This is my first season skiing, and my wife is thrilled to see that I've taken to it. I've been out six days here in the NE, with two more planned, and one in Utah while I'm there for work :razz: I've been renting from a local shop and have been quite happy with them, but if I'm going to keep skiing after this season it makes sense to buy my own pair.
My question is, what's the best time of the year to buy skis? I know there are lots of swap meets and such in the fall, and my wife snagged herself new skis this year at the Boston Ski Expo. Are prices that much lower in the fall than, say, the spring or summer? I'm not going to be buying super-fancy skis anyhow; I ski greens and blues now, and probably will graduate to mainly blues, but I enjoy carving and don't have any desire to do double-blacks or anything like that (much to my wife's chagrin).
I wonder if the margins on the lower-end skis are smaller, and so the discounts on them are always relatively lower. Assuming I don't start loving moguls and backflips or move away from the Northeast, I am hoping to keep this first pair for a number of years.
Any advice you guys can offer would be greatly appreciated. Also, if any of them read it, thank you to the guys on the board who encouraged me to keep taking lessons and getting out on the mountain. God knows it wasn't fun at first, but now I've got the videos of me giggling like a kid to prove how much fun it is now!
My question is, what's the best time of the year to buy skis? I know there are lots of swap meets and such in the fall, and my wife snagged herself new skis this year at the Boston Ski Expo. Are prices that much lower in the fall than, say, the spring or summer? I'm not going to be buying super-fancy skis anyhow; I ski greens and blues now, and probably will graduate to mainly blues, but I enjoy carving and don't have any desire to do double-blacks or anything like that (much to my wife's chagrin).
I wonder if the margins on the lower-end skis are smaller, and so the discounts on them are always relatively lower. Assuming I don't start loving moguls and backflips or move away from the Northeast, I am hoping to keep this first pair for a number of years.
Any advice you guys can offer would be greatly appreciated. Also, if any of them read it, thank you to the guys on the board who encouraged me to keep taking lessons and getting out on the mountain. God knows it wasn't fun at first, but now I've got the videos of me giggling like a kid to prove how much fun it is now!