{"id":27557,"date":"2012-01-04T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27557"},"modified":"2012-01-04T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:26:06","slug":"sedition-surfboards-takes-low-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27557","title":{"rendered":"Sedition Surfboards Takes Low Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seditions_newheader.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seditions_newheader.gif','popup','width=953,height=172,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seditions_newheader-tm.jpg\" height=\"36\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Seditions Newheader\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapsurfboards.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sedition Surfboards<\/a><\/strong> (aka <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapsurfboards.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheapsurfboards.net.au<\/a><\/strong>), a shop on Australia&#8217;s Gold Coast owned by <strong>Neil Rech<\/strong>, 34, is reportedly selling China produced surfboards for $250 a pop and has understandably caused a bit of a stir in Coolangatta, according to a post on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-01-04\/paradise-lost-for-aussie-surfboard-makers-amid-chinese-imports.html\" target=\"_blank\">Businessweek<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rival retailers averse to discounts and upset about local job losses questioned his patriotism, and even threatened violence, he said. . . \u201cIt\u2019s quite heavy,\u201d Rech, 34, said of the backlash. After teaching for two years in China before opening a store in Coolangatta, Queensland, \u201cI realized how cheap you can actually get these boards so I thought it\u2019d be a great opportunity to bring them here and sell them to the public cheaper.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best part of the whole story is Rech&#8217;s response that eventually the China pricing will be better for everyone&#8217;s business: \u201cIt\u2019s like sticking a fat man on a treadmill,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst he doesn\u2019t like it, but then he gets into it.\u201d Apparently Rech is a glutton for punishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-01-04\/paradise-lost-for-aussie-surfboard-makers-amid-chinese-imports.html\" target=\"_blank\">BusinessWeek<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sedition Surfboards (aka Cheapsurfboards.net.au), a shop on Australia&#8217;s Gold Coast owned by Neil Rech, 34, is reportedly selling China produced surfboards for $250 a pop and has understandably caused a bit of a stir in Coolangatta, according to a post on Businessweek. Rival retailers averse to discounts and upset about local job losses questioned his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27565,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions\/27565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}