Just wanted to know where some good spots are - I went to Boardsports the other day. Pretty nice folks there.

I usually go to Hogtown or Sporting Life.. or if I'm in the area I go to Skiis & Biikes in Mississauga every once in a while.

Sanction up around steeles and yonge, or sporting life at don mills and eglington.

surfparadise, but if your in collingwood try hitting up fathom.. but surfparadise is the best.. i think its across the street from sporting life 

The surfparadise in Mississauga by skiis and biikes closed.. where is there another one? Which sporting life?

thanks guys!

Posted by AlisonCJ
The surfparadise in Mississauga by skiis and biikes closed.. where is there another one? Which sporting life?

Posted by Wongdoe

Posted by Oddity
Sanction up around steeles and yonge, or sporting life at don mills and eglington.

 

isn't that skiis and bikes by don mills and eg?

Yep, sorry, always get them messed up.

Yeah Corbetts is good. They were the only place carrying my board and it was a good deal. (at least I think.. considering I couldn't find it anywhere else I couldn't really compare prices, but I think it would likely sell for about $100 more at other shops).

Another place I always go if I'm shopping for snowboard stuff in Oakville I always go to Hustler. I like that shop, plus my friend works there.. I think he's a manager or something. But yeah.. good dudes work there.

i look up the gears at most of the shop
but I buy it online from USA or ebay
much cheaper

meh... boots, buy in person... boards... we bought 3 last year on-line... they seemed like amazing deals, but by the time they got to us and any added fees like shipping or border shit got slapped on it, they would have been just as cheap to get at an end of season sale here.

Plus half the brands can't ship over the border anyway...

i have a house in florida...so worst comes to worst...i could always use that address for stuff online that can't ship to canada.

but either way, i always believe that boots have to be fitted in person. if anyone else is like me, i'd end up sending back boots about a dozen times before i found something that felt right, so i might as well just go to a shop and do it all at once. as for boards and bindings...i like to demo stuff, borrow from friends to see what i like...then i shop around for the best price...if that happens to be in canada, then bonus (i'd rather keep the money here)...but if the price is radically cheaper in the US...like 50-100 bucks, then i have to save myself and buy there....atleast while i'm un-employed anyways

i am pretty disappointed that both snowboard shops we went to on the weekend kept their gloves behind the cash counter... i have to ask permission before i cop a feel? come on! i don't buy gloves based on what they look like, maybe i'm wierd like that, but i wanna know what they feel like and how they fit and compare one to another. pfft.

Weak.. where was that? I guess in their defense it's a good way to keep people from stealing them.. but so are security tags...

the only thing a security tag will do is tell you that something with a tag is already out the door

Well yeah, but also I don't want mitts with a big hunk of plastic on them.. or a rip. And I don't personally have magnets of that calibre. And by that logic, all putting them behind the counter will do will make it so your friend has to distract someone while you "try a pair on".. or go back and help yourself.

alison, it was at sanction and meltdown... and yeah, i htought about the discouraging of theft bit too. but still... it's gloves.... i'm a tactile person, what can i say?

sanction is my favourite place (bathurst and steeles).  They like me there because I spend money, and I drop by about once every two weeks. 

[Edited by ssllgg11 on 10/7/2009 at 9:32 PM]