Giant Canada’s Pre-Christmas Warehouse Sale

 id be pissed if i was a giant dealer

 Well it will more affect bike shops that are in the vancouver area...

 Hopefully they offered better deals to their dealers first. It would suck though to be a local shop owner trying to sell the same bikes and gear for much more. I think manufactures should offer these sales through their dealers. They should award the number one Giant dealer this sale each year as a thank you for selling Giant.

 yea, and then dealers in smaller towns would always get the shaft, and im guessing the same shop would get it over and over.. so theres the hole in that...

 If dealers weren't so stingy about ordering clearouts, then distributors wouldn't need to dump stuff like this to make room in the wharehouse. Every brand (for the ones who sell dealer direct) or distributor for a brand has sales and clearouts throughout the year, but its up to the individual dealers to actually GROW A PAIR and order from them. Recently Intense had some amazing 50% off sales on past model year bikes and frames. I know of two dealers in the ottawa/gatineau market area who were not having good sales results with their regular priced in-season bought Intense models who ordered clearouts so they could offer bikes/frames for cheaper.


Cycles Lambert, the large parts distributor who bitched about raceface selling their lower-tier models to Mountain Equipment Co-Op, now operates an ebay dealer account to blow out inventory at prices near regular dealer wholesale... which are on clearance lists WAAAAYYYY cheaper that the dealers are too stupid to order from themselves apparently. I just got a pair of Hudz STI grips off that clearance list... thru the dealer search of the CL website, its a 50 cent item... they're listing on ebay for $11, retail is about $25.
I paid the 50 cents price myself.

The Jamis distributor for canada, now has a wharehouse store in downtown toronto and also lists bikes here on pinkbike. They had to do that because their dealers are generally cheap bastards. They have clearout inventory of frames/bikes going back to 2008 still in the wharehouse.

 really you should just bike over, its much faster.

 Now, Im not a geography pro... But is'nt the UK in the North Atlantic, and Vancouver facing the Pacific...?
Not sure you could actually swim over... besides all of the other obvious challenges.

 Giant...Why you no do one in Australia...?

 There might be that one kid that thinks he's going to get a Glory frame for $20. Probably just some older hard tails going for $20.

 It'll be ancient road, hybrid and kids bike frames for $20. If you want a 2007 Giant Sedona frame, now is your chance! And the more recent stuff will all be XS, S or XL. Still, it's nice that they make the offer.

 It does my mate picked up a transition 450 from the distributors ebay account brand new for less than a grand...i know other distributors do the same...you can get some right bargains....you just need to look in the right place at right time.

 It's a warehouse sale - gotta come to it to buy stuff - no website sales.

 NOOOOOOOOOOO