...Going back to the "HAVE YOU BEEN DUPED POST" and your comments on Stoked Surfboards... 
...here is a nice topic in which I had absolutely had nothing to do with but thought you might enjoy: http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1304259&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1
Here's my favorite post:
"I emailed them this:these boards you sell are obvious chinese popouts. this impacts our local shapers and their livelihood.there are far too many of your kind out there, tryingto make a quick buck and forgetting that local shapersactually care about their work, their families, andthe people they shape for. how dare you import thiscrap around here, or play middle man so somedisgruntled shaper from here can sell out his friendsand line his pockets with chinese blood money. if iwere you i would take a good long look at myself inthe mirror. if you even surf, you won't like what yousee. enjoy bankruptcy. it's coming your way. rememberthe skateboard crap that flooded the market after itbecame the "hot" thing for kids? surfing is sufferingfrom the same thing, but this time it's the yuppie newcomer beginner surfers you are pushing your crap on.think about it. i hope you do the right thing.
They replied with this:If the industry didn't capitalize on the Clark feasco and start charging twice as much for boards, there wouldn't be the demand for this Chinese crap. Speaking of Chinese crap where do you think Channel Islands boards are made, Or Stewart, or any other big "USA" board makers are made?Why don't you go after those guys instead of some dude trying to make a few extra bucks by selling a couple boards out of his garage.Sell me your boards for wholesale and I'll stop buying these cheese boards.I buy them from Costa Azul, Isle Surfboards, and Discount Surfboards in San Clemente. Those are the guys importing them, you could go hastle them too.Besides like you said it's only the kooks buying these boards anyway, most people are buying the Chinese Channel Islands boards.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
hey anonymous, insert foot in mouth now...
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If you look at the "Stoked Fitness" website they have, you see that they are just flat out looking for whatever makes easy money. It's a website selling Multi level marketing health products and supplements. (Nothing wrong with making money, but they obviously have no problem with taking the path of least resistance and riding it out as hight teck middlemen on the internet). So be sure to order your supplements with your board and you'll be living the "stoked" life.
they have good Christian hearts! cant you tell? oh and if i see you guys at any north county break i'm going to see how durable them POP OUTS are.
Nothing better than using religion to sell surfboards. And have you noticed none of the Chinese boards have the 'Jesus fish' on the stringer near the dimensions? Weird.
I'm all about good Christian hearts, it's just the satanist in me that has a problem with it.
By the way is Jesus a regular foot or goofy?
He's actually a sponger...
wow, talk about incriminating. this guy sells chinese pop outs to people, and then says "only kooks ride them anyways." great way to support your customer base!
people that buy those boards and continue to surf will soon realize that the board sux.if people would reserch a board before they buy like they do big screens and cars they would not buy junk.i guess the flasjy colors and slick advertising gets um.i admire tims stance on "no popouts"
wow....I actually purchased my longboard from one of these companies in San Diego about 3 years ago...this blog was an eye opener.
I'll never buy Chinese crap like this again,,,never.
Is it true what he said about Channel Island?
Channel Islands are not made in China (as far as we know, but there's always so many rumors...) Al Merrick's Anacapa label is made in Thailand at the Cobra Factory.
I'd rather see more intelligent posts on these "stoked surfboards" allerting the interested consumer of the implications of their actions. I surf and live in a remote area. When I surf it is with one or two people and all we know about new surfboards and wetsuits is what they look like in magazines. It's all or nothing. It is a crime to dish out $800 for a new epoxy and then the nightmarish lodgistics of shipping. All these boards are the same to me, that monoculture dreck. Tell me this, are the fire wire boards any better than stoked/33degree surboards?
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