 Poster: A snowHead
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, What you smoking ? Post-a-Price and if Elizabeth B, buys I'll pick up and deliver to PSB --- what else you have going cheap ( no Marmottes or Chamois thanks) 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Got loads a stuff. I'm off on my hols Saturday, after the footie, bien sur. But when i get back will post a list with prices. Don't buy fatties 'til then. I'll try and get something up before tommorow if i can. 
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| markP wrote: |
flicksta, If it's green then I believe that is the B3. Which would make it even better value as EB sell them for 525GBP although thats with a better binding. The B2 is blue and is fatter and stiffer than last years model and comes in at 435 with the axium 300.
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It was the B3's I saw, although they are essentially the old B2. Not big enough for me.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I thought the new B2 was fatter than the old? So how can the new B3 be "the old B2"??
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Should mention that my new favourite shop has the new B2 at 489euros and the old B2 at 399euros, both with the superior Axial (this season's 120 and last's 100 respectively) rather than Axium bindings. P&P was about 12euro. Payment by Paypal would cost 4% extra I think. I paid for my RX 8s at my local bank by European Payment Service international transfer using SWIFTBIC and IBAN numbers supplied by the shop. Skis arrived 4 working days later.
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Elizabeth B, as you say
B2 113 76 93 (last season)
B2 116 78 105 (this season) definitely blue
B3 120 83 110 definitely green
B4 122 94 115
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Sorry guys...getting you a bit excited-what i actually meant was that i got this years B2 for £250 (was actually £240, but hey!), not that i am selling them for that price-and i'm afraid i got them off my brother who gets rossi, salomon and stockli skis half price as he's a BASI instructor...sorry for misleading you all 
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I bet that even at half UK-price Rossi, Salomon and Stockli aren't selling them at a loss.
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slikedges, Makes you wonder...just how many pairs of skis could a BASI Instructor get through in one season 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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slikedges, It would work as a plan, if no one queried why they were buying skis in various lengths and at differing ability levels
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You know it makes sense.
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| slikedges wrote: |
| I bet that even at half UK-price Rossi, Salomon and Stockli aren't selling them at a loss. |
Probably not, but they are also selling them direct, so there's no retailler mark-up.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| slikedges wrote: |
snowbunny, maybe the BASI skiers we have here are of different sizes and levels?  |
Sounds like a plan!
See, you want a soft, easy pair for when demonstrating movements to beginners - the soft ski will then make it easier to see what the ski is doing, you'll need a stiffer pair for when you're teaching more advanced skiers, then you'll need a pair for when you're instructing in the park, and a pair for off piste, and a pair for SL, and, since you may well be planning on teaching in France at some stage, you'll obviously need a pair of GS skis too.
That's 6 pairs so far. Then, since you can't demo the skis properly in the UK, you'd better buy at least 2 lengths in each ski, so you get the right ones.
So, my answer is that you can justify a minimum of 12 pairs...
...per manufacturer - I mean, they aren't going to talk to each other about one individual's ski buying.
And that gives us:
36 pairs of skis per season.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Wear The Fox Hat, but how many 5ft midgets are BASI instructors?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Helen Beaumont, who says you have to get skis which are related to your height?
I have skiied with a guy whose main skis, when not instructing, are 155cm (but not an SL ski), yet he's over 6ft tall.
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Went into Decathlon (Sheffield) this am, and they had the new B2 & B3 but no bindings.
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Some years the BASI offers have had a limit as to how many pairs of skis each person can buy, but they don't appear to this year. Looking at the number of 05/06 skis available on the cheap on ebay I reckon someone's making a few quid on the sly! Personally I think anyone who does this is taking advantage and jeopardising future offers - although I would have no qualms about selling them after a season's use and getting back what I paid for them - which would essentially make them free.
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beanie1, don't worry, not serious, though I do think the inflated prices asked of British skiers compared to our US and European peers is a contemptuous and cynical exploitation of the market. Thank goodness for the internet and the single market.
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slikedges,
Absolutely.
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| slikedges wrote: |
| I do think the inflated prices asked of British skiers compared to our US and European peers is a contemptuous and cynical exploitation of the market. Thank goodness for the internet and the single market. |
Although I've not done a systematic comparision, my impression of prices in resort shops in Tignes or Les Arcs as well as the valley towns of Bourg St Maurice or Albertville is that prices are not that much different from here in the UK.
As I recently bought a pair of skis from Germany via the internet I certainly agree about your comment on the single market! Those skis were a real bargain (about 70% less than the retail price in the UK). But I also bought a pair of skis in Snow&Rock during the summer which were 50% off, so it is possible to pick up bargains in this country as well!
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FAQ
When I phoned them ,they were not making appts, as their ski boot dept was not open. Let me know if you can get a firm booking 
