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Originally Posted by Arsenal14
My wife and I just went skiing for the first time in decades this weekend and are feeling like it might be something we want to do more often. Looking at rental prices it seems like buying our own equipment would pay off pretty quickly.
So, the question is: where should we be looking for decent used equipment? We're both novice skiers, so nothing high end is needed. Probably going to ski four or five times a year, mostly green and blue runs. Are there used equipment sales we should be watching for? Is there anything that we should be buying new instead of used?
Obviously this is going to an expensive hobby so anywhere we can reduce that is going to help.
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Nowhere right not to be honest.
IMO, take the pain for rental until either the end of the season (I know some hills sell off their rentals at the end of the year) or wait until the big ski sale at Max Bell in Oct:
http://www.skisale.ca/
I reckon that will be your best bet. The only thing I will say is if you have friends/family that know something about skiing bring them with you. If you are new and don't know much it can be tuff to know what to buy. It is a very busy event, and often the customer service people on the floor are overwhelmed.