Chair Sale Fail

Check out Stuart's latest podcast with Laszlo and wife (sorry, I forgot her name, she;s an equal partner) of Plattekill about buying old stuff, of which they are experts. And they aren't buying them for porch swings. It's on the opposite end of the spectrum from that nightmare Alterra CEO interview. I think subscribers only for a week or so.
 
snoloco said:
As a lift enthusiast, I want to be able to buy chairs in the future, so I would not want situations like what happened at Brundage to cause other resorts to decide it's not worth it to sell chairs to the public at all. That's why I created this thread.
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Yer an engineer from Clarkson, so whatcha gonna make nice outta them?
I could use a nice glider.
 
Blue Mountain selling their Main St/Burma chairs aren't selling do fast lol

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I've had a big boulder chair for a few years, just sitting in the yard as snow gage until I can get some time and $ to do something with it. Think I paid $150

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When Mt. Peter sold off the chairs from the old Sam's Chair in 2017, we made sure we were there right as soon as they opened to claim our chair, figuring that they would go fast. Got our chair loaded and ended up spending a few hours there as they had some fall festivities - I think by the time we left only 2 other chairs were taken, and the place certainly wasn't empty.

Belleayre had a similar experience when trying to sell off chairs from the old double-double, I saw them constantly marketing them all summer (and at a reasonable price) only to see rows of them in the lower Overlook lot by the time the season started and the new lift was in. By comparison, chairs from Lift 7 sold out in 40 minutes, all online.

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There's certainly a large discrepancy with demand for chairs. As for Belleayre, they had two lifts with 160 chairs each that were retired, so they had 320 chairs available. That's far more than most resorts ever have available. Mount Peter only had 54 chairs, but they didn't sell all that fast. I think resorts with a large following of hard-core skiers tend to have more demand for chairs from retired lifts, since they're more likely to want such large souvenirs. Mount Peter caters mostly to beginners, so I don't see that many of their customers wanting a chair. If you look at resorts that sold out fast, Magic and Killington both sold chairs in 2019 and sold out extremely fast. What do Magic and Killington have in common? Both have a cult following.
 
snoloco said:
They made it a race. People had to physically line up. Since everyone knew there were limited quantities, some people lined up as early as 4am for a sale beginning at 10am. By 8, there were more cars in line than there were chairs. People waited for hours, only to not get a chair. This was an in-person sale, but even if it's an online sale, you still shouldn't make it a race.

Another thing that happened was people buying as many as 10 chairs with the intention of reselling them at a profit. It should have been limited to one per vehicle. While the resort claims that some people were picking up chairs for others and paid with multiple checks, I'm sure just as many were planning to resell.
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It's a good thing Sno wasn't buying concert tickets in the pre-internet days.
 
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