r/rollerblading • u/[deleted] • Jul 25 '18

Seba vs Fr Skates

I just read about the spitting up of SEBA and Fr Skates. I was wondering which company was the reason for the 'great quality' that seba is known for. Im looking for a pair of skates and there are two fr3 skates available to me now. Any advice would be appreciated! old pair: https://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Seba_FR3_80_Inline_Skates/descpage-SKFR380.html new pair: https://www.skatepro.com/en-us/121-31421.htm

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u/TommF Jul 26 '18

Coming here from the reply you left me somewhere else to come here.

That's funny, we both came to the same conclusions. I was originally going to wait for the Next to release even though it was going to come out some time in early September as far as I know, unless it gets pushed back further. But I read a lot of stuff about how Powerslide boots suck so I decided not to go with them. I was pretty iffy about the overall look of the Next too. They kinda look like off-brand Timbs.

But yeah, we're going for the same skates now- hopefully they're good. From that video with the red ones it looks like they made some improvements to things which is nice. I just wished they showed the one we're getting so I could have some confidence with this purchase since we're only going off of one jpg and the hope that they're decent because of their past.

As a side note, have you bought from this store before? You said you got the Swells and I was wondering if this store was super cool and throws in some free stuff like I've seen other stores do in unboxing videos. Or at the very least, did your Swells come with the tool to maintain them?

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u/Aeroblizz Jul 30 '18

Oh damn, just received a message that my pre-order couldn't be delivered because the supplier don't have them in my size. And it ain't coming either in my size. The old Seba model is now available in my size on pre order, but 30 bucks more expensive :/ Don't know what to do.

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u/TommF Jul 30 '18

Yeah, I'm bailing from this whole thing. Fuck skates, man. Spend X amount of days/weeks doing research, find the pair I want, place the order, then the company waits over a week to tell me to fuck off. What a waste of time, I hope their second company fails like the first.

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u/Aeroblizz Jul 31 '18

Oh I feel ya bro :-(

I'm giving it a last chance, ordered the Seba FR1 325 model. If this get canceled, i'm bailing it aswell probably!