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Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:06 pm
by Pawpaw
puma guy wrote:Pawpaw wrote:puma guy wrote:The corporate sales of customized items is apparently very different than the arrangement with the NRA. Customized items would be like Bob's RV Service having tumblers with their logo. Tervis tumblers offers the same thing even putting your initials or name on a single item for small additional charges. YETI and the NRA had a special agreement/arrangement for promotions. with YETI products.
Like this?
Looks like it!
Dick's and YETI using similar business models.
Anyone that already owns a Yeti cooler should venture over to
http://www.nrastore.com/ and order some stickers or bumper stickers and plaster them all over it.
Here's a new product idea for the NRA Store: Have some of those plastic covers made up that fit the tumblers. They would show support for the NRA and cover up the Yeti logo at the same time.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:25 pm
by The Annoyed Man
I only own one Yeti product - a tumbler I got as part of my Christmas present from my daughter in law. I’m not junking it over this brouhaha; I like it too much......and it is OD green, so its right up my alley. Now, given that there are alternatives in the marketplace, I would take that into consideration when I get around to shopping for another product and check out Yeti’s competitors.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:34 pm
by apostate
I think it's silly to throw away previously purchased YETI products, although I do like the idea of putting a BRCC sticker (et cetera) over any YETI logos.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:40 pm
by flechero
I'm not throwing my yeti stuff away either... (my big cooler was a gift from my late father in law) a simple decal of the NRA or a competitor will cover the yeti name when they goes into public again. And I may get ambitious and sand the name off the top where it has raised letters... call it prep for the new decal.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:22 am
by bblhd672
I ran across a suggestion that instead of people destroying Yeti products that eBay should be flooded with them, allowing the people who want them to buy them cheaply and prevent Yeti from making new sales.
And then donate part of the money received from selling the used Yeti products to the NRA.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:46 pm
by Pawpaw
After Yeti Cuts Ties, Pelican Products Supports The NRA
Guns, cameras, telescopes, even laptops…these are all expensive equipment that you need to secure thoroughly when taking them from point A to point B. They are not the types of things you can just toss into a duffle and throw in your trunk before you hit the road.
So how do you transport such valuables? The answer is with a Pelican case. These sturdy, watertight cases come in a variety of sizes. A dozen Pelican products are on sale in this one-day-only deal.
Pelican is a patriotic company. Like RTIC, Pelican (which also makes coolers) came out in support of the Second Amendment after Yeti severed ties with the NRA:
Also:
For every cooler purchased this month, we’ll donate $10 to the NRA + and give you a FREE 22oz tumbler of your choice. Promo code: PELICANPROUD
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:29 pm
by b4aftr
Now I’m proud to come out and admit I’m a pelican caseaholic. Looks like I’ll continue the addiction.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:27 pm
by Pawpaw
NRA giving away free cooler stickers as YETI battle continues
"Don't blow up your Yeti cooler. Don't shoot your Yeti cooler full of holes. Don't chain your Yeti cooler to the back of your pick-up truck and drag it down the highway. Don't glue a toilet seat to Yeti cooler. Don't hang your Yeti cooler in a tree and beat it with a baseball bat," Hammer wrote. "Put a big "I stand with the NRA Foundation" sticker on your YETI cooler and keep using it. They cost too much money to destroy to make a statement. Let a sticker make your statement."
The stickers will be given away at the NRA annual meeting planned for May 4-6 in Dallas or at local Friends of NRA Banquets held around the country
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:23 pm
by Pawpaw
Friendly Fire: YETI And The NRA...A Self Inflicted Wound
The reality is this: YETI has caused this injury to itself. By turning it's back on the small vendors that made it the exclusive brand it is, by using lawyers to increase the bottom line instead of innovation, and by damaging an invaluable 7 year relationship with the NRA, YETI has created many of the "market forces" that have forced it to withdraw it's IPO, lose thousands of pro-NRA customers, and discourage thousands of others from investing in a high priced YETI cooler, sending all of those customers into the waiting arms of the competition.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 10:54 am
by NotRPB
Just had a big 3-day long church meeting with tons of visitors from other cities last weekend and interestingly the Yeti cooler's ice melted before the another (less expensive) brand cooler's ice melted.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 11:08 am
by KLB
b4aftr wrote:Now I’m proud to come out and admit I’m a pelican caseaholic. Looks like I’ll continue the addiction.
Pelican makes a great cigar case for travel.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 11:09 am
by KLB
treadlightly wrote:Could be Yeti is just another tone-deaf company when it comes to the implications of their decisions.
Do wild bears tend to their business in the woods?
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 12:55 pm
by Ruark
I just use Igloo coolers from Academy and they work just fine.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 2:17 pm
by RoyGBiv
I have a few miscellaneous coolers around the house that get used from time to time. New coolers seem to be purchased while traveling... Fly someplace (OBX), need a cooler for less than the $50 (round trip) it would cost to check it as baggage. I've tossed out a lot of Styrofoam coolers over the years, or left them for the next guy at rentals.
I'm definitely not in Yetis demographic.
Re: Austin based Yeti quits doing business with NRA
Posted: Tue May 01, 2018 5:04 pm
by SQLGeek
RoyGBiv wrote:I have a few miscellaneous coolers around the house that get used from time to time. New coolers seem to be purchased while traveling... Fly someplace (OBX), need a cooler for less than the $50 (round trip) it would cost to check it as baggage. I've tossed out a lot of Styrofoam coolers over the years, or left them for the next guy at rentals.
I'm definitely not in Yetis demographic.
I knew I liked you for a reason.