Surfboard Repair Costs

Video Transcript

"We're in 2008. Gas prices are almost at 4 bucks so obviously as soon as they go up we get a note from our supplier that the resin itself goes up. So you always, as a consumer, you have to understand that that's what gets built in to the prices. When you go buy a new surfboard, and you get shocked that it's gone up. I mean you have to understand that it always gets passed on. If it's passed onto us, then obviously the surfboard builder or the repair guy he has to pass it on to you. We have to have milk and we pay our own rent and this is how we make our living, and it's not trying to rip off people that come in here because the reality is that doesn't do anything for my business. I treat everybody the same, but the reality is that what used to cost you twenty dollars, it doesn't anymore. It costs 40 bucks, and that's really the rise in the repairs. So, along with that it's just a supply and demand thing as well. I mean we sit here and we have a hundred surf boards. We don't charge anymore, but the reality is that if you want it faster, you got to pay a rush fee. If you want ten dings on a surf board fixed, you have to pay 20 dollars each additional ding, and that's just the reality of how much time it takes. This is a labor intensive job. So we charge per hour of labor."