Damaged skis ;-(

Tony,

not a problem, i have seen several hundered delams in my time and currently handle the warranties for two major ski brands as an independant, beleive me i have seen all sorts, some legit some very very dogey (the base has delaminated at the tip (in the shape of a wax iron) but the edge of the ski had been so heavily serviced it was actually worn through in the waist!!!!! they wanted to claim on warranty due to the base delam....) 1 the ski had been abused in servicing, 2 the delam was caused by excessive heat, the parent complained that he thought the ski should last longer...see what we are up against

ok, if it is metal it would not bend in the way it has with a simple delamination, there has to have been some kind of knock to get it to bend the way it is, a simple delam would have caused the metal to lift away from the core of the ski, not bend...how was it caused..well now we start guessing...airline (most likely) or prehaps banging skis inot skow outside a cafe, or putting them into the rack of a gondola (if the rack has a sharp section in it...have seen this a few times)

it should be a simple repair you can do it yourself the glue is available from http://www.jonsskituning.co.uk/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,56/category_id,21/manufacturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,1/ and a couple of clapms and some tape to act as a barrier isd all you need

with regards to who owns the skis...technically if they have been written off by an insurance company then they own them, in the past when i have written a write off letter for an insurance company we have a closing sentence which tell the insurance company that we have retained the skis under the reference number of the letter and they will be held for a period of 6 months, if they wish to inspect them..... after that time they are destroyed, we would alos off ther insurance company a small discount if they wisehed to do the replacement deal directly with ourselves (but this is up to the custoemr to accept although the insurance company can replace like for like and if they were getting a discount then they normally called up and paid us directly for the skis.

in 10 years i think i only ever had an insurance company inspect 1 pair of skis and this was becasue the custoemr was a serial claimant and had claimed on the same skis 6 months previously at another shop, they had filed all the paperwork as we did including the serial number of the ski and when we did the same alarm bells starting ringing.... think the customer was getting a little visit from the feds for insurance fraud

Many many thanks. I believe there is a seat in No 10 vacant at the moment, you get my vote....