Anyone else missing the constant CRC bargains, and the endorphin rush of bagging ultra cheap BBs and forks, etc.? 😁
I’m actually going to say no.
In retrospect the strange FOMO inducing feeding frenzy (which I very much participated in) feels a bit icky now. A large business was imploding, people were losing jobs but the volume of sales going Chiggle’s way in those circumstances probably damaged the performance of their competitors too during a pretty key period for retail (December-January) I do wonder if the damage goes well beyond chiggle.
And people were buying stuff they didn’t really need, perhaps at a time when they didn’t need to be spending extra.
It wasn’t actually a ‘good‘ thing.
So yeah I’ve got some spare cassettes and tyres and gloves and several things I never needed but popped on an order to get the free postage, but I knew it was unsustainable, we all did. I would probably be happier knowing I can get stuff I need, at affordable prices, when I need it, rather than hoarding “bargains” and watching the businesses that would supply me, and others, fail and people lose their jobs.
Towards the end I just stopped looking at the chiggle sites and the forum PSAs, I was getting “bargain fatigue” each day brought another thing I never knew I really wanted at a price I’d never see again, which would be gone in a couple of hours… **** that noise, I should have been going out and riding my bike.
I’d rather see fair, consistent prices than wild highs and lows and economic turmoil, that applies across the board, not just to bicycle tatt.
