Burton Custom and Burton Cartel X EST Binding Delivered to Our Front Door Via Burton’s New Rental Program | Photo Connor Burkesmith Mountain Weekly News
Burton Snowboards has a new rental program powered by Arrive that delivers high quality Burton gear directly to your home, hotel room or UPS store bypassing the often long lines found at rental shops.
The new Online Rental Program is similar to Burton’s Test Ride Center which demoed snowboards via Burton’s Test Center locations. However now customers can go online and rent gear 10 days in advance of their trip without ever having to step foot inside a snowboard shop.
Burton Rentals
The process of renting board, boots, bindings and even outerwear directly from Burton is very straight forward. Renters head to https://rentals.burton.com/ and can pick from at time of writing 5 different boards including the Burton Custom Snowboard (which I tested and loved), Burton Family Tree Hometown Hero Snowboard, Burton Family Tree 3D Deep Days Snowboard, Burton Feelgood Snowboard and Burton Blossom Snowboard were also available for rent.
For bindings I tested the Burton Cartel X EST Binding (which ripped as well) also available for rent are the Step On Re:Flex Binding for Men and Women along with the Burton Lexa Women’s Binding.
All of the gear available through the Arrive Burton Rental Program is high end, top notch stuff. You’re essentially getting an opportunity to demo the latest and greatest gear from Burton.
Rental Window
Currently the Burton Snowboards Rental Program takes 10 days from time of booking to deliver gear. So this is best for people planning ski trips in advance as you will want to make sure to give yourself an extra day or two to get your gear together and make sure everything is dialed before that big powder day, early tram or private lesson.
My gear arrived in 2 shipments. The board arrived first, a few days before the delivery date and then 1 day prior to the expected delivery date my rental bindings arrived.
Both the board an bindings came with all the hardware that was needed for assembly. Which brings us to our next point:
Who’s this Program For?
If you’re planning on renting a board and bindings together, I would highly recommend having previous experience setting up a snowboard before using this service. Otherwise you will want to take your gear into a rental shop as I don’t expect beginners to be able to setup a board correctly or safely for that matter.
For outerwear and boots it would be best to know your size in Burton gear. If you don’t know your sizes in Burton and you have the time to go to a local store you might want to try some boots on first and figure out what your actual size is.
Returning Gear
Once your rental is done, slap the return labels on the boxes the rentals came in, and drop them off at a local UPS store. If your having the rentals sent to a hotel room, keep in mind you will need a place to store the boxes.
I actually lost one of the return labels, hit up the Burton Rental Program customer service team and within a few hours had a new label emailed to me.
Pricing
One thing to note is the pricing of these rentals is incredibly low. You will actually save a good bit of money by renting from Burton and the Arrive program directly. In my town of Jackson, WY a snowboard rental starts around $50 for rental fleet boards and goes up to around $80 a day for demos. All of the Burton Boards being rented are $33 a day.
Overall Impression
With everything being said this program is best for intermediate to advanced riders that are already familiar with Burton Snowboards gear or want to make the change from another brand. Perhaps your heading on a cat trip this year or booked a week of helisking, or maybe chasing powder during a big La Nina winter. If so you’re going to dig renting via Arrive and Burton directly for the convince factor and ability to well actually demo some of the best of the best from Burton Snowboards.
When renting through Burton you almost get that on mountain ambassador feeling showing up with the latest gear that was delivered directly to your front door. It’s a totally different experience renting via the Burton Rental Program which feels more like demoing a board than actually renting from a local ski shop.
Last but not least renters will get a code for 15% off Burton gear after the Burton Snowboards Rental program gear has been returned. So again this feels like a great way to demo or “rent” the latest snowboard gear from Burton.
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Suggesting that people go try boots on and figure out their size at a shop is scummy advice. That is basically theft. That shop needs to pay rent, employees, their invoice from Burton. Going in like that with bad intentions is what will make shops go out of business. Then where will you go?
If you do it at a Burton store, that’s fine, but an independent retailer? You’re trash. You are depriving a family income.
Thanks for the comment. Hopefully local shops will honor these rates too and then in turn, transition renters into customers. But are there really many “locally” owned snowboard shops anymore?
-Mike