stevenmd
Expedition Leader
About a week ago I was sitting around the house, bored out of my skull. When that happens I usually end up buying some new piece of kit off the internet machine. I opened up the latest (2009) OJ Gear Issue and the BAD Bag caught my eye. With seven of us in the family, clothing storage is always an issue. Usually we end up using whatever gym bags, old suitcases, paper grocery bags we can find. I was contemplating purchasing a bunch of Pelican cases, one for each member of the family but didn't like the constraints of storage being defined by the perimeters of the hard shell cases. Not that Pelicans aren't great, they have their uses, but they just didn't seem to fit my requirements for this purpose.
Enter BAD Bags. Jonathan Hanson was spot on when he said Malcolm Vetterlein himself would probably answer the phone when you call. Malcolm is a very nice guy to chat with and his customer service goes above and beyond. Production was one day behind so he offered to pay for shipping. I declined and said it was no problem to wait. Three days later there was a small FedEx box waiting for me when I got home. I was a little concerned, thinking, "Hey! I had ordered the #4 bag, not the #1.5 gym bag size!!"
As I unfolded the bag, I was impressed to say the least. This huge bag was able to compress to such a small size! It was indeed the #4 bag. The quality of the bag is exactly as described in the 2009 OJ Gear Issue. I was curious as to how much crap I could stuff into the bag. There were a couple loads of clean towels on the couch waiting to be folded (a hint from my wife...). I managed to stuff no less than 1-1/2 loads of towels into the bag - we are a family of 7 mind you, so our towel loads aren't small.
Malcolm definitely has my future business. I plan on ordering 6 more of these bags, one for each of the remaining members of my family. No sir, no more paper grocery bags for us.:victory:
Enter BAD Bags. Jonathan Hanson was spot on when he said Malcolm Vetterlein himself would probably answer the phone when you call. Malcolm is a very nice guy to chat with and his customer service goes above and beyond. Production was one day behind so he offered to pay for shipping. I declined and said it was no problem to wait. Three days later there was a small FedEx box waiting for me when I got home. I was a little concerned, thinking, "Hey! I had ordered the #4 bag, not the #1.5 gym bag size!!"
As I unfolded the bag, I was impressed to say the least. This huge bag was able to compress to such a small size! It was indeed the #4 bag. The quality of the bag is exactly as described in the 2009 OJ Gear Issue. I was curious as to how much crap I could stuff into the bag. There were a couple loads of clean towels on the couch waiting to be folded (a hint from my wife...). I managed to stuff no less than 1-1/2 loads of towels into the bag - we are a family of 7 mind you, so our towel loads aren't small.
Malcolm definitely has my future business. I plan on ordering 6 more of these bags, one for each of the remaining members of my family. No sir, no more paper grocery bags for us.:victory:
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