Reds under the bed!
The surf world is in shock this morning after it was revealed the iconic “Quiksilver House” at 59-367 Ke Nui Rd was never owned by Quiksilver at all but had been rented off a Chinese consortium for the last dozen or so years.
Two days ago, we’d reported that after five years on the market and following a scissoring of fifteen million dollars off the asking price, the famous house, which once hosted Craig Anderson and his Lopez-inspired single fin, had been sold for $US4,950,0000.
It had last traded in 2009 for one-point-four mill.
A pretty good result despite the discounting and still a three-and-a-half mill capital gain for the beleaguered Quiksilver.
“Only a handful of surf spots in the world share the same reverence that Banzai Pipeline has. And when it comes to Pipe, there are even fewer properties that can claim they truly front this iconic surf break. For that reason, we’re proud to present 59-367 Ke Nui Road…otherwise known to locals and surfers as the Quiksilver House. A property steeped in North Shore lore and witness to the world’s greatest surfing events.”
After our story appeared, there was a flurry of direct messages to our Instagram account, including from North Shore standout and star of Quiksilver’s Performers movies, Mickey Neilsen.
“Get your facts right,” wrote Mickey. “We rented it! Never bought it.”
Rates for the joint were around a thousand bucks a night.
And an email from Quiksilver’s Simon Charlesworth, “Wanted to drop you a note to clarify Quiksilver never owned the house at Pipeline, it was always rented from a Chinese consortium who sold it earlier this year.”
Reds! Who knew!
The sale is good news, I’d suggest, now that the PRC is mounting a real slow and steady build-up to World War III over the little-ish island of Taiwan, which is still a hold-out from Chinese Reds ever since Chiang Kai-Shek and his KMT fled the mainland after losing the civil war in 1949.
One less staging point for a land invasion of Oahu, Pearl Habour, the sequel etc.
In other East v West news, the biggest thing in China right now is the stunning popularity of war movie The Battle at Lake Changjin, which tells the true-ish story of China’s glorious victory over wicked American-UN forces during the Korean War.
A billion dollars in gross earnings thus far this year.
It’s a very good film and it stars the hypnotic Wu Jing, who leads the 7th Company of the People’s Volunteer Army to an unexpected triumph against all odds.
Caveat Emptor ?
Interjecting a Pearl Harbor reference, to try to be funny/witty when so many died without a chance, is throughly disgusting. You should be ashamed of that.
George Bush’s war on subs?
I have never surfed in my life but knew they rented the home. At one point it was owned by an American lady who sold it when she went to the mainland.
Todays Chinese Quote of the day for the New World.
Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.
Almost 6000 years of civilization, Bicko… for better and for worse.
This can’t be erased by any country in any time, in a simple and banal way like a war… only a conjunction of factors can make this disappear.
This is what happens when you name a board short brand after a toxic liquid metal
Quiksilver = MERCURY
So it was no surprise that the company ended up recently being run by fools, who wouldn’t know Torquay from Jan Juc , and make decisions….. as mad as hatters ?
The Cool Hand Luke approach to combat
Did you defeat the Vietcong or the Taliban? No.
Is Charlie buy and selling goods on the global free market?
If yes, then I say Charlie lost his Communist Utopia.
Charlie been in the business of buying and selling before dumb whitey , and his cold inhospitable wastelands were found not worthy to be conquered by the Romans ?
Worlds biggest economy for over 2000 years only losing their spot around around 1850 and now seeking it back ….
Business is Business ?
And to quote Lord Thurlow
“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.”
Not sure where the hell you live but last time I checked the majority of the “wars” the US fought in also involved a number of other countries, I’m guessing yours included.
I live in Syria you fucking cunt.
^Bomb this fucker dogsnuts
How’s the surf, kook?
Less crowded than Tel Aviv at least. But sometimes it pumps and I do the barrel!
“A pretty good result despite the discounting and still a three-and-a-half mill capital gain for the beleaguered Quiksilver.”
Wtf. How do write that sentence when you’ve just told us Lickdicks didn’t own it?
Where are they going to park them? In the Chinese owned Port of Darwin?
Hahahaha this is very funny.
Blind freddy can see Australia will tap the poms to build one or two of their subs on the end of the existing contract. They only have one more to build. Then build the rest in Adelaide.
Yanks get in on the act by fitting out the glow in the dark stuff into the British design.
Hahaha, we’ll surely just rip up the contract again. Sacre’ blur!!!!
This just gets better all the time–Quick never owned the house so doesn’t get any profit from the sale.
Rent money spent on it–down the drain.
If they did own it, there’d be a loss of 15 mil. Since they didn’t own it, the loss is zero?
The Commies bought at 1.5mm and sold at 5m = 3.5 million gain.
The Quikies rent cost was (1k/day)(12yrs) = 4.4 million expense.
Commies combo’d Quik.
what ya China say?
1) Quik like most brands do/did not rent out their houses all year around for their entire existence on the strip.
2) And even brands who do – Like many other “legal” entities on the strip – subleased the spots out for yes – thousands a night.
3) To assume that the rent was even close to $1k a day 12, 10, 8, even 5 yrs ago is not logical.
4) At the end of the day – the whole joint, including all the food, beer, drugs and hookers labeled as “Costco Food runs” are written off as business expenses. Pretty safe to say that a lot of good times were had on the IRS.
110/240
And we’ll damn well use them! Watch out CCP!
Yep. No way the CCP will invade Australia if they know we’ll be getting nuke subs in 15 years
Charlie-adjacent don’t surf…
Xi willikers, who woulda thunk it.
The only ChiComm I ever heard was at Field Station Kunia, behind Schofield Barracks and that sweet shortcut to the west side brah.
Who gives a fuck
Just shows that Quikwankers were even stupider than they’ve always looked.
P.S.
Oi Dezza
Who bought it though, that’s the real scoop.
Surely not hard to find out by doing a search on the public knowledge property records when the transfer is finalised.
I give up very easily on these things. Where’s Hobbs? I’ll ask Hobbs.
Wow, I’m amazed that Quiksilver still has a surfer working for them!
They still need Mikey Wright to make the home brew for the xmas party.
Zek Lau… I think.
Wait… he count’s as a surfer, no?
Or a celebrity wannabe actor?
Jock.
The ChiComs don’t need a base on Ke Nui Road now that they have hypersonic glide weapons.
In fact, they don’t even need to leave Bay-Ching.