And there’s the fact that they’re leasing out their office space:
Kyle is a DIRPBPW
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Do companies in this position ever level off at a sustainable level or is it always terminal
I kind of want a kestrel
Maybe just grossly overestimated the demand and are still sitting on a ton of overseas produced stock?
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It is incredible to me that so many companies, like beyond bikes, observed the economy during the pandemic and thought: “yep this is normal, let’s build our plans for the next few years from here!!”
Like damn, from tech companies to bikes and beyond. Where do they find these geniuses that call the shots at these places? Business school? Lol.
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It’s 100% this from what I can tell. They heavily invested in overseas production, stocked up on those (not very good, ime) bags and expanded to hold the new inventory but seem to have drastically overestimated demand or just gotten a shitton of bad seconds quality goods
I’ve purchased a few things from Sierra and the only ones that haven’t already started failing are the stem bags. Zeitgeist didn’t come with the stiffener or straps, had a buckle completely fall off and get lost from a failed bartack, and the small handlebar bag had zipper stitching fail on me after just a couple uses
I got a cheap Zeitgeist from Pros Closet I think. I mean, you really only need so many of these bags (except if you’re @Shamp).
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Speaking from my tech scum perspective: average employee tenure is/was so short that no one cares about anything in the long-term. Especially everyone in management - if some goal or number is more than a year away it might as well not exist, so of course we’re going to hire as many people as possible while money is free 
capitalism: what an efficient and rational system!
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Oh dang that sucks.
I’ve bought a number (too many!) bags from Swift since they switched on overseas production and they’ve all been great except for one bag. It had a bad stitch on an inside pocket and they replaced it no questions asked and paid for the return shipping. Still a bummer because that bag came directly from them and it was obvious enough that it should have been caught earlier.
The new generation of Sidekick bags are nice because they can do both basket and stem mounting, but they keep lining them with black fabric and that’s a huge bummer and it seems kind of hit or miss depending on what color you buy.
Still, I’d rather it was still possible to order custom bags. That was a big part of why I started buying stuff from them in the first place.
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these anti-freeze puffy jackets are $50 (down from $280). only small and medium left but plenty of them! the code is frostober. $11 shipping. synthetic down that is supposedly equivalent to 700 fill.
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fyi
The men’s jacket fits a size down from US sizing. Super Puff 2 Large would be a US size Medium.
well shit. these things don’t go bad, right? i recently got a similar albeit slightly less warm merrell which has the distinction of being the only puffy boi i’ve owned with a hood i like. but shit, gotta spend money to save money
there’s a size chart on backcountry that has them fairly normally sized. i bought a small for my normally small jacket wearing self and will report back
go bad? like spoil? no, i don’t think so
You’ll be surprised to hear that I didn’t purchase a bag on sale.
Because I looked up at the closet shelf and saw 5 other bags sitting there and thought “maybe I’ll pass on this sale”
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The trick is to put the smaller bags inside the bigger ones. After a while you forget about them and it looks like there’s only a couple of bags.
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That’s literally how my backpacks are stored.
Fanny pack
inside summit pack
inside light day pack
Inside 20L day pack
Inside 28L overnight pack
Inside 55L backpacking pack.
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New Soma sale seems pretty great. Really having a hard time resisting buying that low trail disc fork just to try it out on my touring bike.
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