My V82's arrived yesterday. The skis were in their shrink-wrap and held together by three heavy rubber bands, packing paper around tips and tails. They survived the 2200 mile journey just fine!
I took a quick look at the bases, and was pleased that they looked "as good" as they did. Meaning that I don't think that they will need a lot of material removed to get them right. They are close. I'm going to have them set up by one of the guys that I use, the one here in Massachusetts. He's very good. It may sound nuts to be paying him close to $200 to do the base prep {which obviously includes setting the base bevels and side edges as well flattening and structuring the base}, mount plates and bindings and torque test them....on a whopping $199 ski purchase. But, I have not skied a single ski right out of the wrapper without doing this in about 35 years. Maybe longer. As
@Noodler says it's really rare NOT to need some work. So I just do it. Then I'll feed them a lot of wax.
Hope that I get these set up and get to try them fairly soon!