Gwarn said..mmilhazes said..windfred said..
I am looking for starboard because i can get great discounts on there products.
Thanks
It's unwise to pay too much. But it's worse to pay too little.When you pay too much, you lose a little money that is all.When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything,because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It cannot be done.If you deal with the lowest bidder, then it is well to add something for the risk you run.And if you do that, then you will have enough to pay for something better.There is hardly anything in the world that someone can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper --and people who consider price alone are this man's lawful prey.
Go with the Moses
Moses is the one brand that you do see any negative posts about there foils.
I'm an F-One teamrider, and have to say there's more brands which are really really good. Both the 2020 F-One Carbon Hybrid and Horue foils are also freestyle proof and warranty covers jumping. To me that is the only real metric, since most brands don't allow jumping with their products to fall within warranty. I know Balz has broken a couple Moses wings, they're not unfallable. No brand is.
Moses is a very fine brand, Starboard is too, I know a lot of happy Starboard customers. Just because you've had a bad experience, in my book it doesn't mean you can frame other brands openly negatively like that. The windsurfing world is small, the market even smaller. Negativity without explanation can be really bad for a brandS' name.
As teamrider for a big brand I try to keep my replies as uncoloured as I can (although same as everyone I have my preferences of the characteristics of a foil and those characteristics are very well represented in the F-One products, otherwise I wouldn't be riding with them as part of the R&D team). If I provide my opinion on another brands' products I always try to put forth the good and the bad and especially WHY I think a certain product would (not) be suited for them, from my point of view.
I'd like to ask you to try and adjust your tone a little, or at least provide a good reason for your negativity instead of just "they're cheap rubbish, go buy a Moses". Starboard is a really big brand, that sometimes things slip through their quality control is normal, its about how they handle that which counts.
Sorry for the off topic, just see this alot lately and its not necessary.
