Great Online Deals Thread

Max Supertramp wrote:

trice rice obviously unfamiliar with cuben fiber, nor with holey drug through OW cotton chalkbags.  

also: TUFA is a legit US based grassroots deal, so please, pretty please, try and cork it ya hater

Maxie pants. You complained way more than he did. Calm down with your "legit grassroots" agenda. Climbers are so sensitive. Invest in some thicker skin instead of cuben fiber. 

Jared Murray wrote:

Made in USA, durable as hell, multi-purpose, customizable, and great customer service. Josh @ TUFA is the man!

You get what you pay for.

+1.  Love my TUFA chalk bag.

Jared Murray wrote:

Made in USA, durable as hell, multi-purpose, customizable, and great customer service. Josh @ TUFA is the man!

You get what you pay for.

That's great and all but it's still spam here. A $35 chalkbag is no one's idea of a great online deal

Jon Frisby wrote:

That's great and all but it's still spam here. A $35 chalkbag is no one's idea of a great online deal

There are 4 comments above yours that beg to differ.  I'm not buying one either, man, but they clearly have fans.  

Alicia Sokolowski wrote:

There are 4 comments above yours that beg to differ.  I'm not buying one either, man, but they clearly have fans.  

The first post is still self-promotion and therefore inappropriate on the "hey guys there's a sick deal online somewhere" thread. I guess my value statement can be disregarded. Still spam. 

There's also an active thread for TUFA on here that the owner keeps bumping, so yeah, I'm getting a little irritated by the "oh I'm in the tribe so I should be allowed to do this" thing

Hey y'all,

Didn't mean to stir the pot here.  I totally understand that a Cuben Fiber chalk bag isn't necessarily price-sensitive and I don't mean to be exclusive in my pricing.

The reality is that the margin on these bags is the lowest of any bag I make and there is a reason you don't see major players using CF; the price-point is prohibitive, to say the least. 

Value is relative, this is a niche product built with fair-trade labor and the best materials possible, sorry not sorry.  If you can find an equivalent CF bag I'll happily price match it and knock off another 15%.

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TUFA is a grassroots venture.  Before there was ever a brand I was selling homemade chalk bags here on Mountain Project.  My designs are the product of endless iteration based on feedback from the MP community.   I've never had a loan of any type to start this business, this is only possible because of the support I've received here on the project.  

Haters gonna hate, I'm going to keep on creating, thanks for the lolz fellas.

Back to those spankin' deals... ;)

Honestly, Josh, where you went wrong is posting here at all. I know you're a good guy trying to launch a business. But this thread, in particular, is for people to point out screaming great deals online, like huge sales, discount codes, etc. Posting your own product here with a 15% discount code just seemed spammy to me, too. Maybe if you were having a big blow-out clearance of product at a substantial discount it'd be received better, but it didn't seem that way.

AndrewArroz wrote:

Honestly, Josh, where you went wrong is posting here at all. I know you're a good guy trying to launch a business. But this thread, in particular, is for people to point out screaming great deals online, like huge sales, discount codes, etc. Posting your own product here with a 15% discount code just seemed spammy to me, too. Maybe if you were having a big blow-out clearance of product at a substantial discount it'd be received better, but it didn't seem that way.

Much respect, Andrew.  I should have given the OP more consideration and I do apologize for rubbing anyone the wrong way.  

-Josh

Josh Kornish wrote:

Much respect, Andrew.  I should have given the OP more consideration and I do apologize for rubbing anyone the wrong way.  

-Josh

Don't listen to the haters man. Great deals are subjective, props to you for putting out a quality product at a great price.

moosejaw 30% rewards (3XREWARDS17) credit on full price items. paired with active junky 12% cash back. pretty good combo albeit paying full price today. the money comes back to you eventually. also MJ recently changed its rewards use rules and you can use them any time (after shipment) on any items sale or otherwise, so that is more flexible than in the past. 

AndrewArroz wrote:

I see a lot of posts on this board looking for good, inexpensive ropes. I have this exact rope and have used it for two years. Really nice all-arounder. At $120 for a 60 meter with a nice rope bag I think it's a steal. That's 25% off right now. I think you also get ActiveJunky money back since Steep and Cheap is really BackCountry. https://www.steepandcheap.com/mammut-eternity-classic-climbing-rope-9.8mm-with-rope-bag?ti=QlNXaWRnZXQ6QmVzdCBTZWxsZXJzOjE6MTo=

You can get it for 112 sans rope bag on backcountry.com. Whenever you see a steep and cheap deal, it's always worth checking the same item on the main site. The active junky cash back is also far bigger on BC.com

Jon Frisby wrote:

You can get it for 112 sans rope bag on backcountry.com. Whenever you see a steep and cheap deal, it's always worth checking the same item on the main site. The active junky cash back is also far bigger on BC.com

Thanks for that tip. Putting aside the AJ cash issue, I'd spend the extra $8 for the rope bag. I have 3 different rope bags and the Mammut one is my favorite. 

Climb15 doesn't work on Totem cams.

Eli wrote:

Climb15 doesn't work on Totem cams.

obsess much?

AndrewArroz wrote:

Posting your own product here with a 15% discount code just seemed spammy to me, too. Maybe if you were having a big blow-out clearance of product at a substantial discount it'd be received better, but it didn't seem that way.

Rudy Peckham wrote:

15% Off One Full-Price Climb Item With Code: CLIMB15 at Backcountry.com

Lol, the timing is just so awesome
edit: totally not the same thing obviously, but in terms of optics, it's hilarious to me

Jon Frisby wrote:

obsess much?

Always looking for a deal

kevin deweese wrote:

Lol, the timing is just so awesome

I thought the same thing about the 15% BC code but, on the other hand, it wasn't posted by someone promoting their own product...

AndrewArroz wrote:

I thought the same thing about the 15% BC code but, on the other hand, it wasn't posted by someone promoting their own product...

Well, it's posted by someone using their own affiliate link to make money off your purchase.  Ultimately the same motivation.