Questions we can answer that a shop cannot

• The esk8 Price Index
  The median in-stock price of every complete electric machine, and how many of its discounts are real.
• Electric skateboard, e-bike & scooter market statistics
  Dated one-sentence facts, each with its own link and the study that proves it.

• How much do skate shoes cost?
  The distribution across every pair the shops we read are selling.
• What does a complete skate setup cost?
  Deck, trucks, wheels, bearings, pads and shoes — each line measured.
• What a skate shop actually stocks
  The real inventory mix of hundreds of shops. Boards are a minority of it.
• Which shops are always on sale?
  The retailers whose discount badge never comes off.
• What sells out first?
  Which departments empty fastest, across every shop at once.
• How often does a price actually change?
  Our own log: every shop, twice a day. Most prices never move.
• Is it cheaper to buy direct from the brand?
  The same product, the same day, priced at both. Usually not.

• How much does an electric skateboard cost?
  The full distribution — not a single number — for boards, scooters, bikes and unicycles.
• What electric skateboard parts cost
  Median prices by category, for everything that wears out or breaks.
• How many advertised discounts are real?
  Every crossed-out price, checked against what another shop charges the same day.
• Is Black Friday actually cheaper?
  Twelve months of dated captures, each compared against its own page.
• Do prices go up or down over time?
  What a decade of archived snapshots says a price actually does.
• What costs less today than it did years ago
  Products cheaper now than a dated capture of the same shop, with the capture.
• What a board costs, country by country
  Each market in its own currency — and why we never convert between them.
• Which brands can actually be price-compared?
  How few brands more than one independent shop carries.
• What sold out at every shop that had it
  The one stock measurement no single merchant can make about himself.

Every figure is read from the database as the page is built, and none is written by hand — so a study cannot go stale between visits, and there is nothing to update when the measurement changes. The wording of each question never changes: the URL is the question's identity, and a page cited last week has to still be answering the same thing this week.

Each page states what it refuses to conclude. That section is not modesty; it is the part a reader should check first. How this works →