Attention Outdoorsmen! Bosda is ripped off! Who's up for a boycott?

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

I sent some dough to an online military surplus store called Outfitters . com. My father and I were looking for some inexpensive jackets to donate to the local homeless shelter. After all, Winter is coming, and some poor bastard is gonna freeze his heinie off, and he may need a hand.

So, I see a listing for German Military Work Jackets. They're lightweight, but the South doesn't have as bad a Winter as the rest of the States, and the cost is low, so we can help the maximum # of people per buck. We send away for 4, 2 small, 2 medium.

What we get are fucking shirts! In an inner bag marked "German Work Jackets". Not even thick shirts!

I write and complain.

Here's their response, via e-mail----

Hello,

Thank you for your email. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have
caused. I am showing that the description of the item doesn't state that it is
"normal jacket". The picture also doesn't depict a "normal jacket It
describes:

2 New German Military Work Jackets
100% cotton Black fabric
Button front
Button-adjustable cuffs
Single button-flap close chest pocket.

Which one would assume that it is a lightweight shirt like jacket, however, our
vendor calls them jackets. The information we put in our ad & the name of the
item all come from our vendors. We apologize if they weren't what you expected.

Enjoy The Outdoors!

Amanda Leigh
Customer Service

Here's my reply, edited to protect personal info online----



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I received the so-called German military "work jackets" I ordered.

THEY ARE NOT JACKETS!! They are SHIRTS!!

I suggest that either your translator is inept, or that a certain firm
of outfitters would have been an enourmous help to Bonnie and Clyde.

In either case, you have lost a customer for life.

The SHIRTS-NOT-JACKETS have been given to charity.

Your firm's name has been given to my friends as a company that is
inadvisable to shop with.

Don't call or write. Bug off.


We gave the non-jackets to charity, & will look elsewhere.

Do yourselves a great big ghoddam motherfucking favor, and don't buy from these shits!!!

[Horrifying Howler Monkey]

Can you post a picture of what they sent? Do you have a link to the website (I guess it's not actually outfittersdotcom)? I enjoy a good boycott, same as the next person, but I need to see what I am getting upset about. The description "lightweight shirt like jacket" is a bit hard to picture, that's for sure.

ps that's a pretty darn sweet thing for you and your dad to do, good on you.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Sorry.

They're Bargain Outffitters, with a dot and a com.

Here's a link to the image, full sized.

LINK (http://image.bargainoutfitters.com/image/6/64313.JPG)

Not much to go by, huh? :mad: :mad:

[Otto]

Why wouldn't you return them, get your money back and buy some real jackets?

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Originally posted by Otto
Why wouldn't you return them, get your money back and buy some real jackets? Because I am a trifle sceptical that I would get my money back.

Better not to deal with the hassle.

I'll just go elsewhere.

[Tranquilis]

Try: Sportsmansguide (dot com)

They deal in surplus, and not only military, but CarhartTM, and the like, too. They also have some damned good deals on their own line of goods, and they're reliable, and have been around a long time. I've never had troubles with their return policy.

[Zoff]

It looks like a shirt to me.

[Early Out]

I've had good luck with Sierra Trading Post (dot com). They sell a lot of factory seconds and closeouts, at decent discounts. They're not for you, of course, if you're shocked, shocked, at the prospect of wearing last year's outdated wicking t-shirt design, or if you can't stand wearing something with a small thread pull in it, but if, like me, you end up beating the crap out of your outdoor gear, they're just fine.

Only downside: once you're on their list, fully 20% of all your mail will consist of STP catalogs. I'm not kidding.

[Typo Negative]

How much were they?

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Not much.

But dammit, I don't like buying a pig in a poke!

[NurseCarmen]

I like the Sportman's Guide myself. Some of the descriptions are funny, and they carry cheesey stuff. I myself am the proud owner of a Bathroom Butler (http://www.stacksandstacks.com/html/zoom9546.htm) from there. I checked out Sierra Trading Post just now, and decided to look for some zip off shorts/pants for my wife, and came across this: SUEDE TRIM CORDUROY PANTS by BUSHWACKER (For Women) Is a woman really going to be interested in pants that whack, er, ahem, her, um, ya know?

[dropzone]

I believe you blew it and are blaming the company for your mistake. It sure looks like a heavy shirt or a VERY lightweight jacket to me.

(checking out the site)

YOU PAID $7.47 FOR TWO OF THOSE AND YOU ARE SURPRISED THEY ARE LIGHTWEIGHT?!?!?

You owe those people an apology, :wally

[Ferret Herder]

Originally posted by Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor
Because I am a trifle sceptical that I would get my money back.

Better not to deal with the hassle.

I'll just go elsewhere.
You haven't even tried yet, so you're Pitting them merely over having a poorly-phrased item description, and receiving an apology for that? Wow.

[GaWd]

I daresay any reasonable person would have thought it was a shirt from the picture.

Sorry, you fucked up.

Sam