Skate and Annoy Features

Vancouver BC Road Trip

Canada. Three of us ventured up to Vancouver B.C. from the Portland area one fine weekend in January 2004. Our secret weapon was resident alien Eugene Lardizabal, who was a Canadian living in the U.S. We got hassled a little at the border because Steve Grover only had a driver’s license and no Passport. It […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on February 7th, 2004

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eBay Watch: November/December 2003

Call it the Xmas blahs, call it whatever you will, but I didn’t check eBay too much during the holiday season. Too busy buying presents that didn’t involve skating perhaps. Anyway, here’s what I did find. Powell Here’s a handsome Cab (get it?). Silver paint, and matching rails and trucks. Sweet full dragon. $308. And […]

Posted by: House of Neil on January 12th, 2004

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eBay Watch: September/October 2003

A mixed period of the usual crap, but then an immense rarity went up, and sure enough it drew an enormous price. Powell Now here’s a clever boy. This same Allan ‘Ollie” Gelfand went off in June, just 2 months previously for $450. The buyer stripped the Vans sticker off of the tail, took off […]

Posted by: House of Neil on November 12th, 2003

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eBay Watch: July/August 2003

After the insanity of June, July and August were pretty sedate, so I’m combining them. Unless I missed a bunch of stuff which is more than likely! Let’s get to it. Here’s one of the most valued collector decks out there: the Santa Cruz Jeff Grosso “Alice”. Watch the collectors come running when one of […]

Posted by: House of Neil on September 12th, 2003

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eBay Watch June 2003

Tons of cool stuff went off in June. Let’s jump right in with the Powell stuff. Powell First up we have this used Ray Rodriguez skull and sword pig. Not bad condition at all really. Color is nice and the stickers actually look pretty good. At least there’s some consistency here. $355. Next up is […]

Posted by: House of Neil on July 12th, 2003

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eBay Watch: May 2003

Let’s try something new this month. Instead of organizing by company, I’m going to attempt to do it by date this month. Also, it’s just come to my attention how much old skates shoes are getting on eBay, even worn ones, so I have a few examples of that at the end. 1970’s First up […]

Posted by: House of Neil on June 12th, 2003

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eBay Watch: April 2003

Only 2 decks reached 4 figures this month, but it was still a busy month. A holy grail for collectors was posted, and the action was fast and furious, but more of that later. Mixing Dogtown and Sims this month? What gives? Well, they’re all of similar vintage, so I thought I’d lump them together. […]

Posted by: House of Neil on May 12th, 2003

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eBay Watch: March 2003

In March the market continued the upward trend that started in February. We had any number of decks that went for well over $1000, and that’s always the test. There are very few collectors that will spend four figures on a deck, and I count 6 decks that went for well over that this month! […]

Posted by: House of Neil on April 12th, 2003

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ebay Watch: February 2003

Now this is more like it! Tons of stuff went off for decent bucks in February. I guess the Xmas blues are over! A lot of varied stuff, including some weird stuff you never see! Alva/Dogtown Some early classics here! First up we have this mint, undrilled Alva pig, probably from 1980 or so. $1226. […]

Posted by: House of Neil on March 12th, 2003

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eBay Watch: January 2003

Wow, this was the slowest month I can ever remember on the bay. Maybe it was a post Christmas hangover or something, but only a couple of things of any real note changed hands, and the largest was a new deck. Go figure. Z-Flex/Dogtown/Bulldog First up we have this decent condition Z-Woody Shogo Kubo signature […]

Posted by: House of Neil on February 12th, 2003

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