Nice bump, hopefully Hairy Neptude will show up again. My favorite alias ever.
How do you know he doesnt spend his time between
1) working a million dollar a year job
2) skiing
and has so much money and so little time between his job and skiing that the money spent is nothing and the time spent trying to get deals isnt worth it?
whatever the reason, I asure you we will hate him for it.;)
you must be new here, eh?
Really? SL posted his personal info and asked people to google him (ad), and the first google result was him winning a race, and another was from a professional photography company giving him credit for skiing the backcountry. Looks to me like if he took the time he could get pro deals at about half off, but apparently has too busy a life to do so. It is not like he spends all day posting here either. (yeah, I know I have been replying to posts over a year old, but this thread has been brought back, it is not like I have gone back)
nothing to add other than I went to some lecture with Gary Neptune and the entire time I was sitting there listening to him, I couldn't help but think about this thread and the 'neptude that some of his employees display. He seemed like a nice guy, but definitely jaded me and I probably won't ever go in the shop because of it.
I went to Neptune's yesterday and it was bad. These guys are hacks in this store. I am not sure why this store is popular. You can get any of this gear at much less of hit to the wallet at other stores. I think they just have minimum wage CU students running the place too, and they have no clue.
This thread is awesome. I have had bad experiences with Neptune's since the first time I shopped there. These guys think they are the shit and it is so not true. A bunch of incompetent drug addicts. And wtf is up with all the T&A on the walls. I had heard Gary Neptune is a sexist bastard but geez. If I were a woman I would never shop there. Spend your money elsewhere. This place is not gonna last long if they continue the way they are.
Bump from the past!
Neptune was just sold to a Texas company.
A wise man once said "Even Reinhold Messner would get attitude if walked into the 'Tune for a carabiner."
backwoods vs. the house
FIGHT!
Wow, that was fun!
What the fuck did I just read
I have a love hate relationship with this thread. In 2010, one of the geniuses there put up his icelantics with dynafits on ebay for a buy it now of $25. So I had the button, and sent a paypal. Hours later I get an email about how the transaction was cancelled, and a follow up email about how the seller just fucked up and that I didn't really want cheap skis, right? I kind of felt like, people get ripped off on auctions every day, and you guys suck, so mail me my skis. It did go to show me that these people are grade-A morons though, i mean, eBay was 10+ years old at the time, right?
What would Stevie S. say?
Epic thread.
Great thread. Glad to see it still alive.
Funny thread.
I got nothing but love from them...amazing service from shoe dude