Skate Life

Damn Australia!

Anybody from Australia here? And are the rest of you as pissed off as I am about how left out of everything we are?

I went and tried on a pair of TV.2s in a Perth store the other day, and thought "Oh, God YES!", so I'm buying them this week. Then I got online and looked at the white ones, which I think are pretty cool.

So when my other half makes his next trip there, I got him to ask if they can order them in for next week.

He comes back and tells me no, they can't, you can't get them in Australia.

HOW can this be true?! Grrr...

Aside from that, the store itself seems to be the only place that has a decent range of skates, and that itself is pretty meagre. Perth itself is even further behind the times than the rest of the country.

Dangnabbit.

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Brent V on October 19, 2009 at 8:14am

Sounds like you might want to order your skates from an online shop that ships to Australia ( most do ). That way you get exactally what you want. Here is a link to another thread where ppl have listed many good online shops to buy from:
http://www.aggressive.com/profiles/blogs/were-to-order-skates

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ward on October 19, 2009 at 8:55am

Thanks, that looks really good :D

It's mostly the principle that bugs me, I guess.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Robert Randall on October 19, 2009 at 9:25am

for the record where i live (on an island too...even though your is a bigggggg island and a country in itself) we don't have a inline shop for hundreds of miles even when you hit the main land so at least you have that lol

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ward on October 19, 2009 at 11:09am

Owch, I guess I should count my blessings :P

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Mike on October 19, 2009 at 10:00pm

Yea definetly lucky to have a skate shop at all. The closest one to me is 3hrs away. I get just about everything online. A-mall and inlinewarehouse probably ship to australia, you might get killed on shipping though. Do you still have cosmo wheels down there? I hear they last forever.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ward on October 20, 2009 at 4:39am

Inlinewarehouse ships here, but the shipping is over $100, grr...I think A-mall slugs you less.
Cosmo wheels? I'll check it out.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jube on October 20, 2009 at 5:18am

These are all in Australia,
I bought from SkaterHQ and SkateBiz so they are reliable etc...

http://www.baysideblades.com.au/

http://skatebiz.com.au/skate/buy-products/aggressive-inline-store.html

http://www.skaterhq.com.au/

and i'm thinking you went to outer limitz, for your skates?

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ward on October 20, 2009 at 5:26am

Outerlimitz, how did you know?

This is awesome, I didn't know there was anything else.

Thanks :D

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jube on October 21, 2009 at 12:08am

haha i know sad isnt it. Only one rollerblading store in perth :(
there used to be a bladeskate shop then that turned to momentum and im not sure if they still sell skates. i recommend Skatebiz aye, they are good :)

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Sarah Ward on October 21, 2009 at 4:38am

Yeah, I looked at momentum online...it didn't seem to have much.

Outerlimitz is ok, they get good skates in, they just don't have a very big range.

Looked at skatebiz last night...pretty sweet :)