Vintage 1970s skateboard forum

I think weve had spammers trying to get in as there was 100s and 100s of users on at same time , its sorted i think

great

I’m a little confused as when I first log on it says for instance 1 user (member) and 8 guests, but when I log off the it’s recording hundreds in the previous 5 minutes?

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Yrs its settled down now a bit accordingly its bots scrolling all the info to use in ai queries in search engines rather than malicious

do the bots pay royalties?

unfortunately not 28000 visitors today , i can see all pages scanned and although i was a bit surprised , only thing it uses up a lot of bandwidth , good thing is members only for posting posts so if some of it were spammers they cant post even if one joined and was approved the new posts are vetted so they cant fill it up with spam , weird though all of a sudden , at one point 2000 were on at same time now its 200 , livens it up a bit

i still keep getting logged out,yesterday and today again

wheres all the decent stuff gone nowadays? i cant remember the last time i saw anything for sale that was a must have or a sensible price!
on the odd occasion that anything nice appears on ebay its being sold by idiots who want 4 or 5 times its real value and these things never sell they just sit there for yrs and yrs (unsuprisingly) and the sellers never even drop the price,whats that all about? surely they have the brain cells to realise that if it hasnt sold after a full yr then its too expensive? and that the idiot who they are hoping for isnt going to come along and buy it
an example of just a few (and there are loads) are the set of 1st gen blue kryps for around $2,000,a powell beamer for a mere $10,000 and a tri logo alva for about $3,500 the prices are just insane especially now that the market has peaked and is on the way down,i wont even mention the zflex at $43,500
more importantly though is wheres all the bread and butter stuff gone? if you wanted a pair of nos trackers/bennetts/cali slaloms/acs etc a few yrs back then you just waited for the next set to come along,now theres nothing apart from scabby old efforts,it looks as though everyones holding on to stuff or hoarding and stashing it all away

Yep you are right , it’s either a 30 quid skateboard somebody’s asking 300 for or a 250 skateboard someone is asking 700 for , I don’t really see much I’d consider buying nowadays , generally you don’t see much you’d want to buy like a sims taperkick a turner etc and like you say when you do they don’t put on for the market value , luckily I’ve got most of what I want

Totally agree, we didn’t buy enough when it was cheap, although looking at some of the photos you guys post, you obviously bought quality not quantity.

I used auctionsniper back in the day because American auctions were ending at all hours, when I go on there now and see the prices I won stuff at it seems mad, postage was affordable then to although you got caught by customs the odd time .

i take it that was all used, otherwise you got some incredible deals! gullwings for £10 sounds great what ever the condition

The Gullwings were Superpro lll in good Nick

The Powerflex Deck was unused 8” deck but had a twist in it

The Gryos and the Kanoa Rollouts were actually quite decent

The Lipcones were very used in my defence I had a very used BB Henderson at the time with California Slaloms so they fitted in perfectly

I think the only thing I have left are the Indy trucks and the Alva decks that were 2002ish reissues

lipcones are another wheel that seem to have vanished,you would normally see around three nos sets each yr,nowadays nothing maybe one set if your lucky,the bolts seem to be going the same way,they were as common as anything once upon a time and now they are down to around 2 sets a year and are normally blotchy ones or the letterings all worn off

Yeah on the Shiner Price list I still have from around 2002 they had about 350 Bolts and similar amount of Avon booster

No lip cones though, they must have come from elsewhere