Hi All,

I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. Looking for some opinions with my problem please.

I bought a brand new surfboard, gloss finish and started to shatter/crack on the deck and a few in the rail. This is spreading out as I use it and there are couple that catches my finger nails that I have to repair it. There are two in the rail, one I have already patched it with Solarez and one that needs another repair as there were dirts that got in to the cracks last weekend I surfed it so I'm pretty sure that is not water tight.

I understand that pressure dents are normal on the surfboards but I don't think shatters/cracks are normal? I'm concerned that couple of months down the road and I will end up with a board that has patch of repairs all over the place.

I'm very disappointed with the quality of this board and I don't think it will last long.

I'm taking it to the shop I bought it from this weekend so they can have a closer look. But I just need to be prepared and do my homework first. I want to be fair to them and be calm and be professional about this as I like the shop and the staff, they all have been very helpful in the past and willing to help me out on this issue. But also I would like to know what is fair to me as a consumer.

Thanks all in advance.