Play It Again Sports

I bought my son skis last year and my daughters this year. The staff couldn’t have been more helpful both times. Even when my sons skis had problem, they fixed without any hassles at all. I’ve recommend them to everyone and will continue to do so. Thank you play it again!

Awesome staff & great owners! We where able to get a complete set up for our son snowboarding all for under $ 250. They go out of their way to make sure you have everything you need and understand their answers especially if your new to any of these sports! We’ve been twice and will be back many more times. We live over in Bennington, Vermont and it’s so worth the hour drive!

DO NOT GET YOUR EQUIPMENT SERVICED HERE!
I dropped off my snowboard here to get a basic waxing and sharpening done. There was also a core shot that had to be filled in. I go to pick it up a week later and it looked terrible. There was wax shavings still all over the base and my bindings. The spot where he petexed looked like garbage with how much carbon deposits he dropped into it. The waxing was ruff, quick, and not very good. He didn’t even rub it down with a scotch brite pad. Overall, I worked at a rental shop and we serviced our rental equipment better than this guy does with people’s personal equipment.
The store does have a nice selection of used and new skiing and snowboarding equipment as well as boots bindings and helmets.

If you play team sports this place is probably awesome. I lift weights and do kettlebells. I was underwhelmed with the selection for weights and accessories, but there was a massive amount of softball/​baseball, hockey, and golf.
The kettlebells they had were awful; the kind that tear your hands apart.

I’ve patronized a few Play It Again Sports in two other areas of the country, and I can say without reservation this is both the biggest/​best stocked store I’ve been in, and they had the best staff of any PIAS I’ve been to. They are loaded for bear right now with winter stock — vast arrays of skates, hockey gear, skis, snowboards, and accessories. They tend at this location to stock ONLY what is demanded for the season, so if you’re selling something from an off-​season or are looking for a bargain tennis racket in November, you will be disappointed.
They do full-​season rentals on equipment, which seems to me like a great way to wade into a new sport. Their buyback scheme is as follows: when you bring a used item in, they will price it. If you leave it on consignment to sell, you will get 50% of the price, when it sells. If you want to take trade-​in credit right away, you get 40% of the value. If you want to get cash on the nose right away, you get 30% of the value. I looked at the range of conditions and availability for skates (which we were shopping for today) and the price range seemed quite decent for what they had.
I waited for our skates to be sharpened, and observed them helping some skiing and snowboarding customers and handling a buy-​back transaction, and they seemed very thorough, professional, and knowledgeable.
The used prices aren’t ultrabargains, but it’s difficult to really find a specialty store that deals with used goods. You have your thrift stores, used car dealers, and other than that you’re left with Craigslist and garage sales for the most part. So I think this is a pretty good niche, and for the ever-​growing and changing-​of-​interest kids, a great great resource.
They’ll have to wow me on repeat visits for me to get up to the lofty five stars, but a promising four stars for now.

We rented skis for the season, it was a good deal and the guys were nice. My husband and kids got great service when they went. I think they were a lot busier when I was there so It was ok but not fantastic. Overall we like them a lot. The prices for stuff are competitive and the opportunity to buy used stuff is a boon for families like us where the kids grow out of stuff.

i am a bit torn between 3 and 4 stars but i am going to stick with 3 for several reasons.
we came here last night to trade in kenz’s old board and bindings and the pair of brand new burton boots i bought a few years ago without really trying them on and almost dying from my feet falling off when i tried to ride with them. (i had to go to the ski shop at jiminy and buy another brand new pair. but at least those ones feel good. oh and they are ‘sexy’ according to the clerk. yay me and my sexy boots called Mink by k2)
so, as we were walking in a guy that worked there asked if we were there to trade in and informed us that they stopped taking tradeins after jan. this upset me but i did appreciate the words of advice.
so we put the old board and boots back in and took my troop without bindings into the store to find some and some used boots. i had to ask for help from the girl that worked there (and here is where the 2 stars almost came in and thus the no 4 stars status) and she was simply Very unhelpful. i was obviously there to spend money and when i asked about bindings i had to almost Pry the information out of her as to where the women bindings were. and then i found a pair i liked and she wouldn’t go get them til kenz had found a pair of boots that fit. i can Sort of understand this but i told her they were size 7 and that should have been enough. i have been buying and wearing snowboard bindings for 17 years and i while i don’t work in a store, i do know that there is a size that fits this boot.
anyway, griping over, we found the Van’s boots and they were all tied and set and i went over to the counter to have them put the bindings on and guess what? she hadn’t gone to get them. and we had the boots on for a while, checking them out for fit and feel etc. i was actually about to leave and say screw it. i will just buy new. and then the guy that told us about the tradeins on the way in intervened.
and made a sale. he found a burton plate to fit the non-​burton bindings, mounted them and was friendly and helpful. we left happy.
oh. also they have great deals on used skates — most of the normal ones are only $ 9.99 and there is a store-​wide sale on stuff. 20% off the bindings and gear and such. good deals to be had.