Wow, everything you said was exactly true.

HSL buys Soap and hides it behind the heelys spotlight. Now soap is almost considered dead once again. Well, at least they haven't completely dropped the company.

When HSL bought soap, they didn't bring anything new to the table. All the shoes sort of looked like Heely's/generic skateboard brand shoes. They didn't make enough of a distinction between the two companies which lead to soap's decline. Heely's are for the little kids. Soaps are for the adults who still want to feel like kids. I think that's the vision that Chris Morris had when he made soap. That man was a genius.

*online

I know where to buy SOAPS, mah man, got em from your store. And yeah, I know the rant is getting old, but can't we do Anything>

That is one thing I appreciate about HSL, keeping soap alive. But does that mean they have to do it in such a shitty way? I don't think that Megashadow is just reminding us of what a bad job HSL is doing, I think he's really pissed like most of us here. We demand better treatment, and the skyrocketing sales prove that we deserve the right to that. And you know what else? HSL's stupid heely sales are going down and down. I continue to hear from kids at school how dumb heelys are. The stock went down by 15 percent (meaning that they didn't sell a certain amount of shoes). And I'd bet you a million bucks that those lost customers went to the soap shop :P

Look, there is something we can do, and I'm still trying. We can keep on going to demos, showing soap shoes to friends, slapping up stickers, and just the plain old soaping. I grind on this one curb at the library just so some kids can look at me grinding. The first thing I hear from them is "woa!".

There is another thing everyone can start doing, and AJ is the one that pretty much came up with the idea (sam too). We were thinking about having our own demos. Maybe we wouldn't be sponsored by HSL, but if I could save up enough money to get enough pairs of express, I'm pretty damn sure we could pull it off. I still need to look into it though.

Basically my point is there is something us soapers can do about it. We just support soap shoes in anyway we can. Individualy it might not be enough, but if we all keep doing it we probably can. We might not see much from HSL for a long time, but just because you can't see the progress from them doesn't mean it won't happen. Just give them time to accept that their shoe is becoming a failure, and that soap shoes will always live on. Let it be, until that faithful day when we at least get broadsides back :D

But yea, I'm doing everything in my power to keep this good name alive. And so far, i have to say that im doing a pretty damn good job.

And so is everyone else, everyone together, banded as one kicking some serious ass. Keep promoting and spreading the word.

For those who don't know, "Ballin" is this new dumb slang that means "Awesome", "crazy", "Rich", or "Stylin'"

I've said it once and I'll say it again, HSL is just jelous that the wheel-Soap was rejected and now they're making us pay for it big time.

*thought

I think its both the fact that HSL is jealous about the wheel-soap idea and that they just like their shoe better.

Men....*puts on an army helmet*
We are going to Texas! *raises Rapier*

I like your style musicsoaper :D. And no man, we can still do better (I'm not talking about Trevor Renny and Deel, I know they are REALLY busting their asses). I'm saying that us everyday soapers could do better.

Hey guys, whatever you do, don't lose heart. When i first found out about SOAPs about a year ago, they were dead, SG was pretty dead, and spirits were dead. We all as a team changed that. Take heart, sales are still rising up, we sold about 25% more SOAPs than last month alone! It's an awesome figure. We need to keep this up, soon me and steve will have the sales numbers to go to HSL with.

Hopefully when I return, sometime, maybe on a weekend or something, I will fly down to texas with steve and we'll put on our business suits and bring the data to HSL and argue our point.

We all need to help. Put up stickers, show your friends, maybe (if they are a good friend) let them wear the SOAPs for a bit or something. Keep submitting SOAP videos on youtube and googlevideo. Renny has the promotion in NY and the demos, i'm always telling people about SOAPs and keeping the shop team and sales numbers, and Steve is doing an awesome job handling the finances and shipping.

No matter what though, I doubt now HSL will shut down SOAPs, they are selling strong and continuing to grow, soon they will have no choice but to either do more for SOAPs or lose money, and as a business, no grudge of the past is worth loosing money. It's alllll about the money.

haha, that sounds sick. Thanks a lot For all the hard work Trevor. :D