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----
Here’s my reply, edited to protect personal info online----
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!!!
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.
They deal in surplus, and not only military, but Carhart[sup]TM[/sup], 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.
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 They’re not for you, of course, if you’re shocked, shocked, at the prospect of wearing last year’s outdated wicking t-shirt design, or if you can’t stand wearing something with a small thread pull in it, but if, like me, you end up beating the crap out of your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.
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 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:
Is a woman really going to be interested in pants that whack, er, ahem, her, um, ya know?
