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Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger
Don't ask for everyones opinion if you can't deal with the fact negative comments are going to be said.
Every year I see upstarts come by my shop and want in. Every year its the same thing. Are you the next Candygrind? They? Me.Glad? Chances are yes. Everyone wants a piece of the snowboarding pie and everyone is claiming the I'm core or by snowboarders for snowboarders, or bringing the fun back to snowboarding. At the end of the day you did it to make money and thats final. If you didn't do it to make money you wouldn't have a website and be selling them you would do it for free. Its the same principals that the big companies follow.
So like I said it looks like every other boutiqish company on the market. The designs remind me a lot of either regurgitated crap from over 10 years ago I saw when I first started working in shops or slight parodies of things from the mainstream. The skull and cross bones with the bandage reminds me of the jackass logo. The NYC almost looks like the Rome Anthems topsheet from last year and actually reminds me of a shop back in NY that I think is now defunct called Krud. Co they had a logo just like that. The prices you're charging as an upstart are pretty steep when you don't have brand recognition and I'm guessing any recognizible pro's. Living in slummit county I've never heard of you and seeing as you're based out of Denver you're either marketing it up here or Echo.
So there its my .02 cents on this, take it for what its worth. Companies come and companies go big corporations stick around.
Oh and I'll have fun rocking my head to toe burton its glorious.
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yeah that's cool and all man, to each his own. not that it really matters but the NYC logo was created before Rome's design was ever put to market. our prices are that of a small boutique company. we're expensive (as are the rest of them), but you pay for what you get. you'll be one of twenty people in the world with any particular shirt, how many corporations can make that claim? production costs are significantly higher when purchasing in smaller quantities as well. please don't give me the "regurgitated crap from over 10 years ago" line, i've been a rider for around thirteen years or so now and i've seen it all. honestly i can't think of a single shirt company that's makes 'revolutionary designs'. they're all shirts in the end...
look, i'm not asking anyone to support DP because we have the best designs out there. we're a company that cares about our riders, and in the end they're our friends and not just business partners. in response to your statement that every company claims "i'm the core" or "by snowboarders for snowboarders"...isn't this what you want? it's your responsibility to sort through all of the crap companies out there and buy your gear from the ones that actually matter. if you don't want to support DP it isn't a big deal, you're a single rider on a high horse because you live in Summit County. whatever man, i lived in Vail and Vermont for years and it doesn't matter. i was just given the opportunity to ride with some of the best and most genuine guys out there. if you want to continue supporting corporate america that's fine by me. i'll take the road less traveled.
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