eBay Watch: September 2010
September was one of those months that although some good stuff went off, it wasn’t as impressive as July or August, so consequently I found it more of a chore to compose. I would do a bit, leave it, planning to come back in an hour, but not touch it again for a week. Some months really flow and some are difficult. Let’s leave it at that. Next month might be even more up in the air because I am going to England for a couple of weeks mid-month, and I don’t plan on taking a laptop.
Posted by: House of Neil on October 2nd, 2010
eBay Watch: August 2010
Well I’m really excited about the selection again this month. July was an awesome month for 80s decks, but I think that August was just as good. A little more varied perhaps, but still as good, and I hope you agree. I decided that I was going to go with quality and not quantity this […]
Posted by: House of Neil on September 20th, 2010
eBay Watch: July 2010
Boy, my comments last month sparked a lot of discussion didn’t they? I want to thank Michael Brooke, the owner of Concrete Wave for taking the time to come on here and answer some of my criticisms. We might not agree on the quality of the content or the average age of his readership, but […]
Posted by: House of Neil on August 10th, 2010
eBay Watch: June 2010
I want to start off this month by addressing something that’s been on my mind for some time, and it might piss some people off, but it needs to be said. I want to look at two of the “older generation” skateboard magazines, Concrete Wave and Juice. I’ve been getting both for years and years, […]
Posted by: House of Neil on July 7th, 2010
eBay Watch: May 2010
Well I’m really excited about the selection this month. April was tough, but I really enjoyed mining for decks in May. There were tons of interesting decks, some that went for big $, and some that didn’t, but were interesting nonetheless. And lots of cool colorways too! This was actually one of my favorite columns […]
Posted by: House of Neil on June 26th, 2010
eBay Watch: April 2010
Well, despite what I said last month, I was able to pull together a full and complete BayWatch for April 2010. It was a tough month though. I’m assuming lots of people owed on their taxes in April because almost all of the big-ticket decks available went unsold. Only a few decks went for over […]
Posted by: House of Neil on May 10th, 2010
eBay Watch: March 2010
Ha ha! No excuses this month because this one should be right on time! Midway through the following month is right when you should start looking for Baywatch, and I pretty much made it! Some months are a chore to write, and it feels like pulling teeth, but some months just flow easily, and that […]
Posted by: House of Neil on April 21st, 2010
eBay Watch: February 2010
Damn, it seems like I make excuses every month for how late the column is! Well this month I have a real excuse: I was in Maui on vacation. I considered taking a laptop with me for about 10 seconds, but then the hassles of getting it through security and having something else to carry […]
Posted by: House of Neil on March 30th, 2010
eBay Watch: January 2010
It’s funny how this column comes together. It’s different every month. Last month for example it took me about 3 weeks to put it all together. I’d do one section, wait to get motivated for a week, force myself to do a few decks, then come back a few days later and do some more. […]
Posted by: House of Neil on February 20th, 2010
eBay Watch: December 2009
I’m sorry that this is a couple of weeks late everybody. I could make excuses about how busy the Christmas season is and other shit that’s going on in my life, but truth be told there wasn’t much that went off in December on eBay that got me fired up. When I have lots of […]
Posted by: House of Neil on January 31st, 2010
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- Tut: God I wanted one of those aluminum boards so badly, and motocross cycle one, and the surfer one. I must have ordered something from them, because I just found an entry in my parents' checkbook registe...
- Gretchen I Lucas: I have a primo ultraflex in yellow my dad got in the 70's just looking for some background on the board please....
- T Bone: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
- Tom Craig: Had the green Surf Flyer as a kid. Like others have said if you hit a grain of sand on the kerb it would send you flying. Speed wobbles were another level and remember being patched up by my mother af...
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- muk: Would love to see SBS pics. Any team pictures?...
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- Bill Palmisano: Leon, I was just remembering you yesterday, and my brother sends me this. I was responsible for the "not a dead log" as I remember, but I may be wrong. A lovely young lady did the neat kicktail grap...
- Kilwag: Yeah got a post in the can on that one. Seems to predate this stuff....
- Lou: Actually I just looked it up, there other truck swapping thing is called "Qwik Truks". Spelling things differently makes them 36.4% cooler, guaranteed!...
- Lou: Looks like a fake "Quik Trucks" mechanism. The Quik Trucks are to fit any truck though, and they seem to be much lower than the Switch Board thingy....
- Kerry purcell: I have a pair of what I think are early Megatron trucks one has the number 1 stamped on one the other has 19 they were paired up on an Alva deck with powel bones which are totally original. Is there a...
- Cate: Hi Mike, did you do "funny " skits around Cronulla to put in the movie?...
- Gary moore: I have an original street warrior skateboard, it has a picture of a wasp with a axe in its hand and skater on it,is this worth anything?cheers...
- Eric M Fleming: Well that was something. Thanks for your effort....
- Pat Anstett: I bought my fiberflex with carry bag when the Hobie team came to Tampa. My dad was ops manager at JC Penny's, he took me out of school and we picked up the team at the airport. Had a blast hanging out...
- Kevin G: Great read, I love my G&S trucks. Of course the base plates died about as quick as Tracker ones did. I replaced them with Indy base plates, while not a perfect fit they are close enough to work. ...
- Jonny5: Fwiw those are not the original wheels as you correctly assumed. I have this board in original condition and the wheels are black. I was too much of a pussy to stand up on it and pretty much just sat ...
- Mark: Can’t believe I found this! My youngest son is a musician and we were talking about weird songs and I told him about one of my buddies from childhood in the 70’s whose parents were very German (th...
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- Peter Elliott: Hi guys, I was looking to purchase a Cooper SKB100 or Cooper SK100. Do you know how to go about buying one of these? Thanks, Peter...
- Monica Maka: A green version of Venice beach popped-up on Marketplace today....which led me here. Thanks for putting up all these great photos of what is out there. I appreciate it. Too Cool...
- Big Steve: What a killer thread! I got on here after seeing a T Hawk CoQ10 commercial that prompted memories of what I thought was a skating exhibition at the V.P. Fair in the Lou back in mid-to-late 80's. So I ...
- Kilwag: I thought that was joke Lance Mountain or Neil Blender made, can't recall....
- Kilwag: Fudge, link busted...
- Bobcat: Yee haw! I skated it last week - awesome mission. It's beyond crusty but there are some workable spots. For anyone asking for the location, I was able to find it using the clues in this blog post. ...
- Sean Landry: Tucker….I used to email and talk with Ellen many times before she passed away from COVID….killed me to find out and I’m trying to learn where she is buried now….i am terribly sorry that your s...
- Brian H: I was lucky to have a girlfriend with great taste who bought me these. Mine were dark blue though. Did these come in a dark blue?...
- Kilwag: Updated this ancient post so the embedded video works again....
- metal mike saunders: not unless being " the best live band in the entire world in early 1978" outside of AC/DC in their own genre and the Saints if they were still playing like banshees -- totals up to a joke. refernece...
- metal mike saunders: yea metal mike here and looking for something else entirely, this page/thread came up via the always unpredictable innernet of googleworld. i typed out a sufficiently totally-biased west coast ans...
