Please send a free snowboard in Greece!!!

Hello everybody! Nice to meet you guys! I am a beginner and new in this foroum, i found out about it by accident while i was looking for buying a snowboard with some saves which i am doing since last year! I also need many other staff like thermals and helmet but i can't keep paying rent for a snowboard, so i decided to buy those stuff after i buy a snowboard.
So heres my story....
I live in Greece-Athens and i was born in Canada, my dad and mom are Greek and they were emigrants in Canada and they got married there, after they gave me birth they came back to Greece when i was 2 years old. Since then nobody in the family got back there even for a trip (no money, no honey).
So my first experiance with snowboarding was at the age of 18, when with some friends just went on a day trip to a ski center to mountain Parnassos, i really still remember that day! I am 27 years old now and after all those years this season i got back there for snowboarding (or something like that since i never did snowboarding from that day again).
Guys...... i really love it, i am saving money and every saturday or sunday i am driving almost 3 hours just to get there with my girlfriend who is in the same situation as me (no snowboard, no bindings, no thermals, no helmet not even a decent pair of gloves) the only thing we got is a snowsuit and then we run out of money. That' s because prices here in Greece are very very expensive!
Example.... i am paying almost 100$ every time i go snowboarding for the lifts, the equipment rental and the gas! And don't forget that we are two (with my girlfriend) so the paying gets almost to 200$ every time we go for snowboarding and imagine that we are taking sandwiches with us to eat during the day so not to spend more money!
Something more....i went to a snowshop today and i saw the burton bullet, i asked the owner how much for that board without bindings, the shtooken Greek told me almost 450$ but i will get a better price since season is off so the price got to 400$!!! I just said thanks and run out of there with my head down!
I hate doing that but if someone can help me or my girlfriend with a freegiveaway (shipments are paid from us ofcourse) i will owe him a lifetime! Please help us to spend our savings in buying helmets and thermals and whatever is needed!
I am looking for a snowboard 1.58-1.61cm and my girlfriend 1.43-1.48. Or whatever you can give us since we can just ride it!

My wish is to win the sierra freegiveaway and one day to give that snowboard to someone who needs it more!

Thanks guys even for taking a look at my words and forgive me if my English sucks!

hmmmm yeah, goodluck out there.

I don't have a snowboard like you, and I know how much it sucks. 

Originally posted by JohnnyMcDildo I think you should at least offer to pay for shipping costs to Greece if somebody does decide to donate you a snowboard.

he did agree to that.  look more closely at his post.

this site gives away snowboards every weekday..just be logged in at 3pm pacific standard time..maybe you'll be lucky!

I've got an old Burton seven in pretty crappy condition...the steel edge is broken in one place, and I have some pretty bad rips in the base-layer, but I could send it over and you could see if you can ride it, I've been able to ride it since the breaking of the steeledge.
If you want I could PM you some pictures so you can see if you find it worth the hassle of sending it over. I live in Sweden so it's not really that far to send it down.

sierra is having mad sales now. i think they deliver international now too. it might be more expensive to ship (if not free), but a nitro team at $130 is cheap.

im in college and broke. it used to cost me about $100 to rent/lift ticket/gas to go up to vermont, nh, or maine to board. but eventually i saved up and bought some boards.

truth is, the sport is expensive. everyone on here spends the money for this because we all love it. to be honest, i think buying from sierra would be more worth your time. it costs a lot for a regular dude to ship stuff over there (SS should have discounted shipping)(and everything would be new!).

id also recommend against thermals and expensive snowboard brand clothes. all you need is a cheap waterproof jacket and pants. then just wear regular clothes inside it. its what i started out with and still do to this day! :)

still waiting a message from seabass!

haha i don't mean to sound rude or anything, but seriously, try living in Australia, anytime i wanna go snowboarding it costs me at least a grand (have to drive almost 20hrs to find snow), and the most rubbish set up you can buy here will cost you another. Every extra dollar i make goes into the ski/surf fund, but don't feel sorry for me i wouldn't have it any other way.

yeah new plan people send your gear to us poor Aussies! 

All I can say is, if you really want to do it, you'll find a way. =)
I did.
And as Vinno said, stuff is FRICKIN' pricey in Australia too.

Canadian what you could do is try and get your order shipped to a forwarding company.

so you get free shipping to the forwarding company in the US then the forwarding company marks it as a gift to you so it avoids taxes.

as far as my fellow australians go.

if you dont like the costs you could always hike the mountain instead of paying for a lift ticket, and seriosuly how often do they check you for tickets you could try and save the money and do a dodgy.

or go to Baw Baw

$50 lift tickets

yeeeeeeah

im plugging baw baw something shocking on here!

why are you so insistent chief. getting a deck to greece is going to cost you WAY more than just buying one on the second hand market there. I aint kidding. 120 bucks to get my deck form the US to korea. Its just the deck - 4kgs. Now factor in the bindings and boots and anything else. Youre paying through the nose when you really will have much more chance of grabbing one somewhere near where you live. What you got? Ebay in italy, france, germany? Have a look there. If its under say 200 bucks for a used deck and bindings, youre probably saving yourself some cash. And thats what its all about for you, innit?

http://www.sierrasnowboard.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24717

There ya go.. hope it helps.
On a side note to the original post, I can only wish that fuel and lift pass in Oz costs $100.

Goodluck getting a board man.

still looking for those staff! come on guys help me out!

i can sell you a board for cheap of you want. pm me back if your interested. 1 day of not riding = a new board

^ don't forget the fuel too for that... which is why I'm surprised that a 27 year old hasn't earnt themselves enough money to get themselves a board and gear.
But then again... I am making some assumptions based on what I was doing when I was 27. =P

Hey Canadian, just a suggestion, try pick up some ex rental gear! My bro picked up an ex rental dynastar board with flow bindings for 100 bucks!!! Btw fellow aussies, someone mentioned something about the lifties never checking tickets, it damn true, ive gone days where not one lofty checked my season pass! And a good thing about Mt Buller (Victoria for those who dont know where it is) is they offer a local school pass for us kids for $562. Id give you a board Canadian but it would cost tons to send out

SIERRA HAS FREE INT'L SHIPPING!!! GOGOGOGO buy a SS board and you're set my friend

10,000 member points = free board!

come on guys........pls help!

i agree that this sport is also expensive for you guys there! as about the taxes and duties believe me i know! a friend bought a board and bindings from my sierra account and he paid 450 including shippment and by the time those stuff came here he paid 200 more for taxes and duties! so if i want not to pay shippment i must buy things over 500 and pay almost half the price back here for those shit! also the fucken greeks are applying taxes to everything commes outside Europe! so they shtook us nice anything we do! i just wish someone to give me a board and the only thing i will pay is shippments and maybe taxes! i don' t know if you pay when it is a gift!

we pay for taxes 21% of the price and close to 80-100$ for duties tariffs etc! as about the shipping it depends the way it is shipped! i think with USPS its the cheapest you can ship but you will get it after many days! but who cares? lol! i don' t know what happens if the object is a gift...maybe you do not pay so much, still searching about that!

my friend the season is already over here! a month now! and started on december! so not too many days to skip! a guy already send me a pm lets see! i hope that works! i am already thinking of buying one and live myself without money again! but i still have my girlfriend who needs one!
and something more....thanks all of you guys for the response you are grate!     

canadian im going to greece this summer to sail, so if you buy a board/ set up here i possibly could bring it with..