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THE OFFICIAL STOKED THREAD! 26-Jun-2008 At 1:52:47 AM Organ Pipe

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On 24/06/2008 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>... so when are you coming to Buffalo? (I tried sending this to you as a PM but your PM box is full ...)

I've cleared out the inbox (thanks for the heads up) so should be right now.
I'll PM you with more details but the answer to your question is: Soon-ish, and I'll definitely drop you a line before hand M9.

On 24/06/2008 fish boy wrote:
>I tried buying from BD.com last week and was told they don't sell to Aus...did you go through them?

Well I don't want to trigger gear lust related rage, but I fear that my tale may unfortunately do so. You see the price I paid, and ease of purchase left me gob-smacked!

I'm a Victorian living in Dallas, Texas (here for work). In my first week here I formed some great friendships with a couple of the staff at my local climbing gym. After our first weekend away climbing together down to Austin, they told me about this magical thing called a 'pro-deal'. Basically managers at the gym can fax orders to Black Diamond and get what I believe to be free shipping to the gym. From what I gather, the purpose of the pro deal is supposed to be to resupply the 'pro shop' section of a gym, where they sell gear retail to their customers.
Anyway, my mates offered that if I wanted anything, they could place an order for me, and I would capitalize on the wholesale prices that BD offers the gym.
A couple of weeks later I'm lifting 3 large boxes into the back of my car at the gym, with a child-at-Christmas kind of grin on my face.

The boxes contained:

BD double cliff cabana ledge
BD double deluxe fly
Zion Haul bag + belay seat
Big gun harness
Focus SA harness
Pavement bag (not for climbing, but for travel)
fi-fi hook
1 x #6 cam
3 x #5 cams
1 x #4 cam
and carribeenas for the cams.

Total price: $1,200 (sorry, I know it's unfair)