Our good friends at Westsyde Connection have decided to fight back against the scooter epidemic that we are currently experiencing. Receive a $50 trade-in on scooters when you buy a complete skateboard over $200. Great idea, more info here. I wonder what is going to happen to any scooters that are traded in?
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I don’t understand these guys. I get the concept, but still. They say scooter riders are kooks and then try to get them on skateboards? Is that what we need, more kooks on skateboards?
Also don’t most kids ride scooters cause they’re cheaper and you don’t need to replace them all the time? Why would they pay over $150.00 for a skateboard?
Out of curiosity how many set ups get sold and how successful is this?
Good point Mike. Not sure how successful this has been.
I’ll see Westsyde have any comments.
Cheers.
It’s more “about putting it out there” to the kids that scooter riding just aint cool, than actually selling boards.
The trade in simply offers the scooter kid who knows they’ve fallen in with the wrong crowd, the ones pre-disposed to skateboarding, the opportunity to correct their ways. And to this end we have recently done a skate clinic at a community fair with a custom learner course and we helped over forty kids to get rolling on a skateboard with six of them dropping in on our micro mini ramp for their first times. We will be offering this set up for skateboard clinics on weekends by appointment.
Creating access to the stoke of skateboarding is the best way to weed out the kooks from the rulers that we can see as well as every kook has the potential to be a ruler – I know so many kooks that became rulers through the vessel of skateboarding it is ridiculous.