Thread: MacPac Packs

Originally Posted by Tussock

I was going to say that MacPac had just turned into Kathmandhu. Did not know it was the same guy. Makes perfect sense.

This is slash and burn commerce.

It's a simple model. Buy a brand that is respected for quality and is priced accordingly. Quality costs money. You need top end materials, you need to spend a lot on your machinery to maintain tolerances, you need to pay people to check everything. This ism how you develop a brands reputation. Every time one of us buys something and has a great run out of it, we plug it to our mates. Look at all the people on this thread plugging the MacPac brand because of a piece of gear they bought 20 years ago.

It takes a long time to undo all that good work. In the time it takes to destroy a reputation of 20 years, you can make HUGE PROFIT. You leave the pricing the same, or better yet, increase it, and you slash manufacturing costs, slash material quality, slash quality control. Now you have doubled your profit margin instantly and you don't have to worry about your reputation, because you are not building one, you are bleeding an established one dry.

Kathmandhu was a decent product way back when. Then it was gutted, got a reputation for being junk, and low and behold, now they are doing the same to MacPac. You can grantee, when no self respecting outdoorsman would buy MacPac anymore, they will be looking to buy Cactus or Swazi and do the same to them.

This shit is too common. It's happening to guns as well.

There are some obvious people who do this. To be honest this is exactly what Beratta does too, and Remington has started doing (look up Remington Marlins). You should NEVER buy anything from this sort of company. Not only are you guaranteed to be getting ripped off, your supporting a slash and burn organisation who's sole mission is to take decent companies putting out decent gear and destroying them for profit.

There are plenty of alternatives that make decent gear and are trying to build a reputation, not bleed one dry.

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