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BBQ Sauce for Everyone! |
My note to Yeti a few moments ago. As a hunter and outdoorsman I was considering a purchase of two of your coolers for my hunting and camping needs. Imagine my surprise to learn that you severed ties with an organization that provides a great deal of support to youth hunters and education. While this is an interesting approach to doing business (alienating a huge number of potential new and returning customers) I can only assume you have a good reason for doing so. Unfortunately for Yeti the majority of us will choose to do business with companies that support our 2A rights and contribute to the education of our children and youth hunters. In support of your decision to sell to a much smaller and less affluent demographic I will purchase do the following: 1. Purchase a competing product 2. Contribute whatever the price difference is between their product and yours to the NRA and associated organizations. 3. Advise my friends and family who would also have considered your product for purchase. Regards, TKO "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein | |||
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Friendly reminder to all - RTIC, while based in Texas, makes their coolers in China. All of these brands are made in the USA. Why not give them a chance? Orca Pelican Bison Grizzly Edit Orion Igloo If you want the cheapest, just get a Walmart Ozark Trail (Made in China). There is no reason to pay more for Chinese made... | |||
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I don't own anything Yeti (too expensive) and sure as hell won't in the future. I have 2 small RTICs and rest Igloo. “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
Screw Yeti and their over priced crap. I’m convinced a Yeti cooler is basically a expensive purse for guys. Plenty of other alternatives that work and cost less. Just won’t say Yeti on it. | |||
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If you still have a yeti product, just keep it but cover up the name/logos...yeti already has your money. ...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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Yeah, I won’t be buying a Yeti product ever. I had considered their tumbler but my 24oz Thermos with the flip top does a great job keeping my coffee warm long enough. If I 'need' to spend a couple hundred dollars on a cooler to show off to my buddies i will buy a Pelican. Laughing in the face of danger is all well and good until danger laughs back. | |||
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Need a cooler for my boat. Was planning to buy a yeti. Looking at USA made alternatives now. | |||
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Just a plug for Bison. Local based company (Keller, TX) and made in USA. I’ve had good experience with their products. (No affiliation, just a satisfied customer). I’ve sent Yeti an email to their corporate sales Dept, letting them know my company will no longer purchase promotional items from them. Stay safe, Steve I Drink & I Know Things | |||
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| It's not you, it's me. |
Wow. And yes, they are getting tore up on their Facebook page. Entertains stuff there | |||
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The air above the din |
If anyone is looking for made in USA alternatives, I've been very pleased with my Taiga cooler. Veteran owned business, based in Texas, I believe, that manufactures their coolers in the U.S. As a previous poster said, I have no affiliation with this company. Just a satisfied customer with a good American-made product. (As an aside, regarding a recent thread about drinkware/tumblers - Taiga also sells vacuum sealed tumblers like most all of these cooler dealers - the tumblers, however, are made in China. I have searched extensively for steel vacuum sealed tumblers that are manufactured in the U.S. As I understand it, and as I think was stated in that thread, there is no one making those in the U.S. as there aren't any facilities tooled to do so here. But the Taiga coolers are U.S. made.) | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
What a triumph of marketing that Yeti and bumper stickers became what all the cool kids wanted to be associated with. I generally don't understand displaying stickers and hats for commercial products that don't pay me to do it, but ice chests? I was always mystified. And now they shoot themselves in the foot with a significant segment of their market. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Politically offensive |
It’s amazing how more and more of these companies are deciding to cross the line and become partisan. Is that what they teach in college to these business brainiacs? Become political and piss off at least half of your customers? Genius! Well, YETI definitely stepped on that political land mine. Looking at the postings on their FB page and other postings on FB, they are in it deep. I expect a statement from them today saying either a) the NRA did not understand what we were doing or, b) please forgive us, customers! We LOOOOVE the NRA! or, c) a combo of a and b. ______________________________ Regards, WarEagle NRA Patron Life Member | |||
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This is cowardice. Some of these companies are so fearful that the Left will protest, boycott or otherwise attempt to blackmail them, they run scared before the Brownshirts can pounce. It's a shame that this otherwise brilliant marketing company is so ignorant of their customer base, or would let panic rule their decision making. . | |||
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| Cogito Ergo Sum |
I give away Yeti cups for birthdays, holidays, and other occasions. I give the other companies a look now. I love my Rtic cooler. No more Yeti. | |||
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It's the rise of the marketing schmuks. Before, the fear was the spouse of an executive would make an idiotic complaint about 'why isn't our brand in THAT store?', then turn around to the sales manager and tell them to get somebody over there? Today, it's the same exec getting an ear-full from their college kid about what's cool and not. | |||
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| Take the risk or lose the chance |
Yeti being an Austin company, the news, along with a copy of the NRA Foundation letter, just hit the kxan.com website here. Austin does it's best to emulate LA so probably not much push-back here. ---------------------------------------- “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” | |||
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delicately calloused |
THAT'S HATE SPEECH!!!!  You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Don't forget to refer to them as commie cooler instead of yeti...after all, they're against freedom! ...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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Nope. Don't want that crap in my house. | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
Looks like they are backpedaling. If this statement is true why wait a few days to make it.  _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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