CMC said...
My best ever sale was before the cheap Chinese boards when second hand beginner Mini Mals were the equivalent of Golden Rocking Horse poop.
A guy came in in the morning and asked if I would buy his used Mini Mal. I played down the excitement, in the end I arranged him to come back at 3pm with the board and I would 'take a look'
About 30 minutes later somebody else came in and asked if I had any. I said this time instead of the usual 'no, sorry', 'yes, I'll have one this afternoon. Come back about 4'.
So old mate with the board is a little late and arrives at 3:30pm. He's been to the Pawn shop who's offered him $60.00. He tells me this and says he thought that was a bit less than he wanted. I ask politely 'what kind of money were you expecting', he says 'oh about $120', I tell him I think it's worth a little more and give him $150 we are finishing up the paperwork and the buyer from the morning comes in while the seller is still there.
I have to kind of brush the buyer a little and tell them I'll be with them in a minute. I rush the seller out so that the 2 don't catch on.....
Somehow pulled it off. In the end I sold the board for $380 to the buyer and never even got to clean the wax off or fix any dings and they were stoked. I could have sold the board for $420 afterwards regardless.
$230 margin on something you have in stock for 3 minutes. Who ever said profit is a dirty word?
Classic
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Kinda sad that you can sometimes make more on a second hand learners board than on a new noserider. Guess thats why we have so many boards now from Chinese Charlie - Mark
Gotta give mac ten points for giving the kid the board 
