half a hour before we close to browse and shop.
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I locked up the shop the other night and went to the bathroom down the hall from the shop, on my way out a guy was holding his skates pushing on the door (remember folks, lights are off and door is locked, hours are also posted on the door) he sees me turns and asks "did you guys close for the night?" I said "Yeah we did sir, about 20 minutes ago." He looks at me a bit confused and says, "So you can't sharpen my skates?"
Why do people think when the door is locked we're still open? Does anyone else have this happen? It's not like we're trying to play a cruel joke on our customers, but when we lock the door at 8 (shop is open until 8) to count out and clean up it usually means we're closed, not that we don't want to help you.
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To not totally derail this thread either;
I'm at lunch and on my way back to work at 130, literally no hockey going on anywhere until like 6... as I pull up I see a guy who I don't recognize but who has local plates walk out pissed and drives away. I walk in and see my boss on the phone talking to our biggest client (I recognized his voice). 3 minutes later he is done with his call and I ask why was that guy pissed? Apparently, he came in about 3 minutes before I got there and he was already on the phone, he put our client on hold for about 15 seconds and told the guy that it might be 5-10 minutes (because he knew I was coming back) for the skates he has to be sharpened... then he just said "that's ridiculous, I'm leaving", and just left.
Now I'm not the kind of guy who wants to call people names, especially people who put money to my paycheck, but, who the hell would think if you bring skates in for sharpening, that it might take less than 5 minutes for them to get done?!?! If there was another pair in front of him, or we were helping someone with a product, theres no way we could have him in and out under 5. Just blows my mind how people can get pissed if they have to wait a bit for a service. And if you're in a hurry to get back to work or whatever, leave earlier, or just drop them off and pick them up. Don't have to be a dick about it! Ha!
I've had this happen multiple times. If I'm behind the wheel and someone comes in and drops off a skate more times than not they will ask how long, I always tell them 5-10 minutes I'll get started on them as soon as I'm done with the pair I'm doing now. Sometimes (very rarely) this is groundbreaking to a customer who expects me to grow 2 more arms and work on their skates on the other wheel. I always let people know as well when there is a line of skates that it will be a bit just so they know, maybe they have errands to run or want to go watch little Timmy during his lesson while they wait for the skates to be done, almost always they have no problem and are happy you let them know how much time they have to wait. Other times they are amazed that people dare enter the shop with skates for sharpening on the same day that person plans on gracing us with their presence.
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This doesn't usually bother me at all but happened so much today it just drove me nuts by the end of the day. Customers who walk up and just hold their skates in front of me. Yes I know they are looking for a sharpening considering the fact that when behind the counter you are next to the register or the service area but still how about a Hey? Or even a Sharpening please? Hell by the end of today a grunt would have been better then just holding the skates out at me. /End todays rant.
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Tools never ever leave the shop.
Are you talking about hand tools? Or the people mentioned in this thread
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And they give you the "he's this tall hand gesture" Where they put there hand about where little Johnny's head would be if he had been standing next to them at that time.
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This isn't so much a "I hate when customer's do this" more of a does anyone else find this funny thing. Recently I've had a lot of parents come in and say,
"I need a jock for Johnny" which is fine except for 2 things:
A) I don't know your kid by name and
B) When you come in without little Johnny AND expect me to know him and what size he needs and I don't the guessing game becomes exponentially tougher.
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I finally skated in them for the first time last night. First of all cutting the side felt off the tongues was a great idea. Thanks to this thread for that little tip. Second there was some pain here and there but I think that was just getting used to the skates, the pain pretty much subsided by the end of the session. Overall I am beyond happy I took this chance haha.