Yup worth the flight to go grab gear. Foil for a day and come home.
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Thats just the stuff that isn’t selling. The good deals are gone the day they are listed. 
Yeah some of these just sit. I watch em sit for a longtime, the asking price is high for some of the gear. Same goes for surfboards here, $1200 for used longboards…they aint selling for those asking prices. DW boards too, not many people have the skills to ride 7’0" DW boards at 90liters.
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Yeah I listed a gen 1 Armstrong board located right along the Maliko run, and have had almost no nibbles at <50% MSRP! It’s crazy competitive / choosey.
Shocking… can’t imagine why used gear won’t sell in a place where accommodations start at $200/day and a starter home is $1.5 million
Los Angeles used market is nothing like this.
It feels like there was a wave of foilers here who jumped into downwinding with no previous sup experience and drastically underestimated their ideal board size. Tons of sub 100L boards just sitting.
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Bud, thats everywhere in USA. CA, FL, TX, Carolina’s…housing prices and cost of living just keep creeping up. The surfers and foilers aint broke, they buying every new foils that hit the market, thats why the used market here is saturated
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Sub 100liters DW/SUP boards is for those elite guys. I have a 8’2" Dragonfky at 110liters and i think its hard as shit to stand on
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True that!.. and I’m no help. Only interested in gear that MIGHT become available in six months 
As always, the free market just works.
Where are these listed?
Facebook Marketplace
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As already stated, that’s not limited to Hawaii. It’s the same here in Florida. And around Hood River it’s maybe even more brutal. Best solution is find someone you like and give them your old gear. It feels a lot better than having some cheapo wannabe haggle with you about $20 off of Facebook marketplace on equipment you spent thousands on. I’m going to start turning some of my old foil gear into various art projects. Selling to the Facebook buyer just isn’t worth the aggravation. And quite frankly, the water is better off without those people on it.
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For me the motivation is less about converting gear back to cash, and more about trying to keep all of this high-investment gear being used by as many people as possible. Some folks are really proud of their collections, and approach each session like they are choosing the best club for the hole… “3 knots higher that yesterday, better downsize, and add a tail shim” etc.
It’s not to say that very advanced riders can’t add a new dimension through configuring their foil - but so many beginner/intermediates end up with mini vans full of gear that still can’t do a tack and I just shake my head.
This is the way!
Pass the gear along to your friends and teach them, resale value is horrible anyway and if you foil you can afford it!
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If anyone has a progression 170 on Oahu that I can try out, or that you’re wanting to part with let me know! I have a p140, but I’m new to foiling and foil drive. Thinking the 170 may help my progress with pumping with the fd pod out.
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If you look at the sellers you’ll note that a few are actually just really accomplished DW folks, so not everyone is underestimating.