MHMT
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I received a gift certificate for $150 for "any boot purchase" from Lathrop and Sons from submitting an article to Eastman's Bowhunting Journal (In my defense, I had never even heard of OYOA when I submitted the story) kinda disappointed with Eastman's too, with the way they refused to return my emails and calls, but thats another issue.
...anyway I called up Lathrop and Sons to order the boots, and tell them I would like the Danner Pronghorn's. They tell me "sorry those gift certificates are only good for our Hanwag boots" which start at $300. I tell them thanks but no thanks, I already have boots and don't feel like spending that right now.
He then tries to keep me on the line and asks me how much I'd be willing to spend. Well I was kinda thinking about spending nothing seeing how it was a "gear giveaway" Finally he tells me if I buy a footbed, I can get the Danners. So I agree, but then he informs me that shipping is going to around $25 plus the footbed is $50 plus the extra amount of the boots... gives me a total of $100. I reluctantly agreed.
I got the boots and they are nice, but there was no invoice with them... so I check my bank account and there is a $250 charge from Lathrop and Sons. Sons of b#$@%es! (haha get it?)
I eventually got ahold of them and they did refund the $150. so that was settled.
The main reasons I am disappointed with them is that the gift certificate says "any boot purchase" which was not true, and I was upset with the way they handled the situation of trying to feel me out to see how much money he could squeeze out of me. It wasn't just some sales clerk either it was a co-owner of the company.
I still have to give them thanks for giving away $150, but if they deal with an ordinary purchase in the way they dealt with my experience, I would not want to be involved with them.
Just thought I'd share my experience with them.
O and the moral of the story is... by Submitting a story to Eastman's you get to deal with a bunch of stupid BullS#$%
...anyway I called up Lathrop and Sons to order the boots, and tell them I would like the Danner Pronghorn's. They tell me "sorry those gift certificates are only good for our Hanwag boots" which start at $300. I tell them thanks but no thanks, I already have boots and don't feel like spending that right now.
He then tries to keep me on the line and asks me how much I'd be willing to spend. Well I was kinda thinking about spending nothing seeing how it was a "gear giveaway" Finally he tells me if I buy a footbed, I can get the Danners. So I agree, but then he informs me that shipping is going to around $25 plus the footbed is $50 plus the extra amount of the boots... gives me a total of $100. I reluctantly agreed.
I got the boots and they are nice, but there was no invoice with them... so I check my bank account and there is a $250 charge from Lathrop and Sons. Sons of b#$@%es! (haha get it?)
I eventually got ahold of them and they did refund the $150. so that was settled.
The main reasons I am disappointed with them is that the gift certificate says "any boot purchase" which was not true, and I was upset with the way they handled the situation of trying to feel me out to see how much money he could squeeze out of me. It wasn't just some sales clerk either it was a co-owner of the company.
I still have to give them thanks for giving away $150, but if they deal with an ordinary purchase in the way they dealt with my experience, I would not want to be involved with them.
Just thought I'd share my experience with them.
O and the moral of the story is... by Submitting a story to Eastman's you get to deal with a bunch of stupid BullS#$%
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